Category Archives: Emancipate yourself…

When diagnosis sets us apart…

Posted on March 14, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Such is the power of its hold over our way of understanding ourselves in recent years that if you look up the word in a dictionary of current usage you’ll need to take a long gaze to get beyond its … Continue reading →

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Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto- 2017

Posted on March 13, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Emancipate yourself- different kind of conversation about what it means to be human at the Hearing Voices Cafe, talk, listen, drink, eat.
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Reclaiming our Bodies and Minds

Posted on March 11, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Free your ass and your mind will follow Free your mind and your ass will follow Honored to be invited to present today with very good friend Jonathan Balazs at Reclaiming Bodies and Minds at Ryerson University in Toronto… Hearing … Continue reading →

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you see all kinds of weird shit

Posted on February 23, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Hector DeJean, played by Rhys Ifans, is a stereotypical hard-ass-jerk character in “Berlin Station”, here he’s being interviewed/ interrogated for an investigation into an “op” that went “bad”. This is his response to being asked : Tell me more … Continue reading →

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Experiences of being a psychiatric patient in the community, reclassified as “other’’

Posted on February 21, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

What’s it like being designated as a “psychiatric patient” reclassified from human being to “case” ? I wonder, even, how many of you have even met a clinician who could be bothered to ask. Here’s one who does ask, Janecke Thesen … Continue reading →

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Diagnostical Bolloxupification

Posted on February 6, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

If the institution and business of psychiatry can make up disorders “because we could” then we can make up names for what that their doing that does to we humans. Neologism is not, as they would have it, a “symptom” … Continue reading →

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Workshop – Healing Our Woundedness – Fri 26th May 2017

Posted on January 29, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

A one-day workshop For those ready to go beyond diagnoses and categories to begin healing the wounds that life has left within… The central experience of “trauma” is being left feeling powerless and disconnected- from self, others and the … Continue reading →

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life on the edge of the wormhole…

Posted on January 18, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority

Posted on January 16, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. Martin Luther King Jr.

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me myself and i – de la soul

Posted on January 7, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

mirror mirror on the wall… Lyrics Mirror, mirror on the wall Tell me, mirror, what is wrong? Can it be my De La clothes Or is it just my De La song? What I do ain’t make-believe People … Continue reading →