Category Archives: Healing

Spinoza | Then & Now

Posted on February 23, 2022 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From Then & Now, Spinoza’s ideas as a guide to life and living.

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Learning How To really really really really really really Listen… WORKshop Thur 27 Feb 2020

Posted on September 4, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Aboot this Workshop Too often, we regard listening as waiting for an opportunity to interrupt. Or else as ‘active listening’: that weirdly fidgety preoccupation of mentally checking off a checklist list of ‘shoulds’ and ‘should nots’, endless micro-tyrannies we can … Continue reading →

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Robert Scaer – New Traumatology and the Trauma Spectrum

Posted on August 12, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Trauma is not what happened in the past but it is about how we experience what happens now. How we experience this moment is shaped by how we experienced every moment we experienced before this one. If we experience event … Continue reading →

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That’s not ‘trauma’ that’s ‘traumatic’…

Posted on February 4, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

We have come to think and talk of traum as evil things that happend to us perpetrated by evil people. That’s a fairly new way of thinking about it, made up on the back of an envelope by a small number of people – you might be surprised where it comes from.
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Understanding Voices: Ontario Shores. Sat 24th Nov 2018

Posted on November 3, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Hosted by Ontario Shores Family Council A Caregiver Event Understanding Voices : learning to listen to the pain of trauma and “psychosis” Presenter: Kevin Healey Kevin Healey hears voices and has done so for longer than he -or they -care … Continue reading →

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Workshop#1: Accepting Voices – Thu 29th Nov 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Pleased to announce, in community partnership with Inner City Family Health Team, this special opportunity to participate in our highly valued “liberating” , emancipatory”, even “universe-tilting” Workshop #1: Accepting Voices. This workshop offers a beginning, an introduction to a non-diagnostic, non-medical, human … Continue reading →

Posted in Event, Healing, hearing voices, human diversity, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness", psychosis | Tagged hearing voices, human experience, psychosis, Training, workshop | 1 Comment

Remembering is not required – Babette Rothschild

Posted on July 13, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From Babette Rothschild… No3 in Series from the book: 8 Keys to safe trauma recovery. This below is from the series of short videos summarising the book. #3 Remembering is Not Required “One of the holes we have in … Continue reading →

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Bodies with voices, and voices without bodies

Posted on July 5, 2018 by dave umbongo

It is not the case that some people with bodies are “voice hearers” and some are “not-voice hearers” . The categorization is false – #fake, made up. Are you an “air breather” or a not-air breather? Its similar. Everyone can … Continue reading →

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you are not alone…

Posted on July 4, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This post is, in part, a response to an excellent article in Asylum magazine in which Akiko Hart expresses some concerns about the nature of the discourse in “mental health”, and makes a call for less concern with being right … Continue reading →