Category Archives: Healing

paxilprogess.org


We recently linked with paxilprogress.org a peer to peer message board community for people to share their personal experiences with taking antidepressants, and allows others to ask questions, and to learn from each other, and make their own, more informed decisions.  And just … Continue reading

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cycling can make you happier


Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t show me this again Remind me later A nice story in Sundays grobe n flail on first time cycling in … Continue reading

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23½ hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?


What is the single best thing we can do for our health? Dr. Mike Evans , Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital. On how doing one , … Continue reading

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Who better to guide the ‘walking wounded’ than someone who’s been there?


Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t show me this again Remind me later Part 4 in a series by Globe and Mail in last couple of … Continue reading

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Dr Gabor Mate – coming to Toronto – Apr 2012


Dr Gabor Mate – coming to Toronto Please note this page is for the 2012 conference…  for 2013 CDCC click here Child Development and Community Conference (CDCC) Toronto on April 13 and 14, 2012. Regulars here will by now have noticed … Continue reading

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come laugh your head off!


Come Laugh Your Head Off! The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario Presents: LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY Comedy Showcase Featuring stand-up comedy performances by graduates of the first ever Young Adult Program! (ages 19 to 32) Writing comedy about experiences of the … Continue reading

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Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices


Another piece highlighted by INTERVOICE’s media watch… From NY Times, Aug 2011 view the short video -click on the image below to  [2.5mins] to read the article click the link below… Lives Restored Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting … Continue reading

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She let go


This one is for Earla. cartoon by Hugh Mcleod @gapingvoid.com She Let Go  After this cartoon went out earlier this year, we received a number of emails from people asking for female version. Here it is!  I think the Buddhist … Continue reading

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Richard Bentall – Diagnoses are psychiatry’s star signs. Let’s listen more and drug people less


UK Guardian Monday 31 August 2009 Diagnoses are psychiatry’s star signs. Let’s listen more and drug people less The biological approach to treating mental illness has been a lamentable failure. We must focus on a patient as a person  Surveying … Continue reading

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My [Mental] Skillness


Believing she is more than her illness this Toronto based bloger prefers to adopt mental skillness in recognition that the what she experiences diagnosed as OCD  brings stuff she’d really prefer not to have in her live , like tormented … Continue reading

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