Category Archives: Healing

the voices are real


For anyone who doesn’t understand but wants to – the voices are as real as anything that you experience and call real. Continue reading

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The wisdom of Cows


Some days it seems we could learn from others… From The School of Life, a few things we might learn from our bovine better angels… Some highlights…  It’s weird they exist at all You can’t tell what a cow is … Continue reading

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Hearing Voices Open Night – Thu, 26th Mar 2015


Hearing Voices Toronto Open Night
Thursday 26th March 2015.
Free event, open to all. Continue reading

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Hearing Voices Worker Training – # 1Accepting Voices – 27th March 2015


Unique and innovative training for Workers
Designed for workers – by people who hear voices and workers who work with them.

If, in your work you encounter people who hear voices, see things or have other difficult experiences that most people just don’t “get”, then this workshop is designed for you.
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when we stop telling others what they need…


When we stop telling others what they need we might just create the space they need to speak for themselves.

We don’t need to be smart, clever or all knowing: we just need be willing to listen. Continue reading

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I always feel like I’m guilty of something – Albert Camus.


Within intellectual society, I don’t know why, but I always feel like I’m guilty of something. It seems that I’m always breaking one of the rules of the clan.
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do you pop a pill when you’re feeling ill?


…if you do then you’re in the minority.
Pill medicine is not the only medicine.
80% of the world’s population depends on other, traditional healing methods. Continue reading

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voices: symptom of illness – or creative, ingenious survival strategy? Eleanor Longden


EleanorLongden’s talk has been heard over three million times and nominated as one of @0 online talks that could change your life.

Hear Eleanor Longden talk in person as part of the innovative international conference: Psychosis2.0 – Toronto – Fri 13th June 2014. Continue reading

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Brian Keenan – Music


Brian Keenan wrote an account of his own experience of being kidnapped and held in confinement  – “An Evil Cradling”. Here he is reading from chapter seven  “Music”, accompanied by animations by Kavaleer productions. The result is a brief but … Continue reading

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Time for a harm reduction approach to psychiatric drugs


Governments and mental health services around the world have a serious drug problem:  the drugs being dished out in the name of health care in greater numbers, for ever wider range of ailments and to more people are, more are … Continue reading

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