Category Archives: resilience

Pat Deegan – emancipatory technologies

Posted on March 16, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Pat Deegan talking with students at MIT. The measure of our technologies is the degree to which they allow people to free themselves I think the measure of our technologies is the degree to which they allow people to free … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy and rights, Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, mental diversity, psychosis, recovery perspectives, resilience | Tagged emancipation, Healing, mental health, pat deegan;, schizophrenia | Comments Off

Dr Gabor Mate- the Hidden Costs of Stress on Health

Posted on February 16, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Interview on TVO – Alan Gregg talks with Dr Gabor Maté talking about his book… When the Body Says No – the cost of hidden stress He talks about about the stress-emotion connection and the stress- immune connection – how our immune system … Continue reading →

Posted in recovery perspectives, resilience, stress | Tagged Child development, Gabor Mate, Health, mental health, Stress, Toronto | 6 Comments

cycling can make you happier

Posted on February 7, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →

Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, recovery perspectives, resilience, The Mad Ones | Tagged bike, bike pirates, Cycling, exercise, expert in my own wellness, move, Rob Ford, Toronto | 1 Comment

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

Posted on February 6, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →

Posted in Emancipate yourself..., resilience | Tagged exercise, Healing, Health | 1 Comment

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

Posted on February 6, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →

Posted in Healing, Learning, peer support, resilience | Tagged Canadian Forces, Health Canada, mental health, mental health commission, my story, Peer support | 1 Comment

She let go

Posted on January 21, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →