Category Archives: Ideas

“Stigma” begins with a “D”

Posted on February 7, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Stigma begins with a “D”
and is pronounced “Discrimination” Continue reading →

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what we observe…

Posted on February 5, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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A “Disturbed Person” is a Distressed Person

Posted on February 3, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Two years ago today Michael Eligon was shot by an officer of Toronto Police Service because, as the officer told an inquest into three shootings in similar circumstances, that he was “in immediate or imminent fear for his life and … Continue reading →

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Seeing things? Hearing things? Many of us do – Oliver Sacks

Posted on January 31, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Short piece by Oliver Sacks from Nov 2012 in the lead up to publication of his book “Hallucinations”. Seeing things, hearing things, thinking things, feeling things that others don’t is what humans do- we all see, hear feel think in … Continue reading →

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who – David Byrne & St Vincent

Posted on January 26, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Who walks this dusty road? Who always pulls their weight? Who’s this?! Inside of me Who made a big mistake Who sees these constellations Seen in those spinning round Carry these men and women Who get lost when the sun … Continue reading →

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the laughing heart – Charles Bukowski

Posted on January 25, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. . . . . The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank … Continue reading →

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Midnight’s Children

Posted on January 20, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Salman Rushdie’s magical realism tale of children born around  midnight on August 15, 1947, when India transitioned into independent Republic of India – “born in the hour of freedom, handcuffed to history”. The central character Saleem is born on the … Continue reading →

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fear is the worst of it …

Posted on January 15, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Fear is real. Just like voices. And, uncannily,  voices often represent or speak-to a person’s deepest, unspoken, unspeakable fears. Fear is visceral- palpable – you can feel it – in your chest, your heart thumping, heightened state of awareness, alertness. … Continue reading →

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in midst of winter….. Albert Camus

Posted on January 13, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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not being like everybody else is not the same as being sick…

Posted on January 9, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“…if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but … Continue reading →

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