Category Archives: Ideas

Mind, Mindfulness, Meditation and Bollocks

Posted on January 18, 2019 by dave umbongo

If you’ve been told “you should meditate” then you’ve been fed some right ol’ bollocks. If you’ve been told meditation is about quieting your mind, you’ve been fed a special kind of right ol’ bollocks. Anyone who tells you that … Continue reading →

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To be human is to be in relationship…

Posted on January 17, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

To be human is to be in relationship , with other humans and with the world. -Paolo Freire

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It’s not about health, its not very caring and it’s not a system.

Posted on January 13, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Alex Jadad: “The fact is that the stystem is unsustainable as it is. Even if we’re comfortable, that level of comfort is dangerous because it could end up consuming everything that we have and yet … Continue reading →

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Is wokeness robbing us of compassion and replacing it with moral superiority?

Posted on January 8, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Wokeness has robbed many of compassion and replaced it with moral superiority” Ayishat Akanbi ”I think wokeness has robbed many people of compassion and replaced it with moral superiority. Compassion and empathy is paramount to any social movement, and … Continue reading →

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Mental Health: we need to make it about people

Posted on December 4, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Mental Health We made it all about drugs. We need to make it about people.

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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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WMD on WMHD 2018

Posted on October 11, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Plenty to like in the WHO statement for World Mental Health Day 10th October 2018 , calling for the need to focus on mental health of young persons; with an emphasis on recognising the stressful world not of their … Continue reading →

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Staircase of Oppression in “Mental Health”

Posted on October 5, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Two-and-some years ago I stumbled across a video online, a TEDx talk I found very useful, in which the presenter shared a diagram, a conceptual model of how oppression is constructed, in steps, as an escalation, first from categorizing persons, … Continue reading →

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Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation By: Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D.

Posted on October 1, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The word “recovery” has now stuck onto every sentence uttered in mental health services just so we’ll know just how “recovery oriented” everything and everyone has now become. “Recovery oriented” is now an established branding but just what does that mean? … 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 →