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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
Where do you feel it in your body ?
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Category Archives: Trauma
Accepting Voices @ UoT Fri 23rd Mar 2018
Unique, innovative and insight-filled workshop led by Kevin Healey recipient of INTERVOICE’s International Award for Innovation, 2016. We welcome workers, professionals, students, professors, administrators, family members, friends, humans. We are all touched by experiences that get called psychosis , indeed, … Continue reading
Posted in Event, making sense of "mental illlness", Training, Trauma, Trauma
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Workshop#1 Accepting Voices in Calgary- Sat 5th May, 2018
Workshop Accepting Voices a unique non-diagnostic and creative way of understanding a range of human experiences that have been mystified and made taboo and yet which are remarkably common and really not that hard to understand.
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Angry Inuk
The continued existence of Inuit peoples demonstrates their resilience – not only in the environment in which they call home but also, like many other Indigenous peoples of the world, in face of the many hundreds of years of history of those seeking to impose the “benefits” of Western / European civilization upon their way of life.
We have to trust the people who have been the guardians of this earth”
We might also learn from them. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Colonialism, Ideas, resilience, Trauma
Tagged #sealfie, Arctic, Inuit, Inuk
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Wounded Healers: How peer support workers help patients in crisis
Peer Workers do not have magic faerie dust but this podcast sheds light on what’s possible and some of what it takes to integrate peer support into clinical settings, even a busy “Emerge” or “ER”…
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Posted in Healing, Ideas, peer support, Stigma begins with D, Trauma, woundedness
Tagged North Bay, Ontario, peer, PEPplace, Rumi
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What we hold inside…
“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in absence of empathetic witnesses”. Peter Levine Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Crazy World, Healing, Ideas, Trauma
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Burn Your Village To The Ground – A Tribe Called Red
“Well… Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday for Native people. In a way, each day is a day of thanksgiving to the Creator for the original people of Turtle Island. This doesn’t mean that we don’t enjoy turkey, pie and family … Continue reading
Posted in music, Trauma
Tagged thanksgiving, turkey
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There is a way to prevent so many teenage girls being depressed – but no one wants to admit it
Powerfully written piece by Glosswitch in The Independent’s VOICES column… Nothing at all to add about the piece, since there is nothing I could possibly add. I though add how some respond to such truth-speaking: if you venture into the … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Emancipate yourself..., mental illness? or..., Trauma
Tagged dystrumpian, injurious world, objectification, traumatising, women
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Baboons in suits
Robert Sapolsky on how hierarchy has a destructive force in body and psyche in individuals and community. He is talking about baboons, the ones he’s observed for decades along with the effects of stress upon health and behaviour. His observation … Continue reading
There’s so very, very much more to it than popping pills.
Opinion piece, and personal account, from Guardian columnist Deborah Orr on her experience of being prescribed then first taking “anti-depressant”. After five week process she was prescribed by a doctor she never met with no conversation about what to expect … Continue reading
emotional body signatures
Where in your body do you feel that? Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, too f*ckin' hot, Trauma, Trauma
Tagged body, emotion, feeling
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