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HV CAFE Toronto | Jan-Mar 2024


Coffee and All That Jazz 72 Howard Park AveRoncesvallesT’karontoPlanet Earth Right on these TTC routes.506504505 [about 300m] 4pm to 6pm Coffee & All That Jazz is under new ownership.Big thanks to Mae for your support and welcome.

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HV Workshop | ACCEPTING VOICES Part 1 | FEB 2024


What if everything you think you know about hearing voices is wrong? Or if not wrong, then it at least limits your ability to: understanding a person’s struggle with experiences like difficult-to-hear voices and others that get called “psychosis” and … Continue reading

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Workshop: UN_ESCALATE – MAR 2024


Note: If you’re looking for training on “how to deescalate anyone, in any scenario, in three-easy-steps” …then you’ll not find it here. However, if you are looking for opportunity to both examine the orthodoxy and trenchant mental models that underpin … Continue reading

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Out Of My Mind – podcast series


From Aotearoa / NZ, this is an excellent podcast series of first-person accounts . In each of the seven episodes of Out of My Mind, one person talks to journalist Adam Dudding about their life, and the view from inside … Continue reading

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Attachment | Jacob Ham


If you look up attachment or attachment style, you’ll find a whole bunch of right old guff– that suggests that your early life experiences have left you with what is known as an attachment style : that we are “a … Continue reading

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The impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain… David Foster Wallace


The depressed personwas in terrible and unceasing emotional pain,and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this painwas itself a componentof the painand a contributing factorin its essential horror. David Foster Wallace

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The Shit…


Never mind the diagnostical bolloxupification, whatchagonna do? -ooh! ooh? In the end, and whatever your path, this is what it comes down to.. It’s the shit, innit ? The Shit.. In four easy-to-remember steps. 1. Find The Shit that works … Continue reading

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WELCOMEness and UNWELCOMEness: Experiences in healthcare settings of people living in homelessness


How do people experiencing homelessness experience healthcare settings?How does that affect their health, and their ability to heal? Sharing an article here reporting research conducted interviewing people about their experiences accessing Healthcare services in downtown Toronto. Researchers coded and sorted … Continue reading

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Welcome to FUCKTOPIA…


Living in Fucktopia: The fucktopic fucktogenesis of fucktosis. #PandemicAlert: There’s a name for how you’ve been feeling…there’s one word for all those “comorbid” “conditions”, all those “diagnoses” that you’ve been collecting from one-eyed-seeing “medical professionals”… You don’t need a diagnosis, … Continue reading

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Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto | FALL 2023


We’re back, in-person, and meeting in the cafe. Coffee and All That Jazz 72 Howard Park AveRoncesvallesT’karontoPlanet Earth Right on the 506 TTC route. 4pm to 6pm Big thanks to Su & David “The Jazz” for their ongoing support.

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