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everybody’s happy nowadays….

Posted on November 26, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Life’s an illusion, love is the dream
But I don’t know what it is
Everyone’s saying things to me
But I know it’s okay, okay

Everybody’s happy nowadays
Everybody’s happy nowadays

Everybody’s happy nowadays – The Buzzcocks

Pete Shelly

I was so tired of being upset
Always wanting something I never could get
Life’s an illusion, love is a dream
But I don’t know what it is

Everybody’s happy nowadays
Everybody’s happy nowadays

I was so tired of being upset
Always wanting something I never could get
Life’s an illusion, love is a dream
But I don’t know what it is

‘Cause everybody’s happy nowadays
Everybody’s happy nowadays

Life’s an illusion, love is the dream
But I don’t know what it is
Everyone’s saying things to me
But I know it’s okay, okay

Everybody’s happy nowadays
Everybody’s happy nowadays

Life’s an illusion, love is a dream
Life’s an illusion, love is the dream
Life’s the illusion, love is a dream
Life’s the illusion, love is the dream

Everybody’s happy nowadays
Everybody’s happy nowadays, days

Bet you are tired of being upset
Always wanting something you never can get
Life’s no illusion, love’s not a dream
Now, I know just what it is

Everybody’s happy nowadays
Everybody’s happy nowadays

Written by Peter Shelley

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The Detective who hears voices and sees dead people

Posted on November 25, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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a simple plan to improve mental health services…

Posted on November 23, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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chez les ye ye… serge gainsbourg

Posted on November 21, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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MADx Friday 25th November

Posted on November 21, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

MADx is about voice – finding and using yours, and about witnessing others as they find and use theirs.

MADx is about rebellion-freeing ourselves from ideas others have about who or wha they would have us be.

MADx is about F-F-Friday! and especially about Friday night – it’s a party, eh?

Be there – or be somewhere else…

Featuring…

MC Seema
Annu Saini
George Zancola
Asante Haughton
Jenni Rosser
Pam Hyatt
Richard Lett
Stacey Bowen
Donna Linklater
Brenda Lennie

More! More! More!

Website: www.the-rebellion.ca
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/309974752714482/

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Bakhtin – Cain

Posted on November 20, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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Goodbye Isaac Hayes – Questlove

Posted on November 18, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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Mostly, we’re just full of…

Posted on November 17, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Another in a series from Dave Umbongo reflecting on how humans and voices humans might hear are alike…

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what the world needs is people who have come alive

Posted on November 16, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

At a time when it seems the dark side, the forces of evil, or whatever you call them are one the the rise it can feel all too hard, like time to hide under the duvet and hope it has all gone when we wake up.

But it is also time, and more so than ever, to do what we know is better – to not just advocate for a better future we want but to act now to create that future now, today.

It is time to come alive, your time to truly come alive.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that,
because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

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the professional pushes back

Posted on November 15, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From Seth Godin on the true role of “professional.” is to push back against the crap that the system they work in would have them acquiesce.

True professionals don’t just parrot lies and dogma.

True professionals don’t use the power they have to force their ideas on others for an easy life.

True professionals don’t just give in, keep their head down or toe the line, they push back and hold the line for what’s important; and they support others pushing back and holding the lines

True professionals use their power to make space so others can too.

So if you’re a “Mental Health professional” how do you push back?

how do you resist the crap?
how do you resist becoming part of the crap?
how do you fight to stay human in a system that would have you become a form-filling, box-ticking robot?
how do you bring your humanity to your work?
how do you be both professional and human?

Seth Godin

The professional pushes back

The architect refuses to design the big, ugly building that merely maximizes short term revenue. She understands that raising the average is part of her job.

The surgeon refuses to do needless surgery, no matter how much the client insists. He doesn’t confuse his oath with his income.

The marketer won’t help his client produce a spammy campaign filled with tricks and deceptions, because she knows that her career is the sum of her work.

The statesman won’t rush to embrace the bloodlust of the crowd, because statesmen govern in favor of our best instincts, not our worst ones.

There are plenty of people who will pander, race to the bottom and figure out how to, “give the public what it wants.” But that doesn’t have to be you. Professionals have standards. Professionals push back.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/09/the-professional-pushes-back.html