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Category: recovery
RADIO: The Business of Mental Health Conversations
Erik DaRosa, known by friends and clients as “Yoda,” is the Founder and Co-host of the From Survivor to Thriver podcast. Along with his Co-host Marc Fernandes, they aim to normalize discussions around mental health topics through honest and relatable…
POEM: Rhythmic insight……..
RECOVERY, await the tears It ain’t all meds and facing fears A flawless mess Ain`t that pretty I’m done here RECOVER NOW GET READY
POEM: The Power of Karma
Focus mind. Be mindful of imperfections. Realise we belong to the present. The past doesn’t constrain us. It signals our motion into the future.
POEM: Wonderful Happy Glorious me
Wonderful happy glorious me, NO hang on wait, that can not be, I’ve always been my own worst enemy, The hardest to please , With emotional needs, Unable to understand why I cant breed, Constantly battling selfish silent wars, Invisible…
SUPPORTING ARTICLE & RADIO: Emotional Literacy Explained
Gill Seaton-Jardine is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working with all ages, including young children. During these years she wrote and presented a ten-week course on emotional literacy to pre school age children to help them understand theirs,…
RADIO: The Business of Invisible Illness Show on Connections Radio
Melony Hill is the founder of Stronger Than My Struggles, a mission-based organization with a focus on mental health and wellness. She has made it her mission to curate safe spaces to have hard conversations, especially in urban and under-served…
It’s Perfectly Okay to Not Always be Okay
For as long as I can remember, I have been “okay” according to society’s definition. Yet, I’ve experienced everything from the fear of sleeping as a young child, to the onset of terrifying obsessive thoughts as an adolescent, to the…
Socializing in the Hospital
After being admitted to an inpatient hospital setting, settling down on the unit as best as possible, and changing into hospital garb, there is little to do than to sit and wait for your treatment team meetings, medication administration, meals,…
Psychosis for those who care about someone with Psychosis
What If I Wasn’t Crazy? – An Inside Look, for the Normals, and Other Scary Individuals. The hotel staff pressed his naked body to the ground. His initiation was almost complete. Lots of things buzzed through his mind as they…
SUPPORT: Connectedness to Tackle Loneliness
By Gill Jardine, Counsellor/Psychotherapist When considering the subject of loneliness and how to tackle it, it may be useful to first try to understand what loneliness is. Loneliness is a feeling, an emotion, which is probably experienced by everyone at…
SUPPORT: Connecting with Nature for Mental Health Awareness Week
As we head for what should be the hottest of our seasons, stepping out into nature is perhaps becoming a more welcome activity after what has seemed a particularly long winter. As the sun pokes out through the clouds and…
SUPPORT: Making a case for Self-Compassion
Self-compassion is not the same as ‘being kind to yourself’ or ‘self-care’, although this can certainly be part of it. Nor is it about ‘letting yourself off the hook’ or saying ‘everything I do is fantastic’. For me, self-compassion is…
The Depression, The Distress, The Devi
Nov 2013: night shelter My life is a joke, and this needs to change. Too much debt, not enough success. I’ve achieved some things, but these things seem insignificant compared to my current situation: out of hospital after a breakdown…
Healing Depression through the Art of Language
I was depressed for a long time, so I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. What I saw there was a continuous reminder of what I wasn’t becoming, but therein lay the problem. I was stuck on this problem…
It’s not like the Movies – STRONG ADULT CONTENT WARNING
TRIGGER WARNING – Adult content containing graphic depiction of sexual abuse. Read on with caution. It’s not like in the movies. It’s not always violent, it’s not always obvious, but it’s still rape… According to an article in The Guardian:…
SUPPORT: Anxiety – A User Guide – Free Audio Book Available
As an experience, anxiety can be deeply unpleasant, exhausting, a crippling and disabling force that stands in the way of us living the lives we want. When we talk about ‘having anxiety’, or ‘anxiety problems’ we are normally thinking about…
SUPPORT: Worry or Anxiety? Free Audio Book Available
According to the Collins English Dictionary, ‘worry’ is ‘to be, or cause to be anxious or uneasy, especially about something uncertain or potentially dangerous’. ‘Anxiety’ is ‘state of uneasiness or tension caused by apprehension or possible future misfortune, danger’. The…
Letting the Child Grow Up
This is written to share experience of dis-ease of the mindbody and to support others in their own journeys of self-discovery, transformation, and manifestation. I have suffered chronic depression, anxiety, intrusive and sometimes suicidal thoughts and, in hindsight, quite an…
Grey Tinted Glasses
You are depressed. You can’t see the washing up build into a tower beside the kitchen sink. You can’t see the plants around you dying. You can’t see that your hair, from lack of washing, is starting to look wet….
POEM: The Colour Came Back Into Your Eyes
Fought off the demon hands that bound you to his lies The colour came back into your eyes And with a spark of blue, we knew, right then and there, That you Had saved yourself again. With pride, we announce…
Tales of a Patient’s Mental Health Journey
My advice to anyone going through mental illness is to allow love, friends and family into your life. Don’t shut people out when you are at your most vulnerable. It can be hard to do and you might want to…
Sorry I’m not your Perfect Victim
It was a warm summer evening; I was catching the bus with a friend back to her mums. A couple of guys start chatting to us and happen to be getting off at the same stop. We were 14, they…
I Forgive me
I had a meltdown the other night. After apologising to the people that love me, one suggested I write a letter of forgiveness to myself – and try to stop saying sorry. I always apologise for myself, my feelings, my…
Stop, Drop and Roll: Tips for an Overstimulated Mind
I feel low, sad, depressed and have barely got the energy to write this article. As soon as I’ve finished putting finger to key I’ll be implementing stop, drop and roll, but first I want to share this technique with…
The Power of Friendship
Friendships can come and go, flitter in and out, can simply feel like an instant connection and/or develop into a deep relationship over time. The friend this message was from was of the latter two, and she doesn’t know that…
Well aren’t we rather Lucky?
There is no denying that people with mental health issues suffer. And, for some, managing their mental health is a daily battle. Battles leave scars, but do these mental scars actually make us stronger?
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