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welcome to the 9th carnival of eating disorders! we had a break in august, and now there are lots of new articles to look at. today we have posts on body image, anorexia, bulimia and overeating. also, as i’ve done before, this month i’m picking one post and will talk about it in more depth [...]

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michael moore’s sicko, pinocchio, rugby and a movie about PTSD – you’d think they don’t have that much in common. but they do. these and other posts featured here today are all written by a community of people who truly want to make the world a better place. welcome to the 105th carnival of healing, [...]

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scott from finding your marbles just sent me an email wondering about my thoughts on the development of this story about PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) as grounds for acquittal. a groundbreaking ruling that found a former soldier not criminally responsible for a sex assault he admitted to committing was overturned by the manitoba court [...]

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edith yeung over at dream. think. act had a post the other day where she listed a long list of questions about integrity, taken from the book the power of principles by william j. byron. these “integrity questions” are focused mostly around what i would call our civic and professional duties, and i think they’re [...]

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at our vancouver bloggers’ meetup last time, pete quily of adult ADD strengths asked me an interesting question: “what are the topics that would naturally come up in the course of your work that you’re not discussing much on your blog?” it’s a question i’ve been thinking about ever since, and i’ve been working on [...]

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so here i was, cleaning the toilet, when i reached over and zing, i strained my lower back, right above the hip bone. quite a fascinating experience, and what i’m learning from it can be applied to other areas of life as well: when there is a warning sign, pay attention and stop. after the [...]

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i’m entering david airey’s contest. and lincoln’s. and the good woman at whitterer on autism passed on a break out blogger award to me. i’m jumping up and down! “aha! tshumpink up an down! vat iss your mind doo-ink?” says the psychologist in me. why do we get so excited about things like that? i [...]

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adam at the monk at work blog sent me an email about his latest blog post yesterday. i quickly glanced at it and then just marked the URL for the post. it reads http://monkatwork.com/2007/09/21/no-complaints-and-contest/. because i only glanced at it, all i saw was “no complaints contest”. hey, i thought, what a cool idea! it [...]

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looks like this is guest post week. today you can find me on nancy zimmermann’s blog. nancy is a money coach, and i wrote a little piece on “trying” money management. below is an excerpt. for the full article, go here. a little while ago i wrote an article on trying vs. allowing. nancy thought [...]

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here’s an interesting abstract from a research study on body image, do men find bony women attractive? it’s a bit woolly, so in the interest of plain language, i translated it: we always want to know more about eating disorders. one aspect of eating disorders is body image, and particularly negative body image. a positive [...]

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today, i invite you to go over to GNIF brain blogger where i’ve written a guest post on a series of mental health success stories i had the fortune to listen to on monday at the canadian mental health association. what remained most with me was one person mentioning that at a certain age, he [...]

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an old, old poem of mine, obviously written in a (tea) drug induced state. but fitting, isn’t it, as we’re heading into cooler weather. after four hours of sleep and 16 hours of work here comes pouring into the poet a cup of tea. tea! tea! tea! drug that whitewaterrafts into forgotten veins and drags [...]

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last thursday, i had the great fortune of meeting michael wilson of the newly created phoenix recovery centre in surrey, just southeast of vancouver. a friend of mine, who has a little contract job there, had told me about it and said that i absolutely had to see it. so when i drove there, i [...]

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PsyBlog is one of my favourite blogs lately. their latest post is on gratefulness. i haven’t done a gratitude post for a while. so let me do that right now. thanks, PsyBlog, for inspiring me to do that! it’s such a simple way to spread goodness everywhere – inside me, here on this blog, and [...]

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ok, time for another rant. looks like i can’t speak gently on this. sorry, buddha. this article in UStoday had me alternatively laughing out loud, rolling my eyes and frowning. obesity has long been blamed on weak willpower, overeating, genetics and lack of exercise. now scientists increasingly are seeing signs that suggest there may be [...]

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