change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!welcome to the november 30, 2007 edition of carnival of eating disorders.
i see this carnival as serving two purposes: one, as a concert of the voices who live with eating disorders - as people personally affected by them, as […]

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last year, i had a post entitled recovering from anorexia: 10 activities. over the months, we’ve had some important conversations on that post and a lot of wisdom from people who are overcoming anorexia. i’d like to present this wisdom here in a somewhat organized and easy-to-read format. these are all things […]

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write lists, write lists, that’s what every blogger is told.
what is it that we find so fascinating about lists? i tried to find some research on that but can’t come up with anything so far. hm. let’s ask some academics who might know: john suler, famous for his psychology of cyberspace studies; […]

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well, folks, i finally have my new theme up and running. what do you think? i still need to iron out all kinds of little kinks and realize that i want to re-write all my pages (as opposed to the posts) - but all in all, i think my new “house” is ready. […]

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need to shake up your brain a bit? play the STORR game - STOp-Reflect-Realize:
what to do: print out a few copies of this page, and then tuck them away in places where you’ll stumble across them in the next week or so. whenever you come across this sheet:
stop - reflect - realize
you can […]

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researching for an article, i came across a number of interesting resources on building community, and i thought i’d share them with you. at the beginning of next year i’ll tell you what this is all about …

mutual support handbook
how to develop an online support group or web site
local self-help group clearinghouses in USA […]

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from my tea table book of poetry, here’s a poem i wrote many years ago. it’s neat to see that eventually i did ask the oracle what it meant …

read the soup last night
12 midnight
was good
good hot soup in the fall
few days before new moon
read the soup and the soup said
“i’m your noodle oracle -
mamma […]

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there’s a new web site, prayer 2.0, with an interesting discussion regarding different ideas about prayer. my reply turned out to be quite long so i figured i’d simply post it here. one contributor said this, among other things:
in my mind, “pray” is something you do when you don’t want to do anything […]

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as you probably know by now, jacob from the job mob and i are having a blog conversation about recovering from bad work experiences. in his latest post about the topic, jacob points out, quite rightfully, that one of the reasons why we end up in bad work situations is because we didn’t ask […]

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the other day, i came across pensieve, who is challenging the blogosphere to come up with a thanksgiving limerick.

since i’ve been digging back into my chilean songs lately, i came up with this harebrained idea of trying to turn violeta parra’s gracias a la vida into a limerick. it doesn’t do justice to violeta’s […]

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remember last week, when i mentioned our meditation meetup with yama? yesterday, yama kindly sent over his fabulous illustration of why we meditate.
here it is.
what’s it gonna be? which one do want to be?

(this post can be found at the meditation, yoga and spiritual growth carnival)

addthis_url […]

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today you will find me over at brainblogger, with an article on body image research.
here is a short excerpt:
great apes use mirrors to groom themselves, pick food out of their teeth and make faces at themselves for entertainment. but do they also use mirrors to criticize themselves?
female dissatisfaction with appearance and poor body-image begin […]

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police officer mo cho used to hope paramedics arrived at some scenes before he did.
those were the “M-1s,” the calls involving mentally ill people.
“i had no idea what to do,” cho said.
that’s the beginning of an article by deedee correll “training helps cops deal with mentally ill“.
did the RCMP at vancouver airport have that training […]

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yesterday we started a discussion of bad job experiences – part of a blog conversation i’m having with jacob share from the job mob.
so yesterday we set the scene – an awful, awful work environment with a boss or co-workers who make your life miserable.
what can you do about it?
here are the first steps back […]

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what was the worst job you’ve ever had? what are ways of surviving that experience – and not just surviving but learning from it and thriving in the next job?
that’s the topic of a blog conversation jacob from the job mob and i will be having in the next little while. jacob started […]

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