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Entries from December 2008

carnival of eating disorders #20

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!this month’s carnival of eating disorders is hosted by laura collins at are you eating with your anorexic?
please visit, she has done a fantastic job - she’s turned it into an actual carnival!
next month’s will be here again, on […]

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Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics

more on professionalism: insurance, education and organizations

September 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments

i’d like to follow up on evan’s guest post yesterday, entitled, why professionalism is of the devil. evan blogs at wellbeing and health - this is a topic he’s passionate about.
evan says that his problem lies with professionalism, not with professionals. they lie with professional organizations and all that comes with them.
i think […]

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Tags: philosophy and education

why professionalism (not professionals) is of the devil

September 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

this is a guest post by evan hadkins. his blog is wellbeing and health where he writes about all aspects of health (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social) with a bias to psychological health and a focus on practical things to do that can make a real difference. he also has a membership […]

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Tags: general

escaping the prison of depression, out into a landscape of … ?

September 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments

almost two weeks ago now, catatonic kid (let’s call her CK) posted another entry in our cross-blog conversation about depression and language. in fighting darkness, recovering words, CK took her words and crafted a beautiful post. it’s a work of art and it, along with her readers’ comments, also raises a number of […]

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Tags: depression and mental illness

hypnotherapy and fear of flying

September 25th, 2008 · 8 Comments

in this paid review, let me talk a little about fear of flying. i wrote about it last year, when i told you a about my first flight after having experienced a rather terrifying attack of fear of flying in a flight a few years earlier. there were six elements that helped […]

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Tags: therapy

wine on a wordless wednesday

September 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments

for more interesting photographic art like this, please go to emmet loverde’s web site

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · wordless wednesday

one web day: democracy and open source

September 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

today is onewebday. from their site:
onewebday is an earth day for the internet. the idea behind onewebday is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the […]

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Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · philosophy and education · spirituality

international day of peace

September 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

somehow i missed that today is the international day of peace.  i’m about to go to bed but want to at least pay some hommage to it; thanks to clark’s picks to remind me!  he has a video on his blog of peter, paul and mary singing “there but for fortune“.  it’s a song i […]

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al

september buddhist carnival part 2

September 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

hello friends, i’m back with part 2 of the buddhist carnival. part 1 is here. the last one had a pretty clear theme – delusions and illusions. this one is a bit more all over the place except for the first two pieces, they have something in common. they’re a bit […]

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Tags: blogs of note · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality

psychotherapy: understanding versus explaining

September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

today, let me point you to an article i wrote at counselling resource, with the title psychotherapy clients as … humans?
here is the excerpt:
is psychotherapy about “cases” to be explained, or about individual persons who need and benefit from understanding? in this review of an article by psychotherapist janet l. etzi, we look at therapy […]

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Tags: blogs of note · psychological research and other things academic · therapy

on a wordless wednesday, dali and monet guild the lily

September 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

please visit my blogging friend marc to see what this is all about

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · wordless wednesday

in honour of the paralympics: some disability links

September 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

in honour of the paralympics, i thought i’d share with you some of my disability related links in stumbleupon. here they are:
the people at profy have an article about social networking for the hearing impaired.

tagdeaf is one community that is open to everyone, from deaf to hearing, though it focuses on the deaf and […]

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Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc.

september buddhist carnival - the delusion edition

September 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

one of the first pieces of information i came across this morning, before breakfast yet, was the the stock market disaster today. a bit of nervousness wanted to creep in. how good to remember that the fears that can be aroused by such events are made of illusion, and that the stability […]

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Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · spirituality

letting go of guilt: a conversation

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments

earlier this year, i wrote a few posts on guilt. this turned into a case study with one of my readers where over the course of a few months, we sent emails back and forth. this reader, let’s call her carla, has agreed to publish some of our emails. of course, we’ve […]

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Tags: emotional health · therapy

september 11 - the happiest day of my life

September 11th, 2008 · 9 Comments

“what was the happiest day of your life?” this question comes up, sometimes. until seven years ago, it was “september 11, 1973.”
that was the day my oldest child was born. it was the least pleasant of my three births, what with me an unwed teenage mother in a hopelessly old-fashioned veteran’s hospital […]

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Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al