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looking into gratitude

August 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

this morning, i visited chitowngreg’s sunday post about gratitude. it was fabulous to see all the comments there – 48 at the time i was visiting. and then of course my research brain got curious. what a great treasure trove to delve a little into to find out what specific things people are grateful for! [...]

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Tags: 12 step discussion · blogs of note · emotional health

august 2010 buddhist carnival: right action

August 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments

every month i delve into the buddhasphere to come up with interesting tidbits in buddhist writing. this time around i was interested in the concept of right action. the poem we start out with today is the famous shin jin mei poem the perfect way knows no difficulties except that it refuses to make preferences; [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · emotional health · interesting books · peace, environment, social justice et al · philosophy and education · spirituality

links: psychology, morality, social media and dogs

August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

in my long-suffering attempts to organize my internet life better, i’m going to see what it’s like if i post the occasional link article.  so here’s a stroll through the links open on august 1, with the first paragraph of each post so that you can get an idea what it’s all about.  you may [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · depression and mental illness · peace, environment, social justice et al · queer talk, gender issues and sexual identity · the net · therapy

body language and cyber language

July 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments

my new-found friend sheldon from the kitzul connection wrote this the other day: given the world we live in with social media dominating our relationshipscapes, why all the love??! i have had this brewing in the back of my mind for a while now. but it really hit home during a recent trip to the [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · the net

violence and mental illness: how should we talk about it?

July 2nd, 2010 · 9 Comments

earlier this week, our newspapers were full of the tragic story of clare shelswell, the little girl who was killed by her stepfather, peter wilson. on june 29, the vancouver sun devoted half of page 1 and 2 to it. on page 2, there was also an article that contained an interview with an expert [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · depression and mental illness · news and events

goals, learning and contracts

June 25th, 2010 · 6 Comments

after my post about small and SMART goals on garfield’s blog, i got inspired to write another one at brainblogger about the pitfalls and benefits of goal setting, this time taking a bit more of an academic slant. larry ferlazzo took up that post and talked about goal setting in the classroom. it made me [...]

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

living on purpose, being on purpose

June 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

this is a guest post by my friend garfield, for whom i wrote the posts on goal setting a few weeks ago. thank you isabella for inviting me to write a post on your awesome blog! i am a voracious student of human potential, and personal, spiritual, and professional development. i eagerly consume the teachings [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · emotional health

small goals and SMART goals

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments

more guest blogging!  yesterday and today, garfield is hosting two articles of mine about goal setting.  come and visit!  garfield is a good friend of mine.  he’s promised to write a post for me, as well – am very much looking forward to seeing what he has to say.

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Tags: blogs of note · emotional health

may 2010 buddhist carnival

May 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments

it’s a day late but here it is: my monthly buddhist carnival, serving up interesting little tidbits from the buddhist blogosphere. we always start with a poem. how bitter, how blue is the anger! at the bottom of the light in april’s atmospheric strata, spitting, gnashing, pacing back and forth, i am asura incarnate this [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · spirituality

good advice from john chow

May 2nd, 2010 · 13 Comments

very few blogs make much money. in fact, the vast majority make no money whatsoever. but that’s not what you want, is it? you want to make some real money blogging, and that’s why you bought this book in the first place. congratulations! you’ve already completed the first step on your path to becoming a [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · interesting books · the net

buddhist carnival – april 2010

April 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments

it’s been two years now, i think, that i’ve been starting the buddhist carnival with a poem. this one i found when i was rooting around the buddhasphere in connection with the post on mice, death and neuroticism. when i first found the poem, i didn’t really want to post it. it starts like this [...]

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

magnetic blogging poetry

April 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments

in the spirit of magnetic poetry, i took riverwriter’s latest poem, precise, and used the words to write my own little silly ditty: above a conversation today, carefully clenching fiery fingers, dark forgotten stones have fixed the pink predawn window. blood tinges the valley. the things NaPoWriMo makes me do!

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

love every day

March 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

is it valentine’s day yet?  what?  i missed it?  drat!  yup, that was one of the things that fell between the cracks during my trip to europe.  what also fell between the cracks was telling you about an ebook that chelle kindly invited me to participate in.  as a gift to her readers on valentine’s [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · emotional health · interesting books

8 from google

March 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

my brain is still only functioning at 42.718% capacity (as opposed to the usual 60 7/8th) so i don’t find myself to be able to say much. what little brain power i had went to work today and another fabulous mental health chat on twitter. but i feel guilty for not blogging enough so i [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · interesting books · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · psychological research and other things academic

why people don’t talk about “mental illness”

January 31st, 2010 · 4 Comments

this is a guest post by one of my twitter friends, the barking unicorn. “the only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well,” said alfred adler, a colleague of sigmund freud. “most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves,” said [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · depression and mental illness · spirituality