change therapy

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 [...]

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she opens the door.
“laura hapley?”
“yes …. ?”
“and wally hapley?”
“yes. and you are … ?”
he is 6’6”, broad shouldered, dressed in thick leather from boots to gloves.
“could i speak to mr. hapley, as well, please?”
“he is busy right now. what is this about?” she glances towards a door in the back.
he produces two [...]

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this week is eating disorders week.  to start it off, here is a song one of my twitter contacts wrote for someone who was struggling with this difficult, often life threatening disorder (the fourth song, “you are not alone”)
and the lyrics:
you are not alone
music & lyrics by bob gray © october 22, 2003
there [...]

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i’m sitting here checking my email after a lovely weekend away. my daughter is doing the dishes to hedley’s “for the nights i can’t remember”. my husband is exercising on the Wii.
and i just opened an email from an artists’ email list i belong to. norm tucker, a fellow vancouver artist [...]

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image by it’s life

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this antique photpgraph comes to us via okinawa soba

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today, please visit marie at coming out of the trees.    about her blog she says
i’m passing along a collection of excerpts from my personal and therapy journals to whomever needs to read them. i’m sharing my story so that those of you who are on a similar journey can know that you aren’t the only [...]

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just wanted to send all you guys a quick wave – NaNoWriMo, the national novel writing month in which i am writing 50,000 words towards a novel, is almost over, and i hope to be able to pay more attention here again come next week.
what an experience this is!  it is, among other things, an [...]

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image by matteo

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here’s an excerpt from the novel i’m writing for national novel writing month (NaNoWriMo).  it’s raw and unedited, just the way i wrote it.  19,391 words and counting …
“next thing i can recall is a bed, the softest, most comfortable bed i’ve ever slept in. there were blankets all over, so soft and so [...]

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i want to thank janet riehl for passing on the superior scribbler award to me.  it had been given to her by matilda butler and kendra bonnett who have a blog that supports women writing their memoirs.
this is a great way to introduce you to some blogs that i haven’t mentioned much, or maybe not [...]

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in a guest post at alison’s blog writing mental illness, i discuss the idea of scriptio divina, or spiritual writing. here is a little excerpt:
i don’t think it’s possible to truly connect with ourselves and with the divine (whatever you want to call it; from the traditional christian god to the new age universe [...]

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once again, blog action day and the october buddhist carnival fall on the same date. let me present to you, then, a few colourful strands from that corner of the blogosphere where buddhism and climate change intersect.
icebergs are buddhist monks
we always start that buddhist carnival with a poem. here is an excerpt from [...]

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today marks the end of mental illness awareness week. here are some bloggers who wrote about it, and a poem

a rant against mental illness awareness week and the desire to decrease stigma around mental illness
about childhood schizophrenia, by a blogger who wants to set yo head straight
this week appears to be supported [...]

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after the post on happy questions last friday, i decided to ask some happy questions on twitter and it was a wonderful weekend conversation. you can find most of it by searching for #happyquestion on twitter. one of the questions was inspired by qrystal, one of the first people i ever followed on [...]

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