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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'interesting books'
8 from google
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments
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
eating disorders, depression and perfectionism
February 5th, 2010 · 5 Comments
by now you must have cottoned on to the fact that i really like therese borchard’s beyond blue: surviving depression and anxiety and making the most of bad genes.
one of the things she talks about in that book is her run-ins with eating disorders. in the chapter BMI (body mass issues) – depression in [...]
Tags: depression and mental illness · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · interesting books
stigmatization through silence
January 29th, 2010 · 8 Comments
you don’t have to spend a lot of time leafing through therese borchard’s beyond blue: surviving depression and anxiety and making the most of bad genes to find some mention of suicide. here, for example
i understand why people who haven’t experienced severe depression believe that a mother who commits suicide is extremely selfish and totally careless [...]
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i have a dream – about mental health
January 18th, 2010 · 8 Comments
therese borchard, who wrote the fabulous book beyond blue, has a dream about mental health. i think dr. martin luther king would be totally okay with her being inspired by his famous words.
i have a dream that one day i won’t hold my breath every time i tell a person that i suffer from bipolar [...]
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christmas, love, agape
December 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
these days i really seem to enjoy to quote from books. here’s one i have talked about before: the priority of love: christian charity and social justice, by timothy p. jackson. let me give you some quotes.
jackson puts the christian virtue of charity in close context of agape. according to the stanford dictionary of [...]
Tags: communication · interesting books · spirituality
be the change: violent criminals
December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
marshall rosenberg, the man known for his work in nonviolent communication, appears in the section off the cushion and into life in be the change: how meditation can transform you and the world). he works a lot in prisons.
the people there have done some stuff that i really do not like, like sexually molesting [...]
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be the change: loving awareness
December 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
each person can use the mantra, ‘i am loving awareness.’ just repeat this and become loving awareness. then we share that loving awareness with all others.
ram dass
“just repeat this and become …” – these words by one of my favourite writers sound so simple. and they are. (btw, it’s another quote from [...]
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be the change: leave a trail of beauty behind
December 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments
in november, i told you about a book i was reading, be the change: how meditation can transform you and the world by ed and deb shapiro. in the next few days, i’d like to present you with a few more excerpts from it. the last part of the book, entitled “transforming us transforms the [...]
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be the change: how meditation can transform you and the world
November 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
the other day i received the book be the change: how meditation can transform you and the world from the great people at FSB associates, who occasionally send me books to review. usually i spend quite a bit of time reading the book and writing a review but since i’m busy with NaNoWriMo this [...]
Tags: interesting books · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality
scribbling like mad: an excerpt from my nanowrimo novel
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · interesting books · spirituality
remembrance day: musing on war and sacrifice
November 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments
remembrance day has always been an ambiguous day for me. good memories : an hour in the rain under a gazillion umbrellas, proudly listening to my daughter singing a song with the girl guides at a remembrance day celebration; or a lovely morning 17 years ago when my then-boyfriend, now-husband were walking up and [...]
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finding your way through grief
October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
grief is not something that i have a lot experience with as a counsellor, so it was interesting to read through psychologist roberta temes’ solace – finding your way through grief and learning to live again. the book’s no-nonsense, empowering tone is set right in the first paragraph of the introduction:
you are experiencing this [...]
Tags: emotional health · interesting books · therapy
blog action day: buddhists and climate change
October 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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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acceptance
September 6th, 2009 · 7 Comments
a topic i think about a lot these days is acceptance. here are some words about acceptance, adapted from “for today”, a little book of daily meditations by OA.
pain often comes from non-acceptance. if i find that i can neither change nor accept a certain reality, i let it go for now, knowing that it [...]
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emotional!
August 31st, 2009 · 8 Comments
does this happen to you, too? once in a while you look at an obvious fact for the 1,285th time and all of a sudden, its profound truth hits you like a ton of bricks.
for the last few days, this profound truth was – well, let me say it this way:
humans are 60-70% water and [...]
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