change therapy

@abeeliever from una vita bella on twitter just started a regular mental health chat on twitter (tuesdays at 9pm CST – hashtag #mhsm). for a taste of what happened there, go to my post on the MentalHealthCamp blog.

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october 15 is blog action day.
blog action day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. the aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
the goal
first and last, the purpose of blog action day is to create a discussion. bloggers are asked to [...]

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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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here’s a little more from raul’s blog. the topic raul broached was diversity. by the way, those of you who are not engaged in social media, please don’t run away. because guess what – what’s happening in social media is very similar to what’s happening IRL – i mean, in real life [...]

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this is my entry for joanna young’s newest mission impossible group writing project where she challenged writers to push their blogging boundaries. i had asked you, my dear readers, to suggest what i should do. all kinds of interesting ideas came up and i’ll definitely try to incorporate as many as possible in my blog [...]

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i just want to send some kudos to hank for his fabulous blog post want to know what i think?
in that post, hank waxes intelligently and humourously and historically about what makes us blog, or generally express ourselves, like martin luther,
famous for publicly posting his disagreements with catholic dogma (except for the parts dealing with [...]

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while my blog was in hiatus, i was not entirely silent. conversations happened on twitter, for example this one regarding the concepts of “will” and “will power”, mostly with gassho.
i was going to comment on some of these, also give you the tweets of what other people were saying. but perhaps it would be interesting [...]

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okay, guys ‘n’ gals, i gotta get this off my chest.
as you know, i’m an avid twitter (over) user.  i love it.  and there are two things that have made me roll my eyes quite a bit lately.   it’s easier to pontificate on this on a blog, so i’m using this platform.  (as you [...]

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for the blogging yourself home workshop at MentalHealthCamp, i had referred to a number of books in addition to leon tan’s fabulous article on MySpace and blogging as a form of self therapy.
here they are:
writing from the heart – tapping the power of your inner voice, by nancy slonim aronie
love the friendly, welcoming, comfortable tone [...]

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in my last MentalHealthCamp post, we started talking about what the word “home” means to us. the wordle image here illustrates what some of the commenters in that post said, as well as what was mentioned during the workshop at MentalHealthCamp.

what happens when you are in this good home, and you’re going through a [...]

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here is part 1 of my presentation at MentalHealthCamp on the topic “blogging yourself home – writing, blogging and creativity.”
i’ll present it as if i was talking at the presentation and treat you, dear readers, as if you were participants in the workshop.
here we go …
when i was a little girl, there were these tiny [...]

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here are my opening notes to MentalHealthCamp yesterday; they followed raul’s great introduction to the workings of social media.  we decided that he would be the social media guy and i’d be the mental health gal.  (how well raul and i worked together deserves a whole post by itself).
i managed to present most of [...]

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MentalHealthCamp was amazing!  it’s saturday evening now and i’m pleasantly tired after this wonderful day of community and learning.  if you’re dying of curiosity regarding what happened, read the tweets here and here.  i’ll report more in the next few days!

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now i’m at a session on collaborative learning by michael yue and maria starosta. more live blogging!
some of the impetus for this session came from the philosophers café projects
“collaborative learning is better than learning by yourself”
presenter not an authority; he may have taken a bit more time to look into the topic but he [...]

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coping digitally, a session at the 2009 northern voice blogging conference that talked about the intersection of blogging and mental health and how social media can help derease the stigma of mental health was a real success.  raul did a live blog of the session. thanks, raul!
the overwhelming feedback, during and after the session, face-to-face [...]

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