Posted on June 18, 2015
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in body image, Creative Arts, Depression, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Mother Nature, Sacred Arts, Self esteem, Wellbeing, Women's Mental Health
‘Nothing prepares you for motherhood!’ I hear the wise woman say. ‘You’re never really ready for birth and beyond.’ I get the picture, that the magnificence of childbearing and motherhood is a learn-on-the-job experience. I’m the first to admit, nothing could have prepared me for drawing the short-straw of 8 months of ‘morning sickness’. But […]
Posted on June 16, 2014
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in Community, Creative Arts, Healing Art, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts, Shamanism
Dr Somé’s disconcerted face from under his little hat has looked my way everyday this week through Facebook messaging from on-the-pulse friends. How could I ignore a title: ‘What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital’? I didn’t know we still called them ‘mental hospitals’! And yet it seems our all-over-the-pulse friends from ‘Earth. We are one.‘ who publish a plethora […]
Posted on May 19, 2014
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in Community, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Relationships, Storytelling, Wellbeing
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama has a model of intimacy based on a willingness to open ourselves to many others, to family, friends and even strangers forming genuine deep bonds based on our common humanity. I doubt you need to be a Buddhist to understand this. In His Holiness’ book, ‘The Art of Happiness’, He […]
Posted on January 13, 2014
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in Creative Arts, Depression, Festivals, Healing Art, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Sacred Arts, Spoken Word, Video, Wellbeing
<!– On 24th July 2014, I presented at the National Suicide Prevention Conference in Perth, Western Australia about my recovery from attempted suicide. This was a special milestone for me – speaking publicly about my attempt and also proposing steps to recovery that others could integrate into their life. I discuss the role of The Suicide […]
Posted on November 14, 2013
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in Creative Arts, Healing Art, Mental Illness, Spoken Word, Storytelling
When spoken word poet, Jessie Giles, announced that she was leaving Facebook, I hunted her down with a WHY? Here is a passionate poet who always has something of value to say. A beautiful young woman with the unique ability to show up society with the delicacy of a calligraphy pen, JG speaks candidly about […]
Posted on November 16, 2012
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in Creative Arts, Embodiment Arts, Life Modelling, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts
For the past decade, each year has not gone by without, what I call, a Writing Retreat. Destinations have varied from the jungles of Mexico, WWOOFing farms, psychiatric clinics, the quietude of Canberra at my Godfather’s home, suburban Bungalow summers, undercover journaling on Vipassana, out-welcomed stays with my father, and, just recently, the precious, bushy […]
Posted on November 16, 2012
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in Creative Arts, Embodiment Arts, Life Modelling, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts
For the past decade, each year has not gone by without, what I call, a Writing Retreat. Destinations have varied from the jungles of Mexico, WWOOFing farms, psychiatric clinics, the quietude of Canberra at my Godfather’s home, suburban Bungalow summers, undercover journaling on Vipassana, out-welcomed stays with my father, and, just recently, the precious, bushy […]
Posted on October 23, 2012
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in Creative Arts, Mental Illness
I decided to ditch Ek’s reading list on the ‘present moment’ and pursue something a little more ‘here and now’. My suffering attitude – it had to go before I could even face my own shadow – so I ditched it in favor of perspective, anew. I dived straight to the heart of what it […]
Posted on October 8, 2012
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in Mental Illness, Multi-Dimensional Model
I’d consider Ekhart Tolle a good buddy of mine but I can’t say I liked him upon first meeting. He highlighted the habitual way I referred to troubles of my mind, ways that were limiting and disempowering. It was Ek who bust through my self-imposed suffering when he wrote something along the lines of, […]