Tag: surviving psychiatry
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Co-Arting | Individual & Group
Making art with someone who understands the power of the visual journey to transform stuck feelings, energies, beliefs, and to move blocks towards more…
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Walk With Me
I have felt, throughout my recovery of my gifts, that connection with nature is of the utmost importance. The grounding in the moment, the…
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Conversation
Sometimes our life experiences are best served by sharing in an environment of acceptance and understanding that can be hard to find when trying…
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Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity
I lost a poem once, and I mourned it for many years. But, one day my grief became a map, and with it I…
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Webinar: Art-Making as an Alternative Philosophy of Care During Emotional Crisis
In this webinar, hosted by the National Empowerment Center, we will explore several conditions and intentions in art-making practice which can create spaces that support…
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Surviving the Bipolar Label
I am a woman who fully identified with the label bipolar for almost 20 years and, according to psychiatry, rightfully earned it with four…
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De-Weaponizing Empathy
As published in Mad in America I am not immune to what I call weaponized empathy, which I see as the pure intention of…
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Can We Allow Suffering?
As published on Mad in America Of all the labels placed on me throughout my 20 years as a consumer in the psychiatric industry,…
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Lightning Bugs
As published in audio on Litro Lab Podcasts When we were kids, my brother and I waited for the sun to set, for the…