Bridge shot in downtown Cincinnati. Riding across the grate freaked me out some.

A potential

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1. Everyone goes through

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We missed you over the winter: Corinna West, the founder of Poetry for Personal Power and Wellness Wordworks, has been out of full time entrepreneurship activity much of the winter due to a spiritual emergency. This involved her deciding to follow the Creator’s guidance on life choices and business pursuits. You can read about the first part of this journey on her personal blog, with more updates to come out soon about the second half of the journey. Also, our main blog editor and board chair, Ken Braiterman, was diagnosed

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Last Easter, I had a relapse. Wellbutrin caused mental confusion; I got lost on a simple, route I know to a friend’s house. Her cell phone directions didn’t compute. I missed most of the dinner, after plans to come early and help set up and to give her a special hostess gift. My friend and her family graciously invited

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One is just an intuitive, empathetic connection that sometimes happens when people understand each other.

I also believe we can cultivate an ability to listen and connect deeply, to set aside judgments about how other people  express themselves or react to a situation.  When I do  that, it often makes a real conversation possible. I’m not always successful at it, but I keep trying to learn.

Soteria helps people connect deeply.

Ombudsperson programs, Soteria, and Open Dialogue all seem like practices that have

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Ever since the Facebook conversations about  the chance that funding for Alternatives conferences might have gotten cut, I wondered if folks were still thinking about, and discussing this. It kinda dead ended when the funds were assured. I think your raising it newly, and your call to action are right on time.

The upshot of the previous conversation for me was the possibility of seizing upon the uncertainty to propose new ways to produce the conference going forward. The specter of vanishing funds is still very much present.   The Alternatives conference today is totally

Continue reading By Clif Wright – Why Alternatives Conferences are Obselete

Lissa Tanenbaum  The Passover Seder

With the possible exception of Sabbath once a week,   Passover (Pesach) one week a year has the most my has the most spiritual resonance, and has always been my favorite Jewish holiday.  It celebrated the freeing of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt, as told in the Book of Exodus, and also the beginning of Spring, a second form of redemption.

It starts with a traditional ceremony and meal, called a Seder. at sundown  March 25 this year.  Jews who live outside Israel, in the

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The quality of my life and stress level improved tremendously when my friends Becki and Todd did household chores which were overwhelming to me because of physical pain. A cold and/or inclement weather made  vacuuming my stairs, taking out my garbage, and bringing my mail inside a strain for me.

Recently, Fargo

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This originally came from a post on Mad In America, about Jani, a six year old with a schizophrenia diagnosis, who has gotten much media attention which was sought by her parents. The comments link to the parents’ admission of child abuse, which may have pre-dated the psychosis.  But the question is, is it fair to publicly criticize these parents? Is it fair also to put a child’s health information online?

My blog is directed at parents, not ex-patients who are well-represented in the recovery

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Editor’s note:  As the author says, Wellness Wordworks is for good mental health information, and truly informed  consent regarding psych meds.  That must include information about alternatives to medicine, and dangerous long-term side effects.  IT MEANS TRYING ALTERNATIVES TO MEDICATION FIRST, NOT AS AN AFTER-THOUGHT.  

We are against “diagnosis and medication first for everyone for life,” which is still standard practice in mental health today.  We believe most so-called mental illness comes from previous trauma, isolation, invalidation, and loss, which are not diseases, and do not respond to psych

Continue reading By Elvia Knoll – I’m for Good Information, Not For or Against Psych Meds