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Eliminating Seclusion and Restraints from the Healthcare System
This has been a practice for many years and it causes deep and lasting trauma to the patients as well as the mental health practitioners inflicting such treatment. Sheryl Pedersen, a member of the MHCC Advisory Council and a mental … Continue reading
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Letters from Generation Rx (2017)
Last night I spent $2.49 CAD After doing some noodling around on Gabor Mate’s web site I found a reference to a new documentary. Letters from Generation Rx (2017), 1h 30 min, 18 July 2017 (USA), “This powerful film explores … Continue reading
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Dr. Gabor Maté
Dr. Gabor Maté Working from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV. “Did you know that ADD/ADHD, MS, Prostate cancer, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and many other diseases, as well as addictions of … Continue reading
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UNREPENTANT: Canada’s Residential Schools Documentary
This documentary is important for all to see. This is a part of our Canadian history and in many ways part of our ongoing Canadian culture. In my view it is important that we all have full disclosure and see … Continue reading
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Fast Facts about Mental Health
Mental Health continues to be an issue that bounces in and out of our lives. When you consider that one in five of us will experience some sort of mental health issue in our life time we may hope to … Continue reading
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Matthew Good on Mental Health – TED Talk
For any of you who are Matthew Good fans this is a very interesting TED talk about mental health and his personal experiences riding the wave between genius and suffering.
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Horses In Therapy
Today I spent an amazing three hours with Jennifer Garland the Program Director/Owner at the Mane Intent. It was awesome, first meeting with Jennifer to work on a few grounding and awareness exercises, and then out to the barn to … Continue reading
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Eight weeks to a better brain
Research from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) indicates that meditation has a positive and regenerating effect on our brain. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed … Continue reading
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Somatic Experiencing
I completed Intermediate II training with Somatic Experiencing last weekend. It is an amazing process of engagement with academic rigour, intuition, and practical application. Trauma has had a significant impact on so many people so it is truly amazing to … Continue reading
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Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Meditation gives us the opportunity to become grounded and to open up to the core of who we are. We often dance between being lost in the detail of our daily lives or being flighty and lost in a sense … Continue reading
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