The below excerpt from Tricycle Magazine about dealing mindfully and skillfully with physical pain can be done with emotional pain too and in fact is closely related to what Jayme shares here in healing her own mental distress. One night when I was still new to meditation, I lay awake for hours in agony from [...]
LOVE FOR SALE: the trouble with professional caregivers
April 6, 2011 By
So this is how the vicious social services cycle begins. Instead of directing her instinctive surge of mothering energy towards her own children, Dr. Dewar directs it – for profit – towards the children of strangers [probably using some of the profits to hire a professional caregiver to direct inferior mothering energy at her own children]. Finding themselves out-of-place and re-placed in the professional setting, the mothers of Dr. Dewar’s surrogate, hospitalized children will then be forced to redirect their own energies, starting a double-edged chain reaction: all of the mothers continuously frustrated by failed attempts to mother other things (not the children they were designed to care for) and none of the children benefiting from the highly personalized and unconditional-love-charged energy of their own mothers.
We are the web of life
April 5, 2011 By
This we know; all things are connected like the blood that unites us We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. ~Chief Seattle
If you like to eat, see this film
April 5, 2011 By
Another way that what we are doing to our food supply is hurting not only us, but the entire planet. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals…no more [...]
A list of ways to practice mindfulness…
April 4, 2011 By
From Wildmind: by Saddhamala Each and every day we have many opportunities to practice mindfulness. Here is a list of ways to practice mindfulness. Choose one to practice for a day or a week and give it your wholehearted attention. 1. When you wake up in the morning, notice your breathing before you get out [...]
Eating “real whole food” is important for our mental and physical well-being
April 4, 2011 By
Many people who withdraw from psychiatric drugs discover excessive food sensitivities…we’re forced to change the way we eat. It seems that it may be wise for everyone to think about what they’re putting in their bodies. More and more people are also discovering this the hard way. The woman in the below video was triggered [...]
“Research Scientist,” who doesn’t seem to mind bad data about the “bipolar child”
April 3, 2011 By
The plaque on the door of my boss’s office says “Research Scientist.” He’s a professor at a major university, a specialist in the intersection of children’s mental health and schools (special education, specifically). He’s also a national expert on a specific type of children’s mental health service system, known as a “system of care.” This [...]
The fish
April 3, 2011 By
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung [...]
Robert Whitaker on Progressive Radio Network (audio link now FIXED)
April 3, 2011 By
This is an hour long interview with Robert Whitaker which serves as a good summary of Anatomy of an Epidemic, in case you haven’t read it. Listen here: One point among many is that biological psychiatry is a really impoverished and reductionist view of the human spirit. Let’s stop controlling people we’ve pathologized and support a [...]
Can we give up our ideals of perfection?
April 2, 2011 By
We don’t have to live out of our cherished self-images. We don’t have to appear to be calm or clear, or to look “spiritual.” Instead, can we acknowledge who we are—including all of our so-called shortcomings? Can we give up our ideals of perfection? The constant effort it takes to try to fulfill these self-images [...]
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