Pseudosanitysplaining: People In positions of authority who imagine they are not insane telling you that you are insane. *** it's always an adventure into the ordinary...what is, is. *** Waking up and healing the body are destructive processes that then require rebuilding of both body and psyche.
December 25th was the anniversary of the day I was in ICU almost dead last year. I was fearing winter most of the year but it's turned out far better than I expected. I am alive today...following the love of life-force within me that continues to heal this body which remains challenged (but only in the eyes of those who do not understand sacred illness) ... I AM. And I am continuing to heal and celebrate life in ways I didn't know were possible. ...
As I continue to heal the wounding that brought me to my knees at this time last year, this poem arose to meet the anniversary of my near death. It is all a journey to heal the trauma held within the body that heals the mind and soul too. We are one holistic being and everything matters:
I don't use the term depression for my experience, but I do find that there is a big natural shift in winter that encourages going inward and slowing down. I have found for a long time now that moving away from the pathologizing of my experience has been a healthy move for me and many of the folks I advocate for. ...
Through the years, as a means to survive, I've sculpted my social-media so that I don't have to listen to a lot of otherwise very offensive stuff about the experience of those of us with extreme sensitivities, and iatrogenic and chronic illness. Still, because I care about some of the folks who continue to say insensitive, ignorant things about us, I do encounter it from time to time. In fact we cannot hide from the ignorance in the world about our experience and still live in the world and so I'm entering a phase of healing and learning that is helping me re-enter the world. That means facing such insults daily. ...
A corrupt world is built brick by brick by individual acts of shame and silence. Can we break the silence that protects misconduct even while it means being exposed ourselves? Psychiatry and the mental health system are failing, but they are also just sets of human relationships, relationships we are also part of. ...
New book: Bruce Levine has been one of my very favorite authors in the world of critical psych for a long time. He's got a great new book available now. I highly recommend it. This article includes a link to a free PDF excerpt of the book. ....
Everything Matters 
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