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  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Stigma is still biggest hurdle to treating depression

    February 28, 2012 /
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    An interesting piece in one of Canada's dailies today, highlighting how societal perceptions of mental illness are preventing people from seeking treatment. We really can't move forward with mental health issues until we break down the walls of shame and secrecy surrounding them.

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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – The Body Scan

    June 20, 2012
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Autopilot & Raisins

    May 30, 2012

    The Good, The Bad & The Hungry

    July 20, 2012
  • Blog,  Photography

    Yummy Mummy

    February 28, 2012 /
    Yummy Mummy - CLIC Sargent

    In support of Yummy Mummy Week, 10th - 18th March 2012, in the UK, I'm sharing this picture of cake with you. The instructions said "a cake..." but, hell, who stops at one?

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    Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

    February 18, 2012

    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 2013
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    Awaiting America’s Answer to Newtown

    December 17, 2012
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 1)

    February 27, 2012 /
    Dog escaping

    My heart thuds and there's a rushing noise in my ears, like a subway train. A single thought fills my head, " I HAVE to get away." My feet pound the asphalt and I risk a lightening glance over my shoulder at my pursuer. "Oh my God, he's gaining on me!" Panic squeezes me in it's icy, iron grip and my belief in my ability to outrun him vanishes.

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    Who would be a woman?

    November 21, 2012
    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Leaving on a jet plane…

    February 25, 2012 /
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    Today I said goodbye to a friend. He’s a fellow expat, who arrived here from the UK shortly after us. He’s accepted a post in Vancouver, BC. Yeah, he’ll still be in the same country, but at a little under three thousand miles away, it’s not much different to him being back in Britain...

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    Our Expat Story in The Telegraph

    April 26, 2012

    In the event of an emergency…

    November 8, 2011
    Toronto Time-Lapse

    Toronto Time-Lapse

    October 10, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    S-p-e-l-l-i-n-g B-e-e

    February 23, 2012 /
    CANSPELL winner

    They have them here too! I've only ever seen spelling bees in the movies so it's another piece of Americana coming to life before my very eyes! It reminds me of our inappropriate joy at spotting fire hydrants - I am of course referring to the children here, I'd just like to make that clear...

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    Welcome to Canada – the home of over-priced telecommunications!

    December 5, 2012

    Point & Shoot: Weekend Snapshot

    November 25, 2013
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    Dear Dairymilk

    November 18, 2011
  • Blog,  Photography

    The Great Outdoors

    February 22, 2012 /

    The end of February brings hope and excitement as the cold weather weakens and we start to sense the slow creep of Spring. Shrugging off the survival mind-set that got us through the winter, it feels great to be alive again!

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    Where do butterflies go to die?

    November 9, 2011
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Autopilot & Raisins

    May 30, 2012
    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage

    Learning a language

    February 21, 2012 /
    'Urdu' written in Urdu

    A few years ago, if you told me one day I would learn Urdu, I'd have thought you were certifiable! My only experience of it was seeing the squiggly translations in the instructions to passengers on buses in the UK...

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    Censorship – muslims caught in the middle

    March 31, 2012
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    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’

    October 10, 2013
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    Lowe’s sinks to new low

    December 13, 2011
  • Uncategorized

    Brave Little Blogger Contest 2012

    February 19, 2012 /
    BLBC12

    Emily Suess is a writer, blogger, editor, proof-reader and one of my go-to's for info about the writing business. She's informative in an informal kind of way and makes learning the many and varied tools of this trade seem a little less intimidating. In short, she makes it all seem somehow achievable...

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    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    I never knew you felt that way…

    December 15, 2012
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    Remembrance

    November 11, 2011
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

    February 18, 2012 /
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    In my early teens I began to experience overwhelming, unshakeable mood swings that, like a lens applied to my perspective, coloured my life. I would feel them starting, a slow-motion crushing sensation, like being caught in an industrial compacter, and I would be filled with dread.

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    Troubles in Britain

    August 9, 2011
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    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
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    School Lockdown – blame it on the skunk

    September 29, 2011
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012 /
    Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim

    I remember the furore about Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", and the apoplexy over the Danish newspaper cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). When the Monty Python film “Life of Brian” was released it was shunned by the big broadcasting corporations and banned by borough councils around Britain. But is making it illegal to criticise religion the way to go?

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    Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

    December 4, 2013
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    A-Z of Canada: C is for Cottage

    March 5, 2012
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    Birthday Boy!

    February 1, 2012
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    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
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    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
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