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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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    Do something that makes a difference today…

    February 7, 2012
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    In my head, I’m normal

    February 7, 2013
    Window on our world

    Fish’n’Chips

    August 16, 2013
  • 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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    ExpatBlog – A Helping Hand For Canadian Expats

    May 15, 2012
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Exploring the landscape of depression

    August 2, 2012

    Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

    December 30, 2013
  • 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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    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 2)

    March 6, 2012
    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
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    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Leaving on a jet plane…

    February 25, 2012 /
    silhouette of a plane taking off

    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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    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’

    October 10, 2013

    Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

    December 30, 2013
    BBC-announcer, April 1st, TV prank

    Don’t be fooled this April 1st!

    April 1, 2013
  • 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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    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
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    The Myth Of The 72 Virgins

    March 25, 2013

    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 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
    Small boy staring out over Lake Ontario

    Life Lessons – Bringing Mental Health To Class

    September 25, 2013
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    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015
  • 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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    Meet the parents

    Meeting the In-Laws – bridging the cultural divide

    March 23, 2012
    Family fun at the beach in winter, Lake Ontario

    Challenges of interracial marriage

    January 7, 2013
    Barbie & Iggle Piggle get together, multi-racial relationships

    Cross cultural relationships

    March 14, 2012
  • 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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    Vocabulary list

    Is language in danger?

    October 25, 2012
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    Something from the mists of Time…

    April 30, 2012
    The versatile blogger award

    Nominated!

    February 10, 2012
  • 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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    Britain vs. Canada

    August 4, 2011
    Whitby Ribfest 2013

    Ever been to a rib-eating contest?

    July 17, 2013
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    Crime in Canada

    November 28, 2011
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012 /
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    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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    The Qur'an

    Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz

    August 7, 2012
    Window on our world

    View from the gazebo

    April 11, 2012

    Square peg in a round hole? Get used to it… you’re an expat.

    September 16, 2011
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • Battling BPD
    Battling BPD
  • O Canada, O What do I do?
    O Canada, O What do I do?
  • How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It

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