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    Holding On – thoughts on suicide

    August 14, 2014 /
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    I heard the news of Robin Williams’ death late on Monday and felt the familiar, hypocritical shock when I learned it was suicide...

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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Exploring the landscape of depression

    August 2, 2012
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    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015
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    Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

    February 18, 2012
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014 /
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    I’ve mentally written and re-written the start of this post a thousand times over but when it came to putting it on the page I always lost my nerve. It never sounded right...

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    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Mental Health

    Review of ‘An Inconvenient Posting – an expat wife’s memoir of lost identity’

    May 22, 2013 /

    Describing an encounter with depression during her family’s expatriation to Houston, USA, Laura J Stephens' memoir will strike a chord with displaced souls everywhere.

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    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013
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    The soundtrack to life abroad

    July 8, 2012
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    “Dear borderline me…”

    February 26, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013 /
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    It doesn’t matter how many times BPD engulfs my mind, I can never recognize it for what it is at the outset.

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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
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    Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

    February 18, 2012
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    Surviving a Canadian Winter

    September 9, 2011
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Mindfulness

    “Dear borderline me…”

    February 26, 2013 /
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    I recently completed a piece of mindfulness homework that had an unexpected effect on me. It seems the wonderful people who run the blog at Mind thought it was pretty special too. They asked me nicely to remove the swear-words, and then... they published it.

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    Point & Shoot: Weekend Snapshot

    November 25, 2013

    Banking in Canada? Don’t bank on it…

    November 4, 2011
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    Swimming against the tide – can “good character” make a comeback?

    March 14, 2012
  • Blog,  Mental Health,  Mindfulness

    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Thoughts are not facts

    October 22, 2012 /
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    Problems occur when we attach too much importance to mental commentary. We treat a stream of ideas as fact, and they crystallize into negative thoughts that become difficult to step back from. This session looks at ways of having a different relationship with our thoughts – how we can observe them from a distance and learn from them...

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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
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    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
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    Corruption in Canada

    December 4, 2011
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Understanding Suicide

    August 23, 2012 /
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    Written in the days following the death of film director Tony Scott, this is the most "human" piece on suicide I've come across...

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    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015

    Getting down and dirty with the wildlife…

    November 2, 2011
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    Censorship – muslims caught in the middle

    March 31, 2012
  • Blog,  Mental Health,  Mindfulness

    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Exploring the landscape of depression

    August 2, 2012 /
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    Over the past few weeks I’ve developed a foundation of mindfulness. I’m ready to extend this skill to the thoughts and feelings I experience when depression is lurking. I’ve built up my mindfulness muscle – now it’s time to flex it and see what it can do.

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    Why Is Blogging No Fun Anymore?

    March 13, 2017
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    Leaving Islam – the greatest jihad?

    October 20, 2014
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    Story of A Miscarriage (Part 2)

    October 17, 2013
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Goodbye Martin…

    August 22, 2011 /

    Today, K & I heard that a friend back in England had taken his life. Still in shock, we met at lunchtime to hug each other and fail miserably at answering all the silent questions behind each others eyes.

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    Easy Rider – our latest expat experience

    May 14, 2013
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    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013
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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015

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