When I struggled with mental illness, the winters were often more challenging, but I wouldn’t blame that on the sun because I was very skilled at descending into self-destructive, depressing cycles of compulsions in the middle of the sunny summer, too. So with this review, I can’t make an assessment on what impact a light…
I’m teaching another round of my writing workshop! The Write Your Brain mental health writing workshop starts February 13th. It’s focused on building writing skills around sharing about mental health topics, and developing a writing practice that’s healthy for your brain. 5 weeks of writing exercises covering a range of writing formats, from social media…
I always enjoy collaborating with OCD UK because they have such a helpful focus on recovery and promoting effective treatments for overcoming OCD, so when they launched an online conference this year, hosted at “Hotel Recovery”, just as I’m wrapping up a decade post recovery, I figured it’d be a great time to talk about…
Bring your brain by the Toolkit Shop for the Tune-Up twice each month on Twitch. Working on recovery from mental illness and just generally building mental health and fitness skills isn’t something that needs to happen in isolation. It also doesn’t need to be some magical mystery. Mental health skills are practical, the challenges you’re…
One of the reasons I originally started to share about mental health and recovery skills was because I was fortunate to get effective help, but when I started to join online mental health communities, I would hear people sharing about the help they were getting, and it wasn’t at all in line with where the…
I’ve been facilitating workshops for years, in mental health and business strategy. Adapting design thinking exercises to mental health has been so effective. It’s engaging but it’s also incredibly useful for understanding complex challenges we’re running into and seeing solutions to get out of them. The thing is, though, traveling for an in-person workshop to…
On my adventures exploring meditation retreats around the world this year, I was always looking for an opportunity to visit Plum Village, the Buddhist retreat centre established by Thich Nhat Hanh in the south of France as a place for refugees fleeing the Vietnam war to find peace and recovery. It has grown into a…
My post on the newly launched Unsinkable Stories is all about an issue that I now know is quite common when people are making progress on recovery from mental illness, but it’s not something anybody had prepared me for when I was interacting with the mental healthcare system. Overcoming this challenge is key to preventing…
On April 18th, I’ll be at co-working space, Luminary (1204 Broadway), for a discussion on launching and running your business without losing your mind in the process. It is possible to be a healthy entrepreneur! Grab tickets here on Eventbrite I’ll be chatting with Vivian Nunez, Forbes writer and founder of TooDamYoung, and Ramona Ortega,…
I didn’t wake up to the fact I was struggling with my mental health until I couldn’t write anything. I loved writing and I couldn’t do it anymore. Forget anxiety about being poisoned or going back to check the door locks over and over again or being paralyzed by anxiety attacks–here was a real problem!…