I'm teaching a writing workshop! The Write Your Brain mental health writing workshop starts Sept 19th. 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 to booksClass of 8 (there are 4 spots still available)Weekly 2hr online group sessionIndividual support from me on each exercise Cost: $300 Get all of the details on the TOOLKIT ...
What is quality treatment for OCD and Anxiety Disorders?
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 research was it. Patients could be struggling with ineffective care for years while their struggles got worse. They'd get slapped with labels like "treatment resistant" and told they had chronic issues but the simple reality was they weren't actually receiving any support or making the ...
5 Tips for Taking Mental Health Workshops Online
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 do that work is prohibitively expensive for many people. So when I was traveling to Europe for a meditation retreat, I started hunting for a central city that people could conveniently (and cheaply) travel to and stay at for a weekend, ...
Mindful community building at Plum Village
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 home for so many around the world to connect with the practice of mindfulness. So when they announced a meditation retreat for business leaders, I was on it like a monk on a zafu. A meditation retreat at Plum Village is quite different from the others I've explored this year. For ...
The most terrifying thing…
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 relapse and leaving mental illness in the past, but it might surprise you, because it's precisely the thing we think we're chasing: freedom from anxiety and intrusive thoughts and all of that junk the brain loves to throw up. The thing is, after years of building our lives as ...
