“… but since it falls into my lot that I should rise and you should not, I’ll gently rise and softly call good night and joy be to you...

Exploring the term "willfulness" in psychiatric care.

Reclaiming my medical records through collage.

Lately I’ve been going out each afternoon to seek a “good” photo of a varied thrush in the autumn landscape. Thus far, this (see below)...

September is suicide prevention month with the 10th being World Suicide Prevention Day. During this month people typically share numbers...

CW - discussion of depression & suicidality 3 years ago today I was reaching my breaking point after months of reaching out for help with...

I don’t know what to say about 2022 - so much takes place behind the lens of a camera. It has been as much a means of avoidance as it has...

Finding a starting place to write about anything, let alone hope and how to gather a greater sense of it when your words have run dry is...

(CW - please take care reading this piece. It touches on depression, suicidality and the search for hope.) These past couple months, as...

How can I too, hold a seemingly intangible design of something more in my tattered mind? buffeted by the wind, how do I know where to...

Please note that I have written this piece on a mix of hard days and easier days over the past while. It is true, but it is also written...

It is strange how much I wrote in 2020 that I do not even remember. It was not an easy year - a year I almost wore away. Standing here in...

One of the best essays I have ever come across is Leslie Jamison’s “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain” (in her book, “The Empathy...

(Originally posted on Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders blog.) When individuals with eating disorders have cycled through...

What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of July... Oh if I could only show you the hidden cost of being...

Where do you go when you no longer trust eating disorder care (as you know it), but have long depended on it (at times being healed by...

It is important to reflect on where different eating disorder therapies and programs perpetuate the struggle for individuals to practice...

What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of May... No matter the seeming strength of my voice, when it is...

What is "recovery?" How can one be "recovery" oriented? How do we define this process? Who gets to define this process? Is there more...

Today I look to the resilience and persistence of camas blooms for inspiration. I learn from the years they take to bloom, that change...