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shaelyritchey

Jun 295 min read

eating disorders

Reclamation Art Series - Introduction

Reclaiming my medical records through collage.

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shaelyritchey

Nov 8, 20232 min read

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For Her, For You, For Us

November 8th, 2023 and a sense of hope and belief in the possibility of change feels so much like the tides of the Pacific, it comes and...

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A Thing With Feathers - Part 2 Of A Series On Hope (And The Search For It)

shaelyritchey

Nov 23, 20225 min read

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A Thing With Feathers - Part 2 Of A Series On Hope (And The Search For It)

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...

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Dust Bowl - Part 1 Of A Series On Hope (And The Search For It)

shaelyritchey

Nov 18, 20224 min read

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Dust Bowl - Part 1 Of A Series On Hope (And The Search For It)

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

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shaelyritchey

Oct 8, 20221 min read

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Lessons from Orb Weavers

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...

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A Moment of Majesty - Reflections From Past Writing (2020-2022)

shaelyritchey

Aug 6, 20223 min read

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A Moment of Majesty - Reflections From Past Writing (2020-2022)

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...

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shaelyritchey

Aug 5, 20221 min read

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Angst Articulate

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...

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Dependency on Treatment & Eating Disorders - An Explorative Discussion

shaelyritchey

Jul 30, 20223 min read

eating disorders

Dependency on Treatment & Eating Disorders - An Explorative Discussion

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

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shaelyritchey

Jul 22, 20221 min read

eating disorders

Questions I've Been Pondering of Late

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...

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Life-Saving & Sometimes Disabling - Exploring the Impacts of ED Treatment on Self-Capacity/Trust

shaelyritchey

Jun 8, 202219 min read

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Life-Saving & Sometimes Disabling - Exploring the Impacts of ED Treatment on Self-Capacity/Trust

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

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Lessons From Each Month of the Year - May 2022

shaelyritchey

Jun 3, 20222 min read

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Lessons From Each Month of the Year - May 2022

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...

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shaelyritchey

May 21, 20223 min read

eating disorders

What is "Recovery?"

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

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May The Fourth Be With Us - Eating Disorder Advocacy At The B.C. Legislature

shaelyritchey

May 4, 20221 min read

eating disorders

May The Fourth Be With Us - Eating Disorder Advocacy At The B.C. Legislature

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

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"Radical" Concepts in Mental Healthcare & My Own Care Interactions

shaelyritchey

Apr 28, 20224 min read

eating disorders

"Radical" Concepts in Mental Healthcare & My Own Care Interactions

This feels very personal to write, but here goes... There are some days that slowing down enough to attend appointments leaves me feeling...

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shaelyritchey

Apr 28, 20221 min read

eating disorders

Performative "Wokeness"

An important reflection point for professionals working in the eating disorder field... How well does your online appearance of...

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shaelyritchey

Apr 13, 20223 min read

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37 Days

In February, there is only a hint of what will be. A damp chill still hangs in the air. lurking in the shadows, but there's a hint of...

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Brief Thoughts on the Internal Family Systems Paradigm in Relation to Treating Trauma & EDs

shaelyritchey

Apr 4, 20222 min read

eating disorders

Brief Thoughts on the Internal Family Systems Paradigm in Relation to Treating Trauma & EDs

I shared these brief thoughts through Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders (VIVED) social media, but there is so much in this...

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Lessons From Each Month of the Year - March 2022

shaelyritchey

Mar 30, 20222 min read

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Lessons From Each Month of the Year - March 2022

What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of March… Look up, look down, around, again and again. There is...

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Transforming Moments of Pain, to Peace - Reclaiming My Authorship Project

shaelyritchey

Mar 28, 20226 min read

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Transforming Moments of Pain, to Peace - Reclaiming My Authorship Project

I've written before about reclaiming authorship and the power of language, largely through advocating for collaborative treatment in my...

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shaelyritchey

Mar 11, 20222 min read

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Old Wounds

I do not typically speak to specifics in my own healing journey at present. My fear is negatively impacting others or unintentionally...

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