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Reclamation Art Series - Introduction
Reclaiming my medical records through collage.
shaelyritchey
Jun 29, 20245 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...
shaelyritchey
Nov 8, 20232 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...
shaelyritchey
Nov 23, 20225 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...
shaelyritchey
Nov 18, 20224 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...
shaelyritchey
Oct 8, 20221 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...
shaelyritchey
Aug 6, 20223 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...
shaelyritchey
Aug 5, 20221 min read
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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...
shaelyritchey
Jul 30, 20223 min read
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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...
shaelyritchey
Jul 22, 20221 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...
shaelyritchey
Jun 8, 202219 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...
shaelyritchey
Jun 3, 20222 min read
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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...
shaelyritchey
May 21, 20223 min read
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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...
shaelyritchey
May 4, 20221 min read
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"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...
shaelyritchey
Apr 28, 20224 min read
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Performative "Wokeness"
An important reflection point for professionals working in the eating disorder field... How well does your online appearance of...
shaelyritchey
Apr 28, 20221 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...
shaelyritchey
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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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...
shaelyritchey
Apr 4, 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...
shaelyritchey
Mar 30, 20222 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...
shaelyritchey
Mar 28, 20226 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...
shaelyritchey
Mar 11, 20222 min read
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