Reclamation Art Series - A Testament to Willfulness
Exploring the term "willfulness" in psychiatric care.
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shaelyritchey
Jun 295 min read
Reclamation Art Series - Introduction
Reclaiming my medical records through collage.
shaelyritchey
Nov 16, 20233 min read
Reclamation
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)...
shaelyritchey
Nov 8, 20232 min read
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
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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CW - discussion of depression & suicidality 3 years ago today I was reaching my breaking point after months of reaching out for help with...
shaelyritchey
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Care in the Time of Collapse
I am trying to remember there is more than one way to live a life, to be a part of the things I love; to be a good nurse. For me, being...
shaelyritchey
Nov 23, 20225 min read
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 18, 20224 min read
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
Oct 8, 20221 min read
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
Aug 6, 20223 min read
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 5, 20221 min read
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
Jul 30, 20223 min read
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 29, 20223 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - July 2022
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...
shaelyritchey
Jul 22, 20221 min read
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
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - June 2022
What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of June... “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor,...
shaelyritchey
Jun 8, 202219 min read
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 3, 20222 min read
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
May 21, 20223 min read
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 4, 20221 min read
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
Apr 28, 20224 min read
"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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