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)...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of June... “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor,...

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...

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