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Cannabis Legalisation and Psychosis: Observations from New York
Observations from New York on cannabis legalisation and its impact on psychosis and mental health.
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We need to talk: A Reflection on World Mental Health Day
Every year on the 10th of October, we mark World Mental Health Day. For me, it's a moment to pause and reflect. It's a day to check in, not just with myself, but with the people around me. I have been working in this field since before my prefrontal cortex was fully formed. My family is littered wit...
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Wired Together, Worlds Apart
The ever-changing ebb and flow of social dynamics for teens is brutal, especially for girls.
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Where Words Fail, Art Speaks
I first discovered art therapy 20 years ago, as a client in rehab. In very early recovery from addiction, I felt like my life was in ruins, and I had little hope for the future. The weekly art therapy sessions, however, felt like a lifeline. There was something extraordinarily empowering about creat...
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Good Will Coaching: From Myth to Meaning
The idea of a guide, mentor, or coach is as old as storytelling itself. From the wise figures of mythology, to Joseph Campbell’sHero’s Journey, to Tarkovsky’sStalker, humanity has always looked to figures who help others navigate uncertainty, confront inner struggles, and discover purpose. These arc...
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Together, We Can Create Hope
This September, as we markSuicide Prevention Awareness Month, we’re reminded of something really important: none of us are alone in our struggles. Each conversation, each check-in, each moment of kindness has the power to bring someone back from the edge and remind them that life is still worth livi...
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Case Management: The Mechanics and the Magic
As someone who communicates for a living, I should have a clear answer, a quick, compelling soundbite that captures what it really does. But I don’t.
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Where the Words Took Me
“Once upon a time a girl sat curled up in a chair reading a book about a circus. She was oblivious to her surroundings, all senses focused on the words. Her eyes hungrily reading, and seeing the bright colours, her ears hearing the sounds of excited cries, tasting the candyfloss and smelling the die...
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Alcohol Awareness Week
It’s amazing what you can have delivered these days. One evening last month, I ordered a chicken katsu curry and my dad’s death certificate.
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Echoes of Fatherhood
The echoes of my father surround me, not intrusively and not permanently, but in the way I can tell a piece of silver which is Georgian with its simpler and elegant forms from an even simpler Queen Anne style. When I see an unfilleted trout I know how to gut and scale it, even better if I could smok...
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Music: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Cut all music out of your days, remove all music from your experience. Everything. Take away the Beethoven to the Einaudi that you find under an advert, to the smattering of quiet elevator scenes to the apocalyptic Jazz from basements. Take away the strings behind the Hollywood films, the heartrendi...
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Eating for Mental Wellbeing
The biggest and best things for mental health are to eat food and drink water. Whether it is the client who misses breakfast because she is always rushing to work, or the client missing out on parts of her lunch because she is following some kind of diet rules, if you are not eating regularly and en...
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