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Tag: Mental Health

Lifesaving Lines: The Bluet, by James Schuyler

On a spring day as far from ‘late in dour October’ it would be harder to imagine, James Schuyler’s The … More

Being a Poet, Carl Phillips, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Ukraine

Not exactly good riddance

Just a few hours left of 2021. Time to reflect on what this year has been. Until a week or … More

2021, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Simon Parke

Lifesaving Lines: Poem for Wednesday, by Naomi Jaffa

Recently, my relationship with Wednesdays has changed. It’s quite a long story, and one I don’t want to trouble you … More

Being a Poet, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Naomi Jaffa, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Lone wolf

I am deeply grateful to Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie at The Friday Poem for taking a new poem of … More

Being a Poet, Mental Health, Poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

Summer reading

To continue this season of not, where I have been reposting old blog posts and links to some others, I … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Creativity, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Remission, Writing, Writing Poems

The blanket

Though you may disappear, you’re not forgotten hereAnd I will say to you, I will do what I can do … More

Brene Brown, CBT, Depression, Depression and Anxiety, Depression Story, Health, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Illness, Mental Illness Parable, Mental Illness Story, mindfulness, Parable of Depression, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel Wallflower, Presence, Stress, Vulnerability, Wallflower, Work

On Being Chipper

There were just a few of us in the room, gathered round a table. I had been invited to speak. … More

Anxiety, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Counselling, Depression, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Mental Health Awareness, Remission, Remission and Counselling, Remission and Mental Health

Mind over natter

The YouTube clip below is a recording of a reading I made last week for the University of Exeter Guild … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mind Over Natter, Notebooks, Poetry, University of Exeter

Some rainbows

It wasn’t all rain. There were rainbows among which Shawna has blogged about fountain pens again. Honestly, she could do … More

Activism, Anger, Anne Boyer, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Chemotherapy, Deborah Levy, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, On Being, Shawna Lemay, Stationery

The sweetness of 2020

I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More

2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Grief, Happy New year, Max Richter, Mental Health, New Year Letter, Reading, Writing

What you read in 2020

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

Alzheimer's, Blogging, Dementia, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Loss, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

The Sky Over My Mother’s House

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Grief, Jaime Manrique, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

What you missed

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento … More

Advent, Brad Aaron Modlin, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot

Go well

  I have walked into the grief. I have walked into brave space, mine and others’. I have sat in … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creativity, Grief, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Peter Gabriel, Presence, Robert Pinsky

Tired, but

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

Anne Lamott, Being Creative, Brain Pickings, Creativity, Edward Colston, James Baldwin, Josephine Corcoran, Karen Walrond, Life Lessons, Marie Howe, Marissa Davis, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Rest, Shawna Lemay, Sigur Ros, Simon Parke

Courage

  Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. … More

Anne Sexton, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Depression, Education, Grief, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poetry, Racism, Radiotherapy, Teaching, White Privilege, Writing, Writing Poetry

Struggling

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently, and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Mark Robinson, Mental Health, Michael Laskey, Poems, Poetry, Poets

On not tweeting: Open letter to Twitter

And what will I miss? Her cruelty, her unfaithfulness Her fun, her love, her kiss, part company The Go-Betweens, Part … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Brexit, Distraction, Leaving Twitter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Social Media, Social Media Addiction, Trump, Twitter

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