Artwork by Angie Stevens
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there’s a prompt, a request if you like, to share.
"What have you found that affects your world, in a good way? Which book, person, blog, art, craft, music, exercise, place, film, routine, therapy? Anything. Anyone."
And so here are some of those things that have come up recently, in no particular order:
- The blog of Byron Katie. Joe (no relation) who recommended this emailed: “I found (stumbled onto) her website eleven years ago. My world has never been the same.” Here is the link that he suggested to a Poem translated by her husband Stephen Mitchell: From the Buddha's Dhammapada
- Andrew Solomon’s Far from the Tree. A monumental work that looks at the extraordinary capacity for love and understanding in the relationship between a parent and a child, even in the most extraordinary circumstances. Includes a chapter on Schizophrenia.
- I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment, by Xavier Amador. This deals with the complicated, and confusing, situation of having a loved one with a mental illness who lacks ‘Insight’ into their condition, and because of this refuses treatment. A book that became a system: LEAP.
- Doodlemum: a Year of Family Life, by Angie Stevens recommended by Jane (a relation); how a sleep deprived and depressed mum of three found a way to engage with her post-family identity, and her actual family, through the daily act of drawing.
This is a just a handful of suggestions. What works for you?
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