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Ryan Oxley: Sobriety and Mindful Meditation
I’ve waited about six months to write this down. It comes at a time of national emergency and enforced lockdown,...
Cerowyn: Lockdown Poetry Workshop
I have created this poetry workshop to help get your creative juices flowing and get you writing poems about your...
Group Poem: Unvisited
https://youtu.be/8Vbor1a2rek 'Unvisited' written by Joan Ellis, Rachel Burton, Juliet Mcdonald and Shirin Teifouri. Photo by Juliet Mcdonald. In particular, Connected...
Zelda: Yesterday
Borderline personality disorder is a funny beast. This was written on a day I couldn't function, just after a day...
Ruth Durkin: Leaving lockdown? Now I can, I daren’t.
Life since March 2020 has been unusual to say the least. Despite being allowed to go for walks and to...
Catherine Clarke: Mental Health Medications - Do They Work?
Prozac didn’t work well for my son – he got nightmares and became increasingly anxious. The GP doubled the dosage....
Ella Donnison: Retreat - Isolation Style!
Everything at the moment is rather hectic and feels very much out of our control. So I think it’s the...
Group Poem: Turning Still
https://youtu.be/W8yG4ueOJcQ Poetry written by Juliet McDonald, Joan Ellis, Rachel Matthews Burton and Shirin Teifouri.Artwork by Joan Ellis.Poem is recited by...
Graham Morgan: Middlewood - All those Years Ago
It is so long ago that I was a patient in Middlewood; nearly forty years. It was my first admission...
Cerowyn Browne: Lockdown Poetry
https://youtu.be/g-nAyFP6G3g Cerowyn Browne - "Lockdown Poetry"