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Recovery language in substance abuse
New research published in Critical Social Work reveals that dominant understandings of recovery, such as maintaining abstinence, can be experienced by service users as oppressive.
The critical discourse analysis of qualitative interviews with individuals struggling with substance use issues in rural Ontario examined power dynamics inherent to discourse on substance addiction recovery. The author concludes by offering recommendations such as training and education to address stigma and implicit biases among clinicians and the inclusion of individuals experiencing substance abuse issues in research, policy development, clinical practice, and education.
Researcher Sandra R. McNeil of the University of Windsor writes:
“By shaping who should recover, how they should recover, and what recovery should look like, recovery discourse constitutes categories of inclusion and exclusion. Viewing substance use recovery through a critical lens exposes ideological values that perpetuate substance use stigma at micro and macro levels. Equally important are the numerous, intersecting forms of stigma related to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, appearance, geography, and types of substance use that are capable of (de)constructing structural inequities.”
Own It
Own it!
Own the fact that you are different.
Own that you are a deep feeler and thinker.
Own the fact that you are tuned into a different frequency.
Own and the fact that you sense things others don’t.
Own the fact that you want to talk about angels, energy, miracles and spirituality.
Own that you’re done having meaningless conversations.
Own that you’re done holding yourself back.
Own that you crave freedom to feel the now.
It’s ok if your family don’t get you.
It’s ok if the world judges you.
It’s ok that you want to dance barefoot upon the earth and endlessly gaze at the stars.
It’s ok that you cry over sunsets and chase moonbeams.
It’s wonderful in fact.
It’s beautiful.
You have come a long way to be who you are.
So own it.
Own all of it.
Love all of you.
The world needs you to be exactly as you are.
You hold the balance in this crazy world.
Author ~ Eryka Stanton
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Sacred Wild Woman Medicine
Artist~ Ana Novaes
New Old Way of Coping with Grief
Letting Go
This Autumn, let something die.
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A worry, a relationship, a project that has run its course. Let go of anxiety over the future. Let go of guilt.
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Let go of other people’s dreams for you.
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Let go of the fear that happiness or success or love or joyousness somehow isn’t for you.
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Let go of feeling unwanted. Go outside, can you feel how deeply your presence is craved here?
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Let go of the small and burdensome things. Gifts never opened. Keys without a lock. Broken earrings, old love letters, the ephemera on your fridge.
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As David Whyte writes, “Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” This Autumn, let go of all the clothes you have outgrown.
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Let go of comparison.
Let go of doubt.
Let go of the feeling that you are somehow not good enough.
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Because every imperfect apple that lays soft in your hands, and every ray of low Autumn sunlight that warms you through woolens will tell you a different story, a much truer story. The story that you are more, much more, than enough. That you bless this world simply by being alive.
.Letting Go
Susie Boggus
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📷 by @oceanmountainmedia
Mother & Child – Cell sharing
“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.
For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.
Even if a pregnancy doesn’t go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.
Research has shown that if a mother’s heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.
The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.
How cool is that?
This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.
It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back – so that the baby can develop safely and survive.
Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?
Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”
If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.
Bay Leaves
Interesting…. I learned this today and gonna share.
Many ladies add bay leaves to our foods, especially red meat and bird meat.
Not sure why bay leaves are added to food? When a woman asks why, she says: to give the food a taste.
If you boil bay leaves in a glass of water and taste it, you will get no flavor.
So why do you put bay leaves in the meat?
Adding bay leaves to meat converts triglycerides into mono fats, and to experiment and confirm:
Cut the chicken in half and cook each half in a pan and put it on a bay leaf and the other without bay leaf and observe the amount of grease in both pans.
If you have bay leaves, no need for a pharmacy. Recent scientific studies have shown that bay leaves have many benefits.
Helps to get rid of many serious health problems and diseases,
These are the advantages of bay leaf :-
Bay leaf treats digestive disorders and helps to eliminate bloating.
Heart burn
Acidity
Flu,
It regulates bowel movement by drinking hot bay tea.
Reduces sugar and bay leaf is also an antioxidant,
It allows the body to produce insulin by eating it or drinking bay tea for a month.
Removes bad cholesterol and relieves the body of triglycerides.
Very useful in the treatment of flu, cold and severe cough, because it is a rich source of vitamin “C”, you can boil the leaves and inhale steam to get rid of the flue and reduce the severity of the cough.
Bay leaf protects the heart from seizures and spills because it contains cardiovascular protective compounds.
Rich in acids such as caffeic acid, quercetin, eigonol and bartoliniide, substances that prevent cancer cells from forming in the body.
Removes insomnia and anxiety, if taken before sleep, helps to relax and sleep peacefully.
Drinking a cup of bay leaves cooked twice a day breaks kidney stones and cures infections…
If you have breathing problems or struggling to control anxiety, you should start burning bay leaves at home every day. But be careful, don’t burn the house down. 😃😃
#folhasdelouro #saúde #vidanatural
Burning bay leaves 🍁 clears as does sage and polo Sanyo
Thankful to Teachers
To all of those who tried to dim my light
Thank you for teaching me to shine fully
And embrace my light
To all of those who chose to abandon me
Thank you for teaching me to never abandon myself
To all of those who chose to devalue and diminish me
Thank you for teaching me to value myself and see my worth
To all of those who tried to break me
Thank you for teaching me what it means to be strong
To all of those who tried to silence me
Thank you for teaching me to find my voice
And to all of those who didn’t believe in me or support me
Thank you for teaching me to believe in myself.
Artist Credit: Elisabeth on Earth
Greatest Gift
“Life is so frequently unbearable–you think you can’t possibly go on. Life–the survival of life–is the getting up again and going on, and the means of doing this vary, but at the heart of all things moving forward is the realization–for me, at any rate–that the world, your friends, your own broken heart need your friendship and your laughter and your willingness to go on. Break down and acknowledge your loss, your anger, your diminishing assets, but fall right back on a laugh, a story, a meal–whatever you can cobble together and give to someone else, to yourself.
“My sadness has always been, I think, a reminder that, in my spell of solitude and serenity, the world was still out there getting beat up, people were in pain, and I need to get back to tending to them.
“The greatest gift sometimes is the outstretched hand.”–Alec Guinness/Interview with James Grissom/1997
To the Woman who is fading away
To The Woman Who Is
Slowly Fading Away
To the woman who has
lost her spark.
To the woman who’s
get up and go,
has well and truly gone.
~THIS IS FOR YOU~
This is to remind you, that you don’t have to be everything to everyone, every day.
You didn’t sign up for that.
Remember when you used to
laugh, sing and throw caution to the wind?
Remember when you used to forgive yourself more quickly for not always being perfect?
You can get that back again.
You really can.
And that doesn’t have to mean letting people down or walking away.
It just means being kinder to you, and feeling brave enough to say no sometimes.
Being brave enough to stop sometimes and rest.
It starts the moment you realize that you’re not quite who you used to be.
Some of that is good, and some of that is not.
There are parts of you that need to be brought back.
And if anyone in your life is not okay with that…they are not your people.
Your people will be glad to see that spark starting to light up again.
So, if you have been slowly fading away my friend, this is the time to start saying yes to things that bring you joy and no
to things that don’t.
It’s pretty simple.
–Donna Ashworth
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