The Rwandan prescription for Depression: Sun, drum, dance, community. “We had a lot of trouble with western mental health workers who came here immediately after the genocide and we had to ask some of them to leave. They came and their practice did not involve being outside in the sun where you begin to feel better, there was no music or drumming to get your blood flowing again, there was no sense that everyone had taken the day off so that the entire community could come together to try to lift you up and bring you back to joy, there was no acknowledgement of the depression as something invasive and external that could actually be cast out again. Instead they would take people one at a time into these dingy little rooms and have them sit around for an hour or so and talk about bad things that had happened to them. We had to ask them to leave.” ~A Rwandan talking to a western writer, Andrew Solomon, about his experience with western mental health and depression.

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Under The Blue Door

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From The Moth podcast, Notes on an Exorcism.   http://themoth.org/stories

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“Wolves and Women have much in common. Both share a wild spirit. Women and Wolves are instinctual creatures, able to sense the unseen. They are loyal, protective of their packs and of their pups. They are wild and beautiful. Both have been hunted and captured. Even in captivity, one can see in the eyes of a Woman, or a Wolf, the longing to run free, and the determination that should the opportunity arise, Whoosh, they will be gone…..” ~ CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, [WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES].

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Under The Blue Door

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ART BY KELOGSLOOPS

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Random things you don’t know about me

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Good morning, this is just a few random thoughts that I came up with this morning… did you know that I like to work on cross stitch? Did you know that the sewing machine I’m getting tonight is the most exciting thing ever ever! it’s better than a new car! I have an old sewing machine from the 70s that’s a real workhorse but it doesn’t do all the fancy stuff like button holes and fancy stitching and hemming and all that other sort of thing.