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Missing Blog
Last Sunday I was planning to publish a blog about “Ten Equations that Rule the World” by David Sumpter. I found it more time consuming to write and a technical problem. Previous Sunday was about editing and posting the first chapter from a book of walks. I will need to write the next chapter of…
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Highams Park Sculpture Walk
The Wild About Highams Park Animal Sculpture Trail will take approximately 2 hours to complete. As part of the Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture initiative Highams Park Community CIC was given funding in 2019 to present the arts trail “Wild About Highams Park”. Featuring a series of 12 wood carvings representing animals from the…
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8 Existential questions we all need to answer
Erik Erikson developed an eight stage model of human development. At each stage we find the answer to an existential question. If we do not we still go on to the next stage. Also as life happens we change our answers to these questions. So what are the questions. “Can I trust the world” is…
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Recovery Temptations
About now is the season of Lent. This is when the Church remembers Jesus fasting for 40 days and 40 nights in the dessert and then Satan tempts Him. These temptations of Jesus parallel the temptations faced by someone on a recovery journey. Temptation 1 – turn stone into bread. Settling for instant gratification. e.g. using our…
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The card suite audit
Some one described life as a game. In my family that I grew up in that would be a game of cards. So I thought about a deck of cards. A deck is made of four suites, two are red and two are black. Yes our lives consist of past, present and future. The present…
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Desperate measures
For years I have planned to write a course and/or book about recovery. So last year I took early retirement. Money is still a problem so I need to work via a nursing agency. Odd shifts in hospital or 3 months with a community mental health team. The main thrust of my year is to…
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Mental Health needs
Your mental health needs physical, emotional, spiritual and financial health. Not excellant health but suffecient. Physical health that does not restrict your activity is well enough even if you need medication or aids to fufill your tasks and protect your life. Emotional and spitirutal health needs to be postive in their effect. Financial health needs…
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New Year, Fresh Start
In 2015 I need to work on that which protects my recovery. This is the relationship with my wife. I need to write on this blog, Facebook and Twitter. Mainly I need to write the material that will sell and make money. The money will enable me to do good for the world. Not quite…
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Patron Saint for Recovered Persons
Originally I thought to be the saint of come back kings. Then I realised that come back kings are only setting themself up for another fall. Recovering your mental health is not about returning you to where you were before you become unwell. No a recovered person is healthier than they were before coming unwell.…
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Writing 101 stream of consciousness
Time is a sparse commodity. When compared to the day there is never enough. Yet when contrasted with your income there always seems too much time after the end of the money. So finding time to blog is hard but needs to be found. For without blogging how will people discover how much I can…
Wisdom of David Shenfield 