Jessica Aviva's Blog, page 16
April 17, 2017
Suspending Judgment
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: attitude, curiosity, energy, focus, mental health
April 16, 2017
Our Unique Expression
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: love, mental health, mental illness
April 15, 2017
Intersubjective Madness
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The beautifully mysterious subjectivity of mental illness is too often lost in the noise of objective, authoritarian voices that dominate conversations about this form of non- or anti-convention. The creative space where we could potentially explore and negotiate what it means to be human and to be fully alive within the context of emotional difference is brutally shut down rather than lovingly opened up. And that is madness.
Filed under: Emotional Health Tagged: creativity, mental health, mental illness, subjectivity
Creative Play Space
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: aspirations, creativity, mental health, time
April 14, 2017
Surrender
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: mental health, surrender
April 13, 2017
Decaying and Coming Alive
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: evolution, mental health
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April 12, 2017
Smoking Mirror
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Going home to a place that
Faded away
With time, with life, with age
Survival is death.
The heavens in my eyes opened up
Flooding me
Awakening me
Liberating me, my
Pristine superficiality
Shattered.
Sleep, food, sex, air
Oblivion.
The mirror of my conscience
Reflecting my
Hopes, my fears, my love, my rage.
Rage for my
Insatiable ideals
Lost within infinite waste
In that space
So precious and perfect and perilous and free.
Foggy, streaked, cracked
Gone.
Empty.
Open.
The future
Filed under: Poetry Tagged: activism, conscience, grief, guilt, hope, liberation, loss, rage, shame, the past, time 
Fulfillment
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: fulfillment, meaning, mental health, purpose
April 11, 2017
Pressure to Hide and Change
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: mental health, mental illness
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April 10, 2017
A Milestone on the Journey
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Excerpt from Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness http://amzn.to/2mUjVRK
Filed under: Whole Happy and Healthy Tagged: mental health, mental illness, purpose
