Welcome Home Project helps veterans heal by sharing war burdens with the community
On Memorial Day 2008, the veterans presented themselves with their poetry, songs and stories to an audience of more than 600 men and women who came to honor and truly welcome home these warriors.
The MKP Mental Health Resource Team: History, Process and Mission
by David Rose One of the ongoing narratives of The ManKind Project has been the tension between keeping the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA) a fierce and powerful experiential training while at the same time keeping a consciousness around safety — whether physical, spiritual, cultural, or psychological. There have been several major advances in our consciousness around safety. In the mid-1990’s, a new emphasis on pre-training...
Can people with bipolar disorder recover?
by Peter Dorsen, MD Why do those of us with bipolar disorder have to carry the stigma that we will always be sick? Can’t we ever “recover” enough from our disorder to return to the place we started before we were diagnosed with a chronic mental illness? Does the tail wag the dog? Are psychiatrists motivated by the pharmaceutical industry to push medications rather than provide holistic, collaborative care? My...
Dipping into the wells of mental health
by Joe Glassman In trying to find and keep my own sanity, and in trying to assist hundreds of others solve problems in living, I’ve found value from dipping into five wells for emotional health. Balance means dipping into different wells for sustenance. My wells are not everyone’s wells. I can only speak to mine, yet I believe there is some universality to them. The Health Well. This includes eating healthy foods and doing some...
Gender differences: Are men or women more likely to be mentally ill?
by Steve Norcross Part of my training as an Episcopal priest was to go through a summer of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). I accomplished this as an intern at a state mental hospital in Texas. Years later, I advanced my education to become a supervisor in CPE, and did so at a large federal mental hospital in Washington, DC. My training assigned me to several wards, some of which were coed, and others one-gender. In this article I...
Break into your heart; a poem
by Paul Goldman If like a thief in the night, I were to break into your heart — what would I find there? Precious gems tucked away beneath velveteen cloth, ethereal ancestral songs, and deeper still— a longing to know your own Creator; the one who through alchemy’s mystery transformed the very essence of you into a gift golden. If you broke into mine, what would you find beneath the layers? You would find the most valued treasure of...
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