Writings and Musings

Recovery Models and Frameworks
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Recovery Models and Frameworks

An exploration of what recovery in mental health means, models of recovery, how occupational therapy approaches are a good fit with the recovery approach and what this might look like in services.

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Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice in Mental Health - Lived Experience Feedback
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Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice in Mental Health - Lived Experience Feedback

As part of developing a training on neurodiversity affirming mental health care I posed 3 questions to neurodivergent people across a few Facebook groups to get a wider range of lived experience perspectives than just my own to include. I got a range of responses and have compiled the feedback here.

I hope this is a useful starting point/launchpad/continuation for your own thinking and how you can be more neurodiversity affirming in your practice.

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Different Kinds of Rest
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Different Kinds of Rest

An exploration of different kinds of rest. What this means and how this can look different to our ‘traditional’ ideas. A categorisation of four types of rest is proposed.

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Metaphors for Explaining Chronic Illness
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Metaphors for Explaining Chronic Illness

Using metaphors to explain the chronic experience can be helpful for understanding our own experience and trying to explain it to others. Here I’ve summarised: Spoon theory, Forks, Splat, Oxygen tank and Animal scales, and included my sensory jars.

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Sleep Hygiene and ME/CFS
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Sleep Hygiene and ME/CFS

An exploration of alternatives to the standard sleep hygiene recommendations that need individualisation and adaptation to suit people with ME/CFS and other conditions.

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Exploring Your Values
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Exploring Your Values

What kind of person do you want to be? What is important to you?

Knowing your values can help you live a life more in line with what really matters to you.

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