Tag: respect

• Unique Comments and My Policy

  Your comment might not have shown up in one of my posts, even though I continued my commitment to you: I am extremely conservative about deleting comments. I only delete those that are not contributing to the conversation, AND that conspicuously lure people to unrelated sites, OR that I am certain are unintelligible gibberish. I never…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  March 16, 2015

  Me

  Akismet, Facebook, respect, spam

• Embrace Anger

  The first time that I had a long-term relationship with a counselor (how can I write that so it doesn’t sound romantic?), at one of our first meetings, he asked me to buy and read the book “The Dance of Intimacy” by Harriet Lerner, PhD. I asked why I had to pay for counseling AND…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  February 28, 2015

  Mental Health

  Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner, respect, self-talk

• Mental Health Athletes

  I greatly appreciate writers who share ideas for attracting readers, for example, at Twitter: #amwriting #amreading; and at Google+: the Saturday Scenes and Writers Discussion Group communities. Here are thoughts that I would like more authors to consider when sharing what they write about mental illness. I often perceive an “us and them” way of thinking, for example…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  February 18, 2015

  Creativity, Social Justice

  bipolar disorder, depression, discrimination, mental health, mental illness, privilege, respect, segregation, write

• Police Brutality and Fear

  A conversation is taking place at Dungeon Prompts regarding whether, and how, race colors our perceptions of police brutality. My perception of police brutality is colored by my personal experiences, which are colored by my racial status. The Context A couple of weeks ago, Michael Brown — an unarmed black young man — was shot…

  Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

  August 23, 2014

  Social Justice

  discrimination, DungeonPrompts, privilege, respect, segregation, self-talk