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Using Abstraction In Suicide Prevention
There’s a powerful, hidden skill in suicide prevention. Read this article and you’ll be able to practice it in every day conversation – maybe even with people in distress. Who knows, it might help you support someone down from the edge. It’s called ‘Abstraction’. Abstraction is very popular and well understood in other fields like…
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Healing Trauma With Journaling: An N=1 Experiment
Hello, this is a write up for a long term behaviour change and transformation experiment. Please hit me up with any questions, feedback, input etc. I will do my best to remain not-too-emotional-yet-still-authentic. TL;DR: I’m going to identify my problem behaviours, trace them to core wounds, tear them open in a controlled journal setting, knit…
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Said Bouziane’s 2023 End Of Year Review
I closed my eyes to shut out the countdown. Images of humiliation flashed by. You’ve completely forgotten the rest, you’ll have to walk off the stage in shame. Everyone will know you as the one person who only got half way through. I’d spent probably over 60 hours for this chance. And there I was,…
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How To Fight Less With Your Lover – Flow Chart
full blog post is coming soon 🙆🏽♂️💝
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How To Write With Life Saving Clarity In Digital Crisis Support
In learning suicide prevention there’s a tonne of obstacles and challenges. It’s hard, scary work and you’re here remove some of those obstacles and equip yourself with tools, skills and mindset to lower the barrier for others too. Long term this kind of work – preventing suicide – changes people, changes families, changes communities and…
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Why Couldn’t I Let Go Of Happy Sad Man?
Happy Sad Man is a beautiful, moving portrait of masculinity. But… that alone doesn’t explain the mystery of why I found it SO captivating. Allow me to get a little reflective here and pour these thoughts into the internet. I’m trying to capture precisely what it is about this film that has slipped through my…
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How To Finally Stop Asking ‘Why’ To People In Crisis
‘Why do you think he lied to me?’ she asked yet again, as though we hadn’t covered it a hundred times this week. My eyes wanted to roll as far back into my head as they could, I didn’t let them. I’d been here so many times in my life, with my mum, my exes,…
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Said Bouziane’s 2022 End of Year Review
Intention For Sharing These yearly reviews have become something of a tradition around these parts. A tradition I look forward to, each new year a chance to reflect and observe, to count, and be held to account. It’s a chance for you to measure my optimism against reality and ask how well things went according…
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Stop Procrastinating And Get Productive By Mastering The Mundane
After a life of wrestling with time, I finally found easy productivity. My life these past few weeks has run so smoothly, I can hardly recognise it. It’s a shock to look back at. The house is clean every morning and night. Budget accounted for. Tasks aren’t building up unbearably. I sleep well and regularly.…
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Why You Get Triggered
Introduction I always knew about trauma, but only as a concept. You know, images of some homeless guy dodging imaginary gunfire. Recently I realised just how much of my life – in fact how much of everybody’s lives – have been shaped or touched in some way by wounds of trauma. The gunfire isn’t imaginary,…
