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Arts KC Inspiration Award
Winner 2009
Charlotte Street Foundation
Exhibiting Artist 2009, 2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Alumnus |
My testimony and public spiritual declaration. I found this video and thought I would go ahead and make this claim publicly. Yes, I’m a Christian poet. No, I don’t believe your spiritual tradition is wrong. This statement has the potential to irk both my Christian friends and my non-Christian friends, but I’ll claim it. I . . . → Read More: Does anyone even know that I’m a Christian poet? Mixing advocacy approaches give me fresh insight. “I am young, involved and in control of my destiny. I am free, powerful, hopeful, and people like me…. there are many. Sixty pushups, a six mile run, or sixty miles to Lees Summit. I can get there with no gas – I’ll watch OPEC plummet. Setbacks I . . . → Read More: I like to fight – evolution of an advocate  Leave a comment  Artist's Life  art advocacy, bicycle touring, bicycle-pedestrian advocacy, Bike-Walk KC, combined advocacy work, mental health advocacy, mental health recovery, Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation, mixing advocacy approaches, Pat Deegan, personal medicine, Poetry for Persona Power, schizophrenia without medication, spoken word poetry Where are all mental health demons ruining our care? Brian Gallmeyer, the most peaceful guy I know, at Bicycle Pedestrian advocacy day. He avoided all mental health demons. I met with Consensus KC yesterday. I thought I could kill some mental health demons, but they just turned out to be people, too. Consensus KC . . . → Read More: Mental health demons: It would be easier if there was sometime to hate in all this mess Moving beyond the subconscious: Key Life Decisions I made very early in life There are significant moments in each person’s life, not neccessarily the high and low points, but the factors that led up to those moments. These can become unconscious or automatic once the thinking is ingrained. This is an accounting of the key . . . → Read More: Key Life Decisions What people ask when they find out I’m an Olympic athlete: The Olympian conversation It turns out that most people who haven’t done sports all connect in the same ways to the Olympics. It turns out that I always end up having the same conversation. At first I got sick of the conversation and just . . . → Read More: The Olympian Conversation Work errands are perfect for bicycle mileage reimbursement. This shot caught with a load of groceries from the Missouri River overlook towards the Broadway Bridge How to get your boss to pay you a bicycle mileage reimbursement when riding a bicycle on the clock A few years ago I won a bicycle commuting . . . → Read More: How to calculate bicycle mileage reimbursement rates Live life from the heart – how to cultivate fighting spirit An an Olympic Judo athlete, many times I won matches on sheer grit. It’s definitely true that sports, and most of life in general is 90% mental and 10% physical. When I first starting developing my motivational speaker, I realized that most Judo clubs . . . → Read More: How to cultivate fighting spirit in all parts of life Advocacy for when your boss says you can’t ride to work About four years ago my boss tried to tell me that I couldn’t ride my bike to work. Actually, it’s illegal to tell people what they can do on their off time, but in this case I rode my bike on the clock between . . . → Read More: How to overcome your employer bicycle commuting objections Mental health civil rights has grown bigger than me I’m going to shift the focus on CorinnaWest.com to share more personal stories about bicycling across country, being an Olympic athlete, living in one of the best arts communities in the world, and my own recovery realizations. I’ve now created a Wellness Workworks.com site. The business . . . → Read More: Mental Health Civil Rights moving to Wellness Wordworks How to find online peer support resources that are truly recovery oriented Recently I explained the difference between the distress model and the disease model of mental illness. This is the idea that many people have emotional suffering that comes from normal life situations. I think it’s important to watch our terminology in our online . . . → Read More: Collection of Online Peer Support Resources Leave a comment Recovery Realizations coming off psych meds, complete recovery, Corinna West, disease model of mental illness, disease vs. distress model, Kansas City, mental health recovery websites, online peer support resources, psychiatric medication discontinuance, recovery from schizophrenia, Wellness Wordworks |
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