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Arts KC Inspiration Award
Winner 2009
Charlotte Street Foundation
Exhibiting Artist 2009, 2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Alumnus |
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 Successful examples of peer run programs in the United States that create complete mental health recovery Ron Unger explains that many people have come to understand complete mental health recovery as being something like, “Doing OK while still being sick.” He says that many organization are working to water down the definition of recovery. Instead, . . . → Read More: 10 model programs to create complete mental health recovery Oppression in America goes both ways for most of us This is a poem that’s timely for what’s going on in the world right now with the Occupy movement. I’m really proud of how the video came out since I am learning more about editing videos and changing around the camera angle so the video . . . → Read More: I am the Oppressed and the Oppressor |
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