This is Sheena’s Place’s Participant-Centred Blog that features our recovery stories, art, struggles, poetry, interviews, and many more, which all follow a set of safe space guidelines. We recognize that everyone is at a different place in their recovery. Food, weight, dieting, calories, specific eating disordered behaviours, or exercise behaviours can often be triggering, and are therefore not published on this blog. To submit your work, please email Kmccarthy@sheenasplace.org and read about Sheena’s Place’s blog moderator, Kira, here.
The One Thing I Could Control
Dear Blog Readers,This poem arrived quietly, the way the most honest things do. It doesn’t ask for sympathy or explain itself. It simply names what…
Read MoreSheena’s Place
Sheena’s Place by T.H. Sheena’s place is basically there for when things get hard Honestly it’s just a place where people can go and talk…
Read MoreMarch Break at 16
The Annual Torture Trip by Lisa Jackson They called it a vacation like that word was supposed to fix everything. Two weeks. A beach. My…
Read MoreSpring Again
Spring Again by D.B. The world was grey for way too long, but something’s shifting, something’s strong, the air smells different, soft and clean, like…
Read MoreThe Weight of Everything
The Weight of Everything by David L. By the second week of November, Marcus had stopped going to the dining hall entirely. It wasn’t a…
Read MoreThe Weight of a Season Not Yet Here
Outside, the ground is still hard with frost. The calendar says it is February, and by all rights, I should be safe inside the heavy…
Read MoreThe urge may still knock, but I don’t open the door.
Dear Readers, New Year’s Eve has ************ New Year’s Eve still does something to me. I’m in my sixties now. I’ve been in recovery…
Read MoreA Two Week Break When you Don’t Celebrate Christmas
Dear Blog Readers, Today we hear from Reanna, a girl who feels trapped and untethered during the 2 week school holiday for other people’s celebrations….
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