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.
Spring 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….
Read MoreLike a Guest in my Own Skin
Dear Blog Readers, Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, the 2 week holiday from school can be a time of having no distractions from thinking…
Read MoreIs it Really Recovery if I’m Still Hiding?
Dear Blog Readers, This piece comes from Jessica, a student at MSU, who has generously shared a personal reflection on what summer feels like when…
Read MoreWhat Returns after forgetting the self
Dear Blog Readers, The Artist Series has been on hold due to technical details accessing the interviews conducted. I sincerely apologize and the posts will…
Read MoreThe urge may still knock, but I don’t open the door
Dear Readers, On this New Year’s Eve, when people around you are making resolutions about their bodies, and about achieving things that are unreasonable to…
Read MoreTo Be Seen Artist Spotlight: Melissa Sherman
To Be Seen Artist Series: Melissa Sherman I have always created art. Even as a very small child, I began building things out of mud,…
Read MoreTo Be Seen Artist Spotlight: Anita Majumdar
Dear Blog Readers, Here is our next artist in our To Be Seen series: Anita Majumdar I started seriously exploring illustration when I was about…
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