Megbarker
MY BLOGS
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Social Mindfulness
http://socialmindfulness.wordpress.com/
Social mindfulness draws together projects which explore the social potentials of mindfulness. The kinds of issues and topics explored on the social mindfulness blog include:
The potential of existing mindfulness practices for addressing social issues, such as conflict, sustainability, and discrimination.
The development of mindfulness practices which are explicitly social and/or collective (e.g. with the aim of improving empathy, or conducted in conversations or groups).
Explorations of the possibility of mindful relationships.
Dialogues between mindfulness and social theory, social science and social psychology.
Mindfulness therapies which are located more explicitly within sociocultural understandings of human experience.
The application of mindfulness to social settings, such as healthcare, education, and social work. -
Northern Existential Group
http://northernexistentialgroup.wordpress.com/
Northern UK group on existential philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy
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BiUK
http://bisexualresearch.wordpress.com/
The UK national organisation for bisexual research and activism
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Rewriting the Rules
http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/
A blog on love, sex and relationships covering issues such as self-help, break-up, communication, conflict, marriage, LGBTQ, monogamy, non-monogamy, break-up, gender, sexuality, commitment, romance, depression, self-care, society, mindfulness, existentialism, philosophy, psychology, and counselling/therapy.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 326 )
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Holding Multiple Possible Stories Through Our Experience
Back in the early days of 2020 I met up with a friend for coffee to talk about whether I might support him in some writing projects he was considering. As alway... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Caught In-between: The Messy Middle of Shifting Stuck Patterns
Note: This post was written towards the end of May. Since then the challenges out in the world, and in my relationships with myself and others, have shifted... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Plural Selves, Queer and Comics
I'm so excited that my second article about my relationship with comics is out in the world, in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics special issue on... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Chronic Shame
Lately the focus of my learning has shifted from trauma in general to one element specifically: shame. As I've mentioned here before, toxic levels of shame are ... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Best Pride Book: Non-Binary Lives
I'm so stoked that a book collection that I co-edited with Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, and Ben Vincent has been chosen as The Independent's best buy for LGBTQ+ books... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Mind the Gap 2: The (micro and Macro) Gap as a Radical Act
This post is all about the value of making gaps - micro to macro - in our everyday lives for self-consent, for relating well with others, and for resisting wide... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Mind the Gap 1: On Slowing Down and Making Space
Recently Justin and I covered slowing down on the Patreon feed of our podcast. You can listen to that here if you fancy signing up. In this post I want to give ... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Balancing Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn: A Plural Perspective 1
I've written a fair bit here lately about the trauma responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn, and how these can become stuck patterns with which we... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Balancing Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn: A Plural Perspective 2
I've written a fair bit here lately about the trauma responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn, and how these can become stuck patterns with which we... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Trauma and the Body Basics
As part of my deep dive into trauma I wanted to write a post about the way trauma works in the body and brain, and the implications of this when we're working... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
All About Amatonormativity: the Privileging of Romantic Love
Thanks so much to BBC Bitesize for interviewing me for this article on the pressure of finding The One. It's something I've spoken and written about a bunch,... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Joint Podcasts: Covid-19, Trauma, and Non-binary Thinking
Over the last few weeks I did two joint podcasts with co-creators who've also been putting out content on coping with the pandemic and lockdown... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Slow Relating
There is so much to do, there is so little time, we must go slowly - Taoist saying Something I've been reflecting on a lot recently is the pace of... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
How to Start Writing
The awesome folks at JKP just interviewed me about my thoughts on getting started with writing, which was a great chance for me to share some recent ideas I've... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Trauma and cPTSD 101
In recent blog posts and podcasts I have been increasingly weaving a trauma-informed perspective into my writing. This post gives an overview of trauma and how... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Taking Ourselves Seriously
Another plural blog post written a short while before Covid-19 hit, but relevant more than ever now. This time my serious selves, Max and Jonathan, talk about... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Rewriting the Rules on Relationship Book List
Thanks so much to the folks at wiki.ezvid.com for including Rewriting the Rules in their recent list of recommended books about relationships. It's particularl... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
The Master’s Tools and Mental Health: We Can’t Get out of Our Struggles the...
Something hit me recently: one of those things that must have been staring me in the face for so long but somehow I never saw it. And now that I have, I can't... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Zones of Stuck Patterns
I'm thinking a lot at the moment about how we can shift our stuck patterns and habits. I'm weaving together various ideas and applying them to my own life. It... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Stuck in Alone Or Together: An Opportunity to Address Stuck Patterns
A few months ago a therapist on twitter said something along the lines of: ' When a relationship gets tough whether you break-up or stay together the work you'l... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2020 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY