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Two Podcast Discovery Tools
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 01:55 pmThe Bello Collective ( Read more... )
PRX ( Read more... )
Free Resources for Managing Trauma -- 17-31 August 2020
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 06:12 pmSounds True was founded in 1985 to "wake up the world by distributing spiritual wisdom." It now publishes "wellness" audio, particularly meditation and therapy tools.
They're currently hosting a Trauma Skills Summit. Each day they feature professionally-captioned video talks from two or three speakers, with backgrounds in trauma healing, mindfulness, and chronic conditions. Until 31 August, the content is free. The teachers are counselors, yogini, doctors, dancers, spiritual guides and healers from a variety of backgrounds -- check out the list of Trauma Summit Teachers. Use that link to register with an email address for free access until the end of August.
The Trauma Skills Summit started on the 17th, so here's what's already available
If you want to get downloads (or extend access after the end of the month), you can pay them $147.
ETA: video only, no books/transcripts
signal boost: Nursing Clio
Monday, February 10th, 2020 01:57 pmNursing Clio is a fascinating site, "an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine." Its name honors Clio, the muse of History in Greek Mythology, and declares the double intention to nurture history and document the caring and power of nursing.
Two brief tastes
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Nursing Clio’s resources pages provide even more lively reading at the intersection of medicine and politics, broadly conceived — connections to archives, discussions, and platforms that explore women, health, race, disability and history.https://nursingclio.org/resources/
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Can You Point Me To Accurate, Helpful Fibro Resources?
Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 11:04 amA friend who is not on DW asked me for helpful resources on fibromyalgia.
I had lots of 1990s-appropriate answers back when I was diagnosed, but I haven't kept up to date (and all those sites are down).
Any recommendations for books, or websites, or newsletters, or *ghu help me* specific Facebook groups?
I'd appreciate knowing if the resource is aimed at newly-diagnosed folks or family members or what.
I had lots of 1990s-appropriate answers back when I was diagnosed, but I haven't kept up to date (and all those sites are down).
Any recommendations for books, or websites, or newsletters, or *ghu help me* specific Facebook groups?
I'd appreciate knowing if the resource is aimed at newly-diagnosed folks or family members or what.
Disability Arts Online
Friday, April 1st, 2016 02:13 pmThere's lots of disability-themed fiction, memoir, & poetry online, but as with any search on "disability," it's hard to separate medical stuff from writings by us about us.
Now there's an umbrella org to make stuff easier to find:
Disabilities Literature Consortium
http://dislitconsortium.wordpress.com
dislit666@gmail.com
Some of the mags I've enjoyed:
( Breath and Shadow )
http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath
breathandshadow@gmail.com
( Kaleidoscope )
http://www.udsakron.org/kaleidoscope/issues.aspx
( Pentimento )
http://www.pentimentomag.org
( Wordgathering )
http://www.wordgathering.com
submissions@wordgathering.com
( Intima )
http://www.theintima.org/
Now there's an umbrella org to make stuff easier to find:
Disabilities Literature Consortium
http://dislitconsortium.wordpress.com
dislit666@gmail.com
Some of the mags I've enjoyed:
( Breath and Shadow )
http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath
breathandshadow@gmail.com
( Kaleidoscope )
http://www.udsakron.org/kaleidoscope/issues.aspx
( Pentimento )
http://www.pentimentomag.org
( Wordgathering )
http://www.wordgathering.com
submissions@wordgathering.com
( Intima )
http://www.theintima.org/
DIY Glee at Instructables.com
Sunday, April 12th, 2015 09:45 amThis site is catnip for the at-home mechanic. It has a wide range of fun and funky instructions, from all-cardboard storage systems, DIY security, and 3D printers that print themselves, to cooking recipes, provided in step-by-step detail.( Pretty & Practical Bikes )
Instructables provides a nice framework for documenting your amazing projects (called ibles) so others can admire and do it themselves, as well as comment threads for more praise and good ideas.
Instructables provides a nice framework for documenting your amazing projects (called ibles) so others can admire and do it themselves, as well as comment threads for more praise and good ideas.
Self-Compassion Meditation is Wonderful!
Thursday, April 9th, 2015 10:18 amA year ago I enthused about the joys of meditation, in particular "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction." I've continued my formal practice of MBSR (15 - 25 minutes nightly before bed. I meditate lying down, to minimize pain crosstalk.) But wait, there's more!
I'm now learning about "Self-Compassion Meditation," which has been even more helpful for me. (I'm sure spending a year directing a kindly, curious attention to anything floating through my brain and body has enabled me to apply SCM at any time.) I can now do "informal practice" whenever I need it. The key to SCM is it rides along with the acknowledgement of pain. The fact that I'm beginning to lash myself on my perceived defects, or enduring the throbbing of my augmented ankle, or weeping over the daily news— that pain itself triggers my SCM response.
Self-Compassion Meditation—Kristin Neff
http://self-compassion.org
Dr Neff's site and book support a meditation practice for folks who live with mental, physical, and psychic pain. Her approach is firmly grounded in Buddhist spirituality, but is very accessible to those of us who bounce off religion.
In the brief month I've been using it, I've developed the skill of responding to negative events with compassion, not fear, anxiety, self-punishment, or despair.
The whole site is well worth reading: this resources page offers free downloads of guided meditations and writing exercises:
http://self-compassion.org/catego/exercises
She also provides a self-compassion test which helps you to realize when you may be suffering needlessly, and how self-compassion could make your life less painful.
( Resources mentioned last year )
I'm now learning about "Self-Compassion Meditation," which has been even more helpful for me. (I'm sure spending a year directing a kindly, curious attention to anything floating through my brain and body has enabled me to apply SCM at any time.) I can now do "informal practice" whenever I need it. The key to SCM is it rides along with the acknowledgement of pain. The fact that I'm beginning to lash myself on my perceived defects, or enduring the throbbing of my augmented ankle, or weeping over the daily news— that pain itself triggers my SCM response.
Self-Compassion Meditation—Kristin Neff
http://self-compassion.org
Dr Neff's site and book support a meditation practice for folks who live with mental, physical, and psychic pain. Her approach is firmly grounded in Buddhist spirituality, but is very accessible to those of us who bounce off religion.
In the brief month I've been using it, I've developed the skill of responding to negative events with compassion, not fear, anxiety, self-punishment, or despair.
The whole site is well worth reading: this resources page offers free downloads of guided meditations and writing exercises:
http://self-compassion.org/catego/exercises
She also provides a self-compassion test which helps you to realize when you may be suffering needlessly, and how self-compassion could make your life less painful.
( Resources mentioned last year )
ZOMG Fabulous New Font!
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 06:09 pmMy earliest fandom is lettering & fonts (or as ITC used to say in U&Lc, "I'm a letter lover.") Linotype's new script style Veljovic is just gorgeous, and there's a Cyrillic to make my mouth water.
Create Onscreen Captions/Subtitles for Online Video
Monday, October 5th, 2009 04:45 pmJust stumbled on this today:
Overstream.net is a free service where you can create a subtitle file for an existing video (currently including videos hosted at YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and more).
You use Javascript and Flash in a web interface to author the subtitle text (which can be in any Unicode-supported language). Overstream stores the subtitle file with a link to the video source; you send a link to the Overstream file and both are displayed simultaneously. (You can also download the subtitle file for later user, although I know zero about the format issues involved.)
They have thousands of subtitled videos (not all in English), a chatty blog, and they've just launched a subtitling/captioning service. (Which makes total sense, as more educators use web-hosted content in their lessons, Overstream offers a way to create captions and meet USA section 508 accessibility without having a captioner in-house.
I'm definitely gonna check this out for the next video I link to!
Overstream.net is a free service where you can create a subtitle file for an existing video (currently including videos hosted at YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and more).
You use Javascript and Flash in a web interface to author the subtitle text (which can be in any Unicode-supported language). Overstream stores the subtitle file with a link to the video source; you send a link to the Overstream file and both are displayed simultaneously. (You can also download the subtitle file for later user, although I know zero about the format issues involved.)
They have thousands of subtitled videos (not all in English), a chatty blog, and they've just launched a subtitling/captioning service. (Which makes total sense, as more educators use web-hosted content in their lessons, Overstream offers a way to create captions and meet USA section 508 accessibility without having a captioner in-house.
I'm definitely gonna check this out for the next video I link to!
