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Druid Life title: Druid Life – Nimue Brown, David Bridger – Druidry, Paganism, Creativity, Hope

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(Nimue)

Over this last year, I have spent a lot of time learning about the human body. I’ve explored psychology texts on mental health and biological works about brains and nervous systems. I’ve also worked through self-help books written by therapists, and a picture is starting to emerge.

Anxiety is a physical response to long-term stress. It is what happ...


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For people in spiritual communities, science can seem like a source of hostility. It doesn’t help that mainstream media is most likely to show us irate nonsense from Richard Dawkins and his ilk. Reductive atheism is of no great use to anyone, and sorely misrepresents how interesting and spiritual atheism can actually be. Science is also badly misrepresented ...


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Over the last six weeks, I have been working with a social worker to learn how to use a cane. This is not like the old kind of cane where you tap about. What I have ends in a rollerball and you keep it in constant touch with the ground. Using it really helps, and has brought fascinating insights into urban landscapes. It allows me to move more easily, but do...


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I’ve written a fair bit over this last year about how blindness has impacted on my Druidry. Today I’m going to get into some other areas of impact, specifically what has happened to me economically.

Here on the blog I have largely talked about the more interesting aspect aspects of my working life. It makes sense to talk about books, gigs and creat...


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I have been taking anti-anxiety meds for about nine months now, so I thought I would share what I have learned.

For a while there was a widely held idea that mental health problems were the consequence of faulty brain chemistry. Fix that with meds and the problem goes away. It turns out that humans are far more complex. Our experiences impact on o...


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