Arte y Pico Awards
Storied Mind has had the special honor of receiving the Arte Y Pico award from both Melinda at Melindaville and Clinically Clueless. It’s wonderful to receive this recognition from such amazing and truly fearless bloggers. As many others have said, the community of mental health bloggers has given me so much more, and more generously, than I could have imagined when I started this project last year. Melinda and Clueless hold nothing back in sharing the often searing experiences that have shaped their lives and that they have bravely faced and overcome. I thank them both from my heart.
The ‘Arte Y Pico Award’ is given to five blogs at a time based on their creativity, design, interest of content, and contribution to the blogging community, regardless of language. To learn more about this award, click here. Part of the honor of receiving it is passing along the award to other blogs that honestly seek out the truth of their authors’ experience.
Like many in this position, I’ve taken a while to look again at the moving and powerful blogs that have meant so much to me. It’s more than hard to pick just five from among so many to recognize with this award.
Here are the remarkable bloggers I have selected – in no special order. Each of them has made an enormous contribution to our understanding.
Beyond Meds Gianna shares her experience with devastating problems caused by medications that only harmed her. She presents the story of her struggle to free herself of medication and find recovery through her own inner strength.
Mental Motes Dano has recorded eloquently the hard stories of experiences that would have crushed many – both on her own blog and in comments on others. She is a brave and compelling artist.
A Never Quiet Mind Zathyn is a natural storyteller as well as a fine novelist. He recounts on his blog the ongoing test of living with multiple disorders and the grief of losing his lover to suicide.
Inside Candy Candy is a South African writer of enormous talent who shares her own poetry and fiction on this blog as well as stories of inner struggles and political injustices of her own and neighboring countries. She writes with unfailing wit and liveliness.
wellbeingandhealth.net Evan has produced a remarkable series of essays on all aspects of well being, including innumerable wise insights on emotional and mental health. Pervading his writing is that sense of peace and balance he hopes to instill in his readers.
Thank you all for helping the rest of us understand your struggles and victories and reflect more deeply on our own experience.
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Posted by Evan, November 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm 
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Thank you so much for the mention. I’m really honoured. I also want to thank you for producing such a quality site. I find so much of your content enlightening. Keep pen to paper, spirits high, and heart on sleeve. Xx
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