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We need artists to build a social change movement

Art is essential to build a social change movement. How do we grow and expand? Those of us who are artists, athletes, mental health civil rights activists, and people working for change need to use our...

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What Winning Olympic Trials Taught me (Part 1 of trauma-informed care blog)

How Winning Olympic Trials taught me about being a truama survivor and how to completely escape from a “mental illness” diagnoses (part 1 of 3) This is an essay I wrote about two years ago, about...

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My “I’m a Walking Miracle” pin (part 2 of Trauma-informed care blog)

This is the second part of the essay about the day I learned that my mental health labels might have all been coming from my trauma experiences. It’a about how all Kansas Certified Peer Specialists...

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Creating trauma-informed employment (part 3 of trauma-informed care blog)

What winning the Olympic Trials Taught Me about Trauma-Informed Care (part 3 of 3) by Corinna West This is part 3 of 3 of an essay posted about the day I realized that my mental health diagnoses might...

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The Secret Concrete Canyon

The best collection of Kansas City street art is down here. I’ve been wanting to walk the secret concrete canyon for a long time. This is the home of the nine blue sheep, my very favorite piece of...

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The Details of the Mental Health Revolution

Peer support is what’s missing in the mental health revolution J. Rock Johnson and Dr. Jean Campbell helped inspire this mental health revolution A 2002 report by the National Association of State...

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I donated my last Geodon yesterday

Getting off psych meds follow up story: In my raingear. I rode 27 miles in rain to celebrate getting off psych meds and donate the last of the Geodon stockpile. At one point I felt like I’d gotten to a...

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How I met my fiance

I was riding along one day doing my normal fall Saturday routine picking up apples at City Market. I was headed toward my friends to meet for the 3:00 bike ride and this dude asked me, “Do you know...

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I got married two weeks ago!

My wedding on bicycle on Kansas City’s riverfront heritage trail: Well, in the most appropriate category of all for this blog, this is the next big step in my artists life. It’s almost amazing that I...

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Origins of The Chocolate Fairy

18th Street in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City This post originally appeared as a page but I am updating the Wellness Wordworks site as well as the Corinna West site so I’m switching this...

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I met the 1000 mile swimmer!

My friends and I were doing a take 2 of The Trashboat Regatta this year. My touring partner Brian and I had made a homemade boat for under $100 that we towed to the river with our bicycles for the...

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My letter to the psychiatrist who fired me for coming off psych meds

When I was transitioning between insurance situations I had to switch doctors in the process of coming off psych meds. I kept calling doctors and saying, “I am almost all done coming off psych meds...

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The Bottom Deck of the Central Avenue Bridge

Many people don’t know of the bottom deck of the Central Avenue Bridge. It goes underneath the top deck of the Central Avenue Bridge. This is the bridge from the west bottoms in Kansas City, KS, to the...

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How do you get to be a Judo Olympic Athlete?

Many people ask me how you get to be a Judo Olympic athlete. Now I’ve got the steps printed out on a T-shirt to promote our Combat Arts KC program. 1) Be fitter than all your opponents 2) Want it more...

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Pros and cons of a competitive personality

Recently I designed some Combat Sports KC T-shirts to sell at Judo events and help promote our program. I figured out that there were three main components to winning Judo: 1) Be fitter than all your...

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Happy Birthday, Mom!

For my mom’s birthday today, I’m doing a blog post about how she helped me get to the Olympics in Judo. She’s always been a bit paranoid that going to med school ruined my life since she wasn’t around...

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What Winning Judo Strategies Section of Steve’s book meant to me

I’m in this Renjuku program with Welcome Mat Judo Club where I learn and share how to be a better coach and how to share as much as I know about winning Judo strategies. One of the questions was, “What...

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Why I’m a mental health entrepreneur

There seem to be five different types of mental health advocates: People who focus on improving the existing system. I used to do this until I got too frustrated trying to talk to audiences who heard...

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7 important current issues in Kansas City

These are some of the Kansas City current issues I’m working on or thinking about or finding important lately. Bicycles: Kansas City, MO was recently recognized a bicycle friendly city and we got some...

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Psalm 91 Spoken Word-icized

I’ve just come through a really rough week with an accidental dosing of a hallucinogen, plus my dog being mauled by a pitbull, plus a hugely stressful work interview for a big grant, plus a spiritual...

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