Miranda Newman

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In August, I attended the When Words Collide Festival in Calgary with funding from the Ontario Arts Council. I’m so grateful for the support. @maritstilesndp.bsky.social #ontarioartscouncil

When Words Collide 2025: Leading with Empathy: Writing Characters... View more about this event at When Words Collide 2025

This August, I'll be at the When Words Collide Festival in Calgary for a panel discussion about writing with empathy (sched.co/26WzA) and a workshop about writing about difficult memories (sched.co/26X2e)

Hope to see you there!

I was so thrilled to learn that Rough Magic won a silver Nautilus Book Award

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My beautiful friend wrote a beautiful (and harrowing) piece about her time in ICE custody

United Nations report says Canada should repeal MAID for people with non-terminal illness A recent report by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has asked Ottawa to repeal medical assistance in dying (MAID) for anyone without a terminal illness, also kno...

“United Nations report says Canada should repeal MAID for people with non-terminal illness”

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Sask. family looking for answers on daughter's suicide WATCH: A Saskatchewan family is looking for answers about the suicide death of their daughter. Wayne Mantyka has the story.

Sask. family looking for answers on daughter's suicide via @ctvnewsregina.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/regina/video...

Passage from Rough Magic by Miranda Newman: Mimicry has protected me when I've wandered into questionable circumstances. In 2019, I took a trip to the Bahamas to visit grandmother. Used to relying upon the resources of others, I found myself drawn onto a yacht occupied by John McAfee, founder of the virus protection software everyone used in the nineties, Internet troll, and alleged rapist and murderer who died in 2021. I entered the cabin-unsure if it was from an urge to find weed or to be close to wealth, notoriety, and hence opportunity-to find cigarette butts

floating in glasses of red wine, puddles of dog piss from the four beasts McAfee kept aboard for protection, and smudges of white residue on a glass table. McAfee was hosting a live stream for one of his presidential runs. A big Bahamian man with a warm welcoming smile sat next to him cradling an AK-47. The British fellow who'd invited me onto the yacht donned a mask of McAfee's face and passed me a lit joint and my own McAfee mask. I took both and put on the mask. I didn't want to be McAfee, but I was keenly aware I was the only woman on the boat. I'd be safer if I could be mistaken for one of the guys, like a katydid confused with a leaf. I hit the joint. Surrounded by real and fake McAfees, my head spun from the strong weed. I passed the spliff to the large fellow with the gun. I stayed on the yacht until the joint was spent, doing my best to blend into the scratched and drooled-on leather sectional. McAfee started to tell a story about a Thai stripper he knew who could squeeze a water- melon out of her vagina. I slipped out to the deck to "get some air" and clambered onto the wooden pier, my pace accelerating with each step away from the boat. I had what I needed from the encounter. es in resource exploitation (interper-

Miranda Newman just casually dropping this anecdote in a section about social mimicry in her memoir Rough Magic is sending me

Tonight!!

So excited for this!

Just received my very first #PLR payment! Authors, sign up!

So humbled to see Rough Magic on this list 💫

I had the pleasure of attending a preview of this show—stupendous! Like a really great CNF essay

Big shout out to all the writers and activists who made this happen! 👏 👏👏

Personality disorder patients let down by 'misleading' diagnosis Jessica Matthews was 21 when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

“'I was told regularly that I was manipulative and attention-seeking and that I had no reason to be suicidal.’”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

ERs Closed in Ontario 2024 - Google My Maps This map shows all ERs in Ontario closed either temporarily or permanently from January1/24 on. Click on icon for details, Here's the link to 2023's map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1aD55Pt...

Map has been updated with 2 ER closures in #Ontario in 1 week

Everyday we scan the internet to track what Doug Ford won’t

Pls take this info to your family,friends,co-workers - someone you know and love will be profoundly affected by this malfeasance

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For tennis star Destanee Aiava, borderline personality disorder felt like ‘a death sentence’ – and a relief. What is it?

Treatment should focus on the underlying causes of borderline personality disorder – trauma – rather stigmatise the person.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

20/20 - Rough Magic: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder by Miranda Newman

#BookSky #20bookchallenge #TwentyBooks #20books

The Intersection of Limerence and BPD The concept of limerence has gained traction in recent years, especially with social media platforms like TikTok shedding light on the topic.

“In BPD limerence, early attachment wounds create what psychologists call fright without solution—a psychic paradox in which the person of deepest desire simultaneously becomes the source of greatest fear”

www.vice.com/en/article/t...

Thank you for sharing 😘

Rough Magic by Miranda Newman | Penguin Random House Canada INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA harrowing but ultimately uplifting memoir about living with borderline personality disorder—the most stigmatized diagnosis in mental health.

If you want to learn more about BPD, pick up a copy of Rough Magic

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Breaking the stigma around borderline personality disorder | Broadview Magazine It's time to challenge the myths and misinformation around this complex condition, writes author Miranda Newman

Thanks to @broadviewmedia.bsky.social for letting me write about the importance of destigmatizing borderline personality disorder

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A Year in Review: Rough Magic and recovery It was a great year for raising awareness about BPD. But it wasn’t such a great year for my mental health.

It was a great year for raising awareness about BPD. But it wasn’t such a great year for my mental health.

In my year end newsletter, I wrote about how mental health symptoms can emerge even when things seem to be going well

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Together: Stories of Collective Impact (Vol. 3.1 Fall 2024), An international magazine by CACHE

Thanks to @uoft.bsky.social's Centre for the Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education for letting me write about Rough Magic and the importance of interprofessional collaboration issuu.com/cache_uoftuh...

Thrilled to see that the APA has updated its practice guidelines for treating BPD, particularly the focus on short-term medication, psycho education, and comprehensive person-centred treatment www.psychiatry.org/News-room/Ne...

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