The quick fix is a lie

When one understands the interconnectedness of everything it becomes clear that transformative healing must borrow from all corners of experience…

“Cure” is not about one thing applied to the whole. Healing is instead a dance of many things synergistically coming together for wholeness.

The quick fix is a lie.

I’ve been learning about how we are deeply holistic and everything matters since I’ve been recovering from the psychiatric drug iatrogenesis (medical drug induced illness and disability).

Healing for me has been more about learning to live well than about finding the right healing method or technique.

For me what that might be varies everyday, in fact. So that learning to listen to my body/mind/spirit complex is much more important than habitual and rote healing methods (that includes daily habits — of exercise or meditation — or substance use, whether those are pharmaceuticals or dietary supplements or even food).

Everything changes everyday for me. Nothing remains the same. Getting attached to what might be perceived as “healthy” habits can be detrimental for me. In the state of high dysregulation that the iatrogenic injury from psychiatric drugs causes for many of us what is helpful one day becomes unhelpful and sometimes even detrimental the next.

Ah! What a lesson in listening to the body. How important it becomes to practice non-attachment too. The rug gets pulled from under the feet daily.

Truly, it’s been an amazing opportunity (if also sometimes highly frustrating) in not attaching to anything. And thus it’s been a great teacher about the nature of reality which also changes in every instance. Nothing is permanent. All is transient. As I heal all this becomes simpler. But this particular healing process has had a very sharp and very long learning curve.

More on the idea of healing and cure on Beyond Meds here:

healing is living ritual

• What does it mean to heal?
• Everything matters (the short version)
• healing/wholeness as opposed to cure (again)
• Wounding and healing are not opposites
• healing and life

• 18 Years of Transformative Healing: Journey Beyond Med

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