the minute someone tells me how I should feel, think or act is when they lose me.... we're all told how we should feel...if it's not explicit it's implicit...people feel wrong all the time solely because they don't fit into socially accepted norms about how they should feel...many are pathologized and drugged because they don't... Continue Reading →
sometimes I feel as powerful as I feel helpless other times. I felt somewhat helpless when I first mused about the ridiculousness of academics and scientists thinking they're onto something brand new when we've known some of this stuff for many years. Today I feel powerful BECAUSE I've known this stuff for so many years and I continue to heal. As I continue to heal what I know becomes embodied. ...
I came across an article that's very extensive and actually quite helpful in terms of tips and validation about the vast myriad of possible manifestations of injury after an insult to the brain. It's written about the more conventional traumatic brain injury, you know, car accidents and violent blows to the head. You will see that our pharmaceutical brain injuries are very similar in terms of "symptoms" and I think sometimes we have additional really horrible strange somatic stuff that defies articulation ...
Poetry as the art of articulating insanity in palatable and beautiful ways. It is the language of insanity, love and the general expanse of psyche in all directions. A language that points to access to the all... Every human being experiences the great expanse in unique, never-before-lived, ways. Insanity can be difficult and scary or it can be grounded in the humility of coming to clarity. This is a poem written in clarity.
Dear Pastor, Thank you. Frankly my own personal drama is hardly what motivates me anymore. I'm in a highly privileged position with education -- I was a social worker working with folks who are harmed in the ways that I now advocate for. I watched people lose everything and not infrequently die due to what is being called medical care. This is not hyperbolic. It's fact. ...
We've gone to a local church twice for their Sunday service. It's very close by and they vocally embrace and invite marginalized populations...ie: the homeless, victims of domestic violence, all people of color, and the LGBTQ communities. They also have a prison ministry etc etc. Totally into Social Justice, right? ...
"Change your thinking, change your life." -- that's a common message and mantra in our new age soaked modern world. Let's unpack it. There may be some truth to this statement but it's also far more complex than most people understand. Anyone who has done any amount of serious meditation will have come to know that we don't control our thoughts. We don't control our thoughts or our feelings. Of course, that doesn't stop us from trying! ...
The biggest problem in mental health treatment is the idea that anybody need be treated at all. What people really need is a safe space to be who and what they are. Once people are in a safe place they simply need to be supported in trusting their own process. ...
By: Imogen Sita Webber --This exploration of life requires great vulnerability, earnestness, openness, radical honest and deep inquiry. It’s a truly destructive process, one that burns everything that you are not with such a fire that not even a whisper of the false is left. ...
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