I'm linking to the Healthy Skeptic again. It's an older post but it's something I think about a lot. I've been moving in this direction for quite some time. I am by no means opposed to all supplement use, but I am moving more and more towards the opinion that Chris Kresser shares here. Most... Continue Reading →
Metta—Meditation on Loving-kindness
Sharon Salzberg introduces a traditional Buddhist meditation practice for cultivating love toward yourself and others. LISTEN HERE We all want more love and kindness in our lives—to be able to approach both others and ourselves with more care and compassion. Join master meditation teacher and bestselling author Sharon Salzberg as she teaches a time-tested meditation... Continue Reading →
Heal the gut — heal the body and mind
The gut issues discussed in these videos are relevant to anyone with intestinal issues and therefore can be helpful to many people labeled with psychiatric issues as well. As I've written before many times on this blog, people with psychiatric disorders often have serious gut issues. These issues are usually labeled Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS. Most of the people I've worked with in circles of people who have been labeled with psychiatric diagnosis also have issues with their gut.
Risks of meditation
Appropriately at the beginning of the video she says it may sometimes be more appropriate to call them "difficult stages" of contemplative life rather than negative or adverse effects. Such breakdown/breakthrough is sometimes part of the contemplative experience. The need for meditation teachers who are educated and understand the phenomena is very important.
Saturday mellow…
Rising Appalachia - SUNU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-16VK4dwuI h/t Blog Asheville
Voice your attitudes about psychiatry
From Shrink Rap an opportunity to voice your issues with psychiatry in America with real live psychiatrists: Please help us get a sense of the public sentiment towards psychiatry, psychiatrists, and psychiatric patients. We will be including this information in our presentation on The Public Face of Psychiatry at this year's annual meeting of The... Continue Reading →
“The biggest mistake I ever made was…going to see a psychiatrist” (Stevie Nicks)
(from the archives) -- I’ve read other articles about Stevie Nicks and her harrowing journey on and off Klonopin. She speaks vaguely in an article I read a long time ago of hiding out at her brothers for two years after the detox. That period I’m in now when many of us are very ill and all we can do is work on letting our bodies heal from the insult that can be psychiatric “medicine.” … (click title to view and read)
Alternatives to psychiatry: a resource
All diagnosis can potentially respond to natural treatments. It’s possible for anyone to consider life without medication. This blog is a contemplation about healing ourselves through means other than medication whether you’re on medications or not. And I might add whether you choose to stay on them or not.
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