The individual, family and society: Who and what exactly is mentally ill? ~~ Parents who feel comfortable calling their children mentally ill while refusing to take a look at family dynamics are problematic and complicate the healing process for those labeled ill.
By Elisabeth Svanholmer ~~ Self-loathing as a belief system. Quite a lot of my life I have believed that I was a disgusting, evil and horrible human being. I have believed that I needed to contain myself so that I wouldn’t pollute people around me with all the horrible stuff inside me. I have believed that I had nothing to offer to the world, that I was a problem to be gotten rid of and that I didn’t deserve love and friendships. I have believed that other people found me disgusting too and that they were just tolerating me in order to make fun about me behind me back. I have believed that I was cursed and that there was something innately wrong with me. I have felt incredible amounts of shame about my thoughts, my feelings, my body, my behavior, my dreams and my personality....
Question from reader: "(Withdrawing from psych drugs) caused chronic fatigue, muscle pain, burning skin and brain fog. I NEVER had these symptoms prior to or during meds. I guess I worry if my body can truly heal. Will these symptoms ever go away?"
When a non-resonant story is forced upon us (in my case the story that psychiatry & pharma spews everywhere) it's a violence perpetrated. It seems that for some that story is in keeping with their essence-then no violence occurs. Others aren't conscious enough to recognize abuses being perpetrated against them. We are all conditioned with... Continue Reading →
editor's note: She awaits to emerge within us all.
By Talya Eidelman
For all women.
I am woman. Don’t tell me who I am. I have known ever since the world was created. Don’t tell me what to feel or how to behave.
I am woman. Don’t try and teach me about the old ways that should have been dead a long time ago.
I am woman. Do you know anything about my body? It houses the world and it is the wisest thing on this planet. ...
"This is not a war between the good guys and the bad guys but the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart." https://vimeo.com/191169785 More posts inspired by the work of Joanna Macy on this website: Transforming Despair On Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture The great turning: the shift from industrial... Continue Reading →
Update 2024: Detoxification (healing the internal ecosystem). The healthy body detoxes every single day. A body that has been exposed to large quantities of environmental toxins and years of pharmaceuticals may struggle to detox well at all. This is largely not understood in western medicine. It's a rather ludicrous oversite. It becomes easy to see that it is mindblowingly out of touch when you actually start understanding and feeling the process in your own body. ...
By Charles Eisenstein first published on his site and offered freely via a creative commons copyright. Thank you, Charles. - Normal is coming unhinged. For the last eight years it has been possible for most people (at least in the relatively privileged classes) to believe that society is sound, that the system, though creaky, basically works, and that the progressive deterioration of everything from ecology to economy is a temporary deviation from the evolutionary imperative of progress.
by Joel Schwartz, PsyD -- First and foremost, if psychosis is indeed a process of growth and reorganization following an initial breakdown, then the primary task of the therapist is not to cure or prevent the psychosis in the person, but accompany them through their transition into something else.
By Jen Peer Rich -- This is not a revolution where we ask for equal rights, or we negotiate for freedom within the framework of dualism and dominance, this is a revolution in which freedom is experienced as a living reality, a reality that has simply been overlooked. Freedom is lived tacitly in the psyche. This quality of freedom is unbound, thus, the position of the dominator becomes irrelevant. It becomes forceless.
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