Trauma causes splits in the psyche. Working with parts or subpersonalities is one of the ways of healing such splits. ...
Transformative healing: more working with parts (sub-personalities) — the god/higher-self/life-force part
All I ever was and had to be was sad
by Talya Eidelman It was that moment that I realized that all I ever was and had to be was sad, that everything could arise from that place. Even joy. I'm the saddest person you will ever meet. But I settled there nicely and that's why I am passionate and light and deeply loving. The deeper I felt my sadness the more I saw that it wasn't sadness at all, but the feeling that I was unable to love the way I wanted to. Sadness wants to love, anxiety wants to create and anger wants to make a change. Sadness is what wanting to be in a permanent state of undying love feels like. So we must meet each other in the sadness. Over and over again, until we remember...
Healing, surrender and rest…do not fight the process
As I surrender I find that my brain/body/ has so much healing to do still and often times that requires bed rest and total quiet even now several years into this healing process. It's not illness when the body needs to rest...it's the demands of healing. Highly intense metabolic processes happening that mean I simply have to stop and allow the internal processes to take over. I need to surrender to the wisdom of the body at those times. I generally don't bother trying to explain to others anymore...not in any sort of detail. ...
THIS
If I were foolish enough to give you a system and if you were foolish enough to follow it, you would merely be copying, imitating, conforming, accepting, and when you do that you have set up in yourself the authority of another and hence there is conflict between you and that authority. You feel you must do such and such a thing because you have been told to do it and yet you are incapable of doing it. You have your own particular inclinations, tendencies and pressures which conflict with the system you think you ought to follow and therefore there is a contradiction. So you will lead a double life between the ideology of the system and the actuality of your daily existence. In trying to conform to the ideology, you suppress yourself – whereas what is actually true is not the ideology but what you are. If you try to study yourself according to another you will always remain a second-hand human being. ...
Remineralization for Withdrawal Support: Essential Minerals, Seaweeds, Herbs
update 2024: Remineralization remains a critical topic in my experience. Minerals are essential for all of our bodily functions. They are needed for bone and teeth health for our blood, skin, hair, nerve function, muscle and for all our metabolic processes.
Facing the shadow, both the darkness within us and that of others…
The dialectic -- staying safe and getting our feet dirty both -- we need to learn to do that. Lately on twitter there has been a meme about being willing to get into "good trouble." In these times, I dare say, it's a necessity to our survival. Be willing to get into good trouble! ...
Psych drugs and brain damage
There is an unfortunate belief in some parts of critical psych communities that says that the brain injury that many of us sustain as a result of psychiatric drug use and withdrawal is permanent and irreversible. That we cannot heal from it. S*** happens...it's a rough ride…people die coming off these neurotoxins…I do not sugar coat anything and yet, I know, and have seen many transformative healings…
Marci killed her daughter in a bout of toxic reactivity to psych drugs
I am heartbroken and again and again. We cannot abandon the least among us because we are all in this together whether we like it or not. We must start giving people love and support rather than drugs which far too often cause further harm (seen or unseen).
Detox and Healing, Food Sensitivities: Histamine, Oxalates, Salicylates
Detox and Healing, Food Sensitivities: Histamine, Oxalates, Salicylates. ~~ Sensitivities to many different foods and substances, for me, have proven to be a virtually non-existent capacity to detoxify naturally. The psych drugs destroyed the metabolism and detox capacities. I had 100s of radical hypersensitivities with foods that I no longer have at the height of the psychiatric drug withdrawal syndrome.
Physical, mental, emotional – all ONE
There are many access points to the whole. Sometimes people concentrate more on different access points…like the psychological, or the physical (social, environmental and many other places are also valid). I’ve come to concentrate on the whole shebang because I had no choice. It was what was required to heal. Different folks have different paths and sometimes only one access point is enough to bring about healing that allows for basic growth and functioning. The only problem is when people imagine their access point is the only one that works and get dogmatic about it.
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