some thoughts from around the internet in the last few days: In response to this article I saw tweeted: Psychiatric drugs killing more users than heroin, cocaine, say health experts I wrote these words:Â Zyprexa alone killed far more than Vioxx ever did in same time it was on the market (Vioxx was taken off... Continue Reading →
Some people reading this site have a way of thinking they know me…and when they’re control freaks it means they come at me much like a psychiatrist telling me what I should and should not do for my healing.
I was so horribly sick. Sometimes I think about it and just the thought of those times is traumatizing. It's still often very difficult too which keeps it fresh. I've come so far but when I think about what it was like it's just horrifying. Horrifying, still, because it remains incredibly alienating...And horrifying because I know that so many others are being made ill like I was made ill...yes MADE ill by psychiatric drugs and treatment...and the fact remains that most people don't want to even know that it's possible to get so sick. it's too frightening to face. ...
The only way to heal and be free is to first be totally destroyed. So it says in much of the spiritual literature thoughout many traditions, worldwide. Our culture certainly conditions us in many ways that are clearly toxic. Once we’ve been wiped out completely (all that conditioning wiped away clean) we discover we are an animal whose nature is in synch with all. Can you say KALI?? We live in a time when KALI is needed everywhere, everyday and always… Kali came to me when I was a young woman. First she had me name my cat after her. Then she had me use her name as pen name….
This comment with the below video was left on this post. Had to share because the song is so beautiful and I am so touched. Hello, dear Monica. We are Armenian band and we called our band after your blog to thank you for great job that you do. Thank you very much for everything.... Continue Reading →
I've not done a yoga post in a long time. Here are the yoga posts I've done in the past. I love yoga! This post also includes acupressure and a self-massage. I've been on an ongoing journey of healing the gut in a multitude of ways. Lately I discovered that gut motility was an issue... Continue Reading →
I think a lot about why I can't work therapeutically with people in the mental illness system. I have found that the same traumatic dynamic comes up with some frequency outside that system too with "healers" of all stripes really...alternative doctors, energy workers, therapists of various sorts, you name it...if they are in the healing profession they've hurt me and people like me. Some of us are like magnets to people's ugliness. This is a sort of karmic phenomena for some of us and to change it we must become aware of how it works under the surface because it's not a conscious process for anyone involved. Clinicians are the worst because they're in a position of power and they deny that this is happening. That of course adds to the injurious nature of the dynamic. ...
Western medicine with it's penchant for suppression is a real political force. In suppressing the body's cries we are also denying the psyche. One need only look at US political process and our communities rife with racism, sexism and homophobia to see what this denial has created. Pharmaceuticals suppress symptoms and then keep one in the maintenance mode, creating customers for life and guaranteeing no real healing. ...
We can also know which herbs will heal us and when it's appropriate to take them (a delightful thing I've learned as an amateur herbalist as I heal my brain) we are insanely out of touch with our animal selves. We have instinct and intuition like all animals...we can relearn and remember these skills...
I'm in a intense recovery process from a severe chronic illness with brain injury and auto-immune stuff. I practice a form of surrender to the body which means I'm in constant mindful attendance to it as I heal. The brain injury is marked with severe dysregulation which is slowly becoming regulated. I do that by responding deeply to the body and having no expectation about what it actually needs. It's a deconditioning process among other things...a lot of what we hear in health circles have nothing to do with us in particular because we are endlessly variant. So learning to attune to what is resonant and needed for this body is the healing process for me. ...
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