I don't think my life is getting any easier as I heal (which can really be a drag sometimes) BUT...I just love life more and more and more...truly life is good. Healing from brain injury incurred by psych drugs -- I'm not only healing drug injury but also the injury of having been thrown away... Continue Reading →
It will be the first time I travel in ten years. The first time I fly. It's a BIG exciting new adventure. This is information about Alternatives should you want to register and go to the conference. August 18-21 (my presentation/facilitation will be on Saturday) The talk and presentation is entitled and described like this: Intuitive eating,... Continue Reading →
Let your pain speak. Pain management is often necessary and grounded in kindness and mercy. Pain avoidance on the other hand will go too far. Learn to walk that line. The entire medical system, both for physical and mental health, is largely based on pain avoidance-it's not sustainable. We must feel to deeply heal. Fact... Continue Reading →
From inside out to outside in...that's what healing is doing. Rewiring for dealing with reality starting from within rather than without. When gut lining and brain barrier is compromised there is only porousness...it is reflected in the psyche manifesting as poor boundaries... it was the biofilm acting as mucosa and gut lining that was saving... Continue Reading →
As I heal my brain/body I lose the capacity to dissociate ... it's excruciatingly painful. Both physically and emotionally. ...
People (often) don't need help. They need love. Acceptance. Space to discover who they really are. Practical "help" might come in the way of providing actual needs like food, water, and shelter...but for the interior journey--holding space is far more important. Also, providing support so that expression of that interior journey can be manifested however the person taking that journey needs to do that in the safest way possible. Telling people what to do whether it's relatively subtle or whether its with explicit force doesn't provide a healing context.. ...
Once we’re adults we cannot expect another adult to fix the infantile parts of ourselves that were never appropriately nurtured by our parents. Healing is about becoming conscious of those parts and then learning to reparent those parts for ourselves. No one else will ever know what all the little hurt children within us need.... Continue Reading →
Healing from trauma as well as the waking up process, in general, is often experienced as an unlayering process. Lately I've been revisiting the oldest wounding again. It's been a doozy. It's got correlates in the body (and shows up as chronic illness via the psych drug damage--everything matters and everything is connected!) and so I've not been feeling well either. It's bringing up all the stuff about the system and healers that played into my even earlier wounding.
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: 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.
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