Owning my pain. Once its owned it loses its power. Pain is a neutral sensation. It is impersonal and part of being in a body. Pain is not only a neutral sensation but when experienced as such, in clarity, it offers pure data. Wordless info that only the body can convey. ...
We live in a society that has a hard time with idiosyncrasies and differences; that doesn't recognize the uniqueness of each individual predicament. This turns the experience of life as a struggle into an anomaly when in reality, I think life is a struggle for everyone. People differ in as much as they successfully or unsuccessfully construct shields that make that struggle unconscious. But no one can really embrace life without seeing how much pain it contains. So what passes for health are a variety of degrees of anesthesia. ...
When people are sensitive and they get labeled mentally ill...the force of all of society believing it's an illness is projected onto us...If we don't come to understand the actual toxic force of this it will kill us. That is the tragic truth. And it's no small thing to do that. When all of society projects the belief that ugly, intractable uncontrollable forces are making us sick...well, no surprise...we get sick...
Over the years now I've been interviewed on radio and podcasts a number of times. I've had fun every time. This interview with Chris Cole, though, I believe is my favorite so far and that's because he went straight to what is most important to me at this time in my work. That is the... Continue Reading →
"Despite numerous obstacles and severe withdrawal effects, long-term users of psychiatric medications can stop taking them if they choose. Individuals who discontinue report that self-care and social support help, but mental health professionals could be more helpful." ...
In healing chronic illness with many acute, chronic pains I’ve seen that dissociation is not simply psychological but profoundly physiological too… The process of getting chronically ill included layers of ever deepening dissociation from the body creating multiple broad spectrum illnesses…a dissociated body/mind cannot meaningfully take care of itself.
This is the video I did last year for this day. Help raise awareness and please share it and other information about benzodiazepines today. Visit: -- World Benzodiazepine Day: Change through Unity (Facebook page) -- Recently I wrote another post about what it was like when the illness incurred by the drugs was at its worst: When medicine and doctors almost kill you… Because, yeah, I was on death's door for a long, long time. It can still feel traumatic to really think about that time. I do hope we can help others avoid such a fate. ...
I'm doing heavy metal detox...intense. Rarely mention it because people don't understand how insane it is. I can feel metal leaving my brain. Metal hangs out in biofilms with infectious agents...as this comes out so does decades & lifetimes--via ancestral lineage -- of emotional crap. Virtually no support during this process, really...not that I've found... Continue Reading →
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 →
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