Category: quote of the day

Food for contemplation

banana leaf for food for contemplation

A collection of thoughts, aphorisms and brief prose filled with the reflections of a healing woman.

Rabbit holes, multidimensional reality

daytime moon for Rabbit holes

It boils down to rabbit holes. If it's not one rabbit hole it will be another. Everyone stuck in a rabbit hole is in the dark. EVERYONE. The entire human species is in agony and trying to heal. There are, however, rabbit holes within rabbit holes. It's a rough ride for everyone. Ask yourself, what rabbit hole or holes am I in? ...

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no longer on twitter…the tweets keep coming…

I've been weaning off social media for some years. I've now been completely off twitter and facebook for a month. Twitter for 2 months actually. Twitter was always my very favorite. I did a video about it some years ago because it was such a positively transformative experience for me. That said, all things change... Continue Reading →

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Body, instinct, placebo and a little Goddess Kali

empress (goddess) kali

**Deconstructing in order to construct. Kali at work** Body, instinct, placebo and a little Goddess Kali

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The oppressive language of mental health dx

butterfly on thistle Oppression in Mental Health Discourse

When separation and microaggressions are legitimized and put into public policy and discourse, we become second class citizens and subhumans. This is oppression and bigotry systemically supported and then denied by almost everyone, including those most seriously affected. We come to believe these lies. ...

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Story telling as means for transformative growth

A status update: Our bodies, in perfect reflection of our psyches, hold our personal mythologies. In this way we are all unique. This is what western medicine does not get. Clinical trials can never capture this. -- Someone took issue with my calling the reflection of our psyches in our bodies “mythology.”

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Embracing shadow: transforming into light

a red flower Embracing shadow: transforming into lightEmbracing shadow: transforming into light

Here's the thing...in as much as we cannot abide the pain in others we are unawake to that pain within us...heal ourselves we heal the whole ... people who studiously avoid the "negative" are missing out on their own healing...we don't need to go look for it, but avoidance is denial. ... those who need love most...are the ones we studiously avoid ...the "difficult" people who've been hurt in ways we can't abide...sometimes others find me to be that person...most readers of this blog perhaps have felt rejected in this way too at one time or another. 

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Somatic imperative: a conversation with Chris Cole

waking up bipolar logo for interview with Monica Cassani

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 idea of how we are embodied beings and more precisely we talked about that in terms of what I've come to call the "somatic imperative."

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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 →

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Exploring Diverse Paths: a response to criticism about being med free

psychedelic design for Exploring Diverse Paths: a response criticism about being med free

We must all, of course, respond in the moment to personal attacks to the best of our ability. When we’ve been gravely harmed and people challenge our reality it can feel very threatening and if you’re like me, it can trigger post traumatic stress symptoms in a big way. We were harmed because of these prevailing attitudes so of course it feels awful to be challenged in these ways. It’s worth remembering that the folks that come at us with such demeaning and sometimes cruel arguments against our experience are also feeling threatened...

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Message to those labeled by psychiatry (audio included), 7 yrs off psych drugs

The text '7 years!' surrounded by swirling blue and green for 7 years off psych drugs

My birthday and my seven-year anniversary off of psych drugs was February 9th. I usually do a video and post that day, but I was actually in bed most of the day and didn’t feel well at all…hence the video and post today… (update 2026: the video is no longer but there is an audio file in it's place of the event)

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