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 →
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. ...
If and when folks want info based on my experience and study, I will happily share, otherwise how they choose to manage their bodies is their business, not mine. I make this a very conscious practice to never impose what I think on another. I may not be perfect at it but I sure as hell won't be found screaming at someone about a supplement they should or should not take. ... we have no right to tell others how to take care of themselves. - trying to control others is coercive and violent. People have a right to have a different opinion than we do about drugs (or supplements or food or whatever.)
some tweets from my twitter timeline I'm going to share here now too. I've strung them together: In our culture with the level and degree of societal conditioning the only way to heal and be free is to first be totally destroyed. Once we've been wiped out completely (all that conditioning wiped away clean) we... 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. ...
Humans can discriminate between similar odors and detect many substances, sometimes more than rodents and dogs. -- The Myth That Humans Have Poor Smell Is Nonscents - The Atlantic -- 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...
Remember: inflammation, when not gone awry, helps the body heal. Everything has it's place and time. *** Some people need to quit drinking coffee. Others need to start drinking it. Oh, hell, yeah. One person's poison is another person's medicine After a decade of not drinking coffee (because I really had to quit!) it is... Continue Reading →
The bugs in our gut, good and bad, have consciousness. Good ones keep us happy and healthy. The bad ones mess with us in a multitude of ways. Many bad microbes colonize in ways that underscore and support neural pathways of trauma. As we heal our gut we heal both our minds and bodies. This is a synergistic relationship so one can work on emotional and psychological issues and heal the gut and one can also work on healing the gut and find that emotional and psychological issues also reveal themselves that way. Either way we must tend to both our emotional/spiritual selves and our physical body when dealing with profound healing and transformation. This may happen more or less consciously depending on levels of awareness. The more aware we become the deeper the transformation becomes. Simple mindfulness and paying attention to the body (meditation) allows such awareness to develop. ... A lot of chronic illness is embodied trauma...
We are kaleidoscopic beings -- endlessly variant. Social, political, psychological, ecological, cultural, biological all having impact. When we don't engage our kaleidoscopic reality in a very active way - thinking we understand anything at all is ridiculous. Everything Matters -- it's the meme I use as a title for my work because it encapsulates our essence..
This healing process is a vehicle to awakening. All of it can be put to good use and given what an ugly experience it often is, it's the silver lining. ...
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