All my work has been around understanding why human dysfunction happens. Not looking at causes - not at people’s pre-dispositions or genetic inheritance - but what actually happens in people’s lives. We know now that the determinants of health - whether we’re talking physical health, emotional – has a lot to do with people’s life experiences. But people’s lives don’t happen in a vacuum. It occurs in the context of society. … [click on title to read the rest]
Saturday (not so) mellow. This is very beautiful and also heart-wrenching if you watch it to the end. http://youtu.be/nGeXdv-uPaw - hat tip to Talesfromthelou's blog
I consider my illness and that of many with protracted psychiatric drug withdrawal syndromes to be one of environmental toxicity...DRUGS and all the crap in the air and food we eat...etc...leading to chronic illness, yes. Pharmaceuticals put me seriously over the edge...but this can happen to people who've not taken massive doses of prescribed neurotoxins... Continue Reading →
Joanna Macy on Uncertainty...she is just stunning. Beautiful. In this inspiring film clip Joanna Macy talks about the gift uncertainty plays in sparking our passion, creativity and focus for the work of The Great Turning, coming into a sustainable relationship with the earth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZ7ztuqTdM Other wonderful posts on Beyond Meds featuring Joanna Macy's work see:... Continue Reading →
Ecopsychology is not a discipline, so much as it is a social movement, a world view,” he says. Although practitioners have evolved a number of diverse treatment methods, from conducting therapy sessions out of doors to helping clients grieve toxic spills and species loss, Doherty says one of the unifying ideas in ecopsychology is its attempt to integrate a different set of questions into clinical practice. What, for example, does it mean to live as part of the web of life, but to behave as if we didn’t?
Lots of films about food these days...mostly critiquing how bad our food industry and unsafe our food has become. This movie is a little different and looks at the solutions people are coming up with. Normal people like me and you. We add to our food garden every year and buy from local farmers as much as possible. What are you doing?
Stunningly beautiful and disturbing film that documents the devastation we humans bring to the environment and to many of the species with whom we share this planet.
These mothers are concerned about environmental toxins. Most of the tens of thousands of chemicals used have not been studied or researched. We have no idea what we are putting in and on our bodies everyday. This onslaught of environmental toxins includes pharmaceuticals as well. Psychopharmaceuticals are all neurotoxic.
Polly Higgins argues for a new paradigm for business, where people and planet are put first.
Another way that what we are doing to our food supply is hurting not only us, but the entire planet. This young woman and wonderful actor is also smart and articulate.
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