The microbiome and healing diets . ~~ 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 problematic microbes colonize in ways that underscore and support neural pathways of trauma. You might say the bugs hold the consciousness and thus can make us live in the 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..
What happened to my brain and nervous system as a result of long-time psych drug use was that it's capacity to feel shrunk --literally. I'm now growing new capacities...encouraging new neuropathways and pruning less than ideal ones. I can feel this happening. Really. Anyone can do this given the right circumstances...support and resources are needed. This is why I do the work I do. We are hurting people with neurotoxic drugs that impede growth and healing. At best all they do is suppress and control. ...
Trauma causes splits in the psyche. Working with parts or subpersonalities is one of the ways of healing such splits. ...
As I surrender I find that my brain/body/ has so much healing to do still and often times that requires bed rest and total quiet even now several years into this healing process. It's not illness when the body needs to rest...it's the demands of healing. Highly intense metabolic processes happening that mean I simply have to stop and allow the internal processes to take over. I need to surrender to the wisdom of the body at those times. I generally don't bother trying to explain to others anymore...not in any sort of detail. ...
update 2024: Remineralization remains a critical topic in my experience. Minerals are essential for all of our bodily functions. They are needed for bone and teeth health for our blood, skin, hair, nerve function, muscle and for all our metabolic processes.
Detox and Healing, Food Sensitivities: Histamine, Oxalates, Salicylates. ~~ Sensitivities to many different foods and substances, for me, have proven to be a virtually non-existent capacity to detoxify naturally. The psych drugs destroyed the metabolism and detox capacities. I had 100s of radical hypersensitivities with foods that I no longer have at the height of the psychiatric drug withdrawal syndrome.
There are many access points to the whole. Sometimes people concentrate more on different access points…like the psychological, or the physical (social, environmental and many other places are also valid). I’ve come to concentrate on the whole shebang because I had no choice. It was what was required to heal. Different folks have different paths and sometimes only one access point is enough to bring about healing that allows for basic growth and functioning. The only problem is when people imagine their access point is the only one that works and get dogmatic about it.
The immediate now taking my breath away -- so precious, so ordinary. Natural vigilance: perfect attunement with everything right now. What was I so afraid of? I took a very dangerous route to freedom because I had to. Not everyone makes it. It's an all-or-nothing game this. ...
When I came off these drugs there was little to no information on how to best do it. We are still largely in the dark about what is actually going on in the body and brain as it adjusts to becoming free from the neurotoxic drugs that it's become acclimatized to. This process can be a violent, difficult and destructive one and certainly was for me. there are many things we can do to support the process.
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