Nutrition is one of the most important things that has allowed me to live free of psychiatric drugs and understand my body, my moods, and my energy levels. Tip: if you tend to feel anxious and ungrounded, eat extra fat such as organic olive oil, organic coconut oil or pastured butter. When I started eating Read More
Author: Chaya
If Each Nice Girl Took a Pen
Writing is resistance. It’s saying no, for however brief an instant, to the notion imparted on me that I’m here solely to respond, that I’m here to be nice, a good girl, cooperative and kind, that I’m here to play out the role I was assigned: to be convenient for others. Writing is the only Read More
A Million and One Reasons I Need to Get Out of Dodge
My mind is racing. I need a shower, a walk, an artists date, time with a friend, a break from the computer. I need to de-clutter, go through stuff, edit and type blog, learn a new language, play piano, practice Spanish, read Hebrew, and get out of dodge. That’s a lot. Oh, I also need Read More
Post-Pharma Party Cocktail
May psychiatry fall into its own trap May its karmic destiny finally come May it become disabled and disenfranchised as it has made me and my people May it like all things have its day May its sun set in the heavens the post psychiatry mystics and seers shining and glowing in Read More
Sharing Day
When I was a senior in high school, my poetry class had sharing day every Friday. We were all writing poetry from our own experience, and I thought, Wow, what if all of life was like this? Heaven on Earth. Now we have that, to some extent. That’s why I’m somewhat addicted to Facebook Read More
Missing Puzzle Pieces
Every one of us is needed for our collective liberation, every single one, therefore it’s important, necessary, really, that everyone’s experience be deemed valid. To call any experience of reality crazy is to cut ourselves off from that piece of the puzzle we are all working on. Someone might be working Read More
The Art of the Blog
Tomorrow, Wednesday April 15th at 6pm PST, 9pm EST I will be going on Talk With Tenney to talk about my experiences with blogging. I will discuss how important blogging is for our movement and for us as individual psychiatric survivors because surviving psychiatry is being silenced, so every one of us has a lot Read More
My Story Is Your Story
My story is your story even though you don’t know. Your story is my story even though I may never know the details. I may see them in your face, the way your jaw slants, hear them in your voice, how it’s hard for you to speak at times; I may sense your story as Read More
84 Capacities That Can Return When Getting Off Psychiatric Meds
In order for an experience to create a life mission and strong sense of purpose, it has to affect you to the core. Though I was only on psychiatric drugs for a few years of my life (and the very lowest “clinical” doses available), they affected me so strongly and took away so much that Read More
Blogging Class For The Silenced
Are you a writer who wants to get your thoughts out to a wider audience but is terrified or otherwise blocked? Would you like tips on how to start a blog, opportunities to guest blog and proven methods for getting your message out to the masses? One of the biggest problems I see in the Read More