by Kara Beck Wiesner Starting on Lithium This blog is about my experiences with getting off Lithium. The first 33 years of my life was filled with great loss, trauma, and illness. I was heavily medicated, somewhere around 45 or more medications, for 20 years of my life for my mental health. My past diagnoses Read More
Author: Chaya
Self Care and Self Prioritization, Module 2 Med Free Solutions Certificate Course
Learn how to be a non-medical consultant to those coming off psychiatric meds or seeking alternatives Second course in the series, may be taken as a stand alone, or with the other modules. Teaching Self Care and Self Prioritization In this course module starting April 5, 2019, you will learn: how to instill values of Read More
Nutritional Support For Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Learn how to support people (and/or yourself!) seeking to eat well during times of crisis, illness and change. Out of some of the content in the first module of the Med Free Solutions Certificate Course (find all info on that here), I created an e-book for you. If you are interested in a lower cost, quick and simplified Read More
Full 13 Module Med Free Solutions Certificate Course Discount Program
Chaya Grossberg, a writer, coach, teacher, activist, and psychiatric survivor who has dedicated her life to changing the narrative of the mental health field has developed a Med Free Solutions Certificate Course and would be grateful to anyone who wants to check it out and learn how to help others in their journey of well-being. Read More
Freedom From Psychiatric Drugs Book is HERE
I have something big to announce, which is that my book, which I’ve been working on for over 6 years (and even includes some of my writings from 16 years ago when I was going through psych drug hell) is finally done and ready for you to read. The print book is 272 Read More
The Income Of Your Love
If you ever feel heartbroken, you know degraded, alone and invisible, regardless of how seemingly “small” the reason, you can breathe deeply into the emptiness. It will not be easy at first but you will go there because nowhere else has any significance to you now. So you will reluctantly breathe into what you fear Read More
Med Free Solutions Certificate Course is Launched
Big news! In 2019, the Med Free Solutions Certificate Course will begin. You know I’m kind of woo-woo. Like I listen to voices in my head. Well, this morning one of those voices whispered loudly to me: “Launch your course”. That’s all it said. Okay…I hadn’t even been thinking about this course, so preoccupied with finishing Read More
Each Rainbow Is A Sign
There’s a Twitter hashtag today, #WhyIDidntReport with lots of women coming out about being sexually abused. I’ve thought daily about when R pinched my right butt cheek. I was 19 and wearing tight baby blue pants. It was in the kitchen of his apartment when I was home visiting from college. The sky is clearing, clouds Read More
Workbook and Meditation for Psychiatric Drug Freedom
Over a year ago, I created a workbook and meditation for coming off psych meds. The workbook asks questions to help get at what the fears are, but more importantly, what the vision is on a deeper level. This isn’t a WRAP (Working Recovery Action Plan) type of workbook, though I do recommend WRAP to Read More
Protein Isolate for Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
For those in Benzodiazepine withdrawal, such as those coming off Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other psychiatric medications, Dr Charles Popper, director of psychiatry at Harvard regularly uses protein isolate with patients interested in tapering off. He especially recommends protein isolate for benzodiazepine withdrawal. Dr. Popper makes it clear that when patients are using specialized treatments, Read More