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Eleven tips: Spend time alone and in low technology places, doing something focused, away from the screen, such as meditation, walking, writing in a notebook, drawing on paper, playing an unplugged instrument, singing, crafting, cooking, etc.                                       Read More

Those who have been following my stride know that I’ve moved around a few times in the past 6 years. I left my long term nest and psychiatric survivor community in Northampton, Massachusetts 6 and a half years ago, moved to San Francisco and have been primarily on the West Coast since then. Northampton was Read More

I realized this in the shower: I can “be myself”, meaning, I can do what I feel drawn to and skip what doesn’t work for me, and there will be people who need me as me.   I can present myself authentically, with all of my sensitivities, trauma,  in-process things, health concerns, and there will Read More

This below was just posted in the Facebook group Adrenal Fatigue Recovery and everyone agreed and added more info. Not one person gave the usual defenses I see on here for the medical model of “mental illness” and most of them put it in quotes. So, yeah, there are groups of people doing their own Read More

My ways with health and eating leans towards “adding things in”, and reducing things, but rarely strictly eliminating anything. There are several reasons for this, some more personal, others more general, which I will explain. People eliminate soy, dairy, meat, fruit, sugar, gluten, eggs, grains, nightshades, nuts, fats, starches, alcohol, chocolate, cooked food, raw food, Read More

The following vision came to me while I was in the shower. It coursed through me. For a long time I’ve prayed to be able to do something to help all people who want to withdraw from psychiatric drugs to have the opportunity to do so, safely and effectively, with all the support and resources Read More

I wonder what it’s like for men now. …for those who read social media and blogs a lot, but especially social media, to suddenly see what women really think about on a daily basis. …because a lot of women actually write what they think about and go through daily on social media, the way they would Read More

By Alison Page I am currently compiling and designing an art book entitled “Healing from Psychiatry: An Artist’s Perspective”. I have close to 50 contributors from all over the world who have suffered or are suffering as a result of psychiatric treatments and medications (including electroshock therapy, harmful diagnostic labels, inpatient stays, and psychiatric medications).The Read More

The last letter I snail mailed was to my former best friend of twelve years. We were becoming estranged and our friendship was dissolving so I wrote him this letter in the beginning of 2012 even though we were living in the same city for the first time since 2001. By 2012 email had become Read More

Being true to ourselves is a “slower” process, sometimes feels tedious and is hardly without pain or hardship, but it yields better tasting fruit in the end. It can take years to grow the kind of fruit that develops naturally from a life lived with self- honesty. It’s like the difference between large scale corporate Read More