I’m taking a hiatus from guest blogging. The reason? Most popular blogs are academic and the academy has a history of fundamentally excluding many of us. Academia has adapted in recent years to include more of us: women, people of color, etc., yet, its roots lie in exclusion. When I was a student, I had Read More
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The Joys of Gleaning Potatoes from an Open Summer Field (or, Therapy in the Middle of Nowhere)
guest post by Ben Ross Letting Go Recently I went for a walk with someone I’m supposed to be helping in my professional role as a psychotherapist working for a community mental health agency. It was a hot day and for some reason I’d been feeling deeply drained the entire week, so drained it was Read More
Iatrogenic Injury, Ayurvedic Constitution, and Aging
I felt some healing in my body this morning. It reminded me of how much damage psych drugs did to this same body when I was 20-23 and how a lot of that damage is felt MORE as I get older, not less, because it affected my aging process. The damage to my kidneys, liver, Read More
How Healthy Do You Intend To Be?
Some aliens/extra terrestrial beings spoke to me last night, for the first time. They said something about healing for all of us here on earth. They told me we all need to COMMIT to our health this year and make as few excuses as possible. How Healthy Do You Intend to Be? Finances and Read More
Keeping the Drama on the Stage or Page, or Ideally, Both
The drama is not the problem. It’s the gift when you find the places for it. Even if you don’t think you have drama, you do, we all do, it’s the nature of being alive in an f-ed up world. When I see housing ads seeking, “peaceful, mindful, drama-free roommates,” I chuckle inside. Those peaceful, Read More
Is Moving Around Constantly Similar to Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal?
Moving has been called one of the most stressful experiences. Moving around almost constantly for the past 2 years has been incredibly stressful and is starting to remind me of the process of coming off psych drugs. That sense of constant instability, being much more dependent on others than I would like or than feels Read More
Do It In a Group
The group can be on the phone, online, in person. If you’re coming off psych drugs, hoping to someday, or staying off, do it in a group. This doesn’t mean you need to spend all of your time in a group while you’re withdrawing (ha!). Most of us wouldn’t want to do that. It means Read More
Anything’s Possible
I think people watch meteor showers to remind themselves anything’s possible. I think people have kids to remind themselves anything’s possible. I think people become doctors or healers to remind themselves anything’s possible. I think people go to sleep at night to remind themselves anything’s possible. I think people get out of bed in the Read More
How To Follow The Mystery When You See a Pond in the Sky
I saw this blue “pond” in the sky the other day. I wasn’t sure if anyone else would see it. When I posted it on Instagram, it became my most popular photo yet. When I look at it now, I still see a magical pond in the sky. Yet, when I first took the photo, I Read More
8 Tips For Anxiety
I’ve been feeling anxious today for no apparent reason. Last night I took a long country walk in the cool evening air and felt so grateful to finally be in a home out of the city. I saw two deer and picked many blackberries. Today I felt anxious about just about everything: What to do Read More