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It is tempting to dream when this much is given to us. We might say, “How can I hold this?” We might trip over our sentences in search for a bee or a fly in this stillness. Or a bald eagle might come along fiercely letting sound out without the slightest restraint, or the car Read More

I. Maybe the wind can wash away our stories. That’s what I want because Even the stories I tell you aren’t true And I know that Despite that I’m being honest But as the wind gusts And tinkers with small leaves I know the story I told you would be better off dead, Like those Read More

What anchors us? Some of us have deep intimacy with a number of places, people, routines, parts of ourselves… and then these things can change, intimacies shift. What does it mean to be intimate with the flow of life? How do we know if we are intimate or anchored? It can shift from moment to Read More

Last night at a dinner club, I brought up the conversation of psychiatric drugs causing a rise in disability rates. I suggested Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker to a man who was talking about how he works for Social Security disability to determine whether people are eligible for disability. He asked what it Read More

I discovered numerology 15 years ago, around the time of my “spiritual emergence”, and began to study astrology at the same time. I even took it too far into fantasy and grandiosity, like I did with many things at that time. We swing back and forth and take things too far. In this video I Read More

What is healing? How do we respond when someone says they are sick or implies they have a problem in need of healing? Gosh these questions have disturbed me since I was a child and the answer was a spoonful of pink sugary amoxicillin or some pill to swallow, amidst still unhappy circumstances. What is Read More

I met Rebekah, also known as Radha, through mutual friends, 6 years ago in San Francisco, where she led meditation and spiritual study groups. She welcomed me into her home and told me about the book she was writing and many of her life experiences. In the chaotic city of San Francisco, I went to her home Read More

I was first introduced to Shel Horowitz’ work over a decade ago when I was living in Western Massachusetts and had recently self published my first book. My friend pointed me to Shel’s book, Guerilla Marketing, which I read numerous times. This was before I had a Facebook account. Thinking back on the advice in Read More

I sent this letter to about a dozen friends and colleagues of mine who do NOT work in mental health fields. These are people I admire who have different focuses in life entirely, but who I think have important things to say in relation to the topic of psychiatry and resisting psychiatry. Stay tuned for Read More