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 pages Read More
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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
A Suicide Attempt Survivor Speaks Out About Antidepressants
By Diane Swift Alternative to Meds Center I grew up in a small town nobody’s ever heard of. Childhood was unremarkable, but not at all unpleasant. Our small, war-time house was built within walking distance to the now-abandoned munitions factory where my mom worked during the war. But it was also pretty close to the 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
Music More Powerful, Less Addictive Than SSRI’s
By Alternative to Meds Center Thanks to the legendary works of Plato, et al, we are still be able to appreciate the innate power in music to evoke profound emotion, instill meaning, and even tame the mind’s chaos, disorder, discontent, and anxiety. Music has a wealth of ancient wisdom and lore connected to it, going 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
Shocking Details For Moms and Babies Trickling Out on Questionable Effexor (SNRI) Drug Marketing
Something shocking has been going on with the SNRI antidepressant drug Effexor since the drug was listed in the 2015 list of drugs to be banned, published by the European Medicines Agency (1). Equally shocking, there are hundreds more drugs banned in Europe, but not in the US or Canada. Various drugs, about 700 in 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
Why the Phrase “Families Belong Together” Can be Triggering
Why the Phrase “Families Belong Together” Can be Triggering (unrelated to its actual intention, which we support). by Emily Sheera Cutler and Chaya Grossberg Over the past few weeks, numerous human rights activists have rallied against the forcible separation of immigrant families, using the slogan “Families Belong Together.” While we 100% could not agree more Read More