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
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Nutrition as a Helix Sport
This last week I have been listening on audio to a book by John Taylor Gatto entitled, Weapons of Mass Instruction. Having this book in hand in an audio format has been a blessing as I am dealing with a bit more of a juggling act in my life situation for a couple of months. Read More
Nutrition for Coming Off of Psychiatric Drugs
Guest blog post by Rachael McCaskill (www.rachaelmccaskill.com) I didn’t have an easy childhood (I don’t think many of us did!). My mother was chronically ill and my father worked 3 jobs. I had been a victim of date rape the summer after high school and was struggling with relationships. I was attending a really good Read More
Good life…while on seroquel
Hello! I am a student in Chaya’s course and here is my blog about nutrition! I have to start by admitting that I am still on seroquel, which is a personal choice. Seroquel is an anti-psychotic drug, and as some of you commented already, it is one of the most difficult drugs to come off. Read More
Nutrition for coming off psych meds
The food we eat has a great impact on us and during psych meds withdrawal we are even more sensitive. And yet we are all individuals. Here is my story about nutrition during withdrawal. From the age of 12-27 years I had anorexia and bulimia. I have now been in recovery from my eating disorder 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 pages 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
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