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
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Resisting Psychiatry on Journey of Possibilities http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/journey-of-possibilities/exploring-possibilities/e/exploring-possibilities-chaya-grossberg-on-resisting-psychiatry-39368019 Healing Your Relationship With Psychiatric Drugs on KOWS http://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?109259-Chaya-Grossberg-Healing-your-relationship-with-psychiatric-drugs-Interview-KOWS-Fri-7pm Madness and Spirituality on Madness Radio http://www.madnessradio.net/madness-radio-2007-06-13-chaya-grossberg-madness-spirituality/ The Art of The Blog on Talk With Tenney http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2015/04/16/talk-with-tenney-a-conversation-with-chaya-grossberg-the-art-of-the-blog Current Events in State Sponsored Psychiatry on Talk With Tenney http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2014/05/23/talk-with-tenney-open-lines-current-events-in-state-sponsored-psychiatry Surviving To Retell the Story: Life Read More
What No One Is Saying
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
Why I’m No Longer Guest Blogging (For Now)
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
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