by Kara Beck Wiesner Starting on Lithium This blog is about my experiences with getting off Lithium. The first 33 years of my life was filled with great loss, trauma, and illness. I was heavily medicated, somewhere around 45 or more medications, for 20 years of my life for my mental health. My past diagnoses Read More
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Self Care and Self Prioritization, Module 2 Med Free Solutions Certificate Course
Learn how to be a non-medical consultant to those coming off psychiatric meds or seeking alternatives Second course in the series, may be taken as a stand alone, or with the other modules. Teaching Self Care and Self Prioritization In this course module starting April 5, 2019, you will learn: how to instill values of Read More
Nutritional Support For Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Learn how to support people (and/or yourself!) seeking to eat well during times of crisis, illness and change. Out of some of the content in the first module of the Med Free Solutions Certificate Course (find all info on that here), I created an e-book for you. If you are interested in a lower cost, quick and simplified Read More
Nutrition and Recovery by Ro Dann
My taper took 5 years to get off a cocktail. My tools were nutrition and acupuncture, therapy and a functional medicine endocrinologist. While tapering I became disabled from withdrawal symptoms, although I didn’t figure out that’s what was making me so sick until later on. While recovering I realized I dreaded returning to my old Read More
Full 13 Module Med Free Solutions Certificate Course Discount Program
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
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 Read More