Today I want to share an experience I had with a patient that illustrates how a gradual withdrawal came to a screeching halt when a medication was lowered too quickly. Read on to see how we can connect the dots between symptoms of mental illness and inappropriate medication withdrawal.
Read moreWhat's Between Chaos and Order?
With my recent move to Utah, the past few weeks have been truly challenging. When nothing is where it belongs, what can we learn as we create order out of chaos? Read on for my reflections!
Read moreWhat My Practice Has Taught Me About Patience
Healing is never a one-way street. It is a circular, holistic process where everyone benefits from the therapeutic relationship. Read on for my reflections on how my patients have shown me a great deal about how to be patient myself.
Resolving Past Medication Trauma
The effects of taking medications go far beyond just the physical. It can rob us of our identity and self-confidence. We must treat the damaging, traumatic effects of medication use (past and present) like they were psychological traumas and not just as biological phenomenon.
Read moreWanting Can Be Scary by Rue Hass
I came across this essay by Rue Hass, a master EFT therapist who works with highly sensitive people, which I found very helpful and comforting. It's perfect for those times in our lives when we go for something new and embrace a lot of change.
Read moreWherever You Go There You Are
As I move to a new location, I will try to remember this important phrase: “wherever you go there you are,” so that I can make every experience a step towards self-awareness and personal growth.
Read moreA Preliminary Peek at The Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast!
The Holistic Psychiatrist Podcast is going to show the impossible, the miraculous, and the existing state of holistic psychiatry: what is currently possible and the patients who have succeeded and are ready to share their amazing healing journeys. Here's a preliminary peek at some of the material that we've already recorded and will be coming out on a weekly basis soon!
Read moreHealing the Spiritual Self
Because healing at the spiritual level can be so powerful, I try to spend extra time teaching struggling patients about its benefits. This is especially important for those who cannot benefit from supplements or medications.
Read moreWhich is More Powerful: Functional or Energy Medicine?
Both functional and energy medicine are equally important tools in healing patients from mental illness, and it is important for the clinician to have the ability to discern how to begin, which to begin with, and how to maximize and integrate these tools for each unique patient's needs.
Read moreHardy Helpers: Herbals and Homeopathy
Get to know some of my favorite supplement brands and herbals/homeopathics so that you can consider adding them to your toolbox.
Read moreThe Bare Bone Basics
Holistic healthcare's price tag can be difficult to afford for a lot of people. The question that comes up at times in my practice is: "What are the basic must-haves that I need to help me move in the right direction?"
Read moreFrom Understanding to Compassion
In order to be a holistic psychiatrist, I had to walk in my patients' shoes. I needed the power, insight, and determination that only compassion could provide.
Read moreTreating Underlying Causes of Mental Illness
How genetics, nutrition, stressors, toxicity, infection, and medication/withdrawal contribute to understanding how to treat the underlying causes for mental illness.
Read moreOn Patients' Spiritual and Paranormal Experiences
How can we provide safety, receptivity, and understanding to folks with profound spiritual and/or paranormal experiences?
Read moreResolving Impossibly Difficult Withdrawals
What to do if and when we’re trapped by intolerable side effects from withdrawal, meds, and supplements.
Read moreThe Freedom to Say "No"
Have you been taught throughout your life to say "yes" to everyone? Or felt that saying "no" was simply not allowed?
Read moreThe Other Side of Regret: Gifts from our hardships
Trials do transform us—one way or another. We can choose to turn them into gifts or burdens, depending on our willingness to learn from them.
Read moreHumor's Role in Creating Happiness
Humor is like peanut butter and jelly on the bread of life. With it, life can still stick in your throat, but at least it tastes a lot better when stuck. Read on for all the ways that humor can transform our fears and worries like casting the Riddikulus spell at Hogwarts when encountering a Bogart!
Read moreThree Essential Attributes of Successful Patients
Because of the nature of my practice, I am privileged to meet many courageous patients whose humble journeys lead them through extraordinary healing as they persevere.
Read moreThe Untold Story Behind Being Late
In a profound and deeply moving way, I learned as a healer that trauma does get stuck in our lives and end up repeating itself in symbolic ways through our actions and choices.
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