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Civil disobedience and Dandelions - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
By Leaflin Lore Winecoff Civil disobedience and Dandelions...… are often on my mind.What does civil disobedience mean to you?Have you ever been confronted with a choice to do what is ethical, true …versus what is lawful, or profitable?
Chronic Lyme Misconceptions: Complexity and Diversity - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Chronic Lyme disease is not a homogeneous entity. The diagnosis is a distraction really and it doesn’t help a lot of people.Lyme is only given when one particular bacteria is present.The fact is, in long term chronic Lyme there are always multiple infections and generally parasites too in massive biofilm structures that take over the body.
The hungry ghosts know. Listen. - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Somatic mysticism, diet and returning to my ancestry…. The hungry ghosts know. Listen. I like using “somatic mysticism” to explain my experience because I feel everything deeply in my body. I can feel my cells doing their work quite often and I feel all manner of metabolic movement and I feel far more than I can even begin to really know from a biological standpoint. Still when I listen and pay attention I collect data, information to act on.
Chronic illness, pharmaceutical injury - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
This is my experience after what, at this point, amounts to thousands of hours of mindful presence with the chaos in my body. ~~ Chronic illness, pharmaceutical injury ~~ One learns when one focuses attention. One learns a whole lot. That is meditation. Focused attention.
Health care providers discriminate - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Discrimination against those with DSM labels in the health professions. Health care providers discriminate.Yes, this is generally true among mental health professionals as well as health professionals and healers in general.
Breaking Echo Chambers: The Need for Discourse - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Breaking Echo Chambers: The Need for Discourse. No one wants to talk anymore. everyone wants a podium. When you fear discussion the smaller your world gets, the less you allow yourself to be challenged the tinier you will become. (at this time in history this is frankly dangerous)Echo chambers are death chambers. Meet your edges. Grow.
yoga off the mat: living ritual - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
yoga off the mat: living ritual. I call it environmental yoga. Wherever I find myself dictates what will be done, said, eaten etc. It is part of living in surrender. It is tantra. Incorporate therapeutics into your day.Let every moment be a healing one
Narrative and story - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Narrative and story are tools of interpretation. They do not and cannot represent absolute truth. Within the evolving persons life a narrative can change many times. Alternately one might apply a multitude of narratives to a single issue so that in effect one can see themselves simultaneously through many prisms/perspectives and thus have a more holistic and profound understanding of their experience.
raw smoothie time - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
mmm... raw smoothie time ...I just made an incredible smoothie/cold soup sorta drink.It's odd, but when it gets cold at this time of year, I need these sorts of raw fruit and veg smoothies.In general cooked food is better for me, across the board...but there are periods of time in which I do a lot or all raw for brief periods.
Mindfulness: dangerous business - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
***Mindfulness: dangerous business (otherwise known as paying attention while living life)***As someone who has utilized mindfulness as the cornerstone of my own healing process I have to say that what is wrong with most pop treatments of meditation in general is that they fail to warn the reality.
Lyme disease category page - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
My experience with Lyme disease is also my experience with dyskinesia. It should be noted that I think that the term "multiple systemic infections" is a better way to talk about Lyme, which is always many different infections in longterm, chronic cases.
passion and fear - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
passion and fear ~~ You're totally into it. We get it. Awesome. Now stop thinking that just because it's wonderful for you that means everyone needs it and now. That's bs. We all need different things at different times. The days that this thing is hot stuff for you may well come to an end as well
Microbes and Mental Illness. The infection connection: tardive dyskinesia (PDF INCLUDED) - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
PubMed: Microbes and Mental Illness. Microbes and Mental Illness. I've been writing a lot about my experience with Lyme disease and Tardive Dyskinesia. It's become clear that the TD is an infection gone wild. The psych drug injury allows the Lyme disease infection into the brain and damaging the blood brain barrier) ... in any case... TD is infection.
tardive dyskinesia/lyme face: my best looks over the last four years - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
tardive dyskinesia/lyme face: my best looks over the last four years ~~ These selfies show how I’ve looked for most of the last four years. The condition is severe for about 6 months of the year and then fluctuates for the rest of the year.
be the snake: eat yourself - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
be the snake: eat yourself - was first published a couple of years ago on All Signal. (monicacassani.com) The Ouroboros snake symbol is a live metaphor for my somatic process. I wanted to share in the event that it resonates with others.
Madness and Renewal: Healing in a mad world - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Embracing our madness ~~ the way forward.We find ourselves in a world where those who are functioning in ways largely understood to be “successful” are helping push humanity over the brink. They perhaps are the most shut off from dealing with reality (madness)…which is really our very foundation.
Benzos in the news ~ long term brain shrinkage - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
In case you needed reminding. Or if you need to let someone in your life know the truth about neurotoxic psychiatric drugging. More "new" research telling us what we already know. Benzos are in the news again. Long term brain shrinkage is something we feel even if we couldn't prove it.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
THIS! Below is a quote from one of my earliest and most profound influences. I have some of these very words memorized. In particular: The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.
The razor's edge: musings and a collection - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
On the razors edge - look to the right it's the shadow, hell, the abyss. Turn your head and it's the light...take in the whole entire shebang and you're right here right now. Heaven and hell. Living on the edge of everything. Tantra. The mystery of the unknown.
new post at MONICACASSANI.com - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
I have learned that there is much you can say about chronic illness in general. I have spent almost a full 2 decades studying all manner of chronic conditions. My condition led me to do this as I have rotating symptoms that fit a multitude of conditions.
Enhance Site Search For $99 - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
Enhance Site Search: A Worthwhile $99 Investment Hi. I'm updating the site all the time and the (free) search function on Wordpress.com has completely changed to being totally useless. People cannot successfully search the site anymore with what is allowed at this time.
Somatic imperative: collection - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
I coined the term “somatic imperative” a while back as my journey seems locked in by what my body needs to heal. In surrender I watch and learn as my body does what it knows. The animal wisdom, seemingly divine in nature takes over and knows the nature of things. These injuries this body has had to heal are mindblowingly complex. They are interwoven into the body and clearly show that the body and mind are one.
New! A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica -
A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica --- I just listened to some of this and thought I'd share it as a new post on the site. I deleted everything on my youtube channel and saved a few of the audios which are now on soundcloud. This is one of them. I was surprised to hear it and frankly needed to remember some of it right now. Ha ha. I often feel like what I say is coming through me and so old stuff can help me from time to time! I hope you enjoy. Love to you all.