This week’s newsletter highlights a podcast featuring Jupiter Leone's remarkable healing journey after 23 years of psychiatric medications and therapy for depression, anxiety, and ADHD. Jupiter shares her powerful story of recovery, offering valuable advice and insights into the most important lesson she learned along the way.
Read moreIs the Serotonin Hypothesis Valid?
Is the serotonin hypothesis behind the use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) for the treatment of depression valid or evidence-based? This update answers that question.
Read moreHow Long Will My Treatment Last?
Today, I thought it would be helpful for me to answer a common question I encounter, which seems simple but is actually quite complicated to answer: how long will my treatment last?
Read moreTaking Children Off Antipsychotics Holistically
From working with children, I learned that healing them from mental illness is much easier than helping adults taper off their medications decades later. It's my belief that no mother would want their child to take a psychiatric medication if there's a natural, holistic alternative that would heal the child just as effectively.
Read moreFour Reasons Why People Fight
In alignment with Dr. Kopacz's interview topic this week, I want to share my insights on why people fight with each other from a holistic psychiatrist's perspective. Hopefully, as we notice these tendencies within ourselves, we can consciously create peaceful, harmonious relationships. Read on for my reflections.
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 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 moreThe Endocannabinoid System In Mental Health
The idea of using energy medicine to shift physiology is based on the principle that energy medicine governs the information that drives the physical system. By changing the information for the system, the system shifts to a different "program."
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