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Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

You’re invited to join us for an online community screening of Medicating Normal, a 76-minute documentary film exploring through stories our current mental health care system’s over-reliance on psychiatric drugs. An interactive community discussion will follow immediately after the film. You can view the trailer at medicatingnormal.com. This is an exceptional, professionally produced film. The Panel Features:

Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic Spiritual Emergency can be seen as a crisis in connection–without resources to re-establish connection. Experiencers (we) feel less connection to “all that is”, aka God, the Universe. Our dreams are chaotic and leave us disturbed on waking. We have fears we didn’t used to

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency IMHU, mental health, pandemic, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

AWE in Nature Heals Us

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

I want to share excerpts from two articles recently published by the Sierra Club, “The Science of Awe” by Jake Abrahamson and “Outdoors for All” by Richard Louv. These essays explore this extraordinary power of awe/enchantment in Nature to heal us, physically, psychologically, and spiritually: “Scientifically speaking, the state of awe, an emotion that, psychologists

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence awe, creativity, enchantment, environmental education, human connection, learning, nature, Robert Tindall, Sierra Club, social bonding, Susana Bustos

Spiritual Awakenings International Launches

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Yvonne Kason, MD., President of SAI Yvonne is the author of Touched by the Light and other books about Near Death Experience and Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs)*. She is now retired as a medical doctor/psychotherapist but continues to speak publically and be supportive of spiritual awakening. June 15 she and her team launched a non-profit

Posted in Spiritual Emergence, Spiritually Transformative Experiences spiritual emergence, spiritually transformative experiences, spriitual awakenings international. yvonne kason, STEs, touched by the light

Spiritual Astrologer on 2020 Crises

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

Govinda Miller: A Spiritual Astrologer Govinda has been a professional spiritual astrologer for 45 years. He has cultivated the way to pinpoint and articulate the current positive opportunities related to planetary transits. His readings are always an inspiration. You can hear a FREE brief conversation between Emma Bragdon and Govinda about how to take advantage

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Meditation, Spiritual Emergence 2020 transits, astrology, Govinda, Govinda Miller, IMHU, meditation, Pluto, spiritual astrology, transformation

My Grandmother’s Hands

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

My Grandmother’s Hands: a highly recommended book about community and healing from racism—as we all face the heart-wrenching news of reactivity and violence, and wonder how to turn the tide of racist prejudice. RECOMMENDED: Menakem’s FREE online course on Racialized Trauma “A fascinating, must-read, groundbreaking book that offers a novel approach to healing

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health black lives matter, healing racism, integrative mental health, racial prejudice, racism, Resmaa Menakem, somatic psychology

Dead Man Talking: Brazil’s Spiritists Redefine Religion

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Integrative Mental Health University, IMHU.org, has a special interest in Spiritist Therapies. Check out the course we offer on this topic with 7 professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, and mediums who lead Spiritist Centers in the USA). Click HERE to find out more. We also offer a 30 minute documentary, Spiritism: Bridging Spirituality and Health. which takes

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mediums, Spiritism allan kardec, channeled writing, Chico Xavier, integrative mental health, kardec, mediums, mediumship, nosso lar, psicografia, psychography, Spiritism, spiritist, spiritual healing

7 Tips To Manage Anxiety Naturally

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

We all need effective ways to manage anxiety. Facing a pandemic and conflicting views of how to manage life create some degree of worry for everyone. Of course, we need to turn to our favorite news source periodically to stay informed and alleviate uncertainty. We also need to limit time spent on news so

Posted in Anxiety, Integrative Mental Health anxiety, crisis management, manage anxiety, micronutients, nutirition, pandemic, resilience, yoga

Addressing Misconceptions about Mediums: “Well, actually…”

Posted on April 13, 2020 by admin

The mission of The Windbridge Research Center is to ease suffering around dying, death, and what comes next by performing rigorous scientific research and sharing the results and other customized content with practitioners, clinicians, scientists, and the general public. Research on Misconceptions about Mediums Julie Beishel, PhD is the Director of Research at Windbridge. (I was fortunate to spend

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mediums best mediums, death, dying, integrative mental health, medical intuitive, mediums, research mediums, spiritual emergence, the afterlife

Since God Created The Pandemic

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 9 Comments

Since God Created the Pandemic… (and Everything Else) As we weather the storm of Covid-19 and face many unknowns we might pause to ask: “If God is in charge, and life is a classroom, then what are we supposed to learn from this pandemic which applies to life without a pandemic?” We would like to

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Meditation, Mental Health, Spirituality COVID-19, God, pandemic, prayer, spiritual

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