Inner Fire

Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work

By Craig Wagner Four years ago I dove into a deep and murky pond: the bottomless depths of medical databases that hold mental health research extracted from the bowels of journals from around the world.
Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Antidepressants raise the risk of an early death by 33%, controversial study finds The drugs do more harm than good, researchers say, and their use should be cut  Psychiatrists disputed this and argued that they
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How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Spiritual Crisis and Spiritual Emergency Since psychic and spiritual experiences have been pooh-poohed in our culture—to the point we have considered talking to God as a sign of psychosis?-most people are scared of them. But
Spiritist Healing

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Spiritist Healing: In Context Why should we consider Spiritist Healing  now?  There is currently an epidemic of mental health disorders in the U.S.  At least one in five Americans is  taking one or more prescribed
Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD  There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a
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Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric