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John of God: Sex Abuser? Spiritist?

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 5 Comments

Could John of God be a sex abuser and a sex addict? Dec 8, 2018: Twelve women stepped forward to report that an internationally known healer, referred to as “John of God”, is a sex abuser. He had sexually abused them, they said. A major Brazilian newspaper, Folha, did a 17-minute TV expose. Within 3

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Transgenerational Healing & Epigenetics

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Epigenetic Memories are Passed Down 14 Successive Generations, Game-Changing Research Reveals Author: GreenMedInfo Research Group The past of our ancestors lives on through us: Groundbreaking research illustrates how parental experience is not only epigenetically imprinted onto offspring, but onto an unprecedented number of future generations. Rather than occurring over the elongated time scale of millions of

Posted in Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Research epigenetics, intergenerational healing, mental health, wellbeing

Mental Health is Everyone’s Business

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Compassion Needed Coping with mental illness is one of the biggest challenges of our age. The Mental Health Foundation says that one in four adults and one in ten children are likely to have a mental health problem in any year, and the economic cost to the UK is estimated at an annual 70 to 100 billion

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds compassion, integrative mental health, mental health

Medical Cannabis Superior to Opioids for Chronic Pain, Study Finds

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Medical cannabis–a prescription for the opioid crisis?: “The Opioid Crisis is taking the lives of about 115 Americans each day, and approximately 40,000 each year. Yet, it’s not the abuse of street drugs that’s the primary driver behind this disaster. According to the NIH, “In the late 1990’s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Medical marijuana alternatives to meds, alternatives to opioids, chronic pain, coping with cancer, medical cannabis, medical marijuana, mental health, opioid epidemic, PTSD, wellness

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Probiotics Helpful in Bipolar Disorder

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

RESEARCH UPDATE Probiotics lowered the rate of rehospitalization after a manic episode, according to a small controlled trial released this month.1 This marks the first clinical trial of probiotics in bipolar disorder, and it builds on previous research that has found promise for these “healthy bacteria” in depression, anxiety, cognition, and autism.2-5 Led by Dr. Faith Dickerson at

Posted in Micronutrients bipolar, mental health, mind-gut connection, probiotics

Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work

Posted on November 22, 2017 by admin

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. I dove in, not as a career choice, but as a survival instinct, when a loved one entered psychiatric crisis.

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health biomedical testing, integrative mental health, non-drug, wellness

How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Posted on August 30, 2017 by admin

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 when people get the right kind of support, they find the experiences to be positively transformative! The process of integration,

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anomalous Experience, Diagnosis, Hallucinations, Mental Health, Mysticism, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Paranormal, Peers, Psychic Experiences, Psychosis, Spiritual Crisis, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spirituality IMHU, psychic experiences, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergence coach, spiritual emergency

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Posted on August 14, 2017 by admin

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 psychiatric medications, despite their many side effects. However, optimizing wellbeing without psych meds is possible, something many Brazilians have been

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Healing Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

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 large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality

TSA Airport Scanners

Posted on April 25, 2017 by admin

LOS ALAMOS STUDY FINDS AIRPORT SCANNERS CAN RIP APART & ALTER DNA KATHY J FORTI/ 2017 …[When] the backscatter radiation levels the old airport scanners were putting off began showing an increased incidence of cancer in TSA agents (along with the lawsuits that quickly followed), the devices were finally yanked. The TSA quickly scrambled for

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