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Hope in Dark Times

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Roshi Joan Halifax HOPE and Healing Click on the following link for a 35 minute podcast on Finding Hope in Dark Times. https://www.howgodworks.org/podcast/season-5/religion-and-mental-health-part-2-addiction-ba95e Surveys show feelings of sadness and despair peaked in 2023. So, as we look into 2024, it’s understandable why any of us might be feeling pessimistic, even hopeless. But these feelings aren’t

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence

NAMI on Spiritual Emergency

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

NAMI was founded in 1977. They offer support groups and education for free to all touched by mental health issues. Currently one in five people in the USA suffer from a mental health issue–NAMI is often called on for help by those who can’t afford psychotherapists. NAMI is affiliated with 700 groups throughout the

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency cultural competency, mental health, mental illness, NAMI, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

Valid Challenges to the DSM

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Valid Challenges to the DSM The following recent report and manuals encourages us to reflect more deeply on problems within the mental healthcare system and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—They profile its failures and suggest cogent, effective alternatives that are now available. Readers: Please use the comment box below to write

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health abuse of power, DSM, ICD-10, improving mental health outcomes, indicative trauma impact, lucy johstone, mary boyle, power-threat-meaning

CHD Launches ‘Reform Pharma’ Initiative

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

CHD Launches ‘Reform Pharma’ Initiative to End Big Pharma Influence, Corruption Children’s Health Defense has launched Reform Pharma, an initiative that aims to curb the pharmaceutical industry’s influence in government, promote informed consent, ban drug ads and restore integrity in healthcare. This article was originally published November 9, 2023, by The Defender — Children’s Health

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health censorship, CHD, corruption, Justine Tanguay, Mary Holland, medical freedom, pharmaceuticals, psychotropic, reform AAP

Mental Health Education in Schools

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Mental health education lessons are coming to the national curriculum [UK] next year [2020]. Teachers should be empowered to acknowledge that mental health is a contested area, argues psychologist and lecturer Anne Cooke. Ask students what they think, encourage critical thinking and enquiry… Darn, I missed the boat. The government’s [UK] consultation on its new proposal for

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health anne cooke, health education, integrative mental health, mental health, mental health education, school lessons, UK school education

The Effects of Collective Trauma

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

The Effects of Collective Trauma Is our society sick? …[Gabor Mate, MD, writes in The Myth of Normal that normal mental health is a myth because our society is not healthy.] Has our society been sick for hundreds, if not thousands of years? [“Today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health collective trauma, mental health, mental illness, trauma

Quantum Entanglement and YOU

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Quantum Entanglement and YOU Have you noticed that the recent Nobel for Physics was awarded for experiments that confirmed a phenomenon known as “Quantum Entanglement”? While the concept of quantum entanglement has been around for more than 80 years, scientists are only just able to definitively prove its existence as the foundation of our reality, and

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health changing humanity's future, Einstein, future initiative, Oneness, physics, quantum entanglement

What is Mind vis a vis Mental Health?

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Mind Defined …At a meeting of 40 scientists across disciplines, including neuroscientists, physicists, sociologists, and anthropologists, the aim was to come to an understanding of the mind that would appeal to common ground and satisfy those wrestling with the question [of what it is] across these fields. After much discussion, they decided that a key

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health Dan Siegel, mental health, mental illness, mind, mindfulness, self

Depression NOT Linked to Serotonin Imbalance!?

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

“The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations.” * Depression: A Serotonin Deficiency? For decades now people have been led to believe that depression is caused by

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health anti-depressant, antidepressants, chemical abnormalities, chemical imbalance, depression, Joanna Moncrrieff, Mark Horowitz, serotonin

The Awakened Brain

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

The Awakened Brain is: “A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience.”—from a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning researcher “Dr. Miller is a consummate scientist who refuses to accept one of our culture’s most pervasive and damaging assumptions: that science and spirituality are

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence awakened brain, biology, clinical psychology, neuro science, neurobiology, spirituality

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