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Spiritual but not religious? Jesus was too.

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

When someone asks you if you’re religious, do you find yourself answering that you’re “spiritual but not religious”? As humans, we have an innate desire to connect with the Divine, but too many of us have chafed under the rules, constrictions, and even distortions that can result when spirituality turns into dogma. When I [Phil

Posted in Spiritual Crisis, Spiritually Transformative Experiences religion, spiritual crisis, spiritual psychology, spirituality

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

Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Posted on April 16, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

Spiritist psychiatric care is described below…and it’s leading us into new territory that might improve our own healthcare system! Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil “If the spirit is not acknowledged as existing and real, psychiatrists will only pay attention to effect. They will be impeded from divining the root causes and will never cure

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Health, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Spiritual Healing, Spirituality healing, meditation, mental health, mental illness, schizophrenia, spiritual emergency, spirituality

Human Flourishing

Posted on December 18, 2014 by admin

After 21 years of private practice, Dr. Elliot Dacher, a family practice MD, began an in-depth study of the principles and practices of consciousness and health. He pursued his study researching the subtle aspects of integrative medicine for many years, even traveling to Asia to explore their wisdom traditions. Dr. Dacher now teaches the principles

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Health, Integrative Mental Health, Meditation, Mental Health, Spirituality, Spiritually Transformative Experiences meditation, mental health, mental illness, spirituality