Life-changing Power of Curiosity, Open-Mindedness, Love of Learning & Wisdom
This episode explores four character strengths from positive psychology: curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, and perspective. Through personal experiences and reflections, Dr. Alice Lee and Emily discuss how these qualities can help us question assumptions, learn from our experiences, understand different viewpoints, and develop greater wisdom, compassion, and a more fulfilling life.
Positive Psychology and Creativity: How Character Strength Shapes Mental Health and the Good Life
This episode explores creativity as a character strength and its role in positive psychology, mental health, and the “good life.” It looks at how creativity goes beyond artistic ability, influencing problem-solving, resilience, coping, and everyday life, while encouraging listeners to recognize, nurture, and value their own creative potential.
Hormone Imbalance and Mental Health: The Hidden Connection Explained
This episode examines the often-overlooked relationship between hormonal health and mental health. It discusses how estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, inflammation, gut health, and hormone metabolism may influence symptoms ranging from anxiety and depression to mania and psychosis, while emphasizing the importance of looking beyond psychiatric symptoms to underlying physical and hormonal factors.
Loneliness and Mental Health: How to Build Real Connection
This article explores the impact of loneliness on mental and physical well-being, highlighting why meaningful social connections are essential for long-term health. Through personal reflections and practical insights, it encourages readers to rebuild their social networks and embrace small steps toward deeper connection and emotional resilience.
Medication Withdrawal Through Holistic Psychiatry: Interview by Dr. Lori Hops
In this podcast interview, Dr. Lori Hops speaks with Dr. Alice Lee about her holistic approach to psychiatric medication withdrawal. They discuss how integrative psychiatry, functional medicine, energy medicine, lifestyle support, and inner wisdom can work together to support safer medication tapering and whole-person healing.
The Hidden Neurotransmitter System
When patients have been on a carousel of medications for decades without finding relief, there may be a deficiency in a hidden (less well-known) neurotransmitter system that could be undermining mental health.
The Energy Field
For the past two decades, I have been interweaving functional, energy, and allopathic medicine into a cohesive healing approach. This article explains how I integrated energy medicine into my holistic psychiatric approach to help my patients come off their medications. The Energy Field, a published magazine from the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology, invited me to summarize my work in a nutshell.