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 Conditional Love Condition
This article examines how the childhood belief that love must be earned can lead to lifelong patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional emptiness. Through patient examples and Empower Energy Technique, it offers a holistic approach to releasing conditional-love beliefs and reconnecting with unconditional love, self-acceptance, and inner strength.
Restoring Your Life After Coming Off Psychiatric Medications
Explore an honest and thoughtful conversation about conventional and holistic treatment failures in psychiatry. Discover how failed approaches, medication challenges, withdrawal struggles, and treatment resistance can become powerful opportunities for deeper understanding, persistence, and true healing.
Discussing Conventional and Holistic Treatment Failures
Coming off psychiatric medications is only one part of the healing journey. This article looks at what comes next — rebuilding identity, confidence, relationships, habits, and purpose after years of treatment, while learning to move forward with patience, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of freedom.
The Myth of Mental Illness
The focus on blocking neurotransmitter receptors has been the mainstay of psychiatric treatment. While it has led to suppression of symptoms, it has also suppressed the exploration and treatment of the underlying causes of mental health symptoms. Over the years, as I integrated both functional and energy medicine approaches, it has become clear that mental illness is hardly just mental.
Can Thoughts Make Us Sick–or Help Us Heal?
Explore an insightful conversation with Dr. Elisa Medhus on energy medicine, scalar healing, and the power of thought. Discover how intention, visualization, emotions, and self-perception may influence the body’s healing process — offering a broader view of wellness that goes beyond the physical body alone.
Discovering the Long-term Effects of SSRI Use
This article examines the often-overlooked long-term effects of SSRI use and why some people experience protracted withdrawal after stopping antidepressants. It shares clinical insights into how nutrition, detoxification, functional medicine, and holistic support may help patients recover from persistent withdrawal symptoms.
Exploring Amanda’s Easy Withdrawal Coming Off Three Psychiatric Medications
Explore Amanda’s inspiring journey of coming off three psychiatric medications with surprising ease after decades of treatment. Discover how holistic support, self-responsibility, emotional healing, trust, boundaries, and root-cause understanding helped create a smoother path toward recovery, freedom, and renewed hope.
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.