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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
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