Three Interventions That I Don’t Use Anymore
Today I want to highlight three interventions that I don’t use anymore and why. Leaving these tools behind reflects new beliefs or a change in the healing paradigm that I’ve gained over the years.
Read More →Three Things That Don’t Freak Me Out Anymore
There are so many things that I don’t do anymore or don’t get freaked out about because of my experiences over the past 20 years as a holistic psychiatrist. Here is the first of a few articles on my insights.
Read More →Take It Off—But Don’t Just Do It Slowly
I’ve been finishing up my presentation for the Energy Healing Conference in Logan, Utah on April 2, 2022! It will be held at Ridgeline High School. Today, I want to give you a preliminary peek at my presentation and its funny style and content.
Read More →How Medicine Questions
What happens beyond information gathering during the usual eight years of medical training? Too often doctors are trained to mechanically do what they’re told without questioning why or what for. How does this happen? Today, I want to give you a peek inside the ivory towers of a medical training facility. It all begins with how medicine questions.
Read More →Medication Withdrawal, Dependence, or Harm?
It’s important that I go back over the basics and explain just what I mean by medication withdrawal, dependence, and harm. For this week, though, I decided to use a short YouTube video to talk about these issues.
Read More →The Best of the Best
My Holistic Updates began on August 16, 2016, and currently contain more than 197 articles on holistic mental health and psychiatric medication withdrawal. In today’s article, I want to show you around Holisticpsychiatrist.com and recommend some of my best articles and podcasts to you.
Read More →What’s in a Name? A Rose by Any Other Name . . .
Juliet once said in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This may be perfectly true for Romeo, but not as easily translated when it comes to the labels we give to patients in psychiatry. Read on for my fable on flowers and names and mental illness.
Read More →Don’t Stuff a Size 14 Illness into a Size 7 Treatment
Content and process are the yin and yang of any successful treatment. This week I found myself learning this lesson once again in my daily work with patients. Read on to learn more about what I mean.
Read More →How Can Past Withdrawals Impact Your Current Withdrawal Process?
How do past medication withdrawals impact our current withdrawal process? The bottom line is that medication exposure and withdrawal from many years ago can have an important impact on a withdrawal process happening in the present.
Read More →Life on the Edge with Mr. Good Woodword
Today, I share a true story and some candid reflections from my life. Many of us may experience terrible, unavoidable challenges. Yet, I believe that with faith and effort, we can still transform our experiences into something amazingly beautiful, invaluable, and useful.
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