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.
Read More →How Long Will My Treatment Last?
Today, I thought it would be helpful for me to answer a common question I encounter, which seems simple but is actually quite complicated to answer: how long will my treatment last?
Read More →Small Changes: Powerful Outcomes
A new perspective on establishing good habits gives me patience: to keep trying, even when my efforts seem to take forever to make any difference. Read on for further insights on how to create positive change without the typical frustrations and disappointments.
Read More →The Top 5 Mistakes During Medication Withdrawal
Believe me, there is a lot more to successful medication withdrawal than to lower the medication slowly. What are the top 5 mistakes that lead to psychiatric medication withdrawal failures? I want you to be more informed before you start lowering your medications so you will have a greater chance of success and ultimately, freedom!
Read More →Enhancing the Empower Energy Technique (EET)
I’m really excited to share my new, updated version of the Empower Energy Technique (EET) that is so fast, easy, and powerful that I like using it even more than my EET + Logosynthesis technique. I’ve been using this approach and have tested its effects on myself and my patients both in my office and over Zoom. Its results are truly amazing!
Read More →Hypnosis for the Holidays
In a recent conversation I had with Dr. Ran D. Anbar, MD, he explained to me that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. He also emphasized that everyone already engages in self-hypnosis effortlessly. It’s just that when we are doing it, we don’t realize that we are in a hypnotic state. Read on for some simple ways to apply self-hypnosis and decrease your stress over the holidays.
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