The board of the Kennedy Center did not vote unanimously to change the name to include Trump www.instagram.com/reel/DSa_sEh...

Coming in the New Year: Community Discussion with @sheainthecatskills.com Psychologically, spiritually, contemplatively it can be healthy and healing to talk to your dead And you absolutely do not need a chat-bot to do it.

youtu.be/hvt5ScfjpDo?... "I sat down face to face with white nationalists and neo-Nazis, men who see people like me a Muslim woman and daughter of immigrants, as their enemy. I wanted to understand: what drives their anger? Why do they believe in hate and division? -- Deeyah Khan

I highly recommend them all. wonderful documentaries about alternative ways of healing that which gets labeled schizophrenia and psychosis. “Healing Homes,” Take These Broken Wings OPEN DIALOGUE beyondmeds.com/2014/04/09/h...

Individuation is not individualism. We often punish, exile, imprison, crucify, assassinate, or devalue humans who have committed to walk an individuating path.

This is how to use the site Many people still ask me for my “protocols.” The message I communicate for healing is that we are all different and our paths are also, therefore, going to be endlessly diverse. This is the journey of your life. It will be unique. beyondmeds.com/2023/07/19/h...

The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/02/w...

This is the second of the “IT GETS BETTER” series. The “It gets better” collection is a series of republished posts from when I was gravely ill from the psych drug withdrawal process and the following protracted psychiatric drug withdrawal syndrome. beyondmeds.com/2015/03/20/r...

The system has made Sylvia Plath an ICON; something entirely separate from humanity. According to them, she is clinical depression, suicide; she is tortured genius. Even worse, she is entertainment. beyondmeds.com/2011/02/27/s...

PROZAC. SEROQUEL. ZYPREXA. We’re talking about branding. beyondmeds.com/2011/03/03/p...

spiritual texts are male dominated and therefore miss a whole lot of subtleties. What's worse is when women achieve high positions they tend to continue to parrot men rather than trust inherent differences in connectedness and union. A problem with all non-matriarchal societies.

Stephen Morgan has died. He was a rare individual, loved by everyone who knew him. A beautiful light gone from this plane too soon. I've never forgotten the first time I met him. beyondmeds.com/2025/11/12/s...

"Herbalism is based on relationship ~ relationship between plant and human, plant and planet, human and planet. ... beyondmeds.com/2015/04/03/h...

it can still be a rough ride and not look anything like we might want or expect. So it’s okay to think it sucks sometimes too…because it can. Breaking down old habits and beliefs is hard work. Being able to see the wonder even in the midst of hell...however. beyondmeds.com/2012/12/09/l...

update 2025 : searched ~ stats are upheld with some flucuations in number of years. This article is based on a study from 2006. there hasn’t been another news cycle that got excited about it. Sad because it’s a significant reality & is ignored by society & psychiatry beyondmeds.com/2011/03/16/2...

This is so perverse.

Seasonal Affective Disorder and depression? or are we fighting nature? I don’t use the term depression for any darkening of my experience, but I do find that there is a big natural shift in winter that encourages going inward and slowing down. beyondmeds.com/2018/12/16/s...

from the right perspective, everyone's life is as ordinary as it is extraordinary and the part that counts in everyone are the invisible parts ego will tell you otherwise and so we perform all we ever see (if we are not intimate friends or lovers) is performance ( 1 of 2)

wholesome praxis

Joel Marcus, MD prescribed the drugs that harmed me. Many lives have been harmed by psychiatry. Too many have been abused, sickened, disabled (died too) by and no one takes responsibility while most of society refuses to acknowledge it’s happening. beyondmeds.com/2018/08/10/j...

Pete Hegseth appears to have found a great workaround for racial integration at military events: When the rules won’t allow you to put up a “No Coloreds” sign, you can just ban soldiers with shaving waivers instead.

I'm hungry. I'm hungry for justice. Not revenge. Justice. It's easy, you know. Those with more than their share need to return it. Return what is not yours. That's all.

I don’t actually much like the word recover. I use the word TRANSFORM more often. beyondmeds.com/2025/10/26/r...

In a world where everything matters, there is no such thing as (just) “psychological”. It’s understood in yoga, for example, that our “issues are in our tissues.” The body matters.

This is a wonderful essay — Judi Chamberlin changed the landscape for survivors of psychiatry with the book On Our Own. Confessions of a non-compliant patient: beyondmeds.com/2011/01/23/c...

No kings, no God. Just flesh and blood.... Earth to Eve music.youtube.com/watch?v=QZx5...

There is no way to embrace the totality of life without accepting the ugliness that also exists…it’s a sort of paradoxical conundrum…and…Acceptance doesn’t mean acquiescence…

white supremacy and patriarchal control is in our bodies. it's operating everywhere in all humans. just different shades of grey. It has taken root in my body as it mirrors the chaos. The microbiome is the carrier. we're connected like mycelium The matrix as a metaphor works too. We're all in it

dealing with contradictions and multiple seemingly conflicting truths is part of dealing with reality! beyondmeds.com/2015/10/22/i...

My experience has shown that trauma is carried via the microbiome into the DNA.... we inherit much of our microbiome and pick it up as we live, both. The microbiome is, in essence, our conciousness. As such, it is a dynamic stew of micro organisms.

Criminalizing resistance by Vanessa Krasinski beyondmeds.com/2025/10/01/c...

healing is a destructive process. becoming deconditioned doesn't actually win you friends either as most people don't want the challenge in their own lives. life is a trip. I like calling the process rewilding. An all but forgotten form of existence. The animal body in tune with the universe.

As a white man of profound privilege, I feel a strong conviction that the time has come for me to consistently name privilege, in order to provide greater context and nuance, leading to higher comprehension, understanding, and competency. beyondmeds.com/2017/09/22/l...

new post! See the human family. We are everywhere. We are everyone. Connected like mycelium. beyondmeds.com/2025/09/19/r...

the last thing to come when one is healing from trauma is a thick skin...it does, finally come, however. it does. really it's not thick at all. it's porous and everything becomes clear and thus it's easier to move around the chaos and muck. clarity doesn't get rid of the muck!

the capacity for nuance seems to be a deficiency in almost everyone these days...doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum. it's tiresome.

attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/09/18/m... MAGA civil war erupts over Charlie Kirk’s legacy

the hardest part to understand is how many people don't even recognize what is in their own best interest

If the will was there to spend time people we wouldn’t need to use neurotoxic psych meds except very rarely short term in crisis. what we do now is poison people longterm because it’s easier for society…our public policies as such are eugenic in nature. beyondmeds.com/2022/09/17/t...

"The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it" Those words got Jimmy Kimmel fired from ABC, a Disney owned station.

because an apology makes this nightmare go away, you know? EUGENICS are built into our public policies. They have been for a long time. People are just saying it out loud now. Please understand that the vulnerable are on the cutting block. www.kptv.com/2025/09/14/f...

More for suicide prevention month : When suicide ceases to be taboo there will be less suicide. Reaching out when suicidal can be prohibitive because it’s treated like a crime. People get locked up for being honest about those feelings. beyondmeds.com/2018/06/19/w...

Yes, I’ve personally found that trying to change myself actually gets in the way of healing. I am okay with acknowledging I am not in control. Surrender depends on seeing that humans are never in control at all. beyondmeds.com/2015/04/23/l...

There is the egoic will and there is the common will. The egoic will is in alignment with capitalism and white supremacy. The common will is the will of life. It is best to leave the egoic will behind and seek the common will. This is true alignment.