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What Is Your Greatest Cancer Risk?

Have you heard of spontaneous remissions?

You know, getting better, like completely better, without classical medical intervention?

The conventional world goes out of their way not to document,...

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Stress and Why I Don't Do Salivary Cortisol Tests Anymore

Stress: Is it real or imagined?

Stress. It has become our constant companion. We know when we feel it and when we don’t feel it, we actually may even go looking for it. Have you ever had a...

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Volunteering As A Tool for Healing and Connection

Watching the World Go By

I spent months confined to my bed when I was tapering off of my medications. I was alone in my own small world without much connection to the world passing by outside my...

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Depression Starts In Your Gut

The new biology of depression

The old story is that depression is caused by a deficiency of neurotransmitters like serotonin. This ‘serotonin model’ led to widespread treatment using...

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Vital Mind Stories: 3 Beliefs Holly Ditched When She Stopped Antidepressants

In January 2014, I decided to come off all psychiatric medication — Zoloft, Lamictal, and Xanax.

Though I’d only been taking these drugs for a year and a half, I felt completely...

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Juliet's Story: Overcoming Ambien Addiction & Insomnia

Healing is resolving the separation between the journey of the body and the journey of the soul. ” – Dr. Brit Cooper

My Drugged Love and Hate Relationship

One of the most arduous...

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Vital Minds: Three Stories of Recovery

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller

Something is happening...

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James McCrae: How to Embrace Uncertainty

By James McCrae

Is uncertainty something to fear or something to embrace?

At this point in history, the world is undergoing massive change that is shattering long held assumptions. From the...

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Healing from Depression and Psychiatric Medication with Community

If you’ve followed my work for any measure of time, you know that it has been my dream to open a holistic healing center where patients can move through experiences of awakening, suffering,...

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Dr. Stephanie Strozuk's Story: Healing Depression Naturally

Physician, heal thyself.

More and more of us are bumping up against the glass ceiling of what conventional medicine has to offer when we, as doctors, get sick.

Dr. Stephanie Strozuk and I...

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Why Should I Detox?

Detox – Why You Need To

Have you ever read The Lorax?

The message of this prescient tale has never been more important: it takes one person, motivated by love, to reconnect the many to...

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Sukhdev Jackson: Ending A Family History of Depression

The following guest post was written by my friend and kundalini teacher, Sukhdev Jackson. Her story of perseverance and transformation has been a source of inspiration for me personally, and...

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