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Forget the Fluff—Faye Mandell Makes “The Power of Now” Actually Work The Power of Now  by Eckhart Tolle is an excellent book, filled with...

Based on Michael Alexiuk’s Power Therapy In the last post, I said it like it is: If you want strong mental health, stop coping. Start...

(Based on Michael Alexiuk’s Book - Power Therapy) I discovered this book almost 30 years ago and it completely changed my life. It also...

We all have a "shadow"—the desires, feelings, and memories we'd rather cram in a back closet than admit to ourselves. First described by...

The vagus nerve is the body’s long, wandering superhighway from the brainstem to the gut. When it’s firing well (“high vagal tone”), your...

We often believe that our suffering comes from our circumstances — a broken relationship, financial stress, work pressure, or unresolved...

First published in 1961, Thomas Szasz’s The Myth of Mental Illness  remains one of the most influential—and controversial—books in the...

Let's stop sugarcoating it. Let’s talk about the modern mental health system. Not the glossy brochures. Not the polished websites. I’m...

Anxiety is something most of us feel at some point in our lives. It’s that racing heart before a big meeting, the tight chest when...

For decades, addiction has been widely viewed as a chronic, relapsing brain disease—a model promoted by institutions like the National...

In an era when psychiatric treatment often meant forced hospitalization and heavy medications, two radically compassionate movements...

For those who don’t believe that our very early years, especially if there was trauma involved, affect our adulthood, I suggest you...

Pain, suffering, loss, guilt, shame, trauma, tragedy, death, violence, horror, grief, surround all of us on a daily basis. Life is really...

Stop screwing around - get pissed off and remember who you the f*ck you are, and get your life back! I’m saying this to whoever needs to...

I was asked by a colleague this week, “ Do you have a certain focus to your work? I mean, is there a central thread to what you do ?”...

Please don’t beat the shit out of yourself for being anxious sometimes. It’s perfectly normal. Life is goddamned scary as f*ck.  Just...

“ The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ” Joseph Campbell To embrace this privilege, you have to remember Who. The. F*ck....

People ask me all the time why I help the homeless, mentally ill, drug addicts. They ask why I even give a sh*t about these “ losers ”...

As long as I can remember I go through periods – daily, weekly – where I feel horribly “ off ”. I’m bored, irritable, anxious, sad,...

I was talking to someone this morning about how childhood trauma affects us in adulthood. And trauma can be a number of things, right?...