What do you do when the only treatment options you're offered make things even worse?
When reality gets slippery, it can be a truly terrifying experience.
Unfortunately, most of us, myself included, were forced to fight these battles alone.
The lack of mainstream mental healthcare solutions, that actually work, has never been more evident. We are experiencing a world that is actively being shaped and limited by its lack of mental-emotional health and maturity.
This collective, unresolved pain and emotional trauma is the biggest bottleneck to our potential, on a global scale, and it’s barely being acknowledged or addressed.
It bleeds into our communities, our politics, and even our economy. It infects our humanity. How we treat and interact with one another on every level.
- We’ve all been impacted by this, no matter who you are.
It is BLARINGLY obvious that we need to change how we handle mental health on this planet.
We need & deserve real solutions.
When a flower is wilting or has spots in its color, the gardener doesn’t poke at its petals. They redirect their attention to the sunlight, soil, and water its subjected to.
Once you look at the body as a whole, you realize that the brain is just the blossom. As it stems (“brainstem”) from the rest of the nervous system - its branches, and roots. As creatures with individual identities and consciousness, we tend to get fixated on the flower and think it’s all in our head. We intellectualize our relationship with nature and the primal machinery hosting these experiences, as if we’re somehow separate from it all.
“Mental health” is the exact pivotal point where our culture meets our medicine, and our medicine meets our culture. Where our health (& biology) converges with our experience of life.Where the true impact of the world around us is reflected back in real-time.
- Introduce new medicine and you can influence the entire direction of culture. Create a new cultural understanding and you'll influence the entire direction of medicine.
What started as a search for my own answers, grew into what will be the future of treatment options. By embracing the research that Big Pharma ignores or can't patent, and connecting the various fields of study that academia loves to keep divided, we now have an updated, comprehensive model of mental healthcare.
We’re always told “Mind over Matter.” If you truly believe the mind can change the body, don’t you think the opposite is also true?
Why fight all of these battles alone in the sky/in your mind?
Change the container and you change the space. Change your state to change your mind. There’s a lot of talk about “regulating your nervous system,” these days. Well, I take that quite literally. If you’re anything like me, when you’re in the eye of the mental health storm, its incredibly hard to find True North. that’s why I prefer direct, tangible ways that anchor me back into my body. If your body
True mental healthcare must be able to properly connect and address the multi-faceted, complex systems that comprise "mental" health. To properly view, process, and integrate all aspects of the human experience, including the psychological - and even the spiritual! With the rise in Psychedelic research, ask any shaman or researcher at Johns Hopkins: The most important aspects of using psychedelics therapeutically are
1) Set and setting.
2) A framework to properly integrate the experiences with. (Arguably an extension of #1)
The psychological has its place. So does the spiritual, but if your dog partially chewed through your Ethernet cable, it doesn’t matter how much fancy software you install, your connection to reality will still suck. Chronic stress, inflammation, and oxidative stress can physically damage your hardware. Corroding your quality or ability to fully experience life, in a way that no amount of positive affirmations or talk therapy can directly repair. We can painfully persist and slowly push that boulder back up the cliffside, or we can change our approach.
On the flip side, once the physical hardware is properly addressed, the deeper, more nuanced aspects of mental architecture - the software - can be updated much more easily. Now that the body is literally “embodying” the healing we desire, we can exponentially increase a patient's healing and growth, from the ground up. (Rebuilding the brain takes tangible energy and resources after all.)
- Nature has answers.
By embracing the biological underpinnings of mental health, we unlock a highly adaptable framework that can be tailored to the individual - on a global scale.