At this end of this episode, I literally say, “I don’t know what this conversation means or how I'm gonna edit it or write about it, but gosh darn it, it’s something.” It is certainly something, and, interestingly enough, I am just about as puzzled by the ideas we share in this conversation as I [...]
A few days ago, I shuttled my children in the bitter Chicagoland cold to my 8-year old daughter’s swim meet. As my son and I settled in among the fans on the bleachers, the logo on a fellow mom’s sweatshirt caught my eye. ‘Your Reality Is Ruining My Life’, it read. Wow, I thought, as [...]
“The wisdom of anxiety is that when we listen to the distress flares we’re guided in the direction of healing and growth” - Sheryl Paul If you google, “What is anxiety?”, you’ll find sites that say something like, “excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations” (Mayo Clinic). Defining anxiety like this is about [...]
Perhaps 2021 wasn’t the dumpster fire of 2020, but it definitely had its own set of struggles. It’s been challenging. It has asked us to grow in ways we never thought we’d have to. We’ve all but given up on a possible return to the “normal” we knew pre-pandemic. We’re rolling with the punches that [...]
REAL QUICK: This is the last Psychiatria episode of 2021! I’ll be back in January with the pod you know and love :) Ah, the holidays. We’ve all heard that the holidays are “the most wonderful time of year.” On a recent episode of We Can Do Hard Things (yeah, I’m a Glennon Doyle fan), [...]
"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it." -Maya Angelou I remember when I was a little kid, I believed everything was possible. I would sit for hours on my bed focusing on trying to levitate because I knew that I was capable of doing it if I tried hard enough. But [...]
Acupuncture is so much more than needles. There is a surprising amount of knowledge and wisdom that goes into designing a treatment, but it doesn’t end there. One of my favorite things about TCM, and acupuncture as a part of it, is that it has so many take-home benefits to offer us. We can learn [...]
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on [...]
“Chinese medicine has never differentiated between the mind, the body, and the emotions… they’re all one in this medicine. What affects one affects all, and all affect one.” - Rebeca E. Davila Somedays, acupuncture seems like straight up magic. I have tried numerous different therapies and healing modalities, and acupuncture is the one that had [...]
"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity; the beginning of healing and transcendence." - Ekhart Tolle As a psychiatrist, I am very familiar with "insanity." However, I'm not in agreement with more traditional psychiatrists who believe in an absolute delineation between sanity and insanity. I believe the reality is quite [...]
