by Melanie | Jun 19, 2014 | Healing Journey, Mental Health, Self-care, Stress
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact…” A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V I finally read “What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital” after a few days of seeing the article fly around between my Facebook...
by Melanie | Jun 13, 2014 | Podcast
Prayer and healing have been linked together in all of the world’s most prominent religious traditions, but it’s only recently that science has begun to broach the subject of how prayer, meditation,...
by Melanie | Jun 6, 2014 | Podcast, Self-care, Stress
You may know by now that I’m a person who loves deeper teachings rather than surface-level information and soundbites. So I was just thrilled to find out that I could share this whole teleclass with you here on the podcast! It’s a bit of a longer episode,...
by Melanie | May 31, 2014 | Self-care, Stress
I hadn’t planned to talk about trauma, but it feels so right that this came up today. As we close out our conversations about mental health this month (though, of course, they will continue beyond May!) it feels so fitting that we talk about trauma. Trauma has...
by Melanie | May 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I feel so passionately that we need to be having a new conversation about mental health in this country (and probably in other countries, too!) As glad as I am that the idea that depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses are the result of “chemical...