Relationship Gardening

 

RETHINKING PSYCHIATRY

A must read article in New York Review of Books by Marcia Angell reviewing

The Emporer's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth (Irving Kirsch),

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (Robert Whitaker), and

Unhinged: the Trouble With Psychiatry-A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis (Daniel Carlat)

• http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/?page=1

 

FInd support and info on safe withdrawal from Benzodiazepines (like Xanax):

• http://www.facebook.com/BenzoBeware?sk=info#!/BenzoBeware

 

AFFAIRS

Peggy Vaughan's Extramarital Affairs Resource Center with over 100 free articles on recovering from cheating, infidelity, betrayals, affairs:

• http://dearpeggy.com/affairsmenu.html

 

LESBIAN AND GAY

Hopeful videos of how it gets better for gay and lesbian kids:

• http://www.itgetsbetter.org/

 

RACE & ETHNICITY MATTERS

African-American folks tell their own mental health stories:

• http://www.storiesthatheal.samhsa.gov/index.asp?video=1

 

VETERANS

Video interviews of vets overcoming trauma, anger, suicidality, and more:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6887426238803490578&hl=en

At the eftforvets website, get a free ebook and recording of the ebook on releasing war trauma, including nightmares, insomnia, & flashbacks through EFT/Tapping tools:

• http://www.eftforvets.com/1144/anger-management-for-ptsd-three-steps-to-transforming-rage-with-eft-coaching-eft-podcast/

Here is a page with a chart and "How To" video of spots on the body to tap meridians for healing:

• http://www.tappingworldsummit.com/event/

 

WEIGHT LOSS & HEALTHY FOOD MATTERS

Free download on 21 research, or science based facts that will assist you in healthy weight goals.  Did you know more than 6 or 7 hours of sleep is needed to produce leptin which affects your hunger signals?  Read the rest at:

• http://www.hypnosisnetwork.com/downloads/index.php?WL96M=

Dr. Judith Beck (Cognitive Therapy founder Aaron Beck's amazing daughter) has a good handle on healthy weight training starting with her book The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain To Think Like A Thin Person.  Here are "Daily Solutions"

• http://www.beckdietsolution.com/daily-diet-solutions/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-techniques-for-weight-loss-and-maintenance/

 

FOOD ALLERGY SUFFERERS/GLUTEN FREE & MORE

Joy and Kelsy will even visit you at home to help create new habits and routines that support your lifestyle, find and prepare delicious, safe foods, and make your home and garden a place of healing.  They know their stuff having been down the road of some nightmarish medical and mood situations and back through the food choices they speak about.

• http://theliberatedkitchenpdx.com/blog/

 

NEWBORN IN THE FAMILY SUPPORT

Please read this and use it when someone you know has a baby!  For those of us who have been there-it means THE WORLD to us to get this kind of practical support.

• http://www.glorialemay.com/blog/?p=34

 

FEMINIST BLOG

I just learned about mansplaining by this hilarious feminist writer.

http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/08/29/chronicles-of-mansplaining-professor-feminism-and-the-deleted-comments-of-doom/

 

LINKS TO PROFILES AND LISTINGS OF SHANNON BATTS, LMFT, LPC

RELATIONSHIP GARDENER

Thumbtack listing of relationship and marriage help in Portland, OR, plus Q and A with important considerations in choosing a counselor for your relationship:

http://www.thumbtack.com/or/portland/dating-coach/relationship-coaching-services

 

LinkedIn Professional networking listing with recommendations:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top

 

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Relationship-Gardening/115469365152680