Psychiatric Practice
“1) We are all doing the best that we can given the resources we have available.
2) We exist as social beings and it is the relationships we have with ourselves, those around us, our community and our culture that determine how we experience, and respond to, the world. We are not pathologies and diagnoses, instead, we are a dynamic interplay of our relational web.
3) The mind and the body are deeply connected; our thoughts and emotions effect our bodies, likewise our bodies effect our thinking and our emotions. We can not separate the two and expect to recover or heal.”
in my own words
My practice is iterative- as in I am learning and growing off of all the genius healers before me while also learning and growing with the amazing patients I work with.
I believe all life is already intricately beautiful and divine.
I believe in nuance. I believe in doing the hard work of keeping people, situations, and stories as complex and dynamic as possible. I believe in listening as my primary role. I believe we can not take the person out of the family, the family out of the neighborhood, etc. I believe relationships are a central location for healing our nervous systems. I believe experience- both joy and suffering are impossible to translate perfectly from internal experience into language (especially biomedicine language), thus there is so much room for mis-communication, mis-understanding, and frustration. I believe in using curiosity to navigate difficulties. I believe in the ability for something to be both helpful and harmful. I believe in remembering time; our stories, our pain, our longings happen across time. I believe in change as a constant. I believe change happens at variable speeds.
I believe all life is already intricately beautiful and divine.
Here is a brief interview from May 2020 I did with Brunem from Well Deep Remedies on my practice. I share some of my favorite plants and a little about what got me into this work.
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