Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast
Mental Health is attainable for anyone--especially those labeled with mental illness. Join artist, memoir writer, and bipolar psychiatric survivor, Jen Gaita Siciliano, as she challenges our world's current limited understanding of mental illness in interviews with artists, healers, educators and shamans, who offer fresh perspectives on mental health and creativity. Episodes also include Jen's personal writing on living as a bipolar creative, as well as news commentary that exposes psychiatry as an incompatible paradigm with the true landscape of the human mind. If you are ready for a new narrative on the mental realm in a place that celebrates crazy and cool without penalty, then Not As Crazy As You Think is for you!
Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast
Stop, Listen and Breathe into Mental Wellness with Senda Baccar (S3, E6)
In the episode, "Stop, Listen and Breathe into Mental Wellness with Senda Baccar (S3, E6)," spiritual healer and intuitive coach from Tunisia in North Africa, Senda Bacaar, visits the show to discuss her lived experience with Western psychiatry, which has pushed its philosophy into now global influence. As a biologist, Senda was disillusioned with the mental health system when she saw their conviction was only in the biomedical theory, suggesting we are nothing more than cells and tissue with no spirit. When she was seeking treatment for her own state of mental distress, she discovered breathwork, reiki, shamanism, plant medicine, gardening, intuitive dance, and a number of other healing modalities that changed her life and her understanding of what creates true mental health. After going through the “dark night of the soul” Senda advocates that we can all get on the other side of that, if we learn to balance our energy and take a minute to stop and listen to why we are feeling distressing emotions. Through alternative options, Senda discovered sources that were far more healing than simply getting a prescription medication for “mental illness.”
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