Interview with Dr. Kelly Brogan on her book “Own Your Self”

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Meet Dr. Brogan, and awakening to a healthier life.

– Illnesses can be seen as a special invitation to wake up.

– Health is not about medications or no medications, it’s about answering the question your body is asking.

– This book creates a roadmap on how to be yourself and awakening to true self

What is it that psychiatry has missed, what is your big insight here?

– We’re seeing more and more mental illnesses, even in our younger population.

– We are made to believe that by managing our symptoms with medications we are managing our reality.

– Understand that you are emergent phenomena, connect to yourself and connect to the universe.

What do you mean by an evolutionary mismatch?

– People who are sick or have psychiatric illnesses have this perception that there is something wrong.

– Come to an understanding that the world around me has created a situation that I’m rebelling against.

Taking a pill for the pain is a problem, not a solution?

– Taking a pill for the pain is a problem, not a solution

– In six decades no valid evidence that mental illness is a chemical imbalance.

– Most of the time it is only symptom management, underlying issues are not being addressed.

– We have a reverse engineer model where the medications we are taking to address the psychiatric issue, leads to the theory of the pathological diagnosis.

– Evidence of efficacy and side effects of the medications are far broader than its benefits

What have been your insights around pain, tears and emotional healing?

– You must learn to be that first midwife for yourself, tell yourself this message “Just Let it hurt”

– Initiation is necessary for transformation into the adult conscious. We are always focused on product achievement and output.

– Adversity, Deep grief, challenges have medicine in them, which provides strength for healing.

-We can develop emotional mastery, and own ourselves, by making room for this kind of vulnerability (i.e feeling grief and other emotions)and authenticity.

Why is fear the sickness?

– We are all struggling with a torrent of fear all the time, be it financial issues, relationships or just within ourselves.

– Our defensive mechanisms keep us from healing, emotional repression can lead to illnesses.

– Learn to embrace your fear.

– Watch these simple breathing and relaxing techniques and meditations to help relieve anxiety and fear.

Check out PART 2 where Dr. Brogan shares her blueprint for healing.

KB Smoothie

Ingredients:

1/2 a cup of frozen organic cherries (or other berries)
8 oz of fermented coconut water, coconut water, or filtered water
3 tablespoons of collagen hydrolysate as a protein base
1 tablespoon of sprouted nut butter or sun butter
3 pastured egg yolks
1 tablespoon of coconut oil
1-2 tablespoons of ghee
1-2 tablespoons of raw cocoa powder

Instructions:

Blend!

Dr. Kelly Brogan, BIO

Kelly Brogan, M.D., is a holistic health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time for Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher and a mother of two.

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