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Jeff Foster ‘Why am I not healed/awakened yet?’

  We found this very gentle and person-centered in its flavours… and what Jeff says also resonates deeply. So many of those who come to this service are asking similar questions to this woman, desperate for change and for relief … Continue reading

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Neutralising suffering: how the medicalisation of distress obliterates meaning and creates profit – Joanna Moncrieff

http://joannamoncrieff.com/2014/03/11/neutralising-suffering-how-the-medicalisation-of-distress-obliterates-meaning-and-creates-profit/ Important article by Joanna Moncrieff, an M.D. who writes and speaks extensively on this theme. ‘Drugs have now been starkly divided into the good and the bad: the prescribed medication which people must take however awful it makes them … Continue reading

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