Embodied Health

These, potentially severe, symptoms cause many people to give up on the process entirely.

Withdrawal symptoms occur while your body learns to recalibrate to a new normal of less (or no) available medication. They can range from mood changes like sadness, anxiousness and panic, to sleep trouble, dizziness, nausea and brain zaps, to more serious concerns like akathisia and increased risk of suicide. 

The good news is that we can take steps to mitigate these withdrawal symptoms. Reducing the dose slowly (more slowly than conventional taper practices) and incorporating supportive holistic strategies to increase your resilience can make a world of a difference in helping you come off the medication in a safe, feasible way🙌

Want to learn more? Book a free Intro Call where we can chat about your particular situation or read my post on antidepressant tapering through the link in bio🌻

Many of us have been taught to use restraint when it comes to self-expression. Don’t be too loud. Be polite. Crying is weakness. Hide your power.
 
It’s this expectation that we need to control ourselves. Instead of listening to our bodies and our feelings, we try to control them. We dissociate ourselves from the messages that are most beneficial to our wellbeing. We bury and bury, and end up feeling more and more dissatisfied, irritable, anxious, sad. Distracting ourselves to get away from these feelings.
 
But what if instead of controlling, we listen?
 
When we don’t express, don’t release, the energy has no choice but to remain in the body. It becomes stuck, stagnant. And it brings up these uncomfortable feelings because there’s something in us that doesn’t belong, that is ready to be released.

What are the messages your body is trying to convey right now? What energy wants to be released?

In the next few days, I’ll share a few ways I love to express and release💛