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How To Be A Healing Presence Without Becoming Anxious, Power-Struggling, Or Referring the Mad Person To A Hospital   How It Works Starting this November in two-hour sessions on Sunday evenings, I will teach you a new model for understanding psychosis that will help you be able to relate with a person in madness in […]

Over the last fifteen years, I have dedicated significant chunks of my weekend towards writing. I wrote a memoir, I developed draft after draft of my special message material, I built a website, and I grew my writing platform. It used to feel comfortable, like all this work was a natural part of my healing […]

Did you know that mental health challenges affect millions of people each year? In 2021, a staggering 57.8 million people in the United States experienced a mental health challenge.  These numbers highlight the important impact that mental health has on our society and the urgent need for understanding, support, and practical resources to address this growing concern.  It […]

In the United States, there are some estimates that suggest that approximately 50 in 10,000 people may experience psychosis or a psychotic episode at some point in their lifetime. At the same time there are estimates that 1 in every 100 people in the U.S. alone carry a diagnosis of schizophrenia, which is suggestive of a much […]

Psychosis is the name given to a wide range of mental ailments categorized by periods in which someone loses touch with reality. These episodes are difficult to process because they’re so convincing. Someone in the middle of a psychotic episode is unable to differentiate what they are experiencing from consensus reality. Did you know that […]

Okay so creating an online course these days is quite the rage these days. Every entrepreneur and their cousin are out to sell you an online course. Therapists are becoming coaches and selling courses so they don’t get trapped in the therapy mill. I must say that fifteen years ago when I started work on […]

It has been a long time since I have written a blog post. I turned my efforts away from creative essays and introspective exploration. Instead, I focused on creating a 12-16 hour Master Class entitled: Redefining “Psychosis:” A Cultural Approach to Working with Madness, A Roadmap to the Rabbit Hole. Time away from weekly writing […]

By Monica Vandyke Even though the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be slowly fading into the background, safety precautions and physical distancing remain priorities for many. And throughout the pandemic, these priorities have helped to fuel the remarkable rise of telehealth –– with one report at PR Newswire citing a single Medicare provider that saw an […]

I am a white male from families that mostly owned property or had social power. I have to say one of the most meaningful projects of my life has been to overcome my narcissistic background. I once had a shrink that told me that my “paranoia” was like reverse narcissism. I really wasn’t as bad […]

The studio rests six stories high. On top of an old steam heater a fan drones in an open window. Clyde sleeps on a black futon that sits on the floor. He sleeps under a thick Central American bed cover his ex-girlfriend gave him. It took a semester in the dorms, but he’d finally he […]