Own Your Self: The Surprising Path Beyond Depression, Anxiety, and Fatigue to Reclaiming Your Authenticity, Vitality, and Freedom - Couverture rigide

New York Times best-selling author presents a radical alternative to psychotropic meds: discerning the meaning in your symptoms and your struggle as a way to reclaim your health and your self.

For years, we've been telling ourselves that our difficult feelings-sadness, rage, shame, intensity, worry-are somehow "not okay." And, all too often, we've relied on the promise of pharmaceuticals to tamp them down. The fact is, though, that these feelings are a vital part of our experience. They are real. And those of us who feel them most strongly are the canaries in the coalmine-sensitive to things that are seriously wrong in the world today.

In a book that's both provocative and promising, holistic psychiatrist Kelly Brogan, M.D., author of A Mind of Your Own, shows us that we don't have to medicate our mental, emotional, and physical pain away-that the best way out is through. She explodes the mistaken belief that our symptoms-from mood changes to irritability to fogginess and fatigue-are evidence that we are sick or broken. Then she charts a new path to get real, get well, and get free. The journey includes:
* Coming to a new appreciation of the meaning behind symptoms, and whether you are a canary in the coal mine
* Learning the 2 major risks of medication that most doctors are not trained to disclose
* Exploring the 5 reversible physical drivers of so-called mental illness
* Starting the process of radical physical healing with inclusive details of Dr. Brogan's history-making 30-day protocol
* Taking an emotional inventory of energy drains and toxic relationships
* Taking a deeper dive into the spiritual awakening and expansion that comes when you reclaim your real self from conventional medicine
* Identifying the most likely places you have given your power away
* Understanding what the science has to say about psychedelics as a tool for awakening
* Navigating health challenges with curiosity and the proper tools
* Guidance, support, and many Travel Tips shared from the trenches!

Our experiences, Dr. Brogan argues, aren't problems or pathologies; they reflect what we need to accept, acknowledge, and transform in order to truly become who we are. Own Your Self is a journey of healing, and also something more: a journey of coming home to ourselves.

A revolution in treating mood disorders. --Dr David Perlmutter, author of 'Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers'

Kelly Brogan engages us in a courageous conversation about the epidemic of mental health issues in our society. Her work is an important part of the understanding that will set us free, at a time when an increasingly narrow interpretation of why such issues exist - and what we need to do to heal them - is as much a part of the problem as part of the solution. --Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author of 'A Return to Love'

We are in an age where mental, emotional, and physical balance has become our highest value. Own Your Self gives you the best possible solution on how to change your mind, your body, and your life. Kelly Brogan, M.D., does an amazing job combining cutting-edge information along with the practical tools for you to live a healthier personal reality. Her clinical and holistic approach from years of experience in doing independent research as a successful psychiatrist will teach as well as inspire you to get real, get well, and get free. This book holds the keys to inner peace and true happiness. --Dr Joe Dispenza, New York Times bestselling author of 'You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter'