Freedom from Pharmaceuticals
✨ Notes From the Field: Freedom from Pharmaceuticals 💊
Over the last months, we've seen record numbers of applications from people hoping to taper off their prescription medications. When asked why, individuals report:
1 - They don't feel like the prescription drugs are working very well, but stay on them for fear they'll feel even worse if they go off.
2 - They’re “unable to feel very much’”... feel "like a robot," like their emotional life is dull, flat and daily life is "just going through the motions."
3 - They have side effects from one medication that require taking additional prescription medications to counter those effects - before they know it they're on 4+ prescriptions.
4 -They feel like their medications stop them from falling into a deep abyss, but they’re unable to feel joy, hope, or possibility. 🙌🏽
Most pharmaceutical drugs were researched and approved for temporary - not permanent use - yet most people report their prescriber never offered or discussed a plan to come off the drugs, nor adequately described the often-times harrowing withdrawal symptoms.
🙏🏽 To be clear, I’m fully supportive of people utilizing pharmaceutical support when it is necessary, aligned and effective for that person, but too often we treat the prescription drug as the end, when it should be a temporary assist until the individual can find balance and heal through diet, lifestyle, community connection, and support.
If you are someone wishing to taper off your prescription drugs 💊, here are a few questions to ask yourself to assess your readiness…
1 - Are you prepared to be patient and commit to a multi-month or even year-long process?
2 - Do you have a support squad in place? A supportive family, therapist, coach or community to support you in the process?
3 - Have you taken personal responsibility for your health and ready to be an active participant in your healing?
4 - What is the current level of mental stability and intensity of emotion? Are you right at your edge? Or do you feel relatively grounded?
When you are free of pharmaceutical medications, you may:
- Feel the full spectrum of human emotion - our emotions are our antenna to the world around us, here to help us connect with ourselves, each other, and the planet. Emotions are an essential element of our humanity
- Become free of side effects
- Resume a natural rhythm to your sleep, meals, hydration and energy
- Reconnect with the experience of empathy and compassion for others
- Touch back into your intuition, inner guidance, creative voice
- Develop a clear, clean and consistent energetic frequency and vibration
🙏🏽 I believe the growing number of people drawn to move from man-made, for-profit drugs to natural, self-empowered healing methods are doing so because their spirit longs to be heard. With practice - with the peeling away of all the layers we put between ourselves and our inner voice - we come to understand it has always been there within us all along. ♥️
