Here is the third part of a series of interviews with me on the Lilly Sin Barreras (Lilly Without Barriers) Show on Hartford Public Access TV (On Demand) in CT.
In the video, we have an in-depth discussion about science and spirituality, ego and belief systems, medication and homeopathy, and healing from mental illness.
I’d like to give a warm, heartfelt thanks to Lilly Sin Barreras for the opportunity and great honor of being interviewed in this interview series. Thank you!
By healing our own illness, we are doing a great service to the world!
This past week Anthony William, author of the NY Times Best-Selling book “Medical Medium” revealed the truth about Bipolar disorder on his radio show. Anthony gets his information from a Divine Source he calls Spirit, and he has helped countless people to heal from chronic mystery illness for decades.
In this show, Anthony discusses the role that toxic heavy metals play in Bipolar disorder. I believe that heavy metals were a factor in me getting schizoaffective disorder as well, as I describe in my blog post, “Got Heavy Metals on the Brain?“. I have been drinking the heavy metal detox smoothie from his first book daily now for over two years, and I can’t say enough the positive effects that I have felt, and how clear I feel mentally.
If I were first facing the illness today I would probably do the smoothie in conjunction with homeopathy (while working with my Naturopathic Doctor), until I felt that my life was stable and the illness was far enough behind me.
It’s so empowering to find answers, especially for difficult health situations. For me, this is confirmation that the illness was not my fault, other people’s illnesses are not their fault, and that healing is possible for others too! When we stay strong, seek the truth, and keep the faith, we can move forward. May God bless you on your journey!
You can listen to the episode here:
It has been over four years since healing from my illness, in the sense that I got my life back, regained functioning (albeit not without challenges), and was no longer dependent on medication. However, through doing my best to live a good life during the past few years, I have realized that there is a process of healing after healing. After the illness is healed, we may still have to do some cleanup to heal our wounds, our hurts, and even our broken hearts.
During the illness, I was so focused on fighting for survival, that I didn’t have the opportunity to realize just how hurt I was. I knew that my heart was numb, but I didn’t give it much thought beyond that. I didn’t know how broken it was. I have only just started to come to realize this recently. Full healing, I believe, is really a life-long process. Every day I work on facing life’s challenges and serving others, while also nurturing myself enough to maintain balance. Balance is an art-form that requires daily practice.
I just re-watched the old film Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray, where he has to relive the same day over and over again, miserable, until he starts to live for others and finally ends up having a perfect, joy-filled day. I recognized again that our life is like that. Every day is a gift where we get another chance at living our best life. Every day we can work on doing a little better than we did the day before. Every day we have the opportunity to be a little kinder to people, a little more loving.
We just have to be forgiving with ourselves. I am doing the best I can, and so I know that you are too! The illness was not our fault. Our challenges are not our fault. We didn’t choose the war, but we can choose to fight for what’s good. We can choose to fight for the Light. Over time, little by little, we make progress, we move forward, we heal, our hearts can heal, and we can build a joyful and meaningful life for ourselves and for those around us. Also, we can find enjoyment in the process (a love of the journey).
I wish you the best, and a very healing journey! God bless you.
I don’t think I would have made it through my illness, or at least had as much of a favorable outcome, were it not for my spiritual outlook. This first step is, in my opinion, the most important factor in overcoming mental illness. How you answer the following questions will directly affect your journey:
When we choose the answers to these questions, we are in effect choosing between different paths that we’d like to take. A spiritual perspective is just that, our own perspective. We don’t have to prove it to anybody else, we just have to know that it’s true in our heart.
Throughout the ten years that I struggled with schizoaffective disorder, I fought to free myself from it like I was in hell, because in a sense I was. Armed with my spiritual beliefs, I knew that there must be more than the suffering I was experiencing. More than just head knowledge, this inner knowing gave me the strength to persevere beyond what I thought was possible. You can learn more about how I did it in my podcast, Healing Mental Illness: Lessons Learned in the Trenches, available on iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-mental-illness-podcast/id1135019665
Homeopathy (taken under the care of a Naturopathic doctor specializing in mental illness) enabled me to maintain balance without the need for pharmaceutical medication. I started taking homeopathy in January of 2013, and weaned off my medication in June of 2013. I have been medication free since then, and my life has just gotten better and better. You can find resources about homeopathy here.
I go more in depth about homeopathy in the following blog post: Homeopathy Was The Answer To My Prayers, and in the following podcast episode: How Did I Heal? Homeopathy.
In November of 2015 I read a book about mystery illnesses which described a simple, food-based method for removing heavy metals from the body and brain. It’s a delicious smoothie with five ingredients that I decided to make every morning. You can learn how to make it in my blog post: Got Heavy Metals On The Brain?
After about six months of having the smoothie every morning, I couldn’t believe how clear I felt mentally and energetically. Whereas before I felt like Humpty Dumpty, just broken into pieces, I then started to feel whole again. I had a feeling that mental illness (specifically psychosis) was caused by heavy metal toxicity disrupting electrical signals in the brain, and this confirmed it for me. I was able to discontinue the homeopathy in December of 2016, and I can honestly say that I feel the best I ever have in my whole life!!! I still have the smoothie every morning (because we are continually being exposed to new heavy metals in our food and environment).
If you’d like to read more about my ten year journey battling schizoaffective disorder, how I healed, and the insights that I learned along the way, you may check out my book, Healing Schizoaffective, available on Amazon here:
I wish you the best on your healing journey. God bless you!
Whether or not you have a mental illness, life has its challenges. That’s true for all of us, and there are times when each one of us is tested to our core. Mental illness is particularly challenging because the inability to function that it creates has a cascading effect that can affect all areas of our lives, including relationships, job, finances, physical health, and more. Not only that, there tends to be more judgement (from others and oneself) of the person who is ill than one would receive with a physical illness, such as diabetes or cancer.
The truth of the matter is, the illness is not your fault. You’re the same person inside that you were before the illness, and that you will be after the illness. Something is causing the illness, and it’s not YOU!!! After having been medication-free for over 3 1/2 years with the help of homeopathy, and now homeopathy-free for a couple of months, I currently believe that heavy metals in the brain plays a huge role in creating mental illness. For more information about that, and how I heal it, check out my blog post “Got Heavy Metals On the Brain“.
If you’re in the thick of it, I’m sure that the last thing you want to hear is to let your challenges strengthen you. When I was sick, I felt so weak that I could barely survive. What I’m really saying, is that it WILL strengthen you. The paralyzing fear that I felt for a decade eventually burned away. Eventually, you get to a point where it loses power over you. When life crushes you past your breaking point, beats you to the ground, and holds you there, repeatedly, it feels like it’s crushing your dreams. The blessing in disguise is that it’s also crushing your ego. You stop caring what other people think of you. You stop measuring yourself by external expectations, or societal benchmarks. You discover your true worth, the love inside you, which is inherent and can never be taken away.
The fact that you have a mental illness, in my view, demonstrates that you are already an incredibly strong person. I don’t believe that God would give us challenges that are beyond our capacity to get through. When people told me that while I was sick, I thought “yeah right, that’s not true for me, I can’t do this”. Now that I’m on the other side of it, I feel stronger than I ever have before, I’m less afraid than I ever was before, and I’m a better person than I ever was before. I wouldn’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy, but if me going through that somehow made the world a better place, somehow revealed some light in the world, I would do it again. One of my greatest fears during the illness was that I would never heal, that I would never be able to lead a normal life and find fulfillment. Now that I’m free of it, I’m not afraid of it anymore.
I’m here to tell you that healing is possible. The illness will strengthen you, whether you like it or not. It will make you more compassionate. It will bestow on you wisdom and understanding that will someday enrich your life. I feel for you, I really do. I’ve been there. I’m sorry for the hardships that you’re enduring. Just know that you’re not alone. Your experiences matter. You matter, just as much as every other living soul on this Earth. God bless you!
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