Monica Cassani

Seasonal Affective Disorder and depression? or are we fighting nature?

I don’t use the term depression for any darkening of my experience, but I do find that there is a big natural shift in winter that encourages going inward and slowing down.
beyondmeds.com/2018/12/16/s...

what does it take to show up in front of people and feel okay
that is what we see
otherwise people hide
away from the caustic glare of judgement.
performers put themselves in the fire of judgement
there is a large cost for such (2 of 2)

from the right perspective, everyone's life is as ordinary as it is extraordinary
and the part that counts in everyone are the invisible parts
ego will tell you otherwise and so we perform
all we ever see (if we are not intimate friends or lovers) is performance ( 1 of 2)

wholesome praxis

"do no harm" beyondmeds.com

Joel Marcus, MD prescribed the drugs that harmed me.
Many lives have been harmed by psychiatry. Too many have been abused, sickened, disabled (died too) by and no one takes responsibility while most of society refuses to acknowledge it’s happening. beyondmeds.com/2018/08/10/j...

Hegseth bars bearded troops from Air Force event Petty Pete strikes again.

Pete Hegseth appears to have found a great workaround for racial integration at military events: When the rules won’t allow you to put up a “No Coloreds” sign, you can just ban soldiers with shaving waivers instead.

I'm hungry. I'm hungry for justice. Not revenge. Justice. It's easy, you know. Those with more than their share need to return it. Return what is not yours. That's all.

it's gorgeous!

I don’t actually much like the word recover. I use the word TRANSFORM more often. beyondmeds.com/2025/10/26/r...

Many of the techniques considered psychological, like meditation and even talking therapy, if done right, do affect these subtle neurological bodies in therapeutic fashion as well.

So I learned, by necessity, that the body/mind/spirit/soul are all one and indivisible. While healing the brain injury I’ve had to learn how to detox subtle aspects of my neurological system that Western medicine doesn’t even recognize exists.

Unfortunately westerners have totally forgotten this. Ayurveda/yoga is not much better when it comes to daily practice in the world, but the information is there if one needs to find it. I most certainly did. beyondmeds.com/2020/06/18/p...

In a world where everything matters, there is no such thing as (just) “psychological”. It’s understood in yoga, for example, that our “issues are in our tissues.” The body matters.

This is a wonderful essay — Judi Chamberlin changed the landscape for survivors of psychiatry with the book On Our Own.
Confessions of a non-compliant patient:
beyondmeds.com/2011/01/23/c...

YouTube video by Earth to Eve - Topic NO KINGS

No kings, no God. Just flesh and blood....
Earth to Eve
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There is no way to embrace the totality of life without accepting the ugliness that also exists…it’s a sort of paradoxical conundrum…and…Acceptance doesn’t mean acquiescence…

white supremacy and patriarchal control is in our bodies. it's operating everywhere in all humans. just different shades of grey.
It has taken root in my body as it mirrors the chaos. The microbiome is the carrier. we're connected like mycelium
The matrix as a metaphor works too. We're all in it

dealing with contradictions and multiple seemingly conflicting truths is part of dealing with reality! beyondmeds.com/2015/10/22/i...

attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/10/02/s...

In it's dynamism the microbiome it changes as we become aware of how it works in our body. This is how we let go of conditioning.

My experience has shown that trauma is carried via the microbiome into the DNA.... we inherit much of our microbiome and pick it up as we live, both. The microbiome is, in essence, our conciousness. As such, it is a dynamic stew of micro organisms.

Criminalizing resistance by Vanessa Krasinski beyondmeds.com/2025/10/01/c...

Agreed

healing is a destructive process. becoming deconditioned doesn't actually win you friends either as most people don't want the challenge in their own lives. life is a trip. I like calling the process rewilding. An all but forgotten form of existence. The animal body in tune with the universe.

As a white man of profound privilege, I feel a strong conviction that the time has come for me to consistently name privilege, in order to provide greater context and nuance, leading to higher comprehension, understanding, and competency. beyondmeds.com/2017/09/22/l...

responses to chaos: swimming in the muck beyondmeds.com monicacassani.com

new post!
See the human family. We are everywhere. We are everyone. Connected like mycelium. beyondmeds.com/2025/09/19/r...

the last thing to come when one is healing from trauma is a thick skin...it does, finally come, however. it does. really it's not thick at all. it's porous and everything becomes clear and thus it's easier to move around the chaos and muck. clarity doesn't get rid of the muck!

the capacity for nuance seems to be a deficiency in almost everyone these days...doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum. it's tiresome.