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Lunacy Lost

Lunacy Lost


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Born into a family full of shame and secrets about their legacy of mental illness, Sue Westwind received her own set of labels when she ran away from home in 1969. Depression, anxiety, migraines, and chronic fatigue grew worse as she grew older. The story could have ended there: a lifetime spent taking prescription drugs to treat her myriad list of illnesses. But an open mind and a desire to heal led Westwind to an extraordinary body of research. She learned that our toxic Earth plays a dangerous role in the human epidemic of bad moods and violent behavior. The concept that the body's travails strongly affect the mind is given lip service but not invited to take part in a badly needed overhaul of the mental health system. Yet it is given serious thought in the world of autism, where many parents lead a charge so successful that professionals take notice. For Westwind, adopting an infant girl later diagnosed with autism changed her life forever. Nina is a child so baffling that at first Westwind wonders if she can parent her. But in her quest to heal her daughter she learns about nutrients, the gut-brain connection, epigenetics and environmental toxins. Armed with this understanding, the path she strides to heal her daughter becomes her own. After a pivotal visit to a premier nutritional clinic for mental and behavioral disorders, Nina is cured of seizures and set on a detailed nutrient course. But this is not the story of Westwind's daughter. It is the story of a mother's transformation fueled by her search to heal her daughter. Their journey together changes Westwind into a person who can finally claim energy, clarity, and optimism. Lunacy Lost looks at madness from many angles as Westwind lives the theories that rise and fall over time: blame the parents, anti-psychiatry, feminist critique, and spiritual healing. Written as an environmental memoir in the manner of Body Toxic (Susanne Antonetta), Westwind explores her bloodline's persistent depression and psychosis-and their adopted children's behavior disorders-to reveal that mental health is not all in the mind. Lunacy Lost: A Memoir of Green Mental Health advocates an approach that welcomes body, spirit, and concern for the environment into discussions of psyche and suffering.
About the Author: Sue Westwind is a holistic mental health coach certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP), and holds a bachelor's degree in education and a MA in religious studies from the University of Kansas. She facilitates workshops on the topics of earth-based spirituality and natural mental health, and teaches The Natural Mind course with integrative practitioners. After adopting an infant later diagnosed with autism, Sue and her husband used nutrition and environmental medicine to bring their daughter back into speech and sociability. Struggling for decades with depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and migraines, Sue was inspired to adapt her child's remedies to cure herself. Adding meditation and a deep connection with nature, she crafted a healing way she named The Nutrient Path.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781468146547
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 322
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Memoir of Green Mental Health
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1468146548
  • Publisher Date: 28 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 485 gr


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