Help Make Santa Cruz a Psychotropic (psychiatric) Drug-Safe Zone by Helping us Provide Humane Holistic Mental Health Care for Everyone!

Green Body and Mind

provides the solution to a public health problem of epidemic proportions

a non-profit organization

HELP! If you need help now, use the "contact us" link or click on "green certified practitioners" for a directory of qualified practitioners that can help you right away toward natural mental health. The "go green" tab is your gatway to our alliances, sponsors, in-network "green" practitioners, and many resources that will educate you regarding the dangerous realities of psychiatric medications and the proven holistic non-toxic mental health treatments and therapies that actually heal you! Get out of the toxic world of for-profit mental health treatments and Go Green!

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Our Mission We are building a holistically-centered mental health care system which reflects the traditional environmental, humanitarian, and health conscious values of Santa Cruz residents. Green Body and Mind is providing the solution that will make the city of Santa Cruz, CA a psychotropic (psychiatric) drug-safe zone. Our purpose is to ensure that residents of Santa Cruz are provided non-toxic, safe and holistic alternatives for mental health care by providing the necessary education and services for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. Our focus is to safeguard our citizens from dangerous disease-causing and many times lethal psychotropic drug-based treatments, to reform mental health care practices toward non-toxic, safe and effective therapies, and to protect our citizens from the tragedies the nation is suffering from the use of psychotropic drugs. Our Board of Directors Genita Petralli Licensed H.H.P., N.C., M.H., Nutritional Biochemist.~ President - Fractal Environmentalist Joan Mathews-Larson Ph.D.~ Director, Green Mental Health Care Reform Committee Dr. Abram Hoffer M.D., Ph.D.(psychiatry & biochemistry)~ Advisor Gwen Olsen- Author, Confessions of a Former Rx Drug Pusher~ - 15 year Pharmaceutical Rep turned whistleblower. Director, Fundraising Dr. Duncan McCollum D.C.~ Director, Educational Services Elizabeth McCollum~ Treasurer Phil Caylor~ Accupuncturist Ginny Gomez~ Green Mental Health Care Steward Green Body and Mind provides the solution to a public health problem of epidemic proportions Children and adults in our community and throughout the US are unknowingly damaging their health, or even destroying their lives and the lives of others, due to psychiatric drugs. Most people don't realize that such drugs are toxins, and they also may cause serious and potentially lethal side effects -- from depression and emotional instability -- to deadly aggression. When most all other industries are developing strategies to become "green" and hold reverence for the natural processes and resources of nature, Green Body and Mind believes the mental health industry needs to do the same. Green Body and Mind's mission is to help people achieve mental health by: - Opening a GREEN CLINIC in Santa Cruz to test for and holistically treat the root cause of mental illness / distress. PROMOTING evidence-based holistic alternatives as the first strategy in the prevention and treatment of mental illness / distress and ensuring that those treatments are exhausted before toxic, life crippling drugs are even considered. Providing CLINICALLY ASSISTED DETOXIFICATION for those already on psychiatric medications who want their freedom and health back. Holistic clinically assited detoxification is focused on enabling the brain chemistry to naturally balance with the use of Targeted Nutrtitional Therapy and Diet modification. This way there is little to no transitional discomfort and the patient is delivered to NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH. - EDUCATING people about the damaging effects of psychiatric drugs and effective safe, alternative treatments. CHOICES Provide TRANSITIONAL SERVICES for conventional clinics that elect to provide holistic alternatives as their first strategy in treating and preventing mental illness / distress. - Providing people with ACCESS to evidence-based, holistic treatment and support. Here's why you want to support us! Psychiatric medications are linked to these health issues: • Brain & liver damage / prefrontal lobe shrinkage • Tardive dyskinesia (involuntary movements) • Diabetes, insulin resistance & weight gain • Cancer • Exacerbated psychosis and other mental health set backs • Early mortality rates: it is est. that psych meds can take up to 25 years off your life! • Anxiety, depression, increased perception of stress, adrenal fatigue, GI disorders, etc. • Nearly guaranteed illegal drug addiction Psychiatric medications are linked to these tragedies: • Suicide • School Shootings- visit - www.ssristories.com • Aggression / violent behavior • Murder • Increased hospitalization due to sometimes lethal side-effects • Increased incarceration due to increase in violent crimes, drug addiction & homelessness associated with psychotropic medications. • The draining of our health care budget. Not In My Body, Not In My Town! Green Body and Mind and its professional alternative mental health care alliances are deconstructing the drug- based mental health care systems of Santa Cruz and replacing them with humane, non-toxic, evidence-based holistic treatments. A holistic mental health care model built on the traditional mechanics of healthy lifestyles combined with the best of today's science and methodologies in the field of holistic health care proven to rehabilitate mentally distressed individuals will produce a strong community of healthy individuals interacting with one another to rebuild a vibrant social environment free of the devastation populations poisoned by pscyhotropic drugs suffer. Event Tickets Green Body and Mind Event Tickets: $25.00. Please indicate which Green Body and Mind event and the date you are purchasing a ticket for in the "company" field of the order form. For example "Rio Event 4/13" or "Green Body and Mind launch presentation at Cafe La Vie" Memberships and Donations Professional Membership $30.00 monthly Receive all the benefits of a Professional Member for only $30.00 a month! Promote your interest in saving humanity from the life threatening and debilitating use of toxic psychotropic medications AND your skills that are helping us accomplish that! Click here to submit your monthly professional membership contribution. Please see the membership page for the benefits of being a professional member of Green Body and Mind: $30.00. The first 500 professional mental health care practitioners to join will receive honorary member status and will be provided Green Body and Mind membership benefits which includes lifetime website inclusion and listing in the Green Body and Mind Business Directory with a minimum of one year's dues. This means that you may discontinue your donation after one year and continue to receive member benefits for as long as you like! Please email us your logo and a paragraph about your business / practice and we'll get it up on our Business Directory right away! Or, you can pay your full year's dues today and receive a $50.00 discount off this already fabulous offer! Humane Mental Health Activist Donation $15.00 Be a part of the solution and consider the Humane Mental Health Acitivist's Donation Help us realize our goal of providing HUMANE MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE and make a mental health activist donation of $15.00 monthly. We'll keep you up on the progress we're making saving children and the rest of society from the health and life destroying effects of psychotropic medications! If you are a Santa Cruz County resident, please sign our petition to let our city representatives know that you want holistic, alternative mental healthcare to be the first strategy offered by our public mental healthcare services- Let them know that you want a GREEN, non-toxic mental healthcare system! Click Here to sign the LOCAL petition If you are outside of Santa Cruz, CA and want to see us succeed and take our mental health reform message: "First, Do No Harm" to the rest of the U.S., please sign the National petition below! Click Here to sign the NATIONAL petition Volunteers Please call 831.440.8686 or use the "contact us" link in the navigation menu to volunteer! We are looking for people to distribute information packets door to door, event coordinators, telephone campaigners, grant writers, website content developers, office help, fundraisers... if you have a skill that you would like to share with us, let us know! WE NEED YOU! Donations You can donate any of the below amounts - $25.00, $100.00, $250.00 or $500.00: Donate: $25.00. Donate: $250.00. Donate: $100.00. Donate: $500.00. Sign up to our newsletter Email Address: First & Last Name: City, State/Province: , Email Format: HTML Text Put your finger right on the pulse of the antics of the pharmacuetical and psychiatric industries that are focused on drugging you at the expense of your health and even your life at Mike Adam's www.naturalnews.com. Natural News is your premiere source of stimulating and accurate information on natural health and the politics surrounding your right to it. Natural News

Gwen Olsen, former pharma sales rep provides the unsettling truth! Click here to watch "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death~ Free! Click Here to find out why you should be opposed to the psychiatric use of pharmacueticals Click Here to watch 3 short PSAs that sum up the life-threatening dangers of psychiatric meds and your child's health