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Green Body and Mind 903 Pacific Ave. Suite 207-A Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 440-8686
Green Body and Mind will be opening a clinic in Santa Cruz to test for the root cause of mental distress/illness and provide the holistic resources to correct the root condition causing symptoms. The clinic will do what psychiatry doesn't, it will test for heavy metal toxicity, infectious disease, food allergies, food additive sensitivities (aspartame, msg etc.) diet and lifestyle practices, and environmental pollutant sensitivity among other known causes of mental distress / illness. Once the underlying cause is identified our patients will be referred to the holistic practitioner/s best skilled for the their recovery. Detoxification with clinically assisted targeted nutritional therapy, exercise and diet will also be offered to transition those already addicted to prescription and street drugs will also be offered, which will deliver the person to enhanced health with minimal to no transitional discomfort. Green Body and Mind is joining with WCTC in Santa Cruz for wellness support services for our local patients. Please see what WCTC offers below. We are very excited about this merging of visions into one wellness services entity there for all who need us. Green Body and Mind will also be opening a clinic in Santa Monica in 2009.
Click here to visit WCTC's website 903 Pacific Ave. 3rd Floor Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831)429-9282
Wellness Community Transformation Center (WCTC) The Center is a symbol of transformation, for individuals and communities. At the Center we help people bring out their gift to the world and make visions real. We provide access to wellness and healing programs including Yoga, Pranic Healing, Massage, Detox Foot Bath and more. We offer space for the community to use at no hourly cost, and the WC.TC Media Outlet offers digital design, and prints with tree-free paper options. The Center is part of a world alliance to connect community hubs in local communities all over the world. Please come by and visit, support the alliance, and become a member. We look forward to serving you.
Jay Adwaita Das (Blas Jacob Cabrera-BJC) CEO of BJC Services and Administrator of the WCTC (see above) Click here to visit Jay's website (831) 345-9443 Jay’s business BJC Wellness Support Services offers a spectrum of wellness and healing modalities. Jay first got involved in wellness as a Certified Warrior Yoga Instructor, yoga in the art of the peaceful warrior. He also leads a mellower “Interactive Yoga Yoga”, which combines many forms of yoga with an interactive group contribution approach. Jay also leads meditation and breathing exercises as classes, within meetings or between breaks at events. Jay’s modalities include Pranic Healing, Massage, and Detox Foot Baths. Pranic Healing is an advanced form of energy healing that focuses on cleansing the energy system of charkas, auras, and meridians of the body. Pranic Healing is an incredible complementary approach to any modality and can target any ailment, physical, energetically, or physiological. Jay’s clients prefer Pranic Massage and Pranic Foot Baths as a combined approach with Pranic Healing. Jay’s Massage is always perfect for the pressure and duration that is needed in the moment. From light topical massage to deep intense therapy, Jay can to do non-stop massage for hours. The Detox Foot Bath is a great way to cleanse your internal system using bio-electric feedback to directly remove toxins and heavy metals though the pours in the feet. Jay also offers full wellness support programs and collaborates with other practitioners to support his clients.
These are our sponsors; a consortium of good for you professionals and businesses that are a "PART OF THE SOLUTION" which means they provide or cater to humane mental health care and are helping us see to it that humane mental health care is provided to everyone, so please support them! You will be doing yourself a very healthy favor! Green Body and Mind Certified Holistic / Alternative Mental Health Care Providers |Top| Naturopathic Doctors
Click here to visit Dr. Tonya Fleck's website 3121 Park Avenue, Suite K Soquel, CA 95073 831.477.1377 Dr. Tonya Fleck received her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, her Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY Buffalo and completed graduate work in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Univ. of MD. Dr. Fleck has always been passionate about people experiencing freedom in their health and vitality. As a Naturopathic Doctor, she takes a holistic approach when creating individualized treatment plans, partnering with her patients to discover and remove the underlying obstacles to cure. Recognizing that there is no seperation between mind and body, Dr. Fleck focuses on the whole person, treating the mental, physical and emotional bodies. Her patients are left feeling inspired and empowered. Dr. Fleck specializes in Family Medicine, Women's Health & Holistic Pediatrics as well as medical nutrition, chronic fatigue, detoxification, heavy metal chelation, depression & anxiety, constitutional homeopathy and botanical medicine. She is an adjunct professor at Five Branches Acupuncture Institute and is currently writing a book on Natural Treatment Approaches to Anxiety & Depression. Dr. Fleck has a private practice in Soquel, Ca. www.DrTonyaFleck.com To learn more or to schedule a Free 15 minute consultation call 831.477.1377. Depth Psychotherapy in Berkeley
Silvia Costales, MA 2901 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, California 94705 phone: (888) 637-7404 ext 308 I work with serious mental health problems without the use of psychotropic medications, and I am also more than happy to collaborate with alternative health practitioners to support your healing such as homeopaths, acupuncturists, naturopaths, and chiropractors (to name a few). I offer depth psychotherapy, meeting usually once or twice per week for anywhere from a few months to a couple of years depending on the individual or couple. I help people deal with difficult relationships, life transitions, depression/bipolar, anxiety, trauma, dissociation, thought disorders, grief, addictions, other unwanted habits or compulsions (like overeating, purging, cutting, shopping, or hair pulling), spiritual ruts or crises, the emotional side of chronic health problems, and just plain everyday suffering. If any of this sounds like you, I'd like to help, and I'd suggest you call or come in so we can talk about it. I work with both couples and individuals. I am a California Board of Behavioral Sciences Registered Intern #48265, supervised by Stephen Polin, Marriage and Family Therapist, #7861. Recovering the Original Self
Willow Carol Simmons, Ph.D.
Transformational EcoPsychology
831.469.4311
ravensong555@baymoon.com
Willow has a B.A. in Religious Studies from Colorado University where she taught in the Experimental Studies Program for two years. Her Ph.D. from Union Graduate School in “The Psychology of Religion and Symbol” explored multi-disciplinary perspectives in psychology, with a focus on what individuals and society lost in abandoning our evolutionary history of intimate relationship with our bodies, one another, and the natural world. For 11 years she taught philosophy and mythology in the Women’s Studies Program at Cabrillo College, her self-designed courses including “The Evolution of the Feminine” and “Women, Nature and Control.”
For over 25 years Willow has assisted hundreds of people towards radical healing through her work as a transformational counselor. Her own evolution and vocation have been guided by what is now called “EcoPsychology,” an awareness and practice that recovers our “original” or “natural self,” and restores our primal connection with the intelligence and vital life force of the natural world. Nature designed us perfectly. In the past few thousand years, we have simply lost touch with our deep connection to bodies and the living world surrounding us.
Willow works with both individual and groups, using traditional and modern techniques to heal the fractured psyche that arises when we are estranged from our original self. Our profound disconnection from our bodies, our communities, and the natural world creates addictions, depression, anxiety, restlessness and confusion. Once we restore our original self, our clarity remerges, and we discover a brilliant intelligence alive within our organism that guides us in all the basic requirements of life and moves us naturally towards what ignites our hearts and minds.
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Dr. Duncan McCollum D.C. 1726 Seabright Ave. Santa Cruz, CA. 95062 (831) 459 9990 As a chiropractor, I specialize in restoring your body’s ability to heal itself. When your body can no longer handle the stressors of the environment, the nervous system begins to shut down and the body becomes injured, ill or toxic. This can show up as frank illness or disease, and even effect one’s mood, attitude, and mental wellbeing. Restoring your body’s nervous system can greatly improve your health. Chiropractic along with nutritional evaluation, testing and treatment can help restore your body’s health and restore wellbeing. Some helpful tests we can perform include testing for food allergies, mold and fungus, parasite, heavy metal and toxic poisoning, as well as thyroid, adrenal, hypoglycemia and other endocrine system functions. Symptoms such as pain, lethargy, fatigue, headaches, gastrointestinal problems, depression, anxiety, insomnia etc. can be sign of many conditions and should be evaluated by someone who will consider the whole body and recommend a treatment plan which will restore your body’s health naturally. I look forward to helping you achieve optimum health naturally.
Addictive Biochemistry & Psychiatric Drug Detoxification Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H. 903 Pacific Ave. Suite 207-A Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 440-8686 Author, Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure and President, Green Body and Mind. Internationally recognized Orthomolecular Practitioner specializing in addiction, pushed and prescribed (psychiatric) drug detoxification, alcoholism, and neuroendocrine disorders. Ms. Petralli's internationally recognized treatment, The 101 Program, assists the body and mind in quickly detoxifying while rebuilding the body's natural healing processes and providing mental health naturally through assisting the neurochemistry with targeted nutritional therapy which corrects the imbalances that produced symptoms... Ms. Petralli's treatment and book is endorsed by the most reputable orthomolecular practitioners of our time (Dr. Abram Hoffer, Joan Mathews-Larson, Ph.D., Dr. Joe Dispenza and Dr. Andrew Saul).
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Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher Gwen Olsen The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market. Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American’s medicine cabinet working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor. Rigorously researched and documented, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God’s Call to Loving Arms is a moving, human drama that illustrates the catastrophic consequences of a health care system run amok!
Depression Free, Naturally Joan Mathews-Larson Ph.D. Does someone you know or love suffer from fatigue? Mood swings? Anxiety? Stress? Insomnia? Periods of despair or anger? Best-selling author and founder and executive director of the highly esteemed Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis provides a wealth of vital, reader-friendly information. Larson explains how to screen for various emotional and behavioral symptoms, how food affects body chemistry, and how biochemical imbalances can manifest in mental and physical symptoms. She then points the way to successful healing through nutritional methods by identifying a corrective diet and proper nutrients, suggesting essential lab work and how to interpret it, and providing invaluable information about conjunctive natural hormone therapy. A dynamic and life-changing program for health-care practitioners and their patients.
Seven Weeks to Sobriety Joan Mathews-Larson Ph.D. This breakthrough self-treatment program is designed to take the alcoholic from addiction to sobriety in just 7 weeks. Based on the format Dr. Larson uses at the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, the program's premise is that psychological problems (mood swings, anxiety, depression) don't lead to alcoholism; it is through the heavy use of alcohol and the subsequent disruption of brain chemistry that psychological problems are created. Thus treatment involves physical intervention to shut down cravings and repair the alcohol induced carnage affecting the brain/body. Seven Weeks to Sobriety teaches how to: *Determine if you are alcoholic and what chemistry type you are. *Discover how to break your addiction with minimal discomfort. *Replace key natural chemicals without drugs, to eliminate such alcohol induced symptoms as: anxiety, depression, insomnia, cravings, and unstable mood swings. *Integrate the seven week program into your own life to guarantee a stable alcohol free future. Seven Weeks To Sobriety is currently being used a a textbook by the state of California in continuing education classes for nurses. In addition, many treatment centers across the country have also realized the value of this book and have started to incorporate its ideas into their own programs. The beauty of this book, however, is that it lays out a do-it-yourself approach to treatment through biochemical restoration that anyone can follow. If you desire, you may purchase the book directly from Health Recovery Center.
Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure www.the101program.com Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H. The Cause: Neurotransmitter and hormone deficiencies Over time, consistent recreational drinking disables the brain’s ability to naturally produce beta-endorphins and other “feel good” neurotransmitters such as serotonin, GABA, dopamine and enkephalins resulting in physical and psychological symptoms that the person will gradually begin to rely more and more on alcohol in order to self-medicate the symptoms of their deficient brain chemistry. The Cure: Neurotransmitter and hormone replenishment- healing the HPA axis The 101 Program, found in Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure, walks you through each step required in replenishing those neurotransmitters and hormones and balancing the hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal axis. When the body and mind can make its own “feel-good” neurotransmitters again, the craving for alcohol disappears and true peace, joy, optimism and centeredness replaces mental and physical fatigue, anxiety, depression and nervousness. In Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure you will learn how, through practicing a “condictive” (opposed to addiction) diet and the use of therapeutic nutrition aimed at providing the necessary precursors to produce those neurotransmitters and hormones, to heal your body and mind and uproot addictive biochemistry. Learn how Targeted Nutritional Therapy corrects biochemical imbalances in the brain that leads to alcohol and other addictions *Address the root cause of alcohol addiction *If you are on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety meds learn how to get off of them, and regain natural states of mental and physical health *Restore healthy brain chemistry that produces a sense of well-being and peace *Restore healthy neurotransmitter and hormone levels in weeks! *Minimize alcohol withdrawal symptoms *Lose your compulsive desire to drink in 7 to 14 days! *Correct your body and brain chemistry *Restore healthy emotions *Heal & protect your brain, liver, heart, GI, pancreas, and adrenals *Achieve and maintain healthy blood sugar levels *Live the proven alcoholism cure! *Heal alcoholism symptoms - hypoglycemia, depression, fatigue, anxiety, excitability and many, many others! *Enjoy the benefits of privacy with this in-home holistic alcoholism treatment
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www.healthrecovery.com Health Recovery Center The Health Recovery Center was founded in 1980 by Joan Mathews Larson, PhD, the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis has been praised by Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD as representing "THE Orthomolecular Model for Addictions Treatment." For 25 years she has taught the alternative medicine field and the addictions treatment industry the important steps of this successful model of healing. Unlike those who base their cure for depression, on talk therapy or toxic drugs, Health Recovery Center works to heal the underlying physical causes of mental health issues. Orthomolecular intervention is the only effective way to fully restore long-term mental stability. Toximolecular pharmaceutical drugs work only as short-term solutions in depression or anxiety cures, often causing additional complications in the long term. Are you or a loved one struggling with alcoholism, drug addiction or emotional disorders? Are you searching out natural alternatives to a 12-step alcoholism treatment program? We are pleased to offer you a comprehensive, successful model of alcohol and drug addiction treatment that has sustained the highest recovery rates in the US over 25 years! Discover Solutions for Alcoholism and an Alcoholism Treatment Program. This approach of biomedical testing and biochemical restoration was developed at the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis and has been the turnkey to a new era of treatment based on science, rather than the spiritual path of 12-steps. Learn how this alcoholism addiction treatment program is able to promise you freedom from cravings, an end to depression and anxiety, and a viable life-long recovery. Our nationally best-selling book, Seven Weeks To Sobriety offers an effective “at home” method of drug and alcoholism treatment, as well as specific regimens for alcoholism medical treatment. Find Solutions to Correct Emotional Disorders Including a Depression & Anxiety Cure. Avoid the dangers of mental health treatment centers that depend on pharmaceutical drugging without identifying biochemical causes. Health Recovery Center invites you to discover, once and for all, the real imbalances responsible for creating your depression and unstable emotions. The cure for anxiety and depression and other ongoing emotional distress lies in identifying, with lab tests, the availability of key natural brain/body chemicals that keep us stable and sane, and then restoring adequate amounts of these REAL chemicals (not toxic drugs) in sufficient amounts to end your wearying state. Orthomolecular medicine, as practiced at HRC will help you correct your imbalances once and for all. Our book Depression Free, Naturally teaches you how to find factual answers that greatly improve mental health over an entire lifetime. Learn about the HRC program and this book!
www.alternativetomedscenter.com We are a residential facility designed to help people taper off of psychiatric medications. We employ the service of an Orthomolecular doctor with forty years experience in this capacity. Through the use of brain chemistry testing, we isolate imbalances. We then seek to create balance through the use of naturally occurring substances specifically aimed at correcting those imbalances, thereby countering the need for medications and offsetting addictive biochemistry. We work with people who are on antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and pain medications. The standard program duration ranges from four to twelve weeks. In this time, under the guidance of a board certified psychiatrist, the medication is tapered. The client spends their time on course learning clinical nutrition, participating in inventive physical exercise and stretching, working with a counselor, focus groups, acupuncture, supervised client outings, or working with a needs specialist, and is free to enjoy activities of their own choosing. Each client is viewed as a success story, and we individualize the treatment that best tells that story along the way. Our help line is: (800) 359-9698 www.AlternativeToMedsCenter.com The director may be contacted at lyle@alternativetomedscenter.com
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Greenspace is a unique retail showroom and education center specializing in green products for the home and business. We focus on providing products and services that lighten our impact on the earth and improve our health and well being. We provide a wide array of green products including non-toxic paints and wall finishes, eco-friendly home furnishings, flooring, countertops, water saving devices, cleaning supplies, books and more. We work with homeowners, designers and contractors to provide high quality, eco-friendly solutions for home, business and building projects. *Improve indoor air quality by using non toxic products *Save natural resources by using materials made from recycled or salvaged materials *Improve energy efficiency by reducing use of fossil fuels in favor of alternative sources of energy *Ease global warming by reducing our direct and indirect carbon production
T Paul Sek Green (non-toxic) HOME & OFFICE professional painters Click here to go to T. Paul Sek Painting 721 Seabright Ave. Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Call Deb at (831) 558-4080 to learn more! CA LIC. 741374 T Paul Sek Painting has practiced the 3R's of recycling religiously from our company's start over ten years ago. At the end of each day, we thoroughly clean all of our equipment using non-toxic solvents. Upon completion of each job all appropriate tapes, papers, plastics, & metal paint cans get recycled. Our experience with using zero VOC &/or non-toxic alternative products began in 2003 and has grown steadily since then. We support our local community by purchasing our non-toxic and zero VOC primers, paints, stains, finishes, solvents, etc. at a locally owned green store. As an incentive to "Go Green in 2008" we are honoring a 10% discount. FREE ESTIMATES! Mission statement: We are a small, quality driven painting business on a BIG mission to create healthier environments for ALL, one client at a time. Green Certifications: First Certified Green Building Professional (CGBP) Painting Contractor in the Monterey Bay area. Spreading the Word: We freely share our growing knowledge of non-toxic alternatives by actively holding & participating in many ongoing series' of Green Building & Health Presentations. Printing
Printshop Santa Cruz www.printshopsantacruz.com For printing, graphics, samples and web media contact: Randy West (831) 429-5340 511 River St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 National & International Alliances |Top|
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit public benefit organization that investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. It shall continue to do so until abusive and coercive practices committed under the guise of mental health are eradicated and human rights and dignity are returned to all. CCHR's Board of Advisors, called Commissioners, include doctors, scientists, psychologists, lawyers, legislators, educators, business professionals, celebrities and civil and human rights representatives.
www.alternativementalhealth.com Safe Harbor is the nation's leading nonprofit for non-drug mental health education. Their award-winning site, www.AlternativeMentalHealth.com, is the world's largest on this topic. It includes the Internet's only online directory of alternative mental health practitioners and more than 100 articles on non-drug mental health treatment. For professionals, Safe Harbor offers it's popular listserv Integrative Psychiatry. For those seeking self-help, Safe Harbor has a listserv called SafeHarbor2. It's internationally acclaimed newsletter, the Alternative Mental Health News, appears monthly.
http://www.nocodexgenocide.com International Advocates for Health Freedom was started in 1996 by John C. Hammell, Legislative Advocate, to catalyze global opposition to a pharma driven effort to ban consumer access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range via the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission. IAHF is a Consulting firm to the dietary supplement industry on legislative issues with a large grass roots component with nearly 4,000 subscribers to a growing email distribution list from 43 countries. IAHF has been instrumental in catalyzing the creation of a global health freedom network of vitamin consumers opposed to the UN's genocidal Codex dictates. The multi-national pharmaceutical companies are well aware of the fact that you will be entirely dependent on their toxic and dangerous products to avoid the symptoms of the chemically adulterated medical, biosphere, and food environments we are being forced to live in if your right to natural supplements for detoxification, rebalancing brain chemistry and achieving natural mental health is taken away from you. It is in your best interest to support IAHF and John Hammell in protecting your right to natural supplements on the legislative level!
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com Duane is a nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and an individual who has personally experienced the negative effects of psychiatric medication. He has chosen what he considers to be a better way – a safer and more natural way - toward healing and recovery. His site is non-conventional in the truest sense. It steers clear of the typical call for ‘proper diagnosis’ and ‘treatment’ by the conventional psychiatric medical model, and takes a different course - with a strong focus on ‘overall mind-body health”. The site provides the resources necessary to begin the journey toward recovery. He encourages readers to do their own research, and find a program that works best for them. The site provides information about a variety of alternative medical treatment models – Orthomolecular, Environmental, Naturopathic, Nutritional, Homeopathic, Holistic, Traditional Chinese, and Energy Medicine. The site also introduces the reader to such modalities as – Nuerofeedback, Eye Movement Desentization, Acupuncture, NET/Chiropractic, and many others.
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