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Radiant Beast

Perspectives on the science and practice of metabolic therapies for mental health.

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Radiant Beast: The Open Workbook — Coming Soon to Metabolic Mind

Challenging reductionistic views of psychosis, Radiant Beast is a living workbook on metabolic healing, spiritual growth, and transformative recovery. I am excited to announce that I will soon…

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A Metabolic Awakening: Reframing Psychosis from Breakdown to Breakthrough

Psychosis, like dreams, is an altered reality—vivid, surreal, and immersive. With metabolic healing, I process its lessons with clarity instead of fearing relapse. When I emerged from the…

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A Path Out of the Hell of Mental Illness: Three Practical Tools for Finding Your Way in the Darkness

From the depths of psychosis to the light of recovery, this article explores how envisioning a better future can transform despair into hope. Being diagnosed with bipolar I…

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Life on the Edge of Death: A Journey of Rebirth through Hospice and Metabolic Healing

From end-of-life care to personal rebirth: reflections on life, death, and the profound impact of healing through metabolic therapies for mental and neurological health. Death Doula Wisdom In…

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Is serious mental illness a life sentence?
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Is Serious Mental Illness a Life Sentence?: Suicidal Ideation, Euthanasia, and the Dire Need for Mental Health Care Innovation

Have you ever woken up and felt like you were no longer yourself? As though overnight, your identity slipped through your fingers, leaving behind a person you didn’t…

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Missing Mania? Reflections on Finding Balance in Bipolar Disorder

Through metabolic therapies, I’ve discovered that the positives I once believed were tied to my bipolar illness—like creativity and philosophical thinking—can be retained in recovery. I’ve learned that…

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3 Ways to Leverage Hedonic Adaptation: Lessons from Serious Mental Illness & Recovery

Have you ever wondered why the thrill of a new purchase fades so quickly or how we bounce back from life’s setbacks with surprising resilience? The answer lies…

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How To Meet Your Future Self On New Year’s Eve: Part 2

Mid-Year Hack: My Future Self Has Better Cells “Discipline is remembering what you want.” – David Campbell In my article, How To Meet Your Future Self on New…

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A Place for Anger in Healing: Positive, Purposeful & Pissed

There was a day about a year after I sent my bipolar 1 illness into remission using ketogenic and other metabolic therapies, when I began to get angry:…

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Pioneering, compassionate and liberated people are changing the Way We Talk about Mental Illness.

Recovery from psychosis is a long, grueling process. The last time I had a manic episode was in the spring of 2021. I was a marketing and development…

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Angels on Water Skis: My Descent into Mania & How I Regained & Maintain My Sanity

In the summer of 2021, while listening to podcasts about spiritual transformation, I spent countless hours painting my kitchen cabinets teal and stenciling them with ornate golden designs….

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How To Meet Your Future Self On New Year’s Eve: Part 1 Of 2

The Power of Metabolic Therapies: A Shortcut to a Better Future Self Time to connect with your Future Self! This article explores how the “science of Future Self”…

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Please Don’t Call Ketogenic Therapy A “Diet”

Embracing a body-positive approach to metabolic mental health. When you look at pictures of me at the beginning of my ketogenic therapy versus today, more than two years…

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Five Reasons I No Longer Label Myself Bipolar

Though I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder more than ten years ago, I no longer use this diagnostic label to refer to my illness. Instead, I have…

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