Alternatives to Psychiatry Consulting with Chaya Grossberg

16/06/2025

A message of witnessing for those in psychiatric drug withdrawal.http://chayagrossberg.com/

07/11/2024

Super dsicount sessions this week- 60% off -

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=13960752&appointmentType=70613853 I hope this will make my consultations more possible for you if you have needed support and could not afford my regular rate. 

04/11/2024

Ok another preachy post about Election Day bc I think a lot about of folks need it. Please share.

Important things to do on Election Day:

Get outside, exercise, go for a walk

Lift weights or do some kind of strengthening

Meditate in some way

Pray in some way

Eat well! Get enough protein and fat to stay emotionally grounded

Do something fun and creative for at least an hour

Hug and cuddle with your loved ones

Do your dishes, clean and organize your home/other spaces

Keep any commitments you have for work if possible, it might be a good distraction

Get good sleep

Express love to yourself and/or others

Sending huge love to everyone no matter what side you are on or none!!

04/11/2024

Reminder: before, during and after an election, your responsibility is to take good care of yourself and what is in your sphere of impact.

If you neglect what you can impact, in favor of focusing on what you can’t, things in your life might go haywire.

Keep it simple, keep tending to the little things. It is the most loving thing you can do for yourself and those around you.

Any political debate type comments will be deleted.

29/10/2024

If you got a text from me about cash app, it’s real, not spam.

Cash app will give you $15 to download the app if you use my link in the next 2 days.

I use cash app to buy bitcoin easily, which has been doubling whatever money I put into it for the past few years.

I also used cash app last year for my taxes, which was the easiest experience I have EVER had doing my taxes! In the end even though self employed, I owed nothing without hiring anyone.

You can also just download the app and get $15 and not do anything else.

If you didn’t get a link from me and want one, let me know!

25/10/2024

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions.

It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.

You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ...

No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time.

There is only a q***r divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others

Martha Graham

16/10/2024

https://youtu.be/04LVm9ZOe-8?si=V5JraO7fiutJAnH-

Disgust is a core emotion!! But it's rarely discussed. And it can be a prominent and essential emotion to learn how to recognize, acknowledge, de-shame, and ...

08/10/2024

After a season of feeling discouraged and uncertain regarding my career, I finally got some good news!

I am a semi finalist for the MASSCreative fellowship I applied for.

The fellowship is to advocate for legislation to bring more arts access and opportunities to trauma survivors and as alternatives to the “mental health” system.

Thank you so much to those of you who took the time to nominate me.

When I filled out the application and uploaded my resume, even though it took me almost a whole day to finish, I felt satisfied looking back over what I have done in my career.

As I described ways I have supported people’s creativity, especially those harmed or not fully served by the mental health system, I felt qualified and aligned for this fellowship.

It was one of those things I also felt in my body, after awhile of feeling ambivalent as I knocked on doors and they did not open. This one finally felt like, “This is for me.”

Grateful for the opportunity and to see where it leads. And please send good vibes, I still need to do a final interview.

19/09/2024

The walls of my home are decorated with the smear smears of dead pantry moths, hundreds, even thousands by now I have smashed with the heel of my left fist and a little aim.

In some rooms several of these moths fly around or rest on the ceilings or walls waiting to be smeared.

I like insects. When I see a spider, I speak to it tenderly, “Hi, I love you. You are here because I am writing.” I have never killed a spider on purpose.

My shelves are full of sticky things, zinc lozenges that melted in the summer heat inside their wrappers, then resolidified, stuck to the wood on my desk shelf.

Honey sticks a similar story

I leave these items where they are, it is less messy, less cumbersome that way

though every once in awhile, out of curiosity, or recognition of my own poor patterns, I pull up at something wrapped and sticky, to see if it is truly stuck.

and if I can lift it up, get it unstuck from my shelf, I wonder if I should keep it or throw it away.

Finally I tossed a few stickies and lozenges, somewhere between solid and liquid, wrapped in red plastic, never to harden back to usefulness, to pallet-ability, literally, something I could put in my mouth and suck on, if I were getting a cold.

The honey sticks are another story. They are intact. liquid inside plastic.

My shelf is still sticky where the lozenges leaked through

so those honey sticks will stick down again

and how do I clean melted lozenges off of a shelf?

Truth is I never tried,

not because there is no answer, but because I never took the time, to throw those zinc lozenges away

until today.

I once asked myself if pantry moths are so bad. I looked at one closely and saw a bad sort of spirit.

Everything in my home is here for a reason. a reason I may never know.

Every dead and living plant, every plant that will one day die, every cotton ball, spray bottle, paper shopping bag on the ground.

Every broken door that is hard to close

every pile of papers, unique in its status of usefulness or obsolescence.

every dead moth smear, whether visible or unseen because I smeared it until its trace was gone.

Every small spider in a corner always in a corner,

except as I write this

one crawls along my notebook paper, then disappears back under the desk.

03/09/2024

This is not a fully fleshed out idea, yet one I have had on my mind for years in different forms.

I no longer want to focus on my online business, yet what I have built has SO much potential for the right person.

That person would be someone who has a lot of my skills at supporting people coming off psych meds, even if not as much professional experience. Some would be good.

They would also be super into working online, doing online marketing, developing group programs and other formats to make the support accessible to more people.

And be business savvy to eventually hire a team.

And have some resources to invest. I have done many years of work and it would be a lot more work to transfer. Respect and reciprocity for that would be necessary.

It is not a job for most people, yet I only need one. I have a good sized mailing list, elaborate website with blog that needs to be maintained, and people from all over the world who reach out and need what I am offering in a more accessible way (less expensive group programs etc).

Also interested in talking to people who have successfully done something like this, transfered a business to someone else.

Please feel free to comment or email me about this, no dms!

Thanks for reading.

03/09/2024

I need a title for my next poetry book. Anyone who has read or heard my poetry have any ideas?