“Mental health” conditions

By now you probably know that I consider the separation between “mental” and “physical” health to be an arbitrary one - our bodymind is one and the same. And I also understand that the lived, embodied and social experience of having symptoms in what’s considered the psychological realm, like anxiety, depression, and obsessive ideation can be very different from feeling, say, back pain or fatigue. And because of how our healthcare system is organized, you may have been given certain diagnoses or been seen by different specialists, hence the separate list ;)

If you experience any of the following symptoms, or been given any of these diagnoses, a mindbody approach can help.

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Obsessive-compulsive symptoms

• (Complex) Post Traumatic Stress

• Sleep related struggles

• Eating related struggles and eating disorders

• “Body image” and struggles related to experiences of embodiment. The quotation marks are because, while the term body image can be a useful one to describe a certain lived experience, I have a hard time with labels that imply that an experience of dis-ease is individual, when the reality is we live in a culture that imposes normative body ideals, strips us of positive experiences of embodiment through numerous forms of body-based violence, and engenders patterns of oppression, hatred and contempt towards anything deviating from the norm — at the same time, we can (re)learn a more positive experience of embodiment.