156. Dr. Jodie Skillicorn: Healing depression without medication.

Hey, friends! Today the brilliant Dr. Jodie Skillicorn is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation on how you can holistically heal depression. 

Dr. Skillicorn is a holistic, integrative psychiatrist and author of Healing Depression without Medications: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Balancing Mind, Body, and Soul. She integrates conventional medical training with evidence-based holistic methods that blend mindfulness-based psychotherapy with a variety of complementary, research-based modalities including breathwork, meditation, EMDR, Emotional Freedom Techniques, nutrition, exercise, and nature at her virtual practice in Ohio. 

Her passion is in guiding, supporting, and teaching her patients self-care techniques that help balance their bodies and minds, thus empowering them to take an active role in their unique healing journeys on the road to optimal health. These skills may also help in reducing and often eliminating the need for medications. 

We're talking about... 

• How what Dr. Skillicorn was taught in med school was misleading
• The impact psych meds have on the chemistry of your brain
• The consequences of long-term antidepressant use
• The power of placebo on depression
• How Dr. Skillicorn’s approach to helping people heal differs from conventional psychiatry
• The power of mindfulness on the brain
• Why it’s important to move your body to discharge stress
• The impact poor sleep has on your mental health
• What Dr. Skillicorn believes drives increased depression
• How a biochemical bandaid isn’t healing the wound 
• The role stress plays in inflammation
• The importance of eating clean foods
• What you can do to improve your depression holistically

…and so much more!

Podcast show notes: 

https://open.substack.com/pub/courageouslyu/p/dr-jodie-skillicorn-healing-depression?r=29mstw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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