Re: Zapping Zoloft... Completely off now, but a sad, scary time.
ok - but no unnecessary crying, ok? meaning, don't push sad or too sentimental a movie. Sometimes, it could get me in a loop and I'd just cry for days. This might be a good time for some trashing, too. For instance...
last time I detoxed off meds (I've done it 3 times), I got 4 photo album set-ups, coolest ones I'd found. They were slender and fit inside matching little collage looking boxes for $10 each at like Sam's or something. I took my family photos (whom are pretty much all passed on) and I went through the photos. I threw away 2/3 of the photos. I threw away anything where people were slobbering drunk, obviously using, looking at the camera in that way my parents used to look at me - ugly, angry, despondent. I threw away photos of me looking scared. I threw away photos of me crying unless it was cute. I threw away photos of beer and ashtrays full of cigarettes. I threw away photos of people that had mistreated me, using friends of my parents, situations/parties of my parents friends that I'd never really known or hadn't been my 'friend'. I threw away photos of people from high school. I threw away easily like 500 photos.
I burned incense, lit candles - made it very healing.
At the end of this 1 day long (easily 10 hours) process, I had 4 concise boxes, moderately chronological, and my baby book. Period. No more. It was soooo great.
Pick something that stimulated you to go on meds in the first place. Pick clothing to gift to a women's shelter that you picked when you felt frumpy or needed to hide. Transmute these things. Trim your hair and give your hair to the birds. They're making nests this time of year and you can take your hair clippings down to the park and place them near nests - they'll take them. Think of things you can do to transmute things you accumulated or have been gifted that you keep out of guilt or a feeling of obligation. Do it with intent. When you hold these items, give thanks for the lesson and your personal growth. If they're goods and are still ok - please give them to a shelter. I hate the idea of people angrily throwing clothes and things into a garbage can. It makes me so sad to feel we glutinously acquire things and then when we're done with them - we throw it to a landfill - to the Earth - with a frequency of no gratitude or personal responsibility. Yuck!!
Then, put yourself through a spa evening. A nice bath with ylang ylang oil always does it for me - that stuff is soooo intoxicating. Smells like freesia flowers to me. Ylang ylang (4 or 5 drops is enough) and
Sea Salt . Hold your nose at one point and dip your whole head under water. Salt cleanses our aura. Then shower off all the sadness and wish that it goes where it can be transmuted and helpful. Rub lovely oils and scents into your skin afterward. Buy yourself flowers and put them next to the bed. Gosh - I'm totally teary thinking of all the times I did stuff like this for myself in getting off meds. I'm with you honey - I'm really, really proud of you.
And - put a piece of rose quartz above your head sleeping. Keep it in your pocket the rest of the time. Maybe wear rose quartz earrings or a necklace for a while. Smoky quartz absorbs negativity and fear - a small piece of that would be good to keep in your right pocket. We feed emotions through our right hand (masculine) and absorb healthful frequencies (like rose quartz) through our feminine left hand. Left receives and right directs. When you're at work, no one has to know that you've put your hand in your right pocket and hold that smoky quartz. Every few days, put that little guy in a plant or your garden for a bit, let the Earth absorb the energy form it so the crystal can reset and help you continue transmuting heavy energy.
all my love to you sweet thing!!