Kelly Brogan - Own Your Self

Kelly Brogan engages us in a courageous conversation about the epidemic of mental health issues in our society. Her work is an important part of the understanding that will set us free, at a time when an increasingly narrow interpretation of why such issues existand what we need to do to heal themis as much a part of the problem as part of the solution.

Marianne Williamson, New York Times best-selling author of A Return to Love

We are in an age where mental, emotional, and physical balance has become our highest value. Own Your Self gives you the best possible solution on how to change your mind, your body, and your life. Kelly Brogan, M.D., does an amazing job combining cutting-edge information along with the practical tools for you to live a healthier personal reality. Her clinical and holistic approach from years of experience in doing independent research as a successful psychiatrist will teach as well as inspire you to get real, get well, and get free. This book holds the keys to inner peace and true happiness.

Dr. Joe Dispenza, New York Times best-selling author of You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

Own Your Self is as compassionate as it is radical. Kelly Brogan calls you to make a change more profound than you ever thought possibleand gives you a supportive, insightful road map to guide you every step of the way.

Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author of The Conscious Parent and clinical psychologist

Dr. Kelly Brogan is a voice of sanity and compassion for our healing crises. She sings into the heart of our buried wisdom, makes clear whats broken in the culture. And backing it with science, Kelly gives us the path to genuine healing and sovereignty. This is so hopeful. I want every woman to read thisand heal.

Danielle LaPorte, creator of The Desire Map series

If you want to work on releasing suppressed emotions, Dr. Brogan has given you the perfect guide in Own Your Self. She encourages you to listen to and honor your emotionsand any related physical symptomsfully and deeply, so that you may find a permanent, healing solution that gets to the root of the problem.

Kelly Turner, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author of Radical Remission

Kelly Brogans quest for truth has uncovered yet another priceless gem. This book is a road map of relief for those yearning for authentic self-acceptance and long-lasting emotional freedom.

Matt Kahn, author of Everything Is Here to Help You

This book is sourced in a deep and coherent spiritual radicalism. If you or someone you love is grappling with so-called psychiatric disorders, it is a potent instrument of intellectual liberation and practical healing.

Charles Eisenstein, author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Own Your Self is an education and a medical reformationa much-needed island of sanity in a crazy world! Kelly Brogan is a true psychiatrist, a doctor of the soul, and a guide back home to your authentic self. Her synthesis of science, deep humanity, and practical tools for well-being are crystal clear and right on target. She empowers us all to unleash the power of self-care to bring wholeness and healing.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Kelly Brogan has, once again, boldly, dangerously, and clearly pushed the conversation forward on how we individually and collectively heal. Own Your Self is at once an ice bucket over the head and a warm hug calling us home to the truest versions of ourselves, and then leading us there. I am elated to have this work to refer to from here forward.

Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of The Fourth Trimester

Also by Kelly Brogan, M.D.

A Mind of Your Own

A Time for Rain

Copyright 2019 by Kelly Brogan

Published in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com

Published in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au

Published in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk

Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover and interior design: Nick C. Welch

Indexer: Joan Shapiro

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. The personal stories that appear in this book are based on real clinical and testimonial experiences. Some individual names and identifying details have been changed. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-5682-0

e-book ISBN: 978-1-4019-5683-7

e-audio ISBN: 978-1-4019-5684-4

To my beloved, Sayer, and to our fierce love that created the container and continues to provide the alchemical ingredients for my rebirth in this lifetime, so I may serve the liberation of human consciousness and reclamation of unconditional love for myself, my daughters, and every person who hears the call to come home.

When I went into psychiatry, attended MIT and Cornell University, never did I imagine that Id come to shun the primary tool of my tradenamely, pharmaceuticals.

But thats exactly what I did. In 2010 I laid down my prescription pad, and I have not started another patient on prescription medication since. Instead, I now take a holistic approach to helping people overcome their most crushing struggles, including those labeled as generalized anxiety, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.

The term psychiatrist means doctor of the soul, and in todays world, millions of individuals are seeking their own soulsto feel alive, real, and strongto feel like themselves. But they most often land in the office of a doctor who is trained to provide a singular service: a pill prescription. In fact, part of my training in conventional Western medicine was to dismiss and discount anything thats not scientifically measurable, which of course includes the spiritthe soul of a human being.

If people manage to avoid prescription medications, its likely that they instead self-medicate with whatever they can find to temporarily ease the burden: recreational drugs, alcohol, sex, food, online shopping. All the while, they feel worse than ever, trapped outside of their own authentic selves.