Healing Through Integration

Ep# 274 - Healing Through Integration, An Interview with Holistic healer and and Author Judy Tsafrir When I picked up this book, by the amazing and profound Judy Tsafrir, I was immediately taken by the title, Sacred Psychiatry. Judy is a holistic healer with a private psychiatry and psychoanalysis practice in Newton, Massachusetts. She is on the leading edge of consciousness and I am so grateful to have her here to share her story and her book with Empowering Chats. I opened this interview by asking Judy the questions: Why this title? How did it come about? Because personally, I have never seen psychiatry as sacred. Judy responded to my question by stating that traditional psychiatry is not sacred, it is conventionally practiced. It has completely lost touch with the part of that word “psyche” which has to do with our soul. She goes on to share that modern medicine has also lost the connection to the psyche and the soul. It is now based on scientific materialism and has no sense of the sacred. And the role that the sacred plays in healing. Her book opens with several quotes including one by the Greek philosopher, Plotinus where he states in part “all things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.” As Judy states, we cannot sparse out the mind from the body and the spirit. The point of the book she says is to illuminate that conventional psychiatry doesn’t encompass the sacred. Judy shares how in the conventional approach to psychiatry most often patients are prescribed medication to deal with depression or anxiety, which only addresses the symptom not the root cause. She has the belief that the more we heal ourselves and access the help of our ancestors it also has a profound impact on our descendants. Judy advocates for an individual to take responsibility for their health and become self-responsible. And in her book, she gives tools and insights to how the healing can come about. This is a time of tremendous change which is why this time on our planet is so difficult. We truly are entering a brand-new world. And part of this shift involves the individual and the collective and because we are all connected it is felt on all levels. Judy's book explores the power of the sacred to promote healing, which is especially crucial in our current climate of widespread fear and disconnection. To learn more about Judy Tsafrir visit: JudyTsafrirMD.com/ To purchase Judy's book visit: JudyTsafrirMDAuthor.com To learn more about me and how I show up in the world visit: SusanBurrell.com