Matthew Auciello 8/7/2012 12:42:35 PM Daniel, I have just purchased your DVD \"Take These Broken Wings,\" and I\'m very excited to see your work. I am also interested in your other films (can only afford one at the moment!). I am a (young) practicing therapist, deeply disturbed by psychiatry and what I have seen while working with \"severely mentally ill\" adults for the last several years. Reading some of your essays, it seems we have a lot in common regarding our feelings about healing and self-realization. I am grateful to have come across your site. I am also a believer in becoming reconnected with and re-enchanted by our Mother, the Earth (and I see such grave problems with our industrial way of life). I hope to one day have a large property (perhaps several hundred acres?), a \"family\" of practitioners and (alternature, natural) healers, and use the land and the self to bring about the Old ways of being. For now, I will have to slowly work my way out of the for-profit, pharmaceutically-driven world of \"social work,\" until I can plant my feet where they so desire to be: in warm, rich soil. Be Well. Matthew p.s. A few book recommendations: \"The Reenchantment of the World,\" by Morris Berman \"Where the Wasteland Ends,\" by Theodore Roszak \"Radical Ecopsychology,\" by Andy Fisher Brittany Windom 8/4/2012 7:25:24 PM Thank you so much Daniel! After my last straw last night trying to confront my mother about my childhood traumas (and hers), I realized that she will never truly understand until she grows on her own time. Thank you for showing me that only I can heal myself and I cannot rely on anyone else to do it for me. I am so happy that I found you on YouTube and decided to check out your wonderful website. You are doing so much good for the world. Blessings! James Kleifon 8/2/2012 9:11:13 PM Hello ! Really appreciating this website. Thanks again ! Dana Wilkins 8/2/2012 3:56:18 AM I disagree with the statement that a parent on mental illness would not be a good parent. I have Bipolar and raising my son for several years. I feel I am a better mom now than I was before my medication. His father is not in the picture. Janesea Wood 7/27/2012 12:32:11 PM Your website\'s left me in absolute awe, with plenty of food for thought, I can\'t say that I agree with you 100% on everything that\'s contained here though... Thank you so much Anjali 7/22/2012 5:01:50 AM Dear Daniel, I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing so much valuable insight. I also had a highly traumatic childhood full of sexual & physical abuse and I found your articles to be so full of truth and wisdom, and validated many of the thoughts that I\'ve had over the years (but never found anyone who understood or saw things the same way). I\'ve spend many years healing, meditating, and going to a therapist. Along with psychotherapy, I personally found vipassana meditation (even more than therapy in a lot of ways) to be tremendously helpful in releasing all my pent up emotions, and spiritual blocks. I highly recommend it. On another note, I read one of the books on your book list based on your amazon review \'a heart too long suppressed\' and found it to be entirely moving. People like you are truly making the world a better place. Blessings. alex 7/21/2012 5:10:32 PM I am curious what you think about foster care and adoption. I agree with you completely about not having children and working on your childhood trauma. However, although I\'m not considering foster care anytime in the near future, I am conflicted about how this fits with the reality of so many abused kids sitting in abusive foster homes. Is it better for them to be with people who don\'t even have any insight into trying to heal themselves- instead of with people who are fully engaged in self-healing? Abuse will obviously happen either way, but the child will have a much better chance. I think eventually (when I have enough $ and more healing done) I will stare into a mirror and call myself selfish for knowing there are many kids being abused but I am not courageous enough to help at least one out. It\'s already happening and I wonder how you feel about it. Thanks. Aaron 7/21/2012 3:11:00 PM You have a great message but I feel like most the stuff I hear is just Alice Millers words, with slight modifications. Robert S. 7/13/2012 9:32:55 PM Hi Daniel. I wrote you a few times back in \'09 on this guestbook. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and I was asking for advice. I was wondering if, since years has past, you have any new ideas in terms of recovery from schizophrenia? Furthermore, I believe I may have some new ideas to share with you which you may find effective in helping your patients who are diagnosed with schizophrenia, if you are interested. John 7/8/2012 3:34:44 AM Thanks for everything you\'ve shared! Naomi 7/5/2012 12:52:43 PM Hi, This has just re affirmed to me that I need to shape up some/ a lot of my ideas. I am looking into starting some blogs, if you are alright with it I would love to refer some people to your site. I think there is more need for knowledge and insight such as your\'s. The more it is circulated out there all the more likelihood for success in healing a world full of wounds, sadness and illness. I have just purchased your first book. Thank you so much! Pat Dixon 7/2/2012 1:46:15 PM I have been showing \"Take these...\" and \"Open....\" to friends, one couple at a time - then talk about it over dinner. I\'ve decided to add the \"Healing Home\" maybe -I\'ll watch it first 🙂 I hope you\'ll do more on successful alternative approaches, like the Finland case. I\'m working on an idea for creating community volunteer \'supportive teams\', as well as trying to influence changing attitudes toward mental illness. Your work will \"change the world\" faster than most approaches, I think. Thank you for what you do! Michael 6/24/2012 7:57:31 PM I am nor American or Briton, but i hope i will be understandable(my english may be not so good). I wonder what are you doing? Did you make some new projects? On youtube last film you uploaded was more than a year ago, the same as your webside. I hope you are still somewhere, but unfortunately u did not give any signs of life. I dont know you, but what you did and still(i hope) do is very important, for me personaly too(mainly). So, if you are somewhere there, give a sign of life. Ann Gonzalez 5/23/2012 7:30:05 PM Daniel, you are A-mazing! I\'m so glad I found your work from a tip at Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium this month. I am 58 but we could be twins--I agree with all your points. I too have been healing and Alice Miller, distancing from family, foregoing children and travel have all played the essential roles in being able to heal. I also have a wonderful husband who although wounded like everyone is able to heal himself and others through a kind of natural \"mindfulness\" he possesses. I will do all I can to promote your work. Thank you so much for your heroic efforts, Daniel! Kasey 5/21/2012 6:46:22 PM WOW! Just came across this and it\'s the very first time I feel that someone has hit the nail right on the head. As an incredibly self aware adult who is learning to work through many traumatic experiences that started at childhood, I couldn\'t agree with your opinion more! This process has been slow an painful! Trying to figure out why I feel the way I do and why I am the way I am, and then learning conquering it is such a daunting task, but your website is VERY helpful! I also appreciate that it to the point! THANK YOU! lain 5/20/2012 4:22:53 PM I was doing little checking on child abuse charges when parents were having an argument / fight. kids were in bed. things git little loud and woke up a child which in turn called 911 . ne. state court us trying to charge only one of the parents with child abuse. I think this is a little excessive. I understand nit fighting in front of kids. but so far we are not a perfect society. to charge a parent with felony child abuse when they have well behaved . good student. friendly kids. And gave a generally loving home is excessive and bullying behavior. no children were physically they no parent was physically hurt . things just git loud and there was a little pushing. Being loving . supportive parents who work hard and can\'t make ends best and things get verbal. are we teaching kids that you can\'t get loud and have ddisagreements without going yo mail. taking away the bread winner of the family for a squabbke us a little much .yes I agree kids need yo be safe and secure in their home but I also think parents do get pressured and Di have arguments . Laurie 5/16/2012 4:41:05 AM Hello Daniel, Thank you for all that you are sharing here. I am 47, have not had children, deciding long ago (at 29) to dedicate my resources and energy towards healing from trauma - a reality I could not bring myself to repeat onto a new generation. Sometimes I still lament, wishing that my path was different from this; but I understand the best choice I could make played out in my life. I have never read any thing like this. I followed a voice inside, a voice mostly unexpressed concerning what I really thought and felt (yes, speaking it makes people very uncomfortable); but I\'m now beginning to do this slowly. Thank you for this. Laurie