Three upcoming online events. All online, all in English.

And a live Q&A follow-up

In December, I’ll be joining three online events exploring the future of mental health, safe tapering, trauma, psychosis, and life beyond psychiatric drugs and labels.

Each event has a different focus, but the common theme across my talks is, as always:
1) helping people make sense of their experiences without reducing them to symptoms or chemical imbalances

and

2) bridging safe, hyperbolic tapering with psychotherapy and metabolic treatments to reclaim our lives beyond medication.

I hope to see some of you on the screen.

Below is an overview of each event, including what I’ll be speaking about and why these conversations feel so important right now.

But first: As a small thank-you to those of you who support this work, I’ll be hosting a special follow-up Q&A for my paid subscriber community. This will be a space where we can reflect together on the themes and questions that emerged across all three December events, whether tapering, withdrawal, trauma, psychosis, emotion regulation, diagnoses, or the broader direction of mental health care.

So, if you want to dive deeper with me, ask questions, and discuss how these ideas translate into lived experience and everyday life, you’re very welcome to join me on:

Sunday 14 December
7 pm MST / 9 pm ET
(The session will be recorded and made available afterward so everyone across time zones can watch it.)

Thu 4 Dec – Inner Compass Initiative Conference

Time: 8:30am–5pm ET / 6:30am–3:00pm MST / 1:30pm–10:00pm GMT
My Topic: Clinical deprescribing
Link: Here.

This is Inner Compass Initiative’s inaugural conference, and I’m truly grateful to be part of it. The theme centers on the future of mental health in America, and my contribution will focus on tapering (or deprescribing) psychiatric drugs) - how we can rethink the way psychiatric drugs are tapered and discontinued.

I’ll use my 20 minutes on the stage to share the five key lessons I’ve learned from a decade of helping people safely taper off medication.

Mon 8 Dec – A Disorder 4 Everyone (AD4E)

Time: 6–8pm GMT / 1:00–3:00pm ET / 11:00am–1:00pm MST
Topic: A deep dive into my book, Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off – and Staying Off – Psychiatric Drugs.
Link: Here.

This workshop is hosted by AD4E, which is a community deeply committed to non-pathologizing, trauma-informed perspectives on mental health. Here, I’ll do a deep dive into my book and explore what really happens when people come off psychiatric medication, why the standard explanations often miss the mark, and how to do it properly and safely.

Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to millions, often with limited conversation about what these medications do, how long they should be taken, or what withdrawal may look like. Yet for many people, withdrawal is one of the most difficult psychological and physiological challenges they ever face - often unexpected!

During this session, I’ll walk through key ideas from my book, Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off – and Staying Off – Psychiatric Drugs, including:

• How to distinguish withdrawal from relapse

• What happens in the brain when we take and reduce psychiatric drugs

• Why gradual, hyperbolic tapering minimizes harm

• How emotions, trauma reactions, and long-buried experiences may return when coming off

• Why psychotherapy and psychosocial support are sometimes essential during tapering

• How people can reorient their lives from diagnoses and symptoms to meaning and connection.

This workshop is suitable for clinicians, therapists, supporters, and anyone with lived experience.

Tue 9 Dec – ISPS UK (in conversation with Jacqui Dillon)

Time: 7:00–8:30pm GMT / 2:00–3:30pm ET / 12:00–1:30pm MST
Topic: Psychosis, trauma, and coming off antipsychotics
Link: Here

This event feels especially meaningful. I’ll be joined by Jacqui Dillon - writer, activist, and one of the most significant voices in the survivor movement. Together, we’ll explore psychosis through a trauma-informed, relational lens, and discuss what recovery can look like when we move beyond the idea of psychosis as a disease.

And despite decades of prescribing, the field still has limited guidance on how to taper and discontinue antipsychotic drugs safely. Their withdrawal effects are just as real and often just as severe as those from other psychiatric medications — yet they’re still frequently misread as relapse.

In this conversation, we’ll look at:

• How psychosis can be understood as a response to trauma and adversity

• What antipsychotic drugs actually do - and do not do - to the brain and mind

• How hyperbolic tapering can reduce withdrawal effects and support safer discontinuation

• How to tell withdrawal apart from relapse

• Why recovery is often less about symptom management and more about meaning-making, safety, relationship, and agency

• How to prevent relapse using psychological approaches instead of ongoing pharmacological “relapse prevention”.

• The psychological and existential shifts that can occur when medication is reduced.

I hope to see you on the screen 🙂