Can Healing Schools Heal Depression & Anxiety?

Perhaps you or someone you love can relate to the following:

Despite seeming to have done “everything right” on the path of personal growth and holistic wellness — meditation and personal development retreats; transformational workshops; eating an organic diet; a yoga, qigong, or dance practice; perhaps even pilgrimages to India or Peru — there remain patterns that could be described by Western medicine as depression or anxiety.

On World Health Day in 2017, the World Health Organization launched a yearlong program titled “Depression: Let’s Talk,” and part of the message of the day was summed up by Health and Human Rights Journal:

“The excessive medicalization of mental health not only fails countless individuals in need of services, it fails all of us, in every stage of our lives.”