Coming Home
A Psychotherapist’S reflections on Madness and the State of Western Psychosis
"Brandon Houston's Coming Home is a powerful antidote to the poison of mainstream psychiatric thinking. We need more accounts like this: deeply personal and heartfelt, infused with spiritual reflection, and pointing the way towards new responses to madness."
-- Will Hall, host of Madness Radio and author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs.
Coming Home offers an important contribution to our understanding of madness along with profound implications for supporting the recovery process. The author invites the reader to step outside the narrow and battered box of medical reductionism and onto a broad tapestry composed of an intriguing weave of biology, psychology, spirituality and lived experience. This is one adventure you don't want to miss!
- -Dr Paris Williams, Paris Wiliams, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Author of Rethinking Madness.
Houston compassionately invites us into his, and potentially everyone's, opening, coming apart and re-integrating, as a sacred unfolding to befriend and be expanded by. An intimate vision of a psychotic break and a challenge to mainstream models of pathology, shared with love, straightforward candor and Zen perspective.
-- Adam “Jogen” Salzberg, Zen Teacher, Spiritual Counselor
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Exploring being a human-in-relation in this seemingly messed up world. Consciousness, awakening, healing, psychedelics, transformation, meditation, creativity and all that good stuff propelling us deeper into love and embodiment.
About Brandon
I am a psychotherapist, leadership coach, and steward of a second-growth redwood forest in Northern California, where I live with my wife and children.
My work moves between the intimate and the systemic — helping individuals heal, helping groups find coherence, and building structures that last longer than a single lifetime.
I’ve spent years sitting with what’s hard to hold: grief, tension, complexity, and the parts of ourselves we’d rather not see. I believe real change happens when we stay with what’s alive, trust what emerges, and commit to care — for ourselves, for each other, and the world.
