The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast
The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast is dedicated to bringing you real stories of real people getting real help to overcome their trauma through the use of intentional plant medicine and other spiritual practices.
Episodes
99 episodes
48. Mike Elliott - You Can Be Numb for Decades and Never Know It
Mike Elliott was watching his own mind show him how to end his life. His wife of seven years had just walked out, he never saw it coming, and in the distress he kept seeing an image of a hose running from his tailpipe into his truck...
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47. Jason Grechanik - What Tobacco Shows You That Ayahuasca Won't
Most people in the West think of medicine as something you swallow to make a symptom go away. Jason Grechanik has spent more than a decade in the Peruvian Amazon learning a completely different definition. A trained tabaquero who apprenticed in...
46. Dr. Christopher Cortman - Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds
What does it actually take to heal something you have carried for decades? This week I sat down with Dr. Christopher Cortman, a psychologist with 40 years and more than 85,000 therapy hours behind him, to talk about guided imagery: ...
45. Emily Roper - Why Your Trauma Started Before You Could Talk
What if the work you are doing on your trauma at 40 is the exact thing a good parent can teach a toddler at 2? I sit down with Emily Roper, a neuro-developmental delay therapist and midwife's assistant who has attended more than 600...
44. The Collective - Psychedelics and Reality: Insight or Illusion?
We recently got invited onto The Collective for a two-hour panel on psychedelics and reality, and it turned into one of the best conversations we have been part of. We sat down with other men who...
43. Peter Hawrish - 13 Months That Changed Everything
In 2017, Peter looked his therapist in the eye and told her joy doesn't exist."You can be happy," he said, "but joy isn't a thing."Two days into his first retreat with us in Mexico, our 18-month-old daughter laughed at a breakfast...
42. Toby Miller - Do You Actually Want To Heal?
Toby Miller is back, and we have a lot to catch up on. We start with something a lot of people understand but don’t always talk about honestly: losing a dog that felt like family. Toby talks about Lucy, Titan, grief, spirituality, a...
41. Bruno Moya - Iboga, Initiation, and What It Means to Become a Man
In this episode, I sit down with Bruno, a Marine veteran, social worker, jiu-jitsu guy, and family constellation facilitator who works with veterans, first responders, athletes, healthcare workers, and trauma survivors.This one goes a lo...
40. Clayton Law - Adult ADHD and Avoidance: Why Important Tasks Feel Impossible
Adult ADHD and procrastination can look a lot like laziness from the outside. But for a lot of high-achievers, entrepreneurs, parents, veterans, and first responders, it’s usually more complicated than that.In this episode, I sit down wi...
39. Parenting Made Me See My Own Programming
This episode is about parenting, affirmations, the stories we tell ourselves, and how the messages we hear over and over become the water we’re swimming in. Most of us have beliefs we never chose. We just absorbed them f...
38. Zappy Zapolin - The Future Of Psychedelic Integration
In this episode I sit down with Zappy Zapolin for a conversation on psychedelic integration, ayahuasca, ketamine, surrender, ego, and what happens when someone builds the career, makes the money, checks all the boxes, and still ends up feeling ...
37. Jeremy Hudec - PTSD, Identity Loss, and Purpose After RCMP
First responder PTSD doesn’t always look dramatic. Very often it's bad sleep, isolation, snapping at the people you love, and the feeling that something is wrong even when you can’t explain it.In this episode, I sit down with former RCMP...
35. Kat Courtney from Plant Medicine People - A Deep Dive On Ayahuasca, Dietas & Ibogaine
I am joined by Kat Courtney, founder of "Plant Medicine People" and this is a special one. Not just because Kat is one of the few people we follow in the Plant Medicine space and have a huge amount of respect and admiration for, but also becaus...
34. Scott Oikle - The Last Rotation: War Diaries, Moral Weight, and the Two-Year Therapy That Saved His Career
A lot of people think PTSD looks like bar fights, back-against-the-wall paranoia, punching holes in drywall. Sometimes it does.But a lot of the time it’s quieter and sneakier; like walking your kids downtown and realizing your body is still in ...
33. The Missing Piece in PTSD Healing: Someone Who Actually Gives a Shit
You don’t need another therapist who nods, takes notes, and sends you home with “coping skills” while your nervous system is still on fire. You don’t need another corporate “healing experience” that treats you like a chart number.&...
32. Ryan Carey - Why Veterans Get Misread + How Plant Medicine & Integration Actually Help
Most people don’t have a “drinking problem” or an “anger problem.” They’ve got a coping solution… and it’s the only one they’ve got. And when you rip that away without building anything better? Then you just mad...
31. Healing PTSD in a Relationship: Why Your Partner Has to Be In the Loop
“Hey honey… I met a stranger online and I’m gonna pay them lots of money to help me learn about drugs.” If that’s how you’re planning to tell your spouse you’re exploring plant medicine for PTSD/CPTSD, please don’t. In this epis...
30. Dr. Eugene Lipov - The “God Shot”: Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) for PTSD / PTSI
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Eugene Lipov (the doc who pioneered using Stellate Ganglion Block for trauma) to talk about a wildly practical idea: what if we can turn the alarm system down so healing actually becomes possible?We ...
29. How to Make Mushroom/Ibogaine/Ayahuasca Insights Actually Change Your Life
In this episode of the Plant Medicine for PTSD podcast, I’m explaining what I mean when I say integration ... because I talk about integration basically every single time I talk, and it’s worth taking a minute to define it in plain language.&nb...
28. John Davis - Escaping the U.S. Stress Machine: A Veteran’s Guide to Living Abroad
What if your anxiety isn’t just you … it’s your environment? In this episode of “The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast”, I sat down with John Davis; an army combat veteran, Harvard graduate and writer who has lived across Thailand and...
27. Plant Medicine Made Me A Better Dad
Using plant medicine, using psychedelics, makes you a better parent.In this episode of the Plant Medicine for PTSD podcast, I walk through six reasons why I truly believe psychedelics (and especially a Mindful Microdosing process) can m...
26. David Romero - Sound Healing + Trauma Recovery: A Veteran’s Path into Psychedelic Coaching
In this episode, I’m joined by David Romero — retired U.S. Air Force Captain, lifelong musician, yoga philosophy nerd (the real kind, not the “mediocre calisthenics” kind), and a psychedelic integration + health & wellness coach. <...
25. “My Wife Found Her Husband Again” : 4 Days Microdosing for PTSD
“I finally found my husband again… after seven years.” That’s what the wife of an RCMP officer told him after just four days of microdosing. And if you know PTSD, you know how insane that is to hear. In this episode, I...
