In this Sunday Sneak Peek we dive into a theme from the week’s newsletter that so many of you are moving through: pendulum swings and overcorrection.

When you finally break an old pattern, whether it's people-pleasing, over-giving, or anything else, the subconscious often swings hard in the opposite direction. It’s recalibration. It’s how your nervous system learns contrast so it can eventually find center.

If you want more of these weekly subconscious teachings, join my email list through the Ketamine Starter Portal where you’ll also get access to the grounding practice from Episode 69 and tools to support your ketamine journey.

👉 https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

✨ Sneak Peek: Episode 71 (out Wednesday!)

This week I sit down with Kevin Cannella, a MAPS-trained psychedelic psychotherapist whose story spans 15+ years of exploring altered states, spiritual growth, and deep transformation.

We talk about:
 • liminal space (the in-between)
 • nonlinear healing & pressure as transformation
 • trusting the path when you can’t see the outcome
 • intuition and the next smallest step
 • how clarity only comes in hindsight

It’s one of those episodes that’s deeply human, validating, grounding, and full of perspective.

See you Wednesday, friends, or inside the Ketamine Starter Portal. 

The holidays bring people together, and that means questions, conversations, curiosity, and sometimes… pressure to share more than you want to. If you’re healing with ketamine and wondering whether (or how) to tell your family, this episode is your roadmap.

Today, Your Ketamine Coach Anna Krishtal is walking you through exactly how to decide who’s safe to share with, what to say, what NOT to say, and the three exit strategies you can use if the conversation starts going sideways. You’ll learn how to protect your nervous system, how to avoid the “psychedelic evangelist” trap, and how to let your transformation speak louder than any explanation ever could.

This episode is packed with the exact process I teach inside my 1:1 coaching and in the Ketamine Preparation Protocol, including the body-based discernment tool, the wading-in warm-up questions, and the word-for-word scripts to use if you choose to share.

Perfect for holiday gatherings, tricky family dynamics, or anyone navigating the early tender stages of their ketamine journey.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

✨ How to decide if you should share your ketamine therapy with family
 ✨ The two questions to ask yourself before telling anyone
 ✨ A simple, powerful body-based discernment process
 ✨ The “wading in lightly” warm-up questions to test someone’s openness
 ✨ 3 rules for sharing (and how to avoid oversharing)
✨ 3 exit strategies you can use anytime — with word-for-word scripts
✨ Why early ketamine healing is like a tiny baby bunny that needs protection
✨ How to avoid becoming a “psychedelic evangelist”
✨ Why letting your transformation speak is the most powerful strategy of all

Resources Mentioned

🔗 Download the free worksheet for this episode
Inside the Ketamine Starter Portal (FREE)
https://yourketaminecoach.com/free

Episode 69: Holiday Triggers + Why You’re Not Regressing

🔗 SOS Nervous System Toolkit (10-minute audio)
Free inside the Ketamine Starter Portal

🔗 Join the Newsletter automatic when you join the Ketamine Starter Portal for free: https://yourketaminecoach.com/free

Happy Sunday and welcome back to a new Sunday Sneak Peek of Ketamine Connections!
I hope this holiday weekend was nurturing, grounding, and, maybe a little refreshing. And if it wasn’t? If it brought things up, or felt tender, or stirred family dynamics even from afar… please know that’s completely normal. Family themes run strong this time of year, whether or not they’re physically present.

If that resonates, make sure you check out Episode 69, where I talk about holiday triggers, why they do not mean you’re regressing, and how to understand what’s really happening beneath the surface. Don’t miss the last 10 minutes of that episode where I walk you through an SOS nervous system sequence you can use anytime you're activated or preparing to step into something activating.

This week’s Energy Read (my weekly subconscious newsletter) continued the analogy of “scrubbing the pan” as a metaphor for ketamine healing.
We dove into micro-wins: those tiny shifts your subconscious tries to hide, even though they’re the exact moments that move you out of old patterns and into identity-level change.

If you want the longform version of that teaching (and deeper subconscious insights every Friday), join the Ketamine Starter Portal. That’s the easiest way to hop on my email list and get the weekly energy reads delivered straight to you.

And one more thing… as I’m planning for 2026, I’m craving more touchpoints with you. More connection. More ways to hear what you want on the show. Stay tuned for an invitation soon where we get to connect more directly.

Finally: This coming Wednesday, we’re continuing the theme of family with a an episode around the theme of, “Should You Tell Your Family You’re Doing Ketamine?”  We’ll talk discernment, timing, protecting your subconscious, and how to share from a grounded place without slipping into psychedelic evangelist energy. Come back Wednesday for the full episode.

Stay curious, and I’ll see you mid-week. 💛

🔗 RESOURCES MENTIONED

▶️ Listen to Episode 69 (Holiday Triggers + SOS Toolkit)

🌀 Join the Ketamine Starter Portal (Free Resources + Email List)

https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

🧠 Subscribe to the Weekly Energy Read Newsletter

Automatically included when you join the Ketamine Starter Portal.

✨ Mental Hygiene Moments (if you want to include it)

https://www.annakrishtal.com/mhm

Why is it that you can feel grounded, peaceful, and genuinely good… and then one comment from a family member sends you spiraling back into an old emotional state?

In this episode of Ketamine Connections, we explore the real reason triggers feel so intense around family, and why these moments don’t mean you’re regressing. Using the literal definition of a “trigger,” we break down how your family of origin installed your earliest emotional “buttons,” why healing isn’t linear, and how to move through these moments with power and grace. 

We also revisit one of my favorite teaching tools: the spiral staircase of healing.  It's a reminder that even when an old pattern comes up, you’re meeting it from a higher vantage point in your growth. The version of you today is not the version of you who created that pattern, and that matters more than you think. 

At the end of the episode, I guide you through a short and powerful practice you can use anytime you’re activated, especially during the holiday season.

Whether you adore your family or have complex, tender feelings around them… this episode will help you understand what’s happening inside your brain, your body, and your subconscious mind, and teach you how to meet it with compassion and skill.

✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why feeling “set off” around family isn’t a setback and what it actually reveals about your healing
• The literal definition of a trigger (noun + verb) and how it applies to emotional activation
• How your family “installed” your subconscious buttons, and why they can hit them with scary accuracy 
• Why healing is not linear and how the spiral staircase model shows your true progress
• The difference between trauma triggers and everyday emotional triggers
• How to know when you’re experiencing old programming versus genuine regression
• Tools to stay grounded, centered, and in your truth even when others aren’t
• A guided practice you can save for the holidays (or any tough moment)

✨ Resources Mentioned

Join the Ketamine Starter Portal (+ Free Subliminal for Holiday Stress)
https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

Welcome back to our Sunday bonus drop of Ketamine Connections!
These Sunday check-ins land between our regular Wednesday episodes to reconnect, stay in the loop, and share what’s coming before the next episode drops.

Today, I’m sharing:

✨ A quick recap of this week’s Energy Read for the Week, including the “scrubbing the pan” analogy that explains how healing actually works
✨ Why micro-shifts matter more than you think (and what next week’s newsletter will dive deeper into)
✨ A preview of Wednesday’s episode all about triggers, family-installed buttons, and why feeling “set back” is not regression
✨ An invitation to explore the Ketamine Starter Portal...especially if you want the free 10-minute subliminal to soften you through the holiday rush

Links from the show:

Join my Newsletter & Get Free Hypnosis + the Starter Portal Subliminal
 👉 https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

If you missed this week’s newsletter (Energy Read for the Week)
 👉 Subscribe above so you get next week’s deep dive into why your micro-shifts matter

In this episode, Anna Krishtal is joined by P. Casey Dubravcic, PMHNP-BC—co-founder of Revitalize Ketamine Clinics and host of Mental Wealth Moves. We dive into what ketamine actually does, why ego dissolution matters, the four types of trauma, and how micro wins create lasting transformation long after the ketamine session ends.

Casey’s perspective blends interventional psychiatry, trauma-informed care, and cautious optimism. If you want to understand ketamine beyond the hype—and what actually creates change—this conversation is full of gold, and you may want to listen to it twice.

What We Cover

• What ego dissolution really means
• Ketamine as a catalyst (not a magic bullet)
• Intergenerational + societal trauma
• Why some people get worse before they get better
• Micro wins + sustainable integration
• The difference between symptom relief and life transformation

Connect with Casey

• Revitalize Ketamine Clinics: https://revitalizeketamine.com
•  $29 Consultation for Listeners: https://revitalizeketamine.com
•  Website: https://pcdubra.com
•  Mental Wealth Moves Podcast: https://youtube.com/@MentalWealthMoves-t5q
•  Instagram: https://instagram.com/pcdubra
•  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caseydubravcic
•  Facebook: https://facebook.com/casey.dubravcic

Connect with Anna:

• Ketamine Preparation Protocol https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp
• Or join my email list for weekly tools, integration tips, and podcast updates:
  https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

Welcome to the first-ever Sunday bonus drop of Ketamine Connections! These Sunday check-ins will land between our regular Wednesday episodes to connect, get up-to-date, and share what to expect before Wednesday’s episode drops.

Today, I’m sharing:

 ✨ A quick thanks of your support of my 7-year alcohol-free anniversary

 ✨ An invitation to our totally free Mental Hygiene Moments hypnosis meetup tomorrow

✨ A preview of Episode 68 with Casey Dubravcic (dropping Wednesday!) 

 ✨ Why listeners are loving this week’s Energy Read for the Week and how to join my weekly newsletter to go deeper into subconscious healing

Links from the show:

Mental Hygiene Moments (Tomorrow!)

My FAVORITE free monthly offering: A 30-minute Zoom meetup where we do group hypnosis for nervous system support, integration, and subconscious alignment.

📅 Monday, Nov 17 @3:30PM ET 👉 Join here: www.annakrishtal.com/mhm

Join my Newsletter and receive Free Hypnosis Inside the Ketamine Starter Portal

 👉 https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 67: Psychedelics Didn’t Change My Life—Here’s What Did

Episode 15: My full story leading up to that transformational shift, I Didn't Expect This After My First Psychedelic Ceremony - Here's What Happened

Seven years ago, psychedelics cracked Anna’s world wide open. In this deeply personal anniversary episode, she reflects on what’s unfolded since that first ceremony—quitting every addiction at once, rebuilding her identity from the ground up, and learning what true transformation really means.

This episode isn’t about that experience (you can hear that story in Episode 15: I Didn’t Expect This After My First Psychedelic Ceremony—Here’s What Happened). Instead, it’s about everything that came after: the humbling, nonlinear, spiral staircase of healing that led to lasting change.

Anna shares the lessons that seven years of integration have taught her about pacing, forgiveness, emotional healing, and how no ceremony (no matter how powerful) can replace the slow, sacred work of becoming who you’re meant to be.

If you’ve ever wondered how to turn a psychedelic breakthrough into a lifelong transformation, this one’s for you.

🔑 In This Episode:

• The truth about what really changes your life after psychedelics
• Why healing is cyclical, not linear (and why that’s good news)
• How the subconscious mind continues the work long after the medicine wears off
• The humbling lessons of forgiveness and heart-opening
• Why integration is a lifelong practice

🧠 Listen if You’re Curious About:

• Ketamine integration and subconscious reprogramming
• The long-term process of psychedelic healing
• Recovery, emotional sobriety, and self-reinvention
• What happens when spiritual awakening meets real-world responsibility

💛 Resources Mentioned:

• Episode 15: I Didn’t Expect This After My First Psychedelic Ceremony—Here’s What Happened
• Episode 65: Healing Through Tears with Troy Leonard of Valor Minds
• Episode 66: How to Change Your Mind
• The Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP) — Anna’s signature process for preparing the mind and subconscious for transformation - https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp
• The Ketamine Starter Portal — free resources, guides, and next steps for your journey - https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free 

✨ Free Class — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉
Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.
🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

What if you really could change your mind—literally? 🧠

In this solo episode, Anna Krishtal, hypnotherapist and ketamine coach, unpacks the science of neuroplasticity and how ketamine therapy opens the door to your subconscious mind so you can reprogram limiting beliefs for lasting transformation.

You’ll learn:
 ✨ What neuroplasticity actually is, and why it means your brain can change at any age
 ✨ How ketamine heightens neuroplasticity to make change easier (and sometimes even fun)
 ✨ Why symptom relief ≠ transformation, and how to move beyond quick fixes
 ✨ The role of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in keeping you stuck in old identity patterns
 ✨ A practical thought exercise to experience how deep-seated beliefs are formed, and how to rewrite them
 ✨ The difference between using ketamine and transforming with ketamine

Anna explains how combining ketamine-enhanced neuroplasticity with subconscious reprogramming turns temporary insight into lifelong change. You’ll discover how to become the author of your story instead of the character on repeat, and why understanding your subconscious is the key to walking a brand-new trail in your brain.

🎧 Listen if you’ve ever wondered:
– Is it really possible to rewire my brain?
– How does ketamine help me change long-held patterns?
– What’s the difference between relief and real transformation?

📘 Resources Mentioned
→ Join Anna’s free class: How to Use Ketamine to Transform Your Subconscious Mind: https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

→ Explore the Ketamine Starter Portal for free guides and tools to support your journey https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

💬 About the Show
Ketamine Connections is the first podcast dedicated entirely to ketamine healing. Hosted by Anna Krishtal, a hypnotherapist and psychedelic coach, the show demystifies ketamine therapy through science-based education, client stories, and subconscious tools for integration and transformation.

✨ Free Class — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉
Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.
🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Why is the drug that ruins families legal, and the one that’s helping veterans heal still illegal?

This week’s conversation pulls that question wide open.

Marine Corps veteran Troy Leonard, co-founder of Valor Minds, shares how psilocybin microdosing pulled him out of the spiral of PTSD, insomnia, and alcohol, and how he’s now helping thousands of veterans rediscover peace, purpose, and their humanity.

Troy’s honesty is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. Together, we dive into:

✨ The stigma and silence around PTSD in the military
 ✨ How microdosing transformed Troy’s mood, sleep, and relationships
 ✨ Why alcohol is celebrated while life-saving psychedelics remain criminalized
 ✨ What it’s really like to come home from war and try to live again
 ✨ The science and soul of healing the nervous system naturally
 ✨ Why the veteran community is leading the psychedelic-healing movement
 ✨ And the mission behind Valor Minds—to bring the veteran-suicide rate down to zero

🔗 Resources & Links

• 🍫 Connect with Valor Minds: Instagram @valorminds
• 💛 Explore the Ketamine Starter Portal: all free guides, tools, and resources in one place → https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Is ketamine supposed to be fun? In this episode, Your Ketamine Coach Anna Krishtal unpacks a most common (and misunderstood) questions she gets—especially from newcomers and conference audiences. She shares what “fun” actually means in the context of psychedelics, what non-specific amplifiers are (and why they matter), and how fun and healing don't have to be mutually exclusive when it comes to healing with ketamine.

You’ll also hear shout-outs to the Psychedelic Institute of Los Angeles, where Anna recently spoke, and an invite to her free webinar, “Is Ketamine Right for Me?” happening November 6.

🔗 Links Mentioned

• 🧠 The Psychedelic Institute of Los Angeles 
• 🎟 Free Webinar  
• 💫 Ketamine Starter Portal (KSP) 

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Have you ever followed every rule, checked every box, done everything right—and still ended up exhausted, unfulfilled, or wondering why it isn’t working?

In this deeply honest conversation, Anna Krishtal sits down with Josh Terry to talk about the moment high-achieving people hit a wall and realize more effort isn’t the answer. Josh shares his personal story of following the rules into full-blown burnout—literally sitting in an ice bath until his body turned black and blue—and how that experience changed everything about the way he lives, works, and coaches others today.

Together they unpack:

• 💡 The real definition of burnout: “Continually taking on tasks that require more energy than they give—until there’s nothing left.”
• 🧠 How overdoing becomes a coping pattern for smart, motivated people—and why it feels so righteous.
• 🔄 Josh’s antidote: doing what’s possible, not what’s “necessary,” and recognizing yourself as the variable in your success equation.
• 🪞 Why burnout is really a crisis of hope—and how hope rebuilds when you honor your capacity.
• 🌿 How altered states like ketamine (and other tools for state change) can create the awareness needed to rewrite your story.
• ✨ The mindset shift from adding more to strategically removing what’s not working so your system can thrive again.

If you’ve ever been the person who prides themselves on pushing through, this episode is your permission slip to slow down, recalibrate, and start doing what’s truly possible.

 Resources & Links

• Josh Terry: @JoshTerryPlays | joshterryplays.com
• Free Class 👉 https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready
• Download The Ketamine Starter Portal: Your free library of prep guides, integration tools & resources → https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free
• Work with Anna: The Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP)
  — a structured course to prepare your mind and nervous system for ketamine’s transformative potential - https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

We talk a lot about how to prepare for ketamine on this show… but what about what happens after?

In this episode, I’m breaking down the top three things to avoid after your ketamine session, and what to do instead. Because while ketamine can open the door to change, you decide what happens once you walk through it.

You’ll learn how to protect your insights, integrate them intentionally, and avoid the common pitfalls that slow your transformation.

Whether you’re fresh out of a session or you’ve done multiple rounds, this one will help you stay grounded, curious, and connected to your process.

Listen if you want to:

✨ Understand what integration really looks like
✨ Keep your transformation grounded and sustainable
✨ Avoid impulsive moves and spiritual whiplash
✨ Stay connected to your healing journey long after the session

Mentioned in this episode:

💫 Join the Ketamine Starter Portal (free)

🎧 Learn more about the Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP)

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Ketamine isn’t the transformation... what you do after is.

 In Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Austin Harris (NeuroRelief Ketamine & Infusion Therapy), we get practical about the how: protocols, dosing, duration, and why real-time titration + compassionate integration support can make outcomes stick. I bring my hypnotherapist lens to connect subconscious programming with the on-the-ground practices that turn insights into a new baseline.

We cover:

• Why two-hour infusions can open therapeutic doors shorter sessions miss
• Real-time titration: keeping depth consistent as tolerance shifts mid-infusion
• Why “six sessions” is the sweet spot for durable neuroplastic change (and my parallels from hypnosis work)
• Compassionate care as medicine: how kindness changes outcomes
• At-home vs in-clinic: why leaving the house matters for subconscious cues
• Spravato’s role in mainstream awareness (and what that did—and didn’t—change)

If you’ve wondered why some people walk away transformed while others don’t, this episode maps the protocol, mindset, and support that make all the difference.

🔑 Missed Part 1? Go back one episode to Episode 60 for integration fundamentals, discomfort as medicine, and how ketamine interrupts old patterns.

—
 Guest: Dr. Austin Harris (NeuroRelief Ketamine & Infusion Therapy, Sherman Oaks, CA)
Board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist with a background in psychology; 16+ years delivering ketamine infusions; known for two-hour, real-time–titrated IV protocols plus structured integration.

Connect with Dr. Harris / NeuroRelief
• Website: neuroreliefketamine.com
• NAD+ Therapy: neuroreliefketamine.com/nad-therapy-los-angeles/
• Chronic Pain: neuroreliefketamine.com/chronic-pain/
• Substance & Alcohol Recovery: neuroreliefketamine.com/substance-abuse/
• Instagram: instagram.com/neuroreliefketamine_la/
• Facebook: facebook.com/NeuroReliefKetamine
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/31390155/

—
 Resources & next steps
• Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP): https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp

• Ketamine Starter Portal (KSP) — free resource library: https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

✨ FREE CLASS: How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
 If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉
 Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.
 🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Ketamine alone isn’t the transformation—the real change happens afterward.

In Part 1 of my conversation with Dr. Austin Harris, we explore why integration is the most important part of ketamine therapy. We talk about the “snow globe” effect of psychedelics, why avoiding discomfort blocks healing, and how ketamine helps expand your window of tolerance so you can access more joy and freedom.

You’ll learn:
 • Why integration is the key to making ketamine therapy stick
 • The “snow globe” metaphor for breaking old patterns
 • Why discomfort is medicine—and how to stay with it
 • How anxiety can become a practiced state (and how to unlearn it)
 • Why processing emotions is about feeling, not just thinking

👉 This is Part 1. Next week in Part 2, we’ll dive into Dr. Harris’s unique two-hour, real-time titrated infusion protocol, the six-session gold standard, and how compassionate care changes outcomes.

—
 GUEST: DR. AUSTIN HARRIS (NeuroRelief Ketamine & Infusion Therapy)
 Board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist with a background in psychology and 16+ years delivering ketamine infusions. Founder of NeuroRelief in Sherman Oaks, CA, where he combines real-time titrated IV ketamine with mindfulness, CBT, and certified integration coaching between infusion days.

Connect with Dr. Harris / NeuroRelief
 • Website: neuroreliefketamine.com
 • NAD+ Therapy: neuroreliefketamine.com/nad-therapy-los-angeles/
 • Chronic Pain Protocols: neuroreliefketamine.com/chronic-pain/
 • Substance & Alcohol Recovery: neuroreliefketamine.com/substance-abuse/
 • Instagram: instagram.com/neuroreliefketamine_la/
 • Facebook: facebook.com/NeuroReliefKetamine
 • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/31390155/

—
 🔗 Ready to prepare for your ketamine journey the right way?
 • Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP): https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp

• Ketamine Starter Portal (KSP): https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/free

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

That feeling of “Am I ready?” before ketamine? It’s normal. Your subconscious mind is wired to cling to the familiar, even if the familiar isn’t working. In this pep talk episode of Ketamine Connections, Anna Krishtal (Your Ketamine Coach) speaks directly to the nerves, doubts, and questions that come up before your first session.

Inspired by a client who said, “This isn’t going to be easy,” Anna reminds you: “Yeah, and you wouldn’t want it if it were easy.” Hard things are hard, and they’re also what make transformation real.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why the voice in your head saying “not ready” is just your subconscious resisting change.
• How stepping into the unknown is actually a skill you’re building.
• Why research can only take you so far and how ketamine is about lived experience, not theory.
• A powerful truth you may not want to hear: the version of you on the other side of ketamine already has the answers you’re looking for.

If you’re standing at the edge of your first ketamine journey, this pep talk is here to walk with you through the nerves and into the bravery of showing up for yourself.

✨ Ready for more support? The Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP)
gives you structured guidance to feel confident, prepared, and supported every step of the way.

✨ Looking for tools, guides, and resources in one place? The Ketamine Starter Portal (KSP)
is your hub for everything you’ve heard Anna talk about on the show.

You don’t need to have all the answers going in, you just need the courage to begin. This pep talk will help you get there.

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

What’s the difference between at-home ketamine and in-clinic ketamine therapy? In this episode of Ketamine Connections, I sit down with Jeff Kaplan, CEO of DaytrypRx, to explore the growing world of at-home ketamine treatment.  Jeff started as a ketamine patient in 2022, and became so passionate about its healing potential that he's made it his career. 

We talk about:

• Jeff’s personal healing journey from depression and PTSD through ketamine
• How at-home ketamine works (lozenges, nasal spray, and even a NEW ketamine patch)
• Cost, comfort, and safety differences between clinic ketamine and at-home ketamine
• Why intention-setting is the #1 rule for any psychedelic or ketamine journey
• The importance of integration and how working with a guide can make your results last

If you’ve ever wondered whether ketamine therapy for depression or anxiety is best at home or in a clinic, this episode will give you clarity, hope, and practical steps for your healing journey.

👉👉 Link to try at home Ketamine with DaytrypRx👈👈

✨ Ready to prepare for your own ketamine journey?
 Check out my Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP) here → https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp

✨ Get all my free resources inside the Ketamine Starter Portal (clinic vetting guide, hypnosis tracks, difficult trip guide + more) → https://www.yourketaminecoach.com/offers/a5piQPRz/checkout

🎧 Subscribe to Ketamine Connections for weekly conversations about ketamine therapy, psychedelic healing, and integration.

#KetamineTherapy #AtHomeKetamine #KetamineForDepression #DaytripRx #KetamineIntegration

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

If you’ve ever Googled “what does ketamine feel like?”  this episode is for you!

In today’s solo episode, Your Ketamine Coach Anna Krishtal breaks down one of the most common questions I hear from clients and curious listeners: what ketamine actually feels like during a journey. The truth? It’s different for everyone, and it can even change from one session to the next. But there are some common threads worth knowing before you go in.

We’ll cover:

• The most common ways people describe the ketamine experience (floating, vastness, dreamlike states, or pure stillness).
• Why your dominant sense (think: sight, sound, touch, knowing) shape your experience.
• How ketamine interacts with your subconscious mind to create feelings of spaciousness, oneness, or even deep rest.
• Why the meaning you make from the experience matters more than the sensations themselves.
• A bonus mini-hypnosis at the end to help you drop into calm and clarity right now.

Whether you’re preparing for your first session, supporting a loved one, or simply curious, this episode will give you grounded, compassionate insight into the world of ketamine therapy.

✨ Resources mentioned:

• Ketamine Starter Portal
  – free guides, checklists, and hypnosis tracks.
• Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP)
  – the complete 3-step program to prepare your mind and body for ketamine.
• Episode 3 l The One Thing To NOT Do Before Ketamine

If this episode resonates, share it with someone who’s considering ketamine or leave a review—it helps the KC Crew grow!

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

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What happens when your entire life is built on doing more and running away? For Nathania Stambouli, founder of Yogi Flight School and SoulTribe Adventures, ketamine was the turning point that forced her to stop overworking and finally face her lifelong pattern of avoiding intimacy. In this episode of Ketamine Connections, Anna and Nathania explore how ketamine pulled her out of old stories, gave her contrast she couldn’t ignore, and helped her step into a whole new way of leading, loving, and living.

✨ In this conversation, we cover:

• How all addiction, including workaholism often masks fear and trauma, and how ketamine disrupts that cycle
• Why running from relationships feels safer until ketamine shows the deeper pattern underneath
• The illusion of control, and how surrender in medicine work rewires our nervous system
• Why intention matters (and why you don’t always get what you think you’re asking for)
• The truth about ketamine safety: you’ll never see what you can’t handle
• Why “once you see it, you can’t unsee it” and how integration turns that awareness into transformation

🌿 If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in cycles of overwork, overachieving, or pushing love away, this episode offers both inspiration and a roadmap. Ketamine brings relief, AND restores choice to help you break lifelong patterns with clarity and compassion.

📌 Resources & Links Mentioned

• Connect with Nathania: Instagram
  | Yogi Flight School
  
  
• Free Ketamine Starter Portal: Download here
  
  
• Explore the Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP): structured support for safe, transformative journeys

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✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

When it comes to ketamine therapy, there’s one piece almost nobody talks about—and yet it can completely shape your journey: music.

I can’t tell you how many clients have shared stories of bringing all sorts of music into their sessions—everything from spa tracks to heavy metal. (Nothing against heavy metal, but deep dissonance and aggressive lyrics can actually work against the coherence your brain is trying to create in a psychedelic state.)

In this episode of Ketamine Connections, Your Ketamine Coach Anna Krishtal breaks down:
✨ Why music is more than just background noise—it’s a co-facilitator of your journey
✨ The neuroscience of how music influences brainwave states, coherence, and emotional processing
✨ Best practices for choosing music that supports your ketamine experience (spoiler: ambient, lyric-free, seamless playlists are your friend)
✨ The dangers of commercials, dissonant sounds, or sharp instrumentals mid-journey
✨ How subliminal tracks can supercharge your results by planting affirmations directly into the subconscious

💡 Pro tip: The music you listen to during your journey can also support integration. Playing the same tracks later in meditation, nature walks, or quiet reflection can help re-anchor you to the insights and states you touched in your session.

🌟 Free Resource for You

If you want to experience this firsthand, I’ve created a free 10-minute subliminal track designed to support your subconscious during ketamine and integration. You’ll find it inside my Ketamine Starter Portal—along with every freebie I’ve ever shared on this podcast.

👉 Grab your free subliminal + the entire portal here: yourketaminecoach.com/offers/a5piQPRz

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✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

In this expansive conversation, Anna sits down with Alli Waddell, wellness expert and co-founder of Illumma, Austin’s leading ketamine infusion clinic. With two decades of experience in healing and over 14,000 ketamine infusions under her belt, Alli shares what she’s learned about who ketamine really works for, and who might not be ready.

Whether you’re considering ketamine therapy or supporting others on their psychedelic path, this episode breaks down the patterns that lead to success, the red flags of avoidance, and how to approach this work from a place of radical honesty, preparation, and deep self-trust.

You’ll hear:

• How to know if you’re ready for ketamine therapy
• Why “just showing up” isn’t enough (and what to do instead)
• The most common patterns in clients who thrive
• What gets in the way of deep transformation
• How your relationships, mindset, and daily habits influence your healing
• Why ketamine isn’t the work—it’s the catalyst

If you’re feeling unsure, not-quite-ready, or just overwhelmed by all the options...you’re not alone. And you’re in the right place.

💊 Want to Feel Truly Ready for Ketamine?

The Ketamine Preparation Protocol was designed to help you prepare mentally, emotionally, and energetically for a life-changing ketamine journey.

Whether you’ve already booked your sessions or you’re still deciding if this path is for you, KPP will help you:

✅ Clarify your intention
✅ Understand what ketamine can (and can’t) do
✅ Rewire your subconscious patterns
✅ Avoid the most common mistakes
✅ Feel supported before, during, and after your sessions

🌀 Learn more: annakrishtal.com/kpp

🧠 About Alli Waddell

Alli Waddell is a respected wellness expert with 20+ years of experience and a fierce commitment to radical honesty and self-love as core components of healing. As co-founder and CEO of Illumma, she’s helped shape Austin’s most trusted ketamine infusion clinic. Her vision for the psychedelic space is rooted in ethical, sustainable, and consciously led business.

Connect with Alli:
 🌐 illumma.com
📸 @alliwaddell
📸 @illummaclinic

🔗 Links + Resources

• Illumma Ketamine Clinic: illumma.com
• Follow Alli on Instagram: @alliwaddell
• Follow Illumma: @illummaclinic
• Ketamine Preparation Protocol: annakrishtal.com/kpp

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✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Relief, rewiring, and why the real work is never done.

Have you ever wondered if it’s okay to go back for another ketamine session, even if you’re no longer in crisis? Are you afraid that your relief is fading and that something went “wrong”? Or maybe you’re asking the big question: Did the ketamine even work if it didn’t last?

In this powerful listener-inspired episode, Anna answers a nuanced and common question:

“Is it okay to return to ketamine even if my depression is under control?”

This episode breaks down what it really means when ketamine “stops working,” and what you can do to deepen, sustain, and build on the relief you’ve already experienced.

You’ll learn:

• Why some people feel better after 1 session, while others need 6+
• The difference between temporary relief and lasting change
• What upregulated neuroplasticity really means (and how long it lasts)
• The psychedelic model of healing vs. the psychiatric model
• How contrast (even fleeting lightness) is actually a crucial breakthrough
• Why wanting a ketamine booster isn’t “abuse” and how to decide if it’s right for you
• What it means to heal in layers, and how to know when you’re ready for the next one
• Why preparation + integration are what make the ketamine experience transformational

✨ Plus: Anna shares personal stories of moving from white-knuckle survival to joyful permission, and reclaims the radical truth that feeling good is a legitimate reason.

🔗 Resources & Links

📘 Referenced Episodes:

• 🎙 Episode 12 – Ketamine Integration vs. Psychedelic Integration
• 🎙 Episode 15 – I Didn't Expect This After My First Psychedelic Ceremony - Here's What Happened
• 🎙Episode 28 – Should You Go Solo or Have a Trip Sitter? Pros and Cons of Ketamine Journeys
• 🎙 Episode 36 – How to Choose a Ketamine Clinic: Questions to Ask Before You Book
• 🎙 Episode 39 – Ketamine & Astrology: A Psychedelic Integration Convo with Danielle Mercurio

🧠 Explore the Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP):
Ready to prepare deeply, or return to the medicine with clarity? KPP is for you.
→ Join the Ketamine Preparation Protocol: https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp

📖 Book Mentioned:

• Drug Use for Grown-Ups by Dr. Carl Hart

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Ever look back and realize just how far you’ve come… but at the time, you couldn’t see it at all?
That’s what we’re talking about today with the lovely Dr. Ashley Irizarry, functional medicine doctor, ketamine therapy advocate, and co-founder of New Wave Medicine up in the Seattle area in Burien and Renton, WA.

This episode is one big pep talk, and explains why that's important.

We talk about that oh-so-human habit of being so focused on the next goal that we forget to witness our own becoming, about how ketamine has a funny way of bringing us face-to-face with who we really are, and helping us build the courage to step toward it, one small, scared, beautiful step at a time.

Inside this conversation:

• Why it’s totally normal to feel scared before ketamine, and why that’s not a sign you’re doing it wrong
• The real magic of ketamine retreats (yes, time and space do matter)
• How functional medicine and ketamine work together to create lasting change
• The power of choosing yourself again and again, especially when it’s hard
• Why “stuck” isn’t actually real (it just feels very, very real)
• What integration looks like beyond the journal and into your life

If you’re in a season of questioning, transitioning, or low-key wrestling with your comfort zone… this one’s for you.

🔗 Resources & Links

• Explore Ashley’s work + retreats: www.newwavewa.com
• Upcoming retreat: October 23–26, 2025 – Cle Elum, WA (mention Ketamine Connections for 10% off!)
• Follow Ashley: @dr.ashley.irizarry | @newwavemed

Ready to prepare for ketamine with intention? Learn about my signature guide: Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP) https://www.annakrishtal.com/kpp

✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

Welcome back to Ketamine Connections! 🎉 We're celebrating 51 episodes with a casual fireside-style chat about one of the most powerful forces shaping your life: your brain, aka your subconscious mind.

🧠 In this episode, Anna dives into:

• What the subconscious mind actually is (and why it makes up 95% of your brain)
• Why rewiring your subconscious instead of relying on willpower is the key to real transformation
• The science behind neuroplasticity and how the brain stays malleable at every age
• A powerful client story that shows how belief change can feel so natural you forget you ever struggled
• A tree analogy to help you understand the roots of subconscious patterns
• Why trying to change your life with conscious effort alone often leads to burnout
• A simple toothbrush trick to start retraining your brain tonight

✨ If you've ever wondered:

• “Can I actually rewire my brain?”
• “Why do I keep falling back into the same habits?”
• “Is it possible to feel ease instead of effort when making changes?”

…this episode is for you.

🔥 Want more tools to work with your subconscious? Join the Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP) to go deeper into subconscious reprogramming, psychedelic prep, and monthly live support. 

✨ Join the Ketamine Preparation Protocol

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✨ FREE CLASS — How to Use Ketamine to Transform the Subconscious Mind
If ketamine alone healed people, then everyone who tried it at a rave would be enlightened. 😉

Come learn how ketamine opens the door to your subconscious mind—and how to work with it intentionally for real, lasting change.

🎟️ Save your seat: yourketaminecoach.com/ketamine-ready

What if the thing you’ve been hoping for in your healing journey is actually possible?

In this rich and heart-centered conversation, I’m joined by Justin Lubin, founder of Perspective Wellness in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: a nonprofit ketamine clinic pioneering a low-and-slow facilitation model designed to make ketamine therapy more accessible, affordable, and effective.

We explore:

• Why feeling “stuck” is often a symptom of a missing direction (and how ketamine can reintroduce momentum)
• The difference between facilitation and therapy in psychedelic healing
• How low-dose intramuscular ketamine protocols can reliably deliver feelings of safety, comfort, and okay-ness
• The “Big Five” emotional breakthroughs clients often experience on their journeys
• Why integration is more than a buzzword, it’s how we shape neuroplasticity into lasting change
• The risks of psychedelic overuse and chasing “the one big insight”
• How grief, trauma, and old emotional patterns surface during ketamine work, and how to hold them with care
• The difference between creating meaning vs. trying to decode messages from a trip
• Justin’s training program for facilitators seeking practical, client-centered psychedelic skills

Whether you’re a practitioner, someone curious about ketamine therapy, or deep in your own healing process, this episode will leave you feeling more grounded, more human, and more hopeful.

🌐 Learn more about Perspective Wellness:
Perspective Wellness Ketamine Services
Facilitator Training Info

🌟 Want to do Ketamine right?  Preparation is the key!

If you're new to the world of ketamine and feeling unsure where to start, my Ketamine Preparation Protocol (KPP) was made for you. It’s a self-paced guide designed to help you reduce anxiety, set powerful intentions, and get the most out of your ketamine experience.

Whether you’re working with a clinic, using at-home ketamine, or exploring for the first time, KPP helps you prepare mentally, emotionally, and practically so ketamine isn't just another thing you try,but rather THE thing that transforms your life.

🎓 Learn more or enroll here → annakrishtal.com/kpp

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