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Content Warning: Graphic discussions of pornography, sexual situations, male genitalia, and masturbation.
In this episode, Dr. T and Truth Fairy delve into the world of using psychedelics in a deliberate process for healing pornography-related trauma. Their guest, Tyson, a trauma-informed men's coach, somatic bodyworker, and psychedelic facilitator, shares his personal journey from a 20-year addiction to pornography to his current passion for helping men master their life force energy. The conversation takes listeners through Tyson's personal story and explores shame, sexuality, and the impact of traumatic experiences.
Tyson reveals his commitment to assisting others in overcoming challenges related to intimacy. His determination emerged from his story of the influence of early exposure to pornography and the subsequent struggles he faced. The dark aspects of Tyson's journey, including his experience with violent and non-consensual content, shaped his perception of sexuality. Dr. T and Truth Fairy talk through Tyson's insights, shedding light on the broader themes of psychedelic healing and overcoming addiction.
The conversation explores Tyson's journey in adulthood after he uncovered the trauma embedded in his early experiences and his ultimate transformation away from addiction. Tyson's expertise and openness create a platform for listeners to gain valuable insights into psychedelic healing on a sexual level, trauma and addiction recovery, and mastering life force energy. This is a very frank discussion of deeply personal experiences and subjects usually pushed away from public discourse. Tyson provides Dr. T and Truth Fairy with his unique perspective on using psychedelics for intimate healing and healthy sexual growth.
“I realized that I needed to go back in and I needed to start doing some psychedelic work around watching pornography. So what I've learned through this process is that we're not just watching something on the screen. We are absorbing the energies of whoever it is we're watching. So whatever their journey is, whoever it is we're watching, and the things that they carry, their beliefs, their traumas, their wounding, even though there's a buffer, which is technology, there still is a porousness of energy that gets transmitted through this technology that comes into us. And it's not just a program, psychological, but it's also an actual energenic that we take on.” - Tyson
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Truth Fairy and Dr. T welcome Brett to the podcast to talk about his journey in “coming out from under the rocks”, which is to say emerging from the underground. Brett has studied, refined, and used a broad range of substances and practices and he helps people find a framework for holding their experience in both the mind and body. Dr. T, Truth Fairy, and Brett have a very open discussion about the path of a psychedelic therapist.
Brett shares how he approaches working with a client and what medicines he recommends to open their journey with a calm headspace and a clear mind. He encourages time in nature during the treatment and describes walking close to a beautiful river. He has spent almost twenty years, ten of which have been with his wife and partner, developing a framework for working with various medicines that is uniquely suited to each client's needs. This methodical yet flexible approach allows for slowing thoughts down and opening consciousness to true understanding.
The conversation includes breaking down the different consciousness states, child consciousness, adult consciousness, and somatic consciousness, how to translate experiences had on medicine into daily non-medicated life, and how to stabilize clients. Brett approaches his psychedelic therapy practices from a Buddhist-influenced perspective with a focus on sourcing his own medicines. Truth Fairy, Dr. T and Brett connect in very real ways over shared theories and beliefs about healing.
“I have actually asked [my trusted peers] if this gets off the rails, if I look like I'm not being authentic and acting with integrity, I expect you to tell me. I think there's a chance if you don't have that structure, that safety net, then it can get weird. We can create ideas that are just not helpful for ourselves and our clients. I think that there's a real opportunity when we're self-taught and self-directed to cultivate our own personal strengths and really to find that approach, that unique gift that we bring to the table.” - Brett
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Truth Fairy and Dr. T welcome Cami Barton, author and practitioner dedicated to social change through embodied practices, to the show. Truth Fairy reads a poem on pain by Kahlil Gibran that emphasizes the intertwining of pain and joy, suggesting that embracing pain can lead to a deeper understanding of life, which highlights many of the themes of Cami’s work.
Cami discusses their work in psychedelic therapy, grief, pleasure, and drug policy, rooted in black feminism and harm reduction. They share personal experiences, including an abortion in 2017 that sparked the project for their upcoming book, "Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community". The book explores grief and healing rituals, drawing from Cami's journey and broader societal patterns.
The conversation delves into Cami's work in designing a master's program, teaching psychedelic therapy, and collaborating with MAPS to ensure accessibility to MDMA psychotherapy for marginalized communities. Truth Fairy and Dr. T discuss various aspects of Cami's expertise and personal journey, including childhood trauma and the surfacing of dissociated memories during their healing process. It is a meditation on grief and healing that holds deep insight to benefit all listeners.
“And so the Dagara people are indigenous to what we now call Burkina Faso in West Africa. And they have a very specific relationship to communal grief tending, where everyone in the community is expected to tend their grief in the communal ritual once a month because there's an understanding in their cosmology that unattended grief will actually become harm in the society. So rather than being taboo as it is in the West to grieve publicly and be with that, it's actually taboo to avoid your grief in the Dagara context.” - Cami
Resources discussed in this episode:
On Pain by Kahlil Gibran“Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community” by Camille Sapara BartonWebsite: CamilleSaparaBarton.com---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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Dr. T and Truth Fairy welcome guest Sapha to the show to talk about healing through ayahuasca. When Sapha reached out via email, Truth Fairy realized she has friends in common with him, and, being touched by his email and story, invited him to be on the show. The details of his advocacy and journey are inspiring to hear.
Sapha shares his father's story of emigrating to Canada from Tehran, Iran, during the Islamic Revolution. Pain, abandonment, and confusion that went with Sapha’s story led to a need for escapism through substance abuse. The addiction lasted through Sapha’s career in the oil and gas industry until age 29 when he realized he needed help. But after being denied assistance from the BC government, Sapha’s salvation came from an aunt who connected him with the Leipzig Serenity Retreat, a holistic recovery centre in Saskatchewan.
Dr. T and Truth Fairy talk with Sapha about how he found ayahuasca and his early psychedelic experiences, the need to really heal the underlying causes of addiction and not simply the addiction itself, and the benefits of small group work that Sapha embarked upon. Sapha also addresses how he now does a lot of work with men who have suffered at the hands of the patriarchal system and through the expectations placed on men. This episode reveals a lot about the benefits of working with ayahuasca and the healing possibilities of being on a psychedelic-assisted recovery journey.
“And that's a big part of the teaching here with what we do and the way that we work with men, it's like ayahuasca is a tool. You know, psychedelics are tools. They're not a cure for addiction. They're an opportunity to get a really close look from a different lens. How to uncover and unravel this bundle of emotions and these layers of pain that as men or as people we've been born with,” - Sapha
Resources discussed in this episode:
Information on AyahuascaLeipzig Serenity RetreatSacredRebelsRecovery on Instagram---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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In this very special episode, Dr. T and Truth Fairy meet in real life for the first time. Truth Fairy travels to Australia and the two hosts are united in person at last! Their conversation happens organically from the moment of meeting as they discuss what they’ve been doing and what plans they have.
Dr. T fills Truth Fairy in on the clinical trial he has finally received permission to engage in. A trial with mushrooms for treatment-resistant depression. Truth Fairy reveals that Dr. T will be taking part in her five-day training while she is in Australia which both are extremely excited about. They reflect on the strangeness of finally being together in person and yet the familiar sense of recognizing each other as a kind of family.
Dr. T and Truth Fairy dive into the three-day medicine session Truth Fairy just before their meeting. Truth Fairy recounts what made her say yes to that session and how it went. They talk about prayers of gratitude offered before sessions, being drawn to work with people in trauma, the mentors they have found in the field, and finally reflect again on how wonderful it is to meet each other in real life and make the connection beyond Zoom.
“It's like when I first saw you, a part of me recognized you and a part of me didn't recognize you because you were no longer the person just behind the screen. You were a real fully in-flesh person. And as I'm sitting here watching you, it's like the connections are being made and the recognition is coming and I'm sinking back into like, Oh, okay, I know this person.” - Dr. T
Resources discussed in this episode:
Gabor MatéSharon Stanleysmudge---
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Dr. T hosts this episode solo and has a wonderful conversation with guest Shirley Dvir, founder and lead teacher of Relational Somatic Healing. Dr. T and Shirley both started in social work but are now pursuing careers in healing and they share their views on human to human healing touch and the psychedelic field.
Shirley talks about how she sees the nature of healing as really being about deep listening and receiving the other person. She notes how people rarely get really truly listened to and when we do listen and simply meet people as humans where they are, when we can receive people as they are, it opens up an experience for deep healing.
Dr. T and Shirley address how part of experiencing healing is the human to human contact we crave and how we have lost the healing art of touch in our modern modalities. They acknowledge how touch is so taboo and often tied to so much trauma but that the healing touch is something we need to foster again. They discuss the need for learning on consent to touch, of knowing when to offer touch and when not to, and how the psychedelic experience can heighten either need for refusal of touch.
“There's a lot of abuse of touch in general in the world of physical touch and sexual touch and touch can be so dangerous too. And that can be so harmful, and at the same time so medicinal when it's being done right…. The boundaries are so important and the training of the therapist is so important.” - Shirley Dvir
Resources discussed in this episode:
“Integral Psychedelic Therapy: The Non-Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual Healing” - Shirley Dvir’s chapter is entitled “Relational Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy”---
Punk Therapy: website |email
Shirley Dvir: linkedin | website
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CW: talk of rape and sexual dysregulation
Dr. T and the Truth Fairy welcome guests Gam, a sociologist, activist, and soon-to-be craniosacral therapist from Scandinavia, and Rachael, a somatic sex educator, intimacy guide, and body worker in Canada, to the show to talk about solo psychedelic medicine journeys. Both Gam and Rachael have worked in cohorts with Truth Fairy and come from experiences in guiding themselves on solo journeys, and they share what the solo journey is like.
Gam embarked on solo journeys out of necessity, due to a lack of support and community in psychedelic therapy in Scandinavia. He admitted he also wasn’t particularly comfortable in groups so decided to start a long exploration into solo work and appreciates the deep understand he got from both good and bad experiences on his own. Rachael began in group work but explored solo work through the pandemic. Through that she found a certain strength in having external support she could reach out to if solo work became rough.
Dr. T., Truth Fairy, Gam, and Rachael discuss the benefits of ceremony and community, the necessity of inner work and preparation to precede solo journeys, relationship with the erotic self in solo work, and how our systems respond to psychedelics according to need. The conversation sheds light on how bodily integration and internal work are part of psychedelic medicine and the nature of support even within solo journeys.
“Psychedelics are an opportunity to open up our trust in our erotic bodies, to trust that we can hold that incredible life force and not inflict pain or desire in unwelcome spaces, not open ourselves to violation, and just be in the pleasure of our erotic body in community.” - Rachael
Resources discussed in this episode:
Sharon StanleyAntonio Damasio---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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CW: sexual content, trauma
Dr. T and the Truth Fairy welcome Temptress (she/her they/them), sex worker and advocate for psychedelics, to the show to discuss sex positivity and queerness in the psychedelic ecosystem. Temptress shares psychedelic healing and sexual experiences from their own past and addresses the need to define safe and sensitive psychedelic care for trans and queer individuals.
Temptress explains the gender trauma that defined much of her formative years and how psychedelics started her on the path towards healing. She did a lot of solo work, exploring on her own, until she was able to connect with a partner with whom she connected and could share psychedelic exploration. The experiences allowed them to reunify aspects of themselves that had been disconnected due to trauma.
Temptress, Dr. T and Truth Fairy talk about sex positivity within psychedelic healing, psychedelics in rave culture, queer connection and expression, and the need for language in psychedelic healing to shift to better support trans and queer folks as well as gender trauma. Temptress has a lot of personal insight and advocacy knowledge that opens valuable conversations that the psychedelic community needs to have.
“You know, cisgender folks tend to be able to access health care with much more ease than transgender folks do and queer folks do. Cisgender folks and straight folks alike are able to access employment opportunities, as well as just the sexual economy, a lot easier. And so as practitioners, being educated on these differences can I think really help with establishing a sense of safety for other trans folks and queer folks who are entering those spaces.” - Temptress
Resources discussed in this episode:
NARM Training InstituteChacruna conferences - Queering Psychedelics“Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine” by Alex Belser PhD, Clancy Cavnar PsyD, and Beatrix Caiuby Labate PhDSensei Kevon SimpsonLilla WatsonJosé Esteban Muñoz---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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CW: End of life care and distress
Dr. T and the Truth Fairy welcome Michelle Gagnon, a registered nurse with a background in medical assistance in dying. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of British Columbia where her research focuses on ethics, therapeutic psychedelics, and health care practices, specifically where they intersect. Michelle shares a wealth of health care experience and knowledge with Dr. T and Truth Fairy.
Michelle’s masters’ research examined moral distress among intensive care nurses losing patients. She explains what moral distress encompasses and how she is researching the potential for psychedelics to help treat folks struggling with it. Dr. T shares a related personal experience that lends perspective to what Michelle is exploring.
In conversation with Michelle Gagnon, Dr. T and Truth Fairy learn about Michelle’s work with non-profit association TheraPsil, her hopes for the legalization of psychedelics like psilocybin for medical use, the limits of the current health care structure, and how ethics must factor into every aspect of research and practice. There is a lot of insightful information imparted about Canadian research into psychedelics and the individuality of approach necessitated by each person’s reaction to medicines in this episode.
“I think sometimes with psychedelics as it's framed now, there's a lot of excitement about it and sometimes we can get lost in the hype that this could change things drastically. And it could, but it's not an easy cure, like you said, it's not necessarily even a cure or an assist for everybody. It's not right for everyone. It's just the way I kind of see it is it's another potential tool under our umbrella of other tools. And it's so unique in so many ways. And I think it is, like you mentioned, disrupting potentially a lot of the way we do things, which is exciting.” - Michelle Gagnon
About Michelle Gagnon, RN:
Michelle Gagnon is a registered nurse with a background in emergency critical care and medical assistance in dying. As a by-product of her master's research, which focused on moral distress in pediatric critical care nurses related to the death and dying of child patients, Michelle became interested in the use of psychedelic medicine for distress. She is currently a PhD student at the University of British Columbia with a research focus on the intersection of ethics, therapeutic psychedelics and health care practices.
Michelle worked for nonprofit TheraPsil to support Canadians seeking access for medical psilocybin through Health Canada. She also spends time volunteering with the Psychedelic Association of Canada's Ethics Working Group to draft and disseminate articles related to pressing ethical topics in the psychedelic field.
In her free time, Michelle is an avid baker and enjoys reading mystery and fantasy. Through mud and snow she enjoys mountain biking the trails where she lives in the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut'ina, the Stoney Nakoda nations and the Metis Nation, and all who make their homes in the treaty seven region of Southern Alberta.
Resources discussed in this episode:
Michelle Gagnon on MediumTheraPsilPsychedelic Association of Canada---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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CW: Physical assault, trauma, and suicide
Dr. T and the Truth Fairy welcome Dr. Sharon Stanley - renowned psychotherapist, author, and developer of the psychotherapeutic model of somatic transformation - to the show. They have a searching and revealing conversation with Dr. Stanley about her career and the decades of work she has done with humans and trauma.
Sharon Stanley describes her work as “relational to the core” and explains how her somatic work uses relationship to at times discern a particular technique. She shares the personal story of how she first became interested in trauma and how her study moved into the idea of somatic transformation from there. Dr. Stanley also names many foundational figures whom she has drawn insight from along the way.
The discussion Dr. T and the Truth Fairy have with Sharon Stanley involve how Sharon keeps boundaries in the relationship formed through trauma bonding, what the intersubjective field is, and the six steps of somatic transformation. Sharon describes what ‘meaning making’ encompasses and she invites Dr. T and Truth Fairy into a brief thematic reflection. This episode sheds light on how much Truth Fairy has learned from Dr. Stanley and why she has been mentioned so frequently on PUNK Therapy. It gives insight into her intentions and careful trauma healing methods.
“When we do have an experience of going through something together, we can have an experience called trauma bonding. And the trauma bonding is a kind of an enmeshment where I feel what you feel, you feel what I feel. And we don't have clear boundaries. And that kind of leads me a little bit further into your question that working professionally with trauma, it's relational, but the boundaries are very clear. And how to make sure [in] those boundaries that there's a time, there's a place, there's a way we will, it's almost like a ritual that we will follow.” - Dr. Sharon Stanley
About Sharon Stanley, PhD:
Over the past 17 years Sharon Stanley has developed and taught an emerging curriculum for healing trauma to thousands of mental health practitioners. The educational experience of ST actively engages psychotherapists in exploring emerging research and practices in their own professional and personal lives. Sharon then applies their findings to the ongoing development of Somatic Transformation.
As an instructor for Somatic Transformation, Sharon has had the privilege of teaching psychotherapists from Canada, United States, Middle East and Europe. Her doctoral studies at the University of Victoria involved research into the development of empathy in caregivers working with traumatized children and identifies the transformative effects of ST as an amplification of empathic connection. Sharon has been engaged in a small study group with Dr. Allan Schore, a well-known neuroscientist, for 18 years. She lives and practices psychotherapy on Bainbridge Island, just outside of Seattle. Her book, Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past was published by Routledge in 2016 and is used by psychotherapists interested in a humanistic, developmental, body-centered, relational approach to healing trauma.
Resources discussed in this episode:
“Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma” by Sharon Stanley, PhDJudith HermanEdith SteinJohn O’DonohueMatryoshka dollsMax van ManenSuicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World---
Punk Therapy: website |email
Dr. Sharon Stanley: somatic transformation website | email
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Truth Fairy flies solo again for a deep conversation with Daan Keiman, co-founder of Guild of Guides Netherlands, to explain what a Psychedelic Chaplain is. Daan himself is a Psychedelic Chaplain and guides listeners through what that means, as well as discussing education and training in the realm of psychedelics.
Daan shares details of how he views the work of a Psychedelic Chaplain and what informs his practice. He is trained as an interfaith spiritual caregiver and has a Master’s of Arts in both theology and religious studies. He was trained as a Buddhist chaplain so approaches his role with more of an existential questioning stance. He has psychedelic experiences to share, ones that helped shape his journey.
Truth Fairy and Daan Keiman explore their experiences as instructors, in education capacities, and what it means to be trained in psychedelic healing. They address psychedelic apprenticeship, legalization, the bottleneck problem, and what Daan will be talking about in his upcoming conference. Their conversation explores crucial ideas at the heart of psychedelic medicine and approaches questions from a healing and helping perspective, informed by their combined experiences.
“The profession of spiritual care, of offering spiritual care to people while they prepare for or move through or seek to integrate psychedelic experiences, can really provide a lot of pointers, practices and approaches on how to do that ethically, how to do that well. And a term that we could use is existential integrity, which might be understood as, I'm a client, I have a sort of right to be supported in understanding a psychedelic experience, in an existential language and through existential practices that I either consent to and/or that are deeply familiar to me.” - Daan Keiman
About Daan Keiman:
Daan holds an MA in Spiritual Care and is the co-founder of Guild of Guides Netherlands: an organization that seeks to professionalize psychedelic sitting services. His experience with guiding and caring for people in altered states of consciousness spans over a decade; ranging from psychedelic harm reduction work on festivals to his private practice as a Psychedelic Chaplain.
Daan draws from his personal Buddhist practices, psychedelic research and his professional experiences to create compassionate and powerful containers for personal and relational transformation. As an avid explorer of consciousness, he is highly capable of supporting others who are traversing the landscapes of the mind.
Resources discussed in this episode:
“Thresholds” by John O’DonohueVajrayana BuddhismErowid.orgDe Hollandse PsychonautCommunitas“Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations” by Christopher Timmermann, Rosalind Watts, and David Dupuis---
Punk Therapy: website |email
Dr. T: email | Truth Fairy: email
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Truth Fairy appears solo for this special episode in conversation with guests James Clifton, former Lead Facilitator, and Daan Keiman, former Lead Facilitator and Director of Program and Product Development, of the Synthesis Institute. This conversation aims to shed more light on the recent headlines surrounding the termination of employees and contractors by Synthesis as reported recently in psychedelic outlets like Lucid News.
James Clifton and Daan Keiman introduce themselves and get in depth about their own stories of how they came to psychedelic therapy and the formational time period in discussion with Martijn Schirp. They each give much-needed context to discussions about Synthesis - its origins, how the retreats came together, the thought and care put into the approach. They also note when some tensions started and what was behind the tension.
Truth Fairy leads a very probing and insightful conversation with James and Daan in which they explore the truths and requirements for working with psychedelics, how the attitude of potential clients changed after the release of “How to Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan, the complexities with diverse practitioners and educational considerations the leadership team constantly considered as Synthesis grew, and the challenge of balancing psychedelic reality against capitalist needs. James and Daan give context and meaning to the headlines, unpacking the impetus behind Synthesis and truths of its journey.
“I think this may be something that I want to emphasize, because in a lot of what has been published, this is a perspective that is missing, it is that the leadership team itself struggled with the complexity. They had this monumental task ahead of them of bringing together this very diverse group of practitioners with their own perspectives on how to do this work, of navigating all these legal challenges, not to mention all the financial constraints and financial commitments that they made to investors, and to then ride this wave of this massive hype that started to started to emerge. I think it's within that sort of vast growing field - adding a corona pandemic that locked everything down and that required the organization to really make a radical shift in orienting themselves now towards the practitioner training - there's this challenge that comes with both asking yourself as an organization, who are we and what do we do and what do we offer as services.” - Daan Keiman
About James Clifton:
James Clifton has been a guide and ally for hundreds of individuals and groups in a variety of complex settings and environments, including hospice care, conflict zones and navigating non-ordinary states and realms of consciousness in psychedelic spaces for over 35 years.
As a clinically trained, trauma and integrally informed psychotherapist, he works in professional practice with individuals and their direct experiences that come with all the varieties that an extra-ordinary state demands and as it unfolds.
He was part of the core faculty and also retreat team lead at the Synthesis institute from 2019. He continues to consult internationally, advise, lead, supervise and support developing teams and organizations committed to the best emergent practices in psychedelic care.
He lives mostly in the UK on the South Coast and sometimes you’ll find him in the wilds of the South West Coast of Cornwall.
About Daan Keiman:
Daan holds an MA in Spiritual Care and is the co-founder of Guild of Guides Netherlands: an organization that seeks to professionalize psychedelic sitting services. His experience with guiding and caring for people in altered states of consciousness spans over a decade; ranging from psychedelic harm reduction work on festivals to his private practice as a Psychedelic Chaplain.
Daan draws from his personal Buddhist practices, psychedelic research and his professional experiences to create compassionate and powerful containers for personal and relational transformation. As an avid explorer of consciousness, he is highly capable of supporting others who are traversing the landscapes of the mind.
Resources discussed in this episode:
“Synthesis Founder Confirms Bankruptcy of Dutch Sister Company” by Joseph Gallivan for Lucid News March 20, 2023Synthesis website“How to Change Your Mind” by Michael PollanBayo Akomolafe---
Punk Therapy: website |email
Dr. T: email | Truth Fairy: email
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Dr. T and the Truth Fairy welcome writer Seth Lorinczi to the show to talk about his writing focus on psychedelics, Jewish intergenerational trauma, and the punk scene of the eighties and nineties. Seth also shares insights from his new book, Fatherland, coming out in Fall 2023.
Seth opens up about all the real life experiences that informed his new book; his marriage crisis, family trauma, how his father left Hungary after the Holocaust and the journey after. There were many disconnected moments of struggle and searching for truths throughout Seth’s story. He found that psychedelic medicines and a connection to the punk scene gave him a much-needed creative outlet and lightness.
The discussion Dr. T and the Truth Fairy have with Seth Lorinczi is honest, raw, and deeply interrogative of his father-son dynamic, what he views as the link between psychedelic healing and punk, the truths about the Holocaust confronted in his father’s story, and what the journey through psychedelic therapy looks like. It’s a powerful episode, not to be missed.
“I mean, some people who've researched ayahuasca and DMT in particular, the active molecule suggests that those who drink it are essentially disconnected from time’s forward flow. That time can sort of pool and eddy around you. And any of us who have worked with that medicine know that there is a sense of forward-looking and backwards-looking through the generations, connecting with those who came before, connecting with those who will come later. It's sort of like time has been suspended.” - Seth Lorinczi
About Seth Lorinczi:
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but raised in Washington, D.C., Seth Lorinczi is a writer and musician. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, he participated in the punk scene that centered largely around Dischord Records.
In addition to writing for nonprofits and the music, food, and cannabis industries, Seth writes nonfiction. He’s currently at work on a memoir exploring the threads embedded in his family by anti-Semitism, the trials of immigration, and the Holocaust.
Resources discussed in this episode:
Seth Lorinczi“Fatherland: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir”by Seth LorincziDr. Gabor Maté---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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Dr. T and the Truth Fairy celebrate their one year podcast anniversary! A return to their original format of just them in an enlightening conversation marks the occasion. In an open and heartfelt discussion, they share new discoveries about medicine use in their personal and professional journeys.
Truth Fairy tells of her recent ayahuasca medicine sessions with a shaman friend and how she pushed through a difficult year and deep-set trauma revelations. She arrived at a very beautiful place of realization for herself. Dr. T dives into more detail about what his PhD studies are focused on and the insights he is gaining from the studies.
This episode is a wonderful example of the bond between Dr. T and Truth Fairy and the intimate conversations they share with their listeners. They reveal personal moments, discuss new understandings of medicine, unpack therapy in general as well as their own therapeutic approaches to healing, and even reveal some of the exciting guests who will join the show in future episodes.
“That idea that allowing thoughts to come in, allowing them to simply be there and not try to push them away or pretend they're not there or pretend that the fear isn't there, but to invite it in and invite it closer and get curious about its energy, you know?” - Truth Fairy
“Yeah. To be a witness to the transference without kind of getting totally caught up in the enactment and without rejecting what's happening and just getting curious with yourself like, wow. Oh, wow. Okay. I'm feeling a bit of resentment here, a bit of anger or something.” - Dr. T
Resources discussed in this episode:
Ojibwe writer Richard WagameseSharon Stanley, PhDBessel van der Kolk, MD“The Ethics of Caring” by Kylea TaylorBrené Brown audiobooksScott Thompson---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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It’s just Dr. T and the Truth Fairy, like in the early episodes, and the two reconnect with Truth Fairy interviewing Dr. T about his PhD. Now in his third year, he dives into what he’s researching and working on in response to Truth Fairy’s insightful questions.
Dr. T tells Truth Fairy that the current working title of his PhD subject is “Psychedelic Healing and Interpersonal Neurobiology: A Qualitative Integration”. Truth Fairy digs into what the subject means and how Dr. T views interpersonal neurobiology. Their conversation reveals Dr. T’s thoughts and the purpose behind his study in a very honest way.
The discussion Dr. T and the Truth Fairy have through the course of the interview weaves through topics of psychedelics and manifestations, relationship with one’s body, the burden placed on therapists, schema therapy, Dr. T’s term of “embeddedness”, and beyond. This is a revealing discussion between friends that opens up truly fascinating things to ponder.
“That speaks to that aspect of embeddedness which is that we're embedded in a natural environment, and that our system mirrors and reflects the systems around us as well, like the shell and the inner ear and also just the biology of ourselves. You look at a plant cell, you look at a human cell, and there is a lot of similarity there. There's some uniqueness, but we share a common ancestry with all life on earth, and we are so, so connected.” - Dr. T
Resources discussed in this episode:
Dr. Dan SiegelAntonio Damasio---
Punk Therapy: website |email
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Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome special guest Sky Otter, founder of Sacred Earth Network and author of “Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture”, to the podcast to share his teaching and experience. Sky leads listeners into Siberian shamanism, the raw vitality of the environment, and the connectedness of our healing journeys.
Sky tells Dr. T and the Truth Fairy about his awakening into realizing the power of life when he was on the New York subway en route to a peace rally in Central Park. He has pursued peacefulness, connectedness to the natural world, and the embracing of wildness in soul since. Sky believes we need to embrace Indigenous and Aboriginal teachings far more deeply.
The discussion Dr. T and the Truth Fairy have with Sky Otter is soul-searching and beautiful. They explore the dominator worldview and the need to regain connectedness with each other and the earth, they discuss Sky’s time in Russia and the ongoing situation in Russia and the Ukraine now, and Sky describes the awe of a Siberian shamanic fire circle. Healing and connectedness truly are the focus of this episode and many vulnerable and inspiring moments are shared.
“Us smart Westerners need to sort of put aside those big brains a little bit and, not losing our faculty for critical thinking, but just saying, wait a minute, I don't really know everything here and all that stuff I was taught, you know, I'll take it with a grain of salt. And I'll just humble myself before Mother Earth and the Aboriginal people and learn from the earth and learn from them.” - Sky Otter
About Sky Otter:
Sky Otter formerly known as Bill Pfeiffer is the founder of Sacred Earth Network (SEN) which implemented leading edge visions for over 25 years. In that time, Sky made Russia a second home having traveled there 44 times assisting the environmental and indigenous movements through SEN. This has given him a rare cross-cultural perspective. He has also led hundreds of spiritual ecology workshops, including men’s and breath work. He has 25 years of experience in Re-evaluation Counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensive training with Siberian shamans. Sky has partnered with and designed experiential workshops with Joanna Macy, John Perkins, Llyn Roberts, Cathy Pedevillano, and John Seed. He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways and the crucial importance of the petroglyphs and pictographs. His book, “Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture” has been met with high acclaim.
Resources discussed in this episode:
Sacred Earth Network"Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture" by Sky Otter Rainer Maria Rilke“Ishmael” by Daniel QuinnAmanita muscariaSiberian Shamanic drum“Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations” by Richard Wagamese---
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Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome special guests Night Owl and Aqua Belle, friends and therapeutic colleagues of The Truth Fairy, to the show to talk about how they approach the vetting of clients. Dr. T takes the hosting lead in this conversation on the process of choosing which clients to work with.
Aqua Belle and Night Owl both share how important instinct is to the vetting process. Despite having a drive and desire to just help people, not every client will be right. Meeting the client’s needs may require a different therapist and both guests describe having an internal sense of whether or not they feel they will be able to collaborate and establish trust with the client. Listening to their instincts is an important part of the decision.
The discussion Dr. T has with Truth Fairy, Aqua Belle, and Night Owl explores vetting clients based on existing medicine complications, a client’s willingness to do the preparation and work, how comfortable the exchanges between the therapist and client are, how immediately the client pushes for psychedelics, and truly trusting therapeutic and personal instincts. Each guest shares revealing stories and the motivations behind their chosen modalities in this insightful conversation.
“When I first started working with psychedelics, as you know, there are a lot of people that would like to have the experience. And at first, and of course wanting to help and serve because it was so amazing for me, and wanting to continue to offer that, what I did feel was I've come to understand who I would be best for and who would be best for me. And I do find, because it's such a relational thing, I feel that that's really important.” - Aqua Belle
Resources discussed in this episode:
Shamanic healing“Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma” by Kathy L. Kain & Stephen J. TerrellSharon Stanley---
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Content Warning: Childhood trauma and violence.
Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome Dr. Darcia Narvaez to the show to discuss her work on the neurobiology of moral development. They specifically address her Evolved Nest theory and shed light on how greater connections can heal.
Dr. Narvaez explains in detail how the Evolved Nest is the set of developmental provisions we give to the young. There are nine components that affect development and which Dr. Narvaez studies. The first components specifically refer to infants but the rest involve adults with themes like nature, immersion and connection, and healing practices.
The discussion The Truth Fairy and Dr. T have with Darcia Narvaez delves into how psychedelics can assist in feeling connected to the universe, but Dr. Narvaez adds that it’s ideally accompanied by immersion, community, and being in touch with your body. They address how Indigenous culture has a greater connection to nature and self that we are disconnected from to greater and greater degrees in Western society.
“I think we have to get back to the Indigenous worldview. So Indigenous worldview is this perspective of connection. But it's also respect and humble awareness of our limitations, and that we have so much to learn from the animals and plants who have been around as species much longer than we have. We’re pretty young on the planet. And so the Native Americans have all sorts of practices and ceremonies of gratitude and thankfulness.” - Darcia Narvaez, PhD
About Darcia Narvaez, PhD:
My life has been an adventure through many careers. I am still growing.
My academic scholarship has moved from work on nonconscious moral rationality (in the 1990s), to moral character education in the schools (late 1990s- early 2000s), to the neurobiology of moral development (mid 2000s to present), to the study of evolved parenting practices (presently), and the study of small-band hunter-gatherers who represent the type of society in which humans evolved (presently). All this comes together in a moral developmental systems theory that emphasizes the ongoing epigenetic plasticity of how we develop our humanity and our morality. We are co-constructed by our families and our experiences.
My concerns are for developmental optimization and fulfilling human potential—actionable communal imagination. I put some of this together in various articles and chapters but mostly in my 2014 book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom.
Resources discussed in this episode:
Dr. Allan SchoreKindred WorldThe Evolved Nest“Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality” by Darcia Narvaez---
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Darcia Narvaez, PhD: website
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Content Warning: Eating disorders (including bulimia and anorexia), hospitalization, body image trauma, and sexual assault
Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome two guests to the show - BC, a guest of Dr. T, and Nightingale, mentee of Truth Fairy - to discuss the complexities of eating disorders and the host of possibilities psychedelic medicines can offer in terms of healing pathways.
The Truth Fairy, BC, and Nightingale each share their own very frank and personal journeys with eating disorders or “complex or developmental trauma” as Truth Fairy prefers to call them. They fearlessly detail their own struggles, the roots of the traumas and mental illnesses they’ve uncovered, and the ways in which different therapeutic modalities gave them each insight.
The discussion touches on addiction, rebellion from patriarchal structures, developmental trauma, and biology as the group unravel the enormity of disordered eating and all the struggles such illness embodies. They share which particular medicines they have found successes through but also address that recovery is a long journey and requires a multi-disciplinary team of carers to facilitate. Their final words for listeners are ones of encouragement for anyone the conversation personally affects.
“You know, often we sort of think about recovery as a destination and we have to get there like a highway. And I often sort of stop and think about how recovery, to me, it's like a windy road. And it's like, you know, going for a country drive and sometimes you might stop and have to take a break and pause for a moment. And then you get back on that road and it's windy, it's hilly, it's up and down. And as long as you're always just moving forward, that's what recovery is.” - BC
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