Meet Maxime Maanders, a clinical psychologist and plant medicine specialist with a holistic perspective on human healing. His approach brings together ancient wisdom and evidence-based psychology offering an integrative understanding of what it truly takes for us to heal from psychological trauma.

KEY THEMES

Psychology, Mental Health, Western Science, Ancient Wisdom, Emotions, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Human Connection, Our Connection to Nature, Music, Group Therapy, Pain and Suffering.

BOOKS

1. A Course in Miracles: Scribe – Helen Schucman, Editor/Collaborator – William Thetford.

2. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

FILM

Dune based on a novel by Frank Herbert: Dune is not just a sci-fi adventure, it's a meditation on power, ecology, and how inner transformation can reshape the outer world, for better or for worse.

QUOTES

1. "You don't have to do it alone but you have to do it yourself"

2. "The longest (or hardest) way men travel is from the head to the heart" -- Various

3. "Trauma that starts in relationship heals in relationship"

4. "How can people who are not in touch with themselves expect to help patients get in touch with their true self?"

5. "Trauma is not what happens to you, it's what happens inside of you as a result"

6. "Connect to everything, attach to nothing"

7. "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional"

8. "Let food be that medicine and medicine be that food"

9. "Don't worship the gate but go inside the temple"

CONNECT WITH MAXIME MAANDERS

Through a trusted friend – word of mouth.