Today’s episode is a discussion that took place during the Perfect Practice Live Online Experience on Saturday, August 29th, 2020 with Dr. Kelly Brogan, a holistic psychiatrist and the author of the New York Times best-selling book A Mind of Your Own as well as Own yourself. She co-edits Integrated Therapies for Depression and is the Founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset and the membership community Vital Life Project.

 

Key Takeaways:

[:44] Majeed Mogharreban and Sachin Patel welcome Dr. Kelly Brogan to the Perfect Practice Live Online Experience event stage for a live session. Sachin asks her to talk about her background story.

 

[6:53] Dr. Kelly touches on the process of adultification as she discovered it during her shift from reliance on conventional treatments to opening up her horizons as a practitioner.

 

[8:42] On resistance to unconventional thinking, Dr. Brogan learned the futility of debate and polarisation and has seen first hand how exposure to information — no matter how scientific — does not always result in transformation of thought and beliefs.

 

[15:47] Dr. Brogan touches on what childhood trauma is and how she has seen them show up in adult life through her practice as well as in her personal life.

 

[20:40] From how the system generates lifetime patients for itself especially when it comes to psychiatry, to the importance of critical thought in order to gain agency, Dr. Brogan explains what it means to shed your illusory self in today’s world.

 

[27:05] Sachin shares a personal story about hair and segues the conversation to the feeling of fear of safety that can be instilled into a child and how it may positively or negatively impact their adult life.

 

[34:00] What the “work” looks like for Dr. Brogan; she talks about her relationship to her husband as well as things she calls hygiene practices like meditations and brushing your teeth.

 

[38:11] The first thing to take care of with patients — or oneself — is the low-hanging fruit of physiological imbalances, a basic cleanup of Maslow’s hierarchical lower rungs. Dr. Brogan talks about the steps that should follow.

 

[45:11] The Vital Mind Reset — Dr. Brogan touches on how it began and what it is today, as well as some mistakes she made along the way.

 

[51:54] Dr. Kelly Brogan shares her message for moving humanity and the planet forward but to do it, we need to put self-care first — Sachin gives a literal example of her doing just that.

 

[56:18] Sachin and his audience wholeheartedly thank Dr. Kelly Brogan for sharing so much of her expertise.

 

Mentioned in this episode

Perfect Practice Live

[email protected]

Majeed Mogharreban

Vital Mind Reset

Dr. Kelly Brogan’s Telegram

 

Books:

A Mind of Your Own, by Dr. Kelly Brogan

Own Yourself, by Dr. Kelly Brogan

A Time for Rain, by Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

More about your guest

Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

More about your host Sachin Patel

How to speak with Sachin

Go one step further and Become The Living Proof

 

Books by Sachin Patel:

Perfect Practice: How to Build a Successful Functional Medical Business, Attract Your Ideal Patients, Serve Your Community and Get Paid What You’re Worth

The Motivation Molecule: The Biological Secrets To Eliminate Procrastination, Skyrocket Productivity, and Get Sh!t Done

 

Tweetables:

 

“It’s a poison apple that is being offered to us in the form of conventional treatment.” — Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

“You can have this experience of self-initiation and … begin the process of adultification and becoming the you that is in the cage of our unprocessed childhood traumas. … That is the underpinnings of … what we call chronic illness and mental illness.” — Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

“The system basically says ‘We will take care of you as long as you comply,’ and sometimes what’s referred to as a Stockholm Syndrome develops and those who ultimately are abused by this system end up defending the system.” — Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

“Love is not control, it’s not manipulation, it’s not merger, and it’s not even agreement; it’s accessing the love that we know is there at times we cannot otherwise perceive it.” — Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

“The first thing to take care of with patients — or oneself — is the low-hanging fruit of physiological imbalances.” — Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

“The work is really as simple as, ‘Every time you're upset by something, it’s an opportunity.’” — Dr. Kelly Brogan

 

“The healing is in the peeling.” — Sachin Patel