How To Feel Nothing | On Trauma, Psychedelics, and the Hidden Exchanges of Healing

How much of life do we postpone while waiting to feel better?

Drawing from Russ Harris's idea of the "feel-good agenda," this episode examines what happens when relief becomes the primary measure of whether a coping response helped. Feeling better tells us what happened to the discomfort. It does not tell us what happened to the conversation we avoided or the possibility we stepped away from.

This episode considers how coping shapes what happens next—and how we might begin participating differently, even when our feelings have not changed first.

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Trauma shapes how we live—organizing our lives as if the past is still happening. The body holds onto these experiences, leaving us disconnected from our most powerful resource: our felt sense.

In this episode, we will go through the profound connection between your body and mind. We'll explore how mindlessness—ignoring your felt sense—keeps you stuck in cycles of stress, disconnection, and unresolved trauma. Drawing from the work of trauma experts like Peter Levine and Gabor Maté, we'll uncover how tuning into your felt sense is the gateway to healing and self-awareness.

You'll learn:

• What the felt sense is and why it's crucial for trauma healing.
• How your body's natural instincts—when trusted—can guide you toward repair and resilience.
• Practical insights to reconnect with your body and start releasing stored trauma.
• Healing begins when we stop overanalyzing trauma and start trusting our biology.
• Your body is a biological marvel, capable of self-healing when we allow it to complete its natural processes.

Let this episode be your starting point to restoring the balance between your body and mind. Together, we'll move toward a state of integration, clarity, and wholeness.

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We're going through a psychedelic therapy revival.

Join psychotherapist Todd Brossart as he introduces the Somacology channel and discusses some of his personal journey following a near-death injury and the innovative practices that helped him reconnect with his body and mind.

Gain insights into:

• The felt sense as a critical pathway to accessing the body's innate ability to process and resolve trauma.
• The role of Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Therapy (PSIP) in addressing deeply rooted trauma that conventional therapeutic approaches often fail to resolve.
• The potential consequences of unprocessed trauma, including mental health challenges and physical health conditions, and how somatic healing provides a pathway toward recovery.

Through a combination of personal experiences, professional expertise, and practical applications, Todd illuminates ways to treat trauma and increase psychological flexibility for sustainable growth. Whether you are a mental health professional, an individual seeking deeper understanding of trauma resolution, or someone interested in exploring psychedelic therapies, this video provides valuable perspectives and actionable knowledge.

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If you could have a conversation with yourself back when you started your career in healthcare, what would you say? What does that person need to know in order to sustain their mental health over the arch of their career? Would you talk to them about naivete? Or how to approach one's naivete as it comes up in their career? Consider where you're at today in your career. Would you be willing to talk to yourself about owning your naivete?

After 12 years of working in a large hospital setting, in outpatient mental health and substance use disorders clinics, I can admit that I naively behaved and spoke as though I was exempt from the stressors of life, and the stressors on the job. I was naïve to how things would eventually start to breakdown in my personal life. Which they eventually did. Some of the breakdowns were preventable, but my naivete interfered with seeing clearly.

I reference the following paper during the podcast:

Self-awareness Questions for Effective Psychotherapists: Helping Good Psychotherapists Become Even Better" by Samuel Knapp, Michael Gottlieb and Mitchell Handelsman.

The questions they encourage providers to consider to assist in becoming more self-aware:

1. Do I recognize my immediate emotional reactions?
2. Do I judge my competencies accurately?
3. Do I recognize that I might harbor implicit prejudices?
4. Am I aware that I might succumb to cognitive biases or unhelpful heuristics?
5. Am I fully aware of my values?

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My name is Todd Brossart, and over the past 15 years of my career as a clinical social worker, I’ve struggled with highs and lows, ups and downs, with compassion fatigue, moral injury, and a near-fatal injury while on the job that could have been prevented. Join me each week as I share the little details of how I’ve learned to survive the healthcare industry.

If you've listened to this podcast for a while, you'll know that I hold a belief that there's still someone out there who I haven't met yet, that will change my life in profound ways. This episode is an attempt to honor someone who left a lasting impact on my life. In April 2019 during my lengthy stay in the hospital, I was privileged to have a very special person care for me. Her name was Rachel Petersen. Rachel was a nurse at the Anschutz Medical Center, in Aurora, Colorado. Sadly, Rachel passed away recently. The news was devastating to read about, and my wife and I are still trying to process her sudden loss. To learn more about Rachel, and the first annual 5K Scrub Run honoring her visit, https://5kscrubrun.org/.

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We all have to do things. Some things we are excited about. Other things, not as much. Rarely do we consider what we get to do in our lives, taking it for granted. In this episode I offer a quick mindfulness reframe to help you shift your perspective to living with more presence and gratitude. Because when we get to do something versus have to do something, we show up more completely and openly.

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts. . Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video. .

Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

. As always, we'd like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - [email protected].

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Should self-care always mean you get to feel calm? Should self-care be limited to feeling good? Let's reimagine self-care for a moment. Instead of adding things to your life in the name of self-care, consider what you could subtract in order to practice better self-care. Continually adding activities of self-care could become exhausting, and may make you feel worse. What could you let go of today to make room for your health and well-being?

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts. . Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video. .

Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

. As always, we'd like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - [email protected].

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Connect with Mental Events on social media:

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What doesn't kill us, can make us stronger! On the two-year anniversary of a near death experience, I invite a friend of the podcast, John Evans to sit down for an extended conversation about post-traumatic growth. Post-traumatic growth refers to the positive psychological changes that a person can experience as a result of adversity. John and I cover a lot of ground in this episode, referencing Stephen Joseph's book, What Doesn't Kill Us, Judith Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery, and Stephen Pressfield's book, The War of Art.

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If you're wondering how to move through feeling stuck, and hitting plateau's in day-to-day life, John gives some helpful insights from his 13 year recovery. We also talk about the importance of finding a survivor mission, and transforming the meaning of personal tragedy by making it the basis for social action.

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts. . Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video. .

Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

. As always, we'd like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - [email protected].

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Connect with Mental Events on social media:

Instagram @mentalevents

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So often we feel hopeless and powerless after tragedy and trauma. I know I've felt that way recently with the tragedies in Atlanta and Boulder. Both events serve as reminders of how violence can devastate community, trust, and desecrate the ideals, values, and freedoms we hold as sacred. In this week's episode, I discuss what moral injurious events are, and offer a mindful approach to touch feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness.

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts. . Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video. .

Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

. As always, we'd like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - [email protected].

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Connect with Mental Events on social media:

Instagram @mentalevents

Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.