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/

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 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.

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 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/

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 🔗 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