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What happens when modern psychiatry meets ancient Amazonian medicine? Can science explain experiences that people describe as spiritual? Can plant medicine play a role in healing? And what might be missing from Western psychiatry?
These are some of the questions I explore with Dr. Simon Ruffell, a medical doctor and psychiatrist with a background in research psychology and a PhD focused on Amazonian ayahuasca. He has also studied traditional plant medicine and curanderismo in the Amazon rainforest.
But before we begin, I want to make one thing very clear.
This conversation is not intended to tell you whether or not plant medicine is right for you. I haven’t personally walked that path, so I’m approaching this conversation with curiosity, while also having genuine questions around safety, preparation, and integration — all areas that Simon emphasizes as being truly important to the process.
So, as always, I encourage you to listen critically, stay curious, ask questions, and make your own informed choices. My intention is simply to offer a different perspective and perhaps raise some questions worth exploring.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:03 What is Western psychiatry missing?
00:04:48 Antidepressants: are we treating the root cause?
00:07:02 Why are so many people struggling with mental health today?
00:12:08 Can mental health problems come from past lives?
00:15:04 Curanderismo: what can traditional healing teach us?
00:16:39 Simon’s personal experience with ayahuasca.
00:19:17 How do you let go of control with plant medicine?
00:23:45 Are we giving our power away to plant medicine?
00:25:46 Who is really doing the healing: the plant or us?
00:28:00 Can plant medicine be too much, too soon for some nervous systems?
00:31:33 Trauma integration vs. retraumatization.
00:34:48 How to prepare for plant medicine and integrate the experience.
00:41:49 Good and demonic forces: what exists in the spiritual world?
00:45:06 What is an entity attached to a person?
00:48:35 Can science explain the spiritual world?
00:52:01 Mental illness or spiritual ability? Where is the line?
00:55:21 Does Simon believe in God?
00:56:56 Do demonic energies come from God?
00:58:02 What has life taught Simon?
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❗️Disclaimer: Everything provided on this podcast is solely for informational, educational and entertainment purposes. The information provided shall not be considered diagnostic, treatment of health condition, or anything similar and under any circumstances shall not replace medical or mental health treatment.❗️
What if the parts of ourselves we struggle with most are actually the parts that once learned how to keep us safe?
Our guest today is Mahshid Hager, a Somatic Experiencing Therapist (SE) trained in the approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine. She is a faculty member of Somatic Experiencing International, teaching across the United States and internationally, and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California.
In this conversation, we explore trauma, the nervous system, and what it really means to heal.We talk about how unresolved trauma can continue to shape our everyday lives, influencing what we perceive as danger, how we respond to stress, and even the relationships and patterns we find ourselves repeating.We also explore anger and emotional suppression, anxiety and depression, survival responses, and the body’s role in emotional healing, including what it actually means to feel and release an emotion through the body.And ultimately, we ask a deeper question: What does healing really look like when we stop trying to fix ourselves and begin learning to feel safe, connected, and present?
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:32 Why has it become so difficult to be here and now, fully present?
00:04:22 How do we lose access to the here and now? Mahshid retells a story
00:05:32 The state of doing and our uncomfortable emotions
00:06:58 Who is Mahshid Hager? The difficult personal story that led her to Somatic Experiencing Therapy
00:16:38 What is the autonomic nervous system?
00:19:57 What happens in the nervous system when trauma occurs?
00:24:20 Can unresolved trauma make us feel in danger even when we are completely safe?
00:24:57 Unresolved trauma and triggers. Why do they affect us so strongly?
00:26:35 How can unresolved trauma lead to more trauma?
00:29:08 Are we drawn to people who “match” our wounds?
00:31:03 What would the world look like if we all healed our traumas?
00:34:49 What is anger trying to tell us?
00:38:33 What happens when we chronically suppress anger?
00:40:13 How do we know when uncomfortable emotions are ready to be released?
00:42:23 Healing and the need for a mutually empathic witness
00:46:10 When reaching out for help feels unsafe
00:48:24 What if everything feels dark and we can’t access any positive resources?
00:51:33 What healing is not
00:52:36 Does God or a higher intelligence have a place in Mahshid’s life? What science can’t explain
00:55:55 What has life taught Mahshid so far?
✦ Learn more about Mahshid → https://mahshidhager.com
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✦ Host's instagram → https://www.instagram.com/diyana__dim...
❗️Disclaimer: Everything provided on this podcast is solely for informational, educational and entertainment purposes. The information provided shall not be considered diagnostic, treatment of health condition, or anything similar and under any circumstances shall not replace medical or mental health treatment.❗️
#podcast: PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIND
#podcast: PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIND
#podcast: PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIND
#podcast: PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIND
#podcast: PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIND #episode: 9, season 1 🔔 I would really appreciate it, guys, if you give 5 stars to the Podcast. Please, take a few seconds to do that now. In return, I promise to keep bringing inspiring people and conversation to your attention. 🙏The guest of today’s Episode is Katie Maycock. She is specialised in stress and burnout area. Katie works with MDs, CEOs and founders, helping them to navigate stress and avoid burnout. She is a speaker, the founder of Get Your Sh*t Together and also worked as a nutritionist in the past.Key moment of the Episode:1:28 What is the stress level of Katie at the moment of recording the Episode?3:15 Katie's story of being burnt out twice (being close to third time a few times) and dealing with unhealthy work environment.10:31 Why do we have different thresholds of stress and what determines that?14:15 What are the symptoms that we disregard before burnout?21:15 Does excitement bring stress and what is healthy excitement?23:59 Do we live in hustle culture that does not appreciate rest?26:36 How long did take Katie to recover from burnout? What actually did she do to get healthy again?30:34 How can we distinguish the healthy stress from unhealthy stress? How can we know that we are above our threshold?39:36 Are there certain professions that are more likely statistically to burn out?41:09 What is the real cause of stress: the overload with work or the perception of the work that needs to be done (i.e. am I doing enough, can I get better, am I going to get recognition)?47:28 How can people, who do not like their work, do not have much to do, but they need to handle the work for a certain period of time, manage their level of stress?52:25 What are the practical strategies for managing stress?55:57 What is life-work balance?__________ Follow Katie:On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getyourshittogether.io?igsh=MWszYzFhbjltM3Brdg==Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katiemaycockGYSTYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOZ4W2JDqPujNt359ZVnW9Q?sub_confirmation=1Follow me: On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shift_the_mind?igsh=bHZqeWtwNDR3Mjh0Website: https://diyanatherapy.com/Follow the Podcast: on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perspective_of_the_mind_?igsh=YXgyZTc1NXo0bndz__________ Thank you! I will meet you in the next Episode. __________ ❗️Disclaimer: Everything provided on this podcast is solely for informational, educational and entertainment purposes. The information provided shall not be considered diagnostic, treatment of health condition, or anything similar and under any circumstances shall not replace medical or mental health treatment.❗️ With ❤️, Diyana
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