Good morning everyone!
We are coming back to you know every Thursday again since we like to sync the newsletter with the podcast again. So you can look forward to two podcasts a month, a weekly newsletter every Thursday, recommendations, and pioneering thoughts on psychedelics!
Today, I can finally welcome Dr. Gabor Maté to the show! One of the most empathic, unapologetic, and science-driven people in the mental health space. I love that combination! And yes, we are also talking about psychedelics and trauma, but what I really like about Gabor is that he sounds like a contemporary, cool philosopher, helping to explain the exciting and disruptive times we live in.
If you have not heard of Dr. Gabor Maté….
Dr. Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-Canadian physician and author. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions, and a wide range of other conditions.
Maté's approach to addiction focuses on the trauma his patients have suffered and he looks to address this in their recovery.
In the Realm of hungry ghosts
When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress;
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; and (with Dr. Gordon Neufeld)
Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
And out on September 13th!
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.
(Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children is expected in 2023.)
What Gabor & I talk about!
* How most psychiatrists today are trained in a narrow fashion
* About Gabor’s ayahuasca ceremony and how he learned about his closed heart, the deepest pain, and the deepest love
* Our healing in the present and within ourselves, and how we can’t find it somewhere else or in another person
And there is one thing I would like to add. My conversation with Gabor became crucial also for personal reasons. I talked to him about my recurring experience in truffle trips, since on my trips I always found myself in various concentration camps.
So our podcast turned into an integration session. Gabor explained to me how the experience of being in a concentration camp could be a symbolic experience.
Why would I keep myself in a mental camp and not experience life in full, Gabor asked me. And maybe the concentration camp was my cultural vocabulary as a half german to provide me with the idea of the worst existence a human being can think of. Also, I belonged to the country that came up with concentration camps.
In my recent trip in July, my camp experience did not show any more. Something was resolved. I am figuring out what it could be.
What I recommend this week!
Microdosing Lessons!
My friends Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky creators of the Podcast Business Trip FM. just launched a killer podcast package on microdosing. They talk to James Fadiman, Balazs Szigeti and Mind Med & Diamond Therapeutics. Here comes your crash course and update on the microdosing “situation”.
Breathwork in Berlin!
If you happen to be in Berlin, I highly recommend the psychotropic breath classes at Ohia! A place in Mitte that is offering Yoga and Sound Bath, but the breathing classes are incredible.
Please let me know…
Before I leave you here, I have a favor to ask.
At “The New Health Club”, we are getting more and more interested in the question of what happens AFTER a psychedelic experience.
Do you need to get a divorce or did you break up with a partner? Do your children react differently to you? Can you communicate in a new way with your parents? Do you need to look into new friends?
Any thoughts and questions you have, I am curious about. Please send me your thoughts to
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Talk to you soon,
Anne
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