Brilliant Healing

09/19/2025

In Case You Missed It:
47 - The Spectrum of Dissociation, Trauma Response, and How Psychedelics Can Help, Part 1

“... it also, like, if your life is hell and you feel like you're always drowning, that's the dorsal kicking in to try to alleviate some of that pain. And so we go into that numbing, dissociation, shut down… placating, submitting. All of that is associated with the dorsal vagal nerve. And it's kind of a hiding, right? It's preserving life so that you are not seeing.” - Truth Fairy

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032

09/16/2025

47 - The Spectrum of Dissociation, Trauma Response, and How Psychedelics Can Help, Part 1

Dr. T and Truth Fairy are reunited for this episode and introduce a new episode structure to listeners. Each episode will examine, in three parts, the research and clinical research angle of a topic, then practical clinical perspectives, and, finally, a potential guest to weigh in on the topic. In this, part one, Dr. T and Truth explore the relationships between trauma, dissociation, and psychedelic therapy. They dig into how dissociation shows up on a spectrum - from everyday experiences like daydreaming to severe structural dissociation rooted in early trauma and survival responses.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032

08/20/2025

In Case You Missed It:
46 - How Embodied Leadership and Coaching Intersects with Psychedelic Therapy with Joe Strummer

“... when we think about leadership presence or executive presence, we're often talking about how a leader shows up and makes those around them feel as if they're part of a team, feel as if they're seen and heard and motivates them. And we talk about that as a leadership presence. And he likens that to the presence that an actor has when you're watching a live actor on stage… They are fully 100% present in that moment.” - Joe Strummer

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032

08/16/2025

46 - How Embodied Leadership and Coaching Intersects with Psychedelic Therapy with Joe Strummer

Dr. T hosts this episode solo and welcomes, as his guest, Joe Strummer, partner of Truth Fairy. Joe Strummer was instrumental in helping set up Punk Therapy and had his own therapeutic psychedelic experience a decade ago alongside Truth Fairy and Dr. Gabor Maté. Joe shares how that experience has stayed with him, how he works with Truth in supporting her workshops, and how the psychedelic healing and therapy both factor into his own work in corporate leadership coaching. Joe’s background with the arts and team facilitation fuse into his embodied leadership approach, which he shares with Dr. T.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032

07/20/2025

In Case You Missed It:
45 - Somatic Foundations in Psychedelic Therapy and the Necessity of Therapist Well-Being with Dr. Emily Tunks

“[As a PAT therapist], I will let myself be changed by each and every individual that is willing and wanting to go there and respect when they aren’t.” - Dr. Emily Tunks

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032

07/16/2025

45 - Somatic Foundations in Psychedelic Therapy and the Necessity of Therapist Well-Being with Dr. Emily Tunks

Dr. T and Truth Fairy welcome guest Dr. Emily Tunks, Founder of Embody Being and Research Trial Psychedelics Assisted Psychotherapist, to the podcast to explore her work in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for first responders and her passion for understanding potential somatic implications of psychedelic medicines. Dr. Tunks shares her experience and knowledge regarding therapist support and well-being, and discusses the need for integrating Indigenous wisdom into psychedelic research.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032

07/06/2025

This will be the most difficult, beautiful and rewarding relational practice we will take on in our lives, for life:

07/01/2025

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Broderick Rodell.

In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Rita Bozi. Rita is a multidisciplinary Somatic Relational trauma-informed Facilitator, Psychedelic T...

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03/19/2025

In Case You Missed It:
41 - The Role of Psychedelic Medicine in Current Events and Unresolved Trauma with Truth Fairy and Dr. T

“... he was talking about the fact that these communities, these traditional communities, they drink ayahuasca not for their personal therapy. They drink ayahuasca to solve the problems of the community. And I went, oh, of course, we have [been] like, navel-gazing into our own therapy, into our own problems, where in fact, at this point, we're going to need to start to think that our medicine is for a collective purpose.” Truth Fairy

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/punk-therapy-psychedelic-underground-neural-kindness/id1593280032