Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

What if your psychedelic journey is helping you avoid the very thing you need to feel?
Josh Trent welcomes Will Van Derveer, MD, co-founder of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 836, to explore why psychedelics open a door but can't walk you through it, and why real healing means building the capacity to feel everything, not just feeling less bad.

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In This Episode, Will Van Derveer, MD, uncovers:
(01:25) Why Psychedelics Don't Work for Everyone
(08:55) Why Mental Illness Becomes Intractable
(14:30) The MDMA Study That Changed Everything
(18:35) What Can Go Wrong in the Ceremony Space
(24:10) Time, Set, and Setting
(31:40) Can Plant Medicine Heal Your Pain?
(34:50) Psychedelics Open a Door But You Have to Walk Through It
(38:50) The FDA, Ibogaine, and the Caution Flag
(44:30) Who Should Never Take Psychedelics
(52:20) The Root of Mental Illness
(58:10) Chronic Childhood Trauma Is More Damaging Than Big T
(01:01:05) The Infant Alone on the Floor
(01:08:10) Drawn to Heal The World
(01:11:15) The Price of Not Grieving
(01:18:10) Non-Directive Is the Only Safe Direction
(01:20:25) Stop Chasing Change Through Plant Medicine
(01:26:40) Biology at War with Reality Is Disease
(01:34:10) Science Is Just Spirituality With a Lab Coat
(01:39:55) The Real Value of Psychedelic Therapy
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What if the man who pulls away from the love he wants isn't rejecting you, but protecting a scared little boy inside him??
Josh Trent welcomes Ryan Moresby White, founder of Heal The Boy, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 835, to explore why every man carries a wounded boy into his relationships, how the grief he never let himself feel turns into shutting down, avoiding intimacy, and self-sabotage, and why a man becomes truly safe to love only when he heals the boy within.

In This Episode, Ryan Moresby-White Uncovers:
(01:20) Women as God's Mirror for Men's Unresolved Pain
(06:15) The Original Wound and the Empty Mirror
(10:50) The Rose That Gets Trampled
(15:10) Why Men Paradoxically Reject the Love They Desire
(19:50) That Is How We Change the World
(25:05) I'll Never Be Like My Father Is a Prayer
(29:25) The Generational Library We Carry
(32:55) Spread Activation Theory and Where It Lives in the Body
(36:35) Breathwork and the Little Boy's Language
(41:10) The Man Who Had Done All the Inner Work
(47:30) Racing Dirt Bikes and Not Feeling Like He Had a Father
(50:50) The Story Beneath the Pattern
(01:00:00) How He Knew in His Body She Wasn't for Him
(01:04:20) Love All Parts and Still Hold Standards
(01:09:20) The Notebook, Hollywood, and the Wound Being Monetized
(01:16:10) Embodiment Is the Only Test That Matters
(01:19:20) Every Man Also Needs to Feel Safe
(01:22:00) The Man on the Couch
(01:30:30) It Happens Only in Community
(01:37:25) Build the Ship Before Sailing the Waters of Soul
(01:40:30) Rite of Passage
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What if the fight you keep having with your partner is not about them at all, but about a wound that formed in your childhood?
Josh Trent welcomes Kim Polinder, relationship therapist and author of Why We Fight, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 834, to explore why every recurring argument is a psychodrama from your earliest wounds playing out in the present, why self-awareness alone is never enough to change behavior in conflict, and how a five-step apology framework can turn the most exhausting fight into the most honest conversation you have ever had with the person you love most.

In This Episode, Kim Polinder Uncovers:
(01:15) The Fight Beneath the Fight
(08:20) Why Gratitude Opens the Door to Repair
(12:10) The Anatomy of a Trigger
(16:05) The Work That Makes Repair Possible
(19:55) The Childhood Wound
(24:20) The Belief You Choose to Keep
(28:35) Own the Mindset
(34:15) The Price of Not Apologizing
(39:35) Projection and the Power of Going First
(43:00) What Suffering Teaches About the Soul
(48:35) When We Make a Promise We Cannot Keep
(55:20) Raw Honesty Requires Courage
(01:01:00) The Importance of Grace and Forgiveness
(01:06:50) How to Give Yourself a Little More Grace
(01:12:15) Self-Awareness Is Not Always Enough
(01:16:25) All Roads Lead Back to Your Inner Child
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How is the health and future of the child you haven't conceived yet already being shaped by the life you are living right now?
Josh Trent welcomes Ann Shippy, MD, functional medicine physician, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 833, to explore why the environment you conceive in matters as much as the genes you pass on, why unexplained infertility does not exist, and why the 90 days before conception may be the most important window of health your future child will ever have.

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In This Episode, Ann Shippy, MD, uncovers:
(01:10) Bathing Our Children in the Water We Create
(04:50) Why This Book Took Nine Years to Write
(08:10) The Zinc Spark and What Science Cannot Explain
(12:10) How the Epigenetic Dials Actually Work
(17:00) The Work Starts Before You Think About Getting Pregnant
(20:00) What She Was Carrying Without Knowing It
(23:25) Toxic Mold, Short Fuses, and the Tipping Point
(28:15) What Creates the Tipping Point of Disease
(32:25) There Is No Such Thing as Unexplained Infertility
(36:25) Faith Is the Fulcrum
(41:55) Souls Wanting to Come In
(46:35) Love Is the Frequency That Creates Life
(49:40) The Preconception Revolution And Longevity
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What if the monthly payment you make to stay "protected" is actually the very thing keeping you sick?
Josh Trent welcomes Andy Shoonover, founder of CrowdHealth, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 832, to explore why the American healthcare system is structurally designed to keep you in it, why the most powerful act of rebellion is not fighting the system but simply exiting it, and how a community-funded alternative is quietly proving that people take better care of each other than any insurance company ever will.

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In This Episode, Andy Schoonover Uncovers:
(01:05) The Parasite That Lives Inside Health Insurance
(04:50) Why We Stay in a System We Know Is Broken
(09:10) The Economics of the Sick Care System
(16:05) Getting Out of the Quicksand
(20:55) The Diabetes Study They Shut Down
(24:15) The System Is Designed to Keep You Sick
(31:00) Supporting Community by Cost Sharing
(37:50) Why 40% of CrowdHealth Babies Are Born at Home
(47:10) The Best Way to Fight the War Is to Exit It
(54:55) You Are Never Chasing the Number
(01:01:30) Exiting the System
(01:07:15) Who Is Already Around the Fire
(01:14:00) Travis Is Alive Because of CrowdHealth
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