Can psychedelics really help heal depression, trauma, and addiction? Neuroscientist Dr. Manesh Girn joins us to break down exactly how substances like psilocybin, DMT, ketamine, and 5-MeO-DMT change your brain, and why they’re giving hope to millions who feel stuck in rigid, negative mind patterns.

In this deep yet easy-to-understand episode, we talk about:

Depression: Why your mind gets stuck, symptoms, and why low mood isn’t just “low serotonin.”

- Mind Flexibility: Why a healthy brain is flexible, not rigid, and how psychedelics open it up.
- Neuroplasticity: How your brain rewires itself, for better or worse.
- Ketamine & SSRIs: How they really work to lift you out of dark mental loops.
- Striatum & Addiction: Why old brain regions make habits so hard to break.
- Brain Networks: Neurons, default mode network, and the science of complex thoughts.
- Consciousness: Is it more than just the brain? Dr. Manesh shares his own beliefs.
- Inner Healing Intelligence: How psychedelics unlock your mind’s built-in wisdom to heal.
- Lifestyle & Integration: Why sleep, food, exercise, and intention matter more than you think.
- Future of Psychedelics: Challenges, research at UCSF, and how society can make this safe for all.

✨ Whether you’re curious about mental health, fascinated by neuroscience, or wondering if these substances can really transform lives, this is the clearest, most real conversation you’ll hear.

✅ About Dr. Manesh Girn

Dr. Manesh Girn is a neuroscientist at UCSF, a top researcher exploring psychedelics, the brain, and mental health. He’s published 20+ peer-reviewed studies, teaches thousands through The Psychedelic Scientist, and runs the Center for Minds, which studies how psychedelics, meditation, and creativity shape our lives.

👤 About Marpa Minds

Marpa Minds is a next-generation mental health network offering Spravato and Ketamine treatments for depression, trauma, and emotional numbness. We combine science, therapy, and compassion to help you feel again.

👉 Learn more about Marpa Minds: www.marpaminds.com

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✅ 🔗 CONNECT
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Are you feeling emotionally flat? Like you’re going through the motions of life but nothing really hits anymore?

In this episode of the Marpa Minds Podcast, we dive deep into emotional numbness, dissociation, and what it really means to feel disconnected from yourself and your surroundings. 🧠

Whether you’re high-functioning but internally exhausted, or stuck in a haze of “nothingness,” this episode offers real insights, grounding techniques, and a look at cutting-edge treatments like Spravato that are helping people reconnect with themselves.

🎧 What We Cover in This Episode:

What is emotional numbness?
Why numbness isn’t the same as laziness or depression
Dissociation vs depression: how to tell the difference
Signs you're emotionally disconnected
Grounding exercises to feel safe in your body again
Real patient stories: “I felt nothing until I tried…”
How Spravato (esketamine) helps with emotional re-engagement
The stigma around feeling flat: “You look fine” doesn’t mean you are
Small steps to start feeling again

🎯 Who This Podcast Is For:

- People who feel emotionally numb, stuck, or disconnected
- High-functioning individuals dealing with hidden burnout
- Those experiencing anxiety, dissociation, or flat affect
- Anyone curious about ketamine therapy or Spravato as treatment
- Mental health professionals, therapists, and caregivers

💡 Key Takeaways:

- Emotional numbness is not weakness — it’s a symptom.
- You can feel again. There are tools and treatments that work.
- Spravato offers new hope for those who haven’t responded to traditional therapy.
- Grounding techniques are your first step back to the present.

👤 Connect with guest – David Aftergood
📘 Book: [Healing Into Wholeness] – [https://www.amazon.in/Healing-Into-Wholeness-Professional-Psychiatrist-ebook/dp/B0CW1HM26C]
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-g-aftergood-md-53ab99318

👤 About Marpa Minds

Marpa Minds is a next-generation mental health network offering Spravato and Ketamine treatments for depression, trauma, and emotional numbness. We combine science, therapy, and compassion to help you feel again.

👉 Learn more about Marpa Minds : www.marpaminds.com

🔗 Follow Us:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marpaminds
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What if everything you’ve been told about mental health… is wrong?

In this powerful episode, we sit down with Katie Walker, ICU nurse turned CEO of Revitalist, one of America’s leading ketamine clinic networks, to talk about what’s really going on in the mental health world.

Katie has worked on the front lines of trauma and psychiatric care for decades. What she saw pushed her to challenge everything, from overprescribed antidepressants to outdated models of "managing" mental illness.

🔍 We cover:

• Why psychiatry is failing millions of people
• How ketamine therapy works (and what it does to your brain)
• The difference between control vs. empowerment in healing
• What true trauma healing actually looks like
• Her visits to Richard Branson’s island & global mental health summits
• Why our brains don’t need “fixing”, they need realignment
• The broken insurance system and why innovation gets blocked

This episode is for anyone who:

• Feels stuck in traditional mental health care
• Wants real healing, not symptom suppression
• Is curious about psychedelics, ketamine, and alternative approaches
• Feels like the system isn’t working, and wants to know what’s next

🎧 Listen if you're tired of being told to “just take the meds.”

🔗 Learn more about Katie’s work: https://revitalist.com

👩‍⚕️ Sponsored by Marpa Minds – Ketamine & Spravato clinics helping people heal when nothing else works.
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