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Mar 2025
1h 20m

Taking Psychedelics and Learning to Love...

Layla Martin
About this episode

Shownotes

 

  • Exactly what Internal Family Systems therapy is

  • The actual mechanism that creates the most profound level of healing

  • Psychedelics as a loving catalyst to know ourselves more

  • The truth about psychedelic stigma

  • Why it's important to prepare your set and setting with psychedelics

  • The difference between doses of psilocybin

 

Bio

 

Nick Brüss, EdD, LMFT, is a leading licensed psychedelic therapist, researcher and educator who is passionate about inspiring and helping people heal, grow and live creative lives. He's pioneering treatments and programs that harness the synergistic power of combining psychedelic medicine with cutting edge therapy and coaching. 

 

Dr. Brüss was a clinical researcher and supervisor on the ground breaking FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD sponsored by MAPS, and is currently a lead therapist on the Phase III Psilocybin therapy study for Treatment Resistant Depression sponsored by Compass Pathways. 

 

In private practice, he specializes in concierge ketamine-assisted and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. He trains nationally and speaks internationally on psychedelic-assisted therapy safety and efficacy, and is a co-founder of the Psychedelic Coalition for Health, a psychedelic medicine education and training platform. 

 

Dr. Brüss is also a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator through UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and a certified teacher of both Mindful Self-Compassion, and the Compassion Cultivation Training through the Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University School of Medicine.

 

Find more about Dr. Brüss' work at www.apracticeoffreedom.com and connect with him on LinkedIn and Instagram.



Timestamps

 

00:01:14 - Guest introduction

00:02:20 - How Layla and Dr. Brüss originally connected

00:04:51 - Sign up for Layla's newsletter at LaylaMartin.com

00:06:51 - The first time Layla experienced her own somatic avoidance

00:11:14 - Humans are so beautiful when they don't have so much pain

00:13:52 - Dr. Brüss explains what Internal Family Systems therapy is

00:19:24 - Unlock your deepest passion inside The Tantric Mastermind for Couples

00:20:06 - Discover your most masculine confidence and presence with Men's Sexual Mastery

00:21:12 - Dr. Brüss introduces listeners to MAPS

00:24:36 - The actual mechanism that creates this profound level of healing

00:27:19 - Layla shares about her experiences with MDMA

00:30:43 - How IFS integrates with felt-sense experience

00:32:30 - How intellectually "getting" something isn't the same as being "in" it

00:36:33 - We don't realize how much power we actually have

00:38:44 - Discover MOOD™ Sex Magic

00:42:48 - How psychedelics can be a loving catalyst to know ourselves more

00:44:28 - Layla shares her experience with psychedelics

00:47:22 - Dr. Brüss and Layla drink MOOD Sex Magic

00:55:28 - Psychedelic stigma was intentionally created

00:57:02 - The war on disconnection

00:57:27 - Enhance your sensitivity and pleasure inside Crystal Pleasure

00:59:15 - Why it's important to prepare your set and setting with psychedelics

01:04:33 - Dr. Brüss shares about his first psychedelic experience

01:07:24 - The difference between doses of psilocybin

01:12:06 - How different psychedelics work on different situations

01:19:53 - Conclusion

 

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