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May 2025
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How Ayahuasca Helped Me Heal Trauma and ...

Sara and Les Raymond
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In this episode of the Mindful Movement Podcast, host Les Raymond sits down with Dr. Richard Grossman, founder of Heart Feather and a healer with over four decades of experience in acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and natural health. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Grossman has also immersed himself in Amazonian shamanism, leading transformative plant medicine ceremonies and guiding others on their path to healing. He is the author of Trust and Forgive: The Medicine of Your Life, which shares his personal journey and the powerful insights he’s gained through deep spiritual work.

Dr. Grossman opens up about how a childhood fascination with medicinal plants eventually led him to the healing worlds of ayahuasca and San Pedro. He shares how early trauma shaped his life, how plant medicine helped him access layers of emotional healing, and why trust and forgiveness are essential ingredients in the path to wholeness. This rich conversation explores the intersection of traditional healing, spirituality, and emotional freedom.

Expect to Learn

  • How ayahuasca and San Pedro each support healing through different energies
  • Why trauma is stored in memory and how plant medicine can help release it
  • What it means to forgive and how it frees you, not the perpetrator
  • How holistic healing addresses the full human experience: body, mind, and spirit
  • How emotional trauma can block vitality and how deep healing restores flow

Episode Breakdown with Timestamps

  • [00:00] Exploring ayahuasca’s unique healing intelligence
  • [00:54] Dr. Grossman’s background in Chinese medicine and shamanic healing
  • [03:35] The importance of having diverse tools in your healing practice
  • [04:32] Writing, Trust, and Forgive, and how his childhood interest in plants began
  • [10:30] The Auschwitz vision and the message to “trust and forgive”
  • [16:06] Becoming a ceremony leader through years of personal healing
  • [20:14] San Pedro vs. ayahuasca: how each one supports healing differently
  • [26:12] Microdosing San Pedro and how it can shift daily patterns
  • [34:30] Illness as a symptom of deeper roots: a different way to look at disease
  • [39:00] Redefining forgiveness as self-liberation, not condoning harm
  • [48:02] Powerful real-life stories of transformation through forgiveness
  • [56:02] How to connect with Dr. Grossman and explore his work

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