Trauma Bonds in Relationships: Why People Stay and How They Rebuild
Trauma bonds in relationships can grow out of childhood neglect, people pleasing and a need to rescue others. That is what Serena Garcia describes in this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, as she tells how foster care, group homes and a hard relationship shaped her, and why leaving was only the start of rebuilding who she is.
Psychedelic Injustice: Who Owns Psychedelic Medicine and Its History
Psychedelic Injustice is a book by historian Thomas Hatsis that questions the claim that certain groups own psychedelic medicine. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, he lays out where he says psychedelic therapy began, what he sees in facilitator training, and why he believes politics should stay out of the healing room. These are his views, offered for debate.
Personal Branding: Why Followers Don't Equal Business Success
Personal branding works best when you measure results, not follower counts. That is the view of Shem, an entrepreneur who helped build Safety Pup XD, a company that began when a friend's dog ran into a dark forest. In this conversation with his childhood friend Jeremy Van Wert, he explains why a smaller group of people who believe in your mission is worth more than a big audience.
Feeling Unworthy: How Perfectionism Led to Burnout and Healing
Feeling unworthy can quietly drive perfectionism, overwork and burnout. Therapist and author Karen Goslin knows this firsthand: she grew up feeling she was not enough, pushed herself until she burned out, developed an autoimmune illness and lost her marriage. She tells Jeremy Van Wert what interrupted her, what she learned, and how she now helps clients change.
Request IEP Evaluation: A Parent's Guide for ADHD and Dyslexia
To request an IEP evaluation, put your request for testing in writing and keep a dated copy. That is the advice Robyn shares after her son Jackson, now 17, struggled through school with ADHD, dyslexia and dysgraphia. She tells Jeremy Van Wert how she kept pushing, what finally helped, and what she would tell any parent whose bright child is falling behind.
Personality Profiling and Astrology: Why One Expert Keeps Them Apart
Personality profiling uses validated assessments to show how a job candidate is likely to behave, perform and fit a role. Michael Spremulli has done it for companies for over 20 years, and he is also a professional astrologer. He tells Jeremy Van Wert why he never mixes the two, how skills, motivation and mental horsepower predict fit, and what evidence-based astrology means to him.
EFT Tapping for Burnout: A Hospital Executive's Story and Live Session
EFT tapping, or emotional freedom techniques, is a method of tapping while naming a specific emotion and memory, and Sophia Torrini says it became her turning point after burnout and 14 years of chronic illness. A former hospital administrator, she explains how she believes stress and emotion get stored in the body, then leads Jeremy through a live session on shame.
Psychedelic Therapy With Licensed Therapists: Where Care Is Heading
Psychedelic therapy, in the view of Journey Clinical CEO Myriam Barthes, is safest and most useful when licensed therapists lead it with medical screening beforehand and integration afterward. She explains how ketamine therapy is being brought into private practices, what she expects next for psilocybin, and why she believes the real work happens before and after a session.
Sound Healing and Drumming: A Rock Drummer's Path to Self-Worth
Sound healing, in Clementine Moss's approach, uses sound to help a person connect to their own guidance rather than to be healed by someone else. A drummer with the Led Zeppelin tribute band Zepparella and a practitioner of vipassana meditation, she explains how drumming and stillness taught her the same lessons about power, self-judgment and self-worth.
Build Discipline: An Eliminate Sheet and Morning Routine That Stick
To build discipline that lasts, Army veteran and life coach Derick Johnson starts by removing what holds you back before adding anything new. He explains his eliminate sheet, a morning routine that begins with movement, how he fits habits into a busy schedule, and the comeback story mindset that helped him turn a painful childhood into a mission to help others.
Taking Power Back: Heal From Trauma and Stop Living on Autopilot
Taking power back means noticing where you hand your control to a job, a relationship or fear, and choosing again. Soul empowerment coach and light language healer Birgitta Visser explains what that looks like in conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, from healing after trauma and setting boundaries to a one-minute grounding exercise.
Talk Therapy Isn't Enough? One Woman's Path to MDMA Therapy
When talk therapy isn't enough, some people look for other options. Jill Sitnick, who worked at Microsoft and Amazon, tells Jeremy Van Wert how a PTSD diagnosis led her to MDMA-assisted therapy, why she says the real work happens in the integration afterward, and where she points people who want to learn about clinical trials.
Brain Hemorrhage Recovery: One Man's Story and the AAA Mindset
Brain hemorrhage recovery looked different for Dan McQueen, who woke from a four-week coma at 28 unable to speak or walk. He tells Jeremy Van Wert how he avoided what he calls the pity spiral, relearned to walk, and now teaches the AAA mindset: acknowledge, accept and adapt. This is one person's account, not medical advice.
CEO Burnout: A Former Co-CEO on Perfectionism and Identity
CEO burnout can build for years behind a successful title. A former co-CEO of a health tech company tells Jeremy Van Wert how childhood conditioning and constant pressure to be perfect wore her down, what she learned by asking who she is without her title, and what she experienced at a ceremonial psychedelic retreat.
Family Trauma and Addiction: One Man's Path to Sobriety
Family trauma and addiction often travel together, and Jordan Turbyfill says he lived both. He grew up watching a parent struggle with addiction, then found himself drinking to numb the same hurt. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, he explains what pushed him to sobriety and how faith, routine and boundaries help him stay on course.
How to Stay Relevant in the AI Era: Lessons From a Steve Jobs Mentee
To stay relevant in the AI era, Kelli Richards says you need to think critically for yourself and learn to work with AI, because people who can't will get squeezed out. She is a Silicon Valley advisor who says Steve Jobs mentored her from age 16. She shares her career lessons with Jeremy Van Wert.
What Is Shamanic Initiation? The Andean Path Step by Step
What is shamanic initiation? Andres, a teacher of Andean shamanism, describes it as a structured, step-by-step path rather than a one-time retreat, built around three modules that move from taking responsibility, to ancestry, to harmonizing the fields around you. He explains it to Jeremy Van Wert and shares the story of his own initiation in the Andes.
Executive Burnout: The Hidden Cost of Senior Leadership
Executive burnout can build quietly behind a successful career, through sleepless nights, guilt over layoffs and the loneliness of senior leadership. Gabrielle Pimstone spent 27 years in corporate psychology and says she lived it herself. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, she describes what pushed her to change and how she found a purpose she could live.
Conscious Leadership: Leading With Human Connection, Not Just Profit
Conscious leadership, in Roxanne Chaput's words, means leading with human connection, empathy and compassion instead of only the bottom line. After about ten years as an executive, she says she left that path to guide leaders and healers. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, she explains her view of fear, her call to healing work and a live energy scan.
Toxic Family: Healing Childhood Trauma and Finding Adult Freedom
A toxic family can shape how you work, trust and love long after you leave home. Author Susan Gold, who wrote Toxic Family: Transcending Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom, tells Jeremy Van Wert what she learned from her own upbringing, why talk therapy alone did not move her forward and what freedom means to her now.