December 29, 2022 Wowee!!  What a year 2022 has been!! We might even agree that the immortal lyrics of the Grateful Dead ring especially true for this year: “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” Be forewarned, this is a longer and more personal post than the ones in times past.  So if you choose

December 15, 2022 Continuing with our reflections on death, today I want to move into more of an architectural deep dive about how I view the soul’s journey and evolution.  First, I’ll start by saying that death and birth are two sides of the same coin, with death being the opening of a new beginning.

December 1, 2022 I recently lost a dear friend right around the 9-year anniversary of my sister’s passing, adding to an already delicate and introspective time for me. This left me deeply reflecting on life, service, death, legacy, and the meaning of it all.   Over the course of the next few emails, I wanted to

November 17, 2022 Last month I introduced our nonprofit, Thank You Life, which is a funding stream to provide scholarships for psychedelic-assisted therapy, in order to make these groundbreaking treatments more accessible. Today I’ve got an exciting update: we officially have our first two beneficiaries undergoing KAP (Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy) protocols with an excellent therapist, funded

November 3, 2022 I’ve had some big changes in my life as of late. Most recently, I left Austin after what felt like a 4-year-long initiation ceremony and moved back to Sedona. I wanted to share a little with you about why we, my partner Sonya and I, chose Sedona. Sedona is the one place

October 20, 2022 As we’ve discussed in the past, many people will agree that psychedelic therapy is the most exciting thing to talk about in medicine these days, even making its way into Netflix and the mainstream news media. The benefits of psychedelic therapies are widely discussed and have become part of the current zeitgeist.

October 6, 2022 In this one precious life, everyone embodies their own unique form of the Hero’s/Heroine’s Journey. Mine just happened to have been initiated through a series of traumatic brain injuries.  In the summer before entering medical school, I dove off a pier and hit a sandbar, landing on the crown of my head

September 22, 2022 In my last several newsletters, I’ve been unpacking the core maxims that I live by. We talked about how love is our blueprint and choice is our power, helping us shift into a more empowered, creative role in our lives. The third maxim is, for me, the most exciting: Life is our

September 8, 2022 When we remember that Love is our blueprint, imbued with harmony, interdependence, and interconnectedness, we recognize that choice is our power to create and tell our story.  Being in our power of choice is actually the reclamation of our greatest position. It’s the point at which everything is possible because we have