The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast

The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast is dedicated to bringing you real stories of real people getting real help to overcome their trauma through the use of intentional plant medicine and other spiritual practices.

The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Dr. David Zwoboda, with 99 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dr. David Zwoboda hosts The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast, a health show with 99 episodes published.

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  The Plant Medicine For PTSD Podcast

  48. Mike Elliott - You Can Be Numb for Decades and Never Know It

  Jul 20, 20261h 23m

  Mike Elliott was watching his own mind show him how to end his life. His wife of seven years had just walked out, he never saw it coming, and in the distress he kept seeing an image of a hose running from his tailpipe into his truck. Then a Shawn Mendes song came on, he threw his hands up, and said the first honest prayer of his life. Two days later his first coach showed up, and the whole trajectory of his life changed. In this episode, I sit down with Mike Elliott, a relationship expert and men's coach, for a conversation that runs from rock bottom to fatherhood. We get into why Mike was adopted twice before his first birthday, how he spent seven years treating his wife like a coaching client instead of loving her, and what numbness actually is, the kind you can drive around in for decades without noticing the check engine light. Mike breaks down his framework of initiation, integration, and inspiration, his idea of "life's report card," and why shame's entire job is to keep you isolated. If you've ever taken advice from someone who didn't actually live it, ever gone numb in your own body without knowing it, or ever wondered why the breakthroughs never seem to turn into real change, this one is about trauma healing, integration, and the slow work of growing up. It connects directly to the work we do with veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors learning to work intentionally with plant medicine. Guest Bio Mike Elliott is a relationship expert and men's coach who helps people build thriving relationships by teaching them to move from their head to their heart. He lives on five and a half acres in the Kootenays of British Columbia with his wife and their young son. After hitting rock bottom following the end of his first marriage, Mike rebuilt his life around what he calls relational authority, and now guides men through his program The Initiated Man and a podcast he co-hosts with his partner. Mike Elliott: itsmikeelliott.com Instagram: mikeelliott.relating Podcast: The Sacred We Podcast The Initiated Man (Mike's program): free for 7 days, then $97/month Thanks again for listening! Enrollment is open right now for our Mindful Microdosing Program, which has helped 250+ veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors overcome anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Visit https://www.becomingom.org/coaching for all the info and to get in touch with us. Or DM us the word INTERESTED on Instagram .

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  47. Jason Grechanik - What Tobacco Shows You That Ayahuasca Won't

  Jul 13, 20262h 9m

  Most people in the West think of medicine as something you swallow to make a symptom go away. Jason Grechanik has spent more than a decade in the Peruvian Amazon learning a completely different definition. A trained tabaquero who apprenticed in the tradition of tobacco and spent years at the Temple of the Way of Light, Jason now guides people through dietas, the long, solitary, food-restricted apprenticeships with a single plant that the tradition considers the real source of healing. In this nearly two-hour conversation, we go far past the usual psychedelic talking points. We get into why a Westerner serving medicine after a single ceremony is a red flag, what brujeria actually is and how a healer with good intentions still becomes one, where evil comes from, and why the hero of every culture's oldest story has to walk into a cave and face himself. We also talk about microdosing as its own kind of dieta, why these plants are spreading across the West right now, and what tobacco, the most feared and misunderstood plant in the Amazon, is actually for. If you care about trauma healing, plant medicine, integration, or just the deeper question of why any of this works at all, this one rewards a slow listen. Jason did the decade in the jungle so the rest of us could get the download. Guest Bio Jason Grechanik is a tabaquero, a practitioner who works with tobacco as a sacred master plant, trained in an Amazonian lineage. He spent years in Peru, including at the Temple of the Way of Light, one of the best-known ayahuasca centers in the world, before apprenticing directly under a tabaquero. For roughly a decade he has worked alongside his colleague Morav, guiding people through both in-person and remote dietas, the focused, food-restricted apprenticeships with a single plant or tree. He now works between the Sacred Valley of Peru and abroad, and hosts his own podcast, The Universe Within. Links & Resources Jason's work and site: NicotianaRustica.org Jason's Instagram: @jasongrechanik Jason's podcast: The Universe Within (YouTube, Apple, Spotify) Thanks again for listening! Enrollment is open right now for our Mindful Microdosing Program, which has helped 250+ veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors overcome anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Visit https://www.becomingom.org/coaching for all the info and to get in touch with us. Or DM us the word INTERESTED on Instagram .

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  46. Dr. Christopher Cortman - Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds

  Jul 6, 20261h 21m

  What does it actually take to heal something you have carried for decades? This week I sat down with Dr. Christopher Cortman, a psychologist with 40 years and more than 85,000 therapy hours behind him, to talk about guided imagery: a technique where you close your eyes and finish the conversation that trauma cut short. The goodbye you never said. The apology you never got. The brother, the mother, the friend you lost. Cortman walks through real cases. A young man whose mother died by suicide. A woman who lost her little brother in an accident on her watch. A Vietnam veteran who watched four men die and carried it for 50 years. In each one, nothing about the facts changes, and yet people walk out of his office different. We talk about how all of it connects to what we see in trauma and PTSD recovery with plant medicine and integration: that time doesn't heal anything, but what you do with the time does. Healing comes from going back to the unfinished business and finally putting it down. We get into whether any of this is "real" and whether that even matters, the five steps Dr. Cortman uses to finish a trauma, the explosion of dissociative identity cases he saw in the 1990s, and why he believes hope, not time, is what actually pulls people out of the dark. Guest Bio: Dr. Christopher Cortman is a licensed psychologist based in Florida with more than 40 years of clinical practice and over 85,000 therapy hours, including early work treating Vietnam veterans under a VA contract. He specializes in trauma, grief, and PTSD, and is known for using guided imagery to help people find closure with what they have lost. He is the author of several books, including the recently published Praying for the Darkness, a true story drawn from his work with dissociative identity disorder, and a recent book on guided imagery. He now sees clients largely by telehealth across roughly 44 states. Connect with Dr. Cortman: Website: srqshrink.com TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drchristophercortman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drchristophercortman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-christopher-cortman-5196b222/ All books can be found on amazon or here: https://srqshrink.com/book-store Thanks again for listening! Enrollment is open right now for our Mindful Microdosing Program, which has helped 250+ veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors overcome anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Visit https://www.becomingom.org/coaching for all the info and to get in touch with us. Or DM us the word INTERESTED on Instagram .

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  45. Emily Roper - Why Your Trauma Started Before You Could Talk

  Jun 28, 20261h 42m

  What if the work you are doing on your trauma at 40 is the exact thing a good parent can teach a toddler at 2? I sit down with Emily Roper, a neuro-developmental delay therapist and midwife's assistant who has attended more than 600 births. We get into how pregnancy, birth, and the first year of life shape the brain and nervous system for decades, why so much of adult trauma traces back to attachment, and the counterintuitive reason most trauma therapy backfires when you skip that foundation. Along the way: why a baby is an active participant in its own birth, what the medicalization of birth actually costs us, how an infant startle reflex stuck in survival mode shows up later as adult hypervigilance and PTSD, and why naming a feeling does more than fixing it ever could. Whether you are a parent, a veteran, or someone deep in your own healing and integration work, this one connects dots you did not know were connected. Guest Bio Emily Roper is a neuro-developmental delay therapist, certified midwife's assistant, and the founder of Early Roots, a practice focused on childhood development and supporting children with developmental delays. With backgrounds in psychology, midwifery, and neurodevelopment, she has spent over a decade working with kids navigating ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, sensory challenges, and other developmental difficulties. She has also attended more than 600 births. She is passionate about helping families and professionals understand how pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and early infancy shape long-term brain, nervous system, and emotional development. Links & Resources Emily Roper / Early Roots: earlyrootstherapy.com Early Roots on Instagram: instagram.com/earlyroots Early Roots on Facebook: facebook.com/earlyroots The Early Roots Podcast Thanks again for listening! Enrollment is open right now for our Mindful Microdosing Program, which has helped 250+ veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors overcome anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Visit https://www.becomingom.org/coaching for all the info and to get in touch with us. Or DM us the word INTERESTED on Instagram .

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  44. The Collective - Psychedelics and Reality: Insight or Illusion?

  Jun 22, 20262h 26m

  We recently got invited onto The Collective for a two-hour panel on psychedelics and reality, and it turned into one of the best conversations we have been part of. We sat down with other men who have each come at this work from a different direction: Gordo Hurley, a fifteen-year special operator now building suicide-prevention infrastructure for veterans in Canada; Josh Tyler, a former pro MMA fighter and BJJ black belt running men's healing work in Virginia; and the show's own host Chance Burles and co-host Sean Taylor, who has been around this medicine for twenty-five years. We got into why microdosing and plant medicine amplify whatever is already there, why integration is the work that actually heals trauma and PTSD, what happens in the brain during ego death and the two-week window that follows, and the hardest truth of the day: how dangerous this medicine can be for a veteran who gets sent home to the same environment with no support. If you are curious about this path for yourself, or you love someone who is struggling and you want to understand it better, this is a full and honest map. Listen all the way through. The best parts are near the end. About The Speakers: Gordo spent fifteen years in the military, half as an airborne light infantry reconnaissance patrolman and half as a special operator and joint terminal attack controller, before a medical release in 2021. He runs the creative agency All the Way Factory and the nonprofit All the Way Foundation, has produced a documentary series taking female combat veterans for ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT treatment, and is a co-founder of Stronghold Wellness. On this episode he announces Program Full Circle, a crisis-to-care pathway for veterans in Canada. Josh is a former professional MMA fighter and BJJ black belt based near Richmond, Virginia, and a co-founder of Savage Gentleman . His work has moved from goods into experience: combatives, bushcraft, time outdoors, and carefully held men's gatherings. Chance hosts The Collective. He is a jiu-jitsu brown belt with a background in equine therapy, and he frames this whole series around getting more honest information into people's hands so they can make better decisions. Shaun is the co-host of The Collective. His first major psychedelic experience happened by accident in Peru twenty-five years ago while he was working international security. He is the author of A High Fidelity Mind and is co-writing A Warrior in a Garden with Seb Lavoie. Follow The Collective: https://the-collective.ca/ & https://www.instagram.com/the_collective_ig Follow Gordo Hurley: https://www.instagram.com/atw_alltheway/?hl=en Follow Josh Tyler: https://www.instagram.com/joshtylermma/?hl=en Thanks again for listening! Enrollment is open right now for our Mindful Microdosing Program, which has helped 250+ veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors overcome anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Visit https://www.becomingom.org/coaching for all the info and to get in touch with us. Or DM us the word INTERESTED on Instagram .

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