Escapism — a distraction or tool? It’s been a long, arduous month for you. Work frequently drags into the late night and your spouse is about ready to call it quits after 3 weeks straight of them taking care of the kids and household chores alone. Your friends have practically forgotten you exist. And you just…

I am a board-certified internal medicine physician. That is pretty unusual in the psychedelics world, because most healthcare professionals in psychedelics are either psychologists or psychiatrists. This unexpected background gives me a particular perspective on psychedelic clinical applications that is not so obvious to others. I’ve spent years helping patients…

At the time of writing, a very well-known mental health telemedicine platform is getting a lot of heat due to an exposé by a former employee. They are shutting down major operations in response to a claim that they were overprescribing potentially addictive substances. …

In psychedelic health work, you often hear about the inner healing intelligence. Psychedelics help us bring down our defenses and learned habits so that this healing intelligence can do its work. I was extremely confused about this for some time. The phrase, “inner healing intelligence” makes it seem like there…

(Yeah it’s a cheesy title :D) Adulting is something we should figure out by the time we’re an adult, right? Nah. I can count on one hand the number of people I felt like were good at “all the life things” by the time they hit adulthood. …

Being an internal medicine doctor who works primarily over telemedicine means about 50% of my patients are coming in for mental health. Has it changed over the pandemic? Sort of. I have roughly the same proportion of mental health patients, just more people overall have now discovered the magic of…

Do you notice yourself feeling a little more drained recently? If so, you might be experiencing symptoms of burnout. In order to identify burnout, you need to understand what it actually is. So let’s break it down together. Burnout doesn’t just happen. You don’t wake up one day and suddenly…

In medical school, we heard about “building rapport” with our patients and developing a good “bedside manner.” What’s more difficult is actually teaching or learning “good” versions of any of these. …

The objective breakdown of emotions and its correlative skills has been subject to debate for as long as we have tried. There are six major theories of emotions commonly cited, and dozens more addressing the various components of emotions and its effects. …