We're back!!! After a long haitus we're coming back with a new episode based all around the concept of clean and dirty pain

In short, clean pain is necessary but ultimately productive pain, while dirty pain is the pain that comes from avoiding clean pain

We'll break down both of these topics, get our shit together, and learn that if we gotta feel pain, it better be worth something

Hey guys,

Sorry for the fake out, but for reasons I explain in this episode we decided to skip the episode on my worst psychedelic experience (for now) and instead focus an entire episode on ayahuasca.

We focus on the benefits of ayahuasca, some explanation around what an experience is like, and of course I share a little about my own encounters with the medicine (plus a more-than-you-asked-for helping of adolescent toilet humor)

This episode marks the first in a three part series in honor of our upcoming Ex-JW Ayahuasca retreat in March (DrRyanLee.com/retreat for more info).

In today's episode we talk a little about the upcoming retreat, some best practices for working with psychedelics, and then we take you on a little adventure through my first ever LSD experience.

Episode 2 will cover my worst experience (lots to learn from my mistakes)

Episode 3 will cover my best experience (lots to learn if you're considering working with Ayahuasca)

Building off of last week's show, we cover 10 key areas that help us in our pursuit of making new friends

In part 1 of this two part episode we tackle everything related to the experience of losing our JW community and rebuilding our social circle from scratch, including how to navigate trust issues and rewriting some of our core beliefs around human connection

This episode is for all you superheroes our there blessed/cursed with the power of empathy.

We cover the origin story of the empath, the kryptonite of social gatherings, and how to harness this power through energy management

An analogy to help us conceptualize the work of deoprogramming

On our very first Halloween episode, we take a cold, hard, chilling look at the spooky topic of death, and explore the possibility that death isn't necessarily the big scary monster we thought it was.

We start by sitting for a bit with the uncomfortable actuality of our imminent demise, followed by some more comforting ideas to take the edge off.

Finally, I open up about some of my personal experiences with the afterlife...