PSYCHEDELIC ASSISTEED BEHAVIOR CHANGE

For nineteen years I've been a willing and active participant in the behavior change game. Five years as an enthusiast and fourteen years as a professional with multiple certifications. The last sixteen years I've been exploring, practicing and encouraging meditation and mindfulness. It's been an amazing journey.

I've had, and continue to have, the honor of supporting hundreds and hundreds of people on their quest for improved physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

For the last three years, I've been studying the latest research on behavior change with psychedelic assisted therapy. To me, the benefits are undeniable. Many experts in the field would say it's currently the most effective treatment for anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, OCD, addiction that we have. Benefits go even beyond this into neuromuscular connections and more. The body of research is expanding every minute.

This is not about "tripping" or escapist behavior but rather taking a deliberate deep dive into the rewiring of the neural connections in the brain and metabolizing undigested negative energy.

FOSTER HEALTHIER HABITS

Overcome resistance to improving your lifestyle through activity, nutrition, mindfulness, and recovery / sleep to elevate your energy.

STEP INTO YOUR HIGHEST SELF

Free yourself from the shackles of limiting beliefs, painful experiences, roadblocks and rewire your unhealthy mental programs.

ENHANCE YOUR WELL-BEING

Reconnect with yourself, your relationships, nature, and maybe even something greater.

Our habit patterns have their roots in our neural networks. When we repeat a certain behavior, positive or negative, we strengthen or thicken the neural connections and paths in our brain. We create a groove. We deepen the groove the more we do a thing. It becomes easier and easier to follow the groove or repeat the given behavior with less and less effort. These habits become automatic or unconscious. It becomes very hard to rewire our brain / get out of the groove after years or decades of repeated behavior or after experiencing a trauma-inducing event (stuck negative energy).

It is possible with consistent effort and support to change behavior. Some would say it's the hardest thing for humans to do. Most people give up before they are successful, especially if they go it alone. They don't set up the right conditions to assist themselves in creating the new habit / new neural pathways / new grooves.

What neuroscience is proving is that psychedelics help to create new neurological pathways or connections. Creating new neural pathways helps us break the conditioned habit patterns of the mind. This gives us a clean neurological slate with which we can more consciously choose the habits and behaviors we want to reinforce in our lives.

Meditation has been proven to do the same. After sixteen years of personal practice, I strongly encourage all to develop a relationship with meditation. A few minutes a day can transform lives.

Here is what interests and excites me about the psychedelic research - I can see and feel the potential for incorporating psychedelics into behavior change coaching to assist people in building new neurological pathways which results in the adoption of healthier behavior more quickly, efficiently and effectively than via the traditional models. Thus: PSYCHEDELIC ASSISTED BEHAVIOR CHANGE.

As a coach, I have clients that struggle with a variety of negative behaviors that keep them unhealthy. These negative habits (being sedentary, excess alcohol, excess sugar, over-eating, under-eating, not sleeping, etc…) have been practiced and reinforced over and over for years and sometimes decades. Some would say these have even become addictions. They come to me to receive structure and support for learning and reinforcing healthy behaviors. Some clients do amazing and adopt the behaviors very easily… others struggle with various aspects of behavior change.

I am excited to see a psychedelic renaissance focused on mental health and behavior change. My own experiences with psychedelices began in the early 2000's. I am starting to see the role they have played in the development of my own consciousness and behavior. I’ll be sharing more about this at later dates.

After my last psychedelic experience in 2003, I shifted to the path of mindfulness and meditation in 2004 with my introduction to yoga. Nearly two decades later, I am more committed than even to helping people live more healthy and rewarding lives. Metabolic and cardiovascular disease are no longer the greatest threat to our health as they were when I began my career. Those are still bad and getting worse. However, what is outpacing those is a deterioration in mental health. I see it as all connected.

Today I am rediscovering psychedelics as a mindfulness and behavior change tool. Another tool to help people achieve sustainable success and quit quitting on the behaviors that fortify themselves against metabolic, cardiovascular and mental health problems.

I recently graduated from a psychedelic therapy course in November of last year led by a veteran of the field Jonathan Robinson - psychotherapist and best-selling author of 12 books. He completed his PhD work at U.C Santa Barbara in 1984 on the effects of MDMA on PTSD.

I am committed to exploring more research and psychedelics training programs to compliment my exercise, nutrition, life coaching certifications. I am excited to see this work expand in my life and in the world.

I am interested to hear about any of your personal experiences pertaining to meditation, psychedelics, behavior change or sustained shifts in perception.

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THE FOUR PILLARS

Science based practices for increased health and wellness.

Psychedelic Assisted Behavior Change is intended to help individuals

integrate these wellness practices into their daily lives.

MIND

Become more resilient. The daily habit of reading or listening to insightful content helps fortify determination, bolster confidence, develop awareness and insight around the subject of habit and behavior change.

ACTIVITY

Harness the physical, mental, emotional benefits available through exercise. For some it's walking... others, cross training. Regular consistent activity is essential for our wellbeing.

NUTRITION

Feed your body for results. Approach is based on each individual clients current body composition and activity level. Support and accountablity for hitting calorie and macro targets.

SLEEP

Proper rest, recovery and periodic breaks are essential to bolstering will power, focus and mood. Neglect increases mental and emotional stress, addiction, illness, and works against health body composition.

COACHING PHILOSOPHY

BEHAVIOR CHANGE - HABIT CREATION

AMPLIFY AWARENESS

As you do the work, you begin noticing your relationship to stress, the culture and how you are influenced a thousand different ways on a regular basis. Once we become more aware of our habits rooted in self deception, avoidance, and denial we can begin to change them. From there, it is a 1% daily effort to improve.

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

The "GRIND" model is broken and breaking people. It is no badge of honor to only get four hours of sleep, intravenous caffeine, sugar stimulation and skipping meals. Human-beings are not machines and can not operate as such. We require regular intervals of energy expenditure, energy recovery and proper fuel. We must make time for all.

continuous LEARNING

To thrive in an unhealthy culture, we need to learn and master skills for nourishing and defending our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. We need strategies for locating healthy options in an ocean of unhealthy default choices, for avoiding common traps and obstacles, for mindset and mood adjustment and for minimizing collateral damage. The learning and experimenting never ends.

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