Dropping In With Charlie Houpert Tucker Max on Psychedelics for Personal Growth
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Oct 13, 2023 
Tucker Max, bestselling author, shares his transformation from playboy to rancher through therapy and psychedelics. Topics include healing modes, dealing with negative emotions, flawed parenthood, pain of rejection, midlife crisis, life balance, talk therapy, psychedelic therapy, finding inner peace, dysfunctional city life, trusting your own experience, healing from neglect, working on oneself, healthy place, mirror of life, relationship with God, oneness with the universe, divine connection, and paying attention to signs.
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Tools, Not Identities
- Psychedelics, talk therapy, meditation and yoga are tools to build the person you want to be.
- Focus on the goal (the house) instead of glorifying any single tool (the table saw).
Neglect Became Grief Decades Later
- Tucker grew up with emotionally neglectful parents and only intellectually understood it at 18.
- He only began to emotionally feel the grief decades later during intensive therapy and psychedelics.
Feeling, Not Just Knowing
- Intellectual understanding of trauma is not the same as feeling it; feeling is required to heal.
- Pushing emotions away acts like debt that eventually comes due inside you.