Inside the Mind of a Survivor: Brad Silberman on Healing Trauma with Ketamine Therapy, Psychedelics, and Purpose | ANEW Ep 75

In Episode 75 of the ANEW Insight Podcast, Dr. Supatra Tovar sits down with trauma survivor, entrepreneur, and mental health visionary Brad Silberman for a riveting, deeply moving conversation about the long road from traumatic brain injury to profound personal transformation. After suffering a near-fatal assault in South Africa that left him in a coma and on the brink of death, Brad defied the odds to reclaim his mind, body, and purpose—and is now helping others do the same.

In this inspiring episode, Brad shares how a brutal assault led to years of recovery, from re-learning how to walk, talk, and breathe independently to rebuilding his life with intention and clarity. His journey through integrative healing, meditation, and ultimately psychedelic and ketamine therapy opened powerful doors to self-understanding, forgiveness, and growth.

Brad introduces listeners to the framework of his book, Be the Bubble, a guide that emerged from a transformative non-drug-induced psychedelic experience. He describes being in a metaphorical and literal “bubble” where he came face-to-face with his purpose, identity, and inner peace. His story highlights how deeply embedded trauma can be reprocessed and released when we embrace the present moment and develop emotional resilience.

Throughout this episode, Brad discusses:

• How mindset played a critical role in his miraculous recovery
• Why victimhood is easier to fall into, and how to break free from it
• The science and psychology behind ketamine-assisted therapy and its role in promoting neuroplasticity
  His daily mental and emotional design for maintaining clarity, gratitude, and groundedness
• Why he believes healing isn’t just possible—it’s inevitable when approached with intention, love, and presence
  
  
  

Listeners will also gain insight into how trauma can be reframed not as a life-ending event, but as a catalyst for meaning, purpose, and compassion.

Dr. Tovar and Brad explore how modern science, ancient wisdom, and self-designed rituals can intersect to create a life rooted in peace and authenticity. Whether you're navigating mental health struggles, interested in ketamine therapy, or looking for a new way to approach life’s challenges, this episode offers hope, empowerment, and actionable tools to transform your path.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the ANEW Insight podcast


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empowering and inspiring your journey
to optimal health.


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Hosted by Doctor
Supatra Tovar, clinical psychologist,


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registered dietitian, fitness expert
and author of Deprogram Diet Culture:


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Rethink Your Relationship with Food,
Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet Free Life.


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I follow my guests’ journey
to optimal health,


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providing you with the keys
to unlock your own wellness path.


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Tune in and evolve with us.


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Hello,
and welcome to the ANEW Insight Podcast.


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I am Doctor Supatra Tovar,
and I am thrilled to have trauma survivor,


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healing innovator, and mental health
trailblazer Brad Silverman with us today.


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Brad, thanks for joining us.


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Thank you so much for having me.


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Oh, I'm so excited.


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So I'm going to read
a little bit about Brad.


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And then we're going to get right
into the questions.


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Bradley Dean Silberman is an author,
speaker, and entrepreneur


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who turned a life altering trauma
into a mission to help others.


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After surviving a brutal assault
that left him with severe brain damage.


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He embarked on a journey of healing
through coaching,


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integrated therapies, and meditation.


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This experience led him to create


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Rewire, an at home
ketamine assisted therapy service


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designed to make mental health
care more accessible.


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His book, Be
the Bubble, shares his story of resilience


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and introduces
a framework for personal transformation.


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Brad, welcome.


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Thank you.


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So excited to be here.


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Yes, we are so excited


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because your story is just so unique


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and frankly, very traumatic.


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And so I would love if you don't mind
sharing this traumatic event


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with our audience and how it changed
your life and how it shaped your mindset.


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Please, absolute pleasure.


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So just more than 20 years ago


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in South Africa, I went to a nightclub
to celebrate a friend’s birthday.


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Just before that, I was actually studying
engineering and mathematics


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I was an athlete, I was a rugby player.


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That was my life.


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All of a sudden to the best of my knowledge,


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I woke up one,


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I don't know what day or time it was,
with all tubes


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in every orifice of my body


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and


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I could barely see what was going on, 


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everything was blurry, couldn’t even hear much.


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But what I do recall


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my family running in crying


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they could not believe I’d opened my eyes.


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Okay. And


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I just looked and I kept
on telling me what had happened.


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I did not understand anything.


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I didn't believe it.


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And soon I realized that
what they'll tell me was actually true.


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Because I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t talk, couldn’t understand much.


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Couldn’t speak, breathe on my own, bath or do anything.


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And.


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That was the


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the the real trauma of it all.


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Was that being in this body, not knowing


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what the hell was I walking into.


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Ya know., What was coming?


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They told me


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that a couple of weeks prior to that time,


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I went out to a nightclub celebrating a friend’s birthday,


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and I was beaten up by bouncers, unprovoked.


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Some luck. I didn't understand
what had happened,


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because I've never been a fighter,


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I’ve always been that lower. Right?


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And they said that it was actually one of my black friends


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that was kicked out of the club,
and he went on about racism, etc., etc.,


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and I was the guy
was trying to calm the situation down.


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Because I’m more of the bigger type of guys, 
maybe a leader of the group.


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I was just trying to settle everyone, and calm it down, not fight.


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And they attacked me


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and smashed my head on the curb of the pavement.


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Thank the good Lord,


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that my friends
threw me into the vehicle that we were in,


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and rushed me to hospital.
Because apparently if I had arrived


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seven minutes later,
I would have died. Wow.


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So apparently because


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I was, had trauma in my body,
I started vomiting,


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but because I was knocked out, I was drowning in my own vomit, I couldn’t release the vomit.


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Or the liquid. So that's one of the many things that,


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really,


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the tragedies of, of of what happened.


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Another, another


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message that I remember
is that, the neuro


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either the neurosurgeon or trauma surgeon told my parents


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if Brad wakes up, you can expect him


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to be blowing bubbles in the corner for the rest of his life being a vegetable.


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So my recovery, thanks


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you know, thank God that I recovered fully,


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I'm a better man to enable


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my passion and power to enhance other people’s lives.


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Holy cow.


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It's unbelievable


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that you can suffer
that big of an injury to your brain


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and come back and be completely mobile,
walking, talking.


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You know, memory is good.


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Everything is functioning.


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Can you please tell our audience
what you did


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in order to be this functional?


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Well thank you for the compliment, much appreciated.


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So I think beyond beyond anything,
whatever I did, I think the key elements


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was my mindset.


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I had no negativity.


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Not piece of negative anything.


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In my mind, in my heart or in my soul.


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Somehow, maybe it was because I was brain
damaged, I’m not sure.


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I just accepted what had happened to me


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as a universal lesson, 
that this needs to happen to me


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In order for me to become who I need to become.


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So that's one


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element of, I believe, why I recovered
miraculously.


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Another element was that,
I had thousands of


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people praying for me every morning


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and every evening around the world.


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This was before social media, before Facebook.


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So my brother actually
made a website of people


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to send in positive messages
and it was just every minute, thousands of messages.


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People were just praying for my recovery.


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And obviously the medical care.


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The medical attention.


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But, through the journey, I mean, it took quite a long time


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for me to actually


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become independent on my own, number one,


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And that was more 


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the Western approach to medical care.


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So it took me about three years to learn how to walk, talk, eat, and breathe on my own.


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where I was sufficient on my own.


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And I actually started studying again.


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I did, Bachelor of Commerce and Entrepreneurship and Management.


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I was actually brain damaged


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when I actually started it, and the neurosurgeon said


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please don't do this because, your brain, you’re gonna


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damage your brain, it’s not ready, and I’m like


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I’m the get up and add a cup guy, I’m like, I need to do this.


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And so I think he was right and wrong.


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Right, in the fact that it was really hard for me to do that.


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I mean I used to read for literally a minute then have to sleep it off for three weeks.


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I’d headaches and migraines that no tablet or injection would relieve.


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So only sleep would relive that.


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But anyway I managed to get through it, took me about seven years to


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actually get that degree.


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And in between that time,
I also started businesses


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of healthcare and massaging and healing,


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and corporate wellness event companies.


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And I just, just whatever came across
my path was just


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just, I was just determined to just succeed, you know.


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Wow. So


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really, I
think the primary driver was your mindset,


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Yeah. And you stated that you had zero


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negative attitude when this happened.


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How did you develop this type of mindset?


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Because I think that that's
very difficult for people.


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And I think it is a goal for a lot
of people to try to change their mindset.


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So did you have this prior to the accident
or did


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the accident help
to fuel a positive mindset?


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I think we are all born with


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certain tendencies
and the way we feel and,


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think about things. But through life’s journey


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it pushes us to become who we are actually 
meant to become.


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So I believe that we all are
actually searching for who we really are actually.


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And that search is right in front of our noses.


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It's something like this
that happened to me.


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Allows you
to reach their destination sooner
 than you would have thought.


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Right.


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So what's really pushed me
over the edge of, of,


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of creating this type of mentality
was that I did go through


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huge amounts of alternative wellness approaches to healing.


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I mean, just an example of what I went through was that


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on a conscious level,
because my attitude was so great.


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I recovered miraculously on the Western side of medical care, like everything was great.


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But, deep inside I was suffering, I was actually


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I was going to the toilet, number two, excuse my French, [laughter]


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35 times a day and my body was failing me. But on the blood tests and everything


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I was perfect. Okay.


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So I decided to reach out to alternative
 approaches of, to wellness.


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And I went to regression and hypnotherapy.


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And obviously,
a lot of homeopathic medications to heal


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just my body. Right?


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And through this


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journey, I actually had a non medicated psychedelic experience. Wow.


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Where I went to a place


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in this hypnotic state


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where


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it was the most beautiful place I’d ever been, 
so I never knew where it was.


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I was there for five minutes, 
but it felt like I’d been there for a lifetime


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What was it like?


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How would you describe it?


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That was the first time


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I’d ever connected with who


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I was without any other energies present.


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I saw myself who I am,


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I saw myself for why I was born, and my mission.


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And I loved myself.


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And I kind of understood my human compass,
 of why I’m here.


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And why is it? Where was I?


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I was in a bubble on a cloud.


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Hence the name, Be the Bubble.


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And from that


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experience, it kind of made sense
 about why I’d been through


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what I’d been through


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and what I need to do and how I should face life.


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And it gave me a motivation to


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publish my book and write my book and share my story


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to help people face life and challenges.


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No story is comparable.


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My story is not comparable to your story.


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Everyone’s got a story. Everyone’s got a hospital challenge, 
that’s not comparable.


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It happens to us because it happens to us and what we have to deal with.


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It's about how we face that, how we deal with it.


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How we overcome it and how we improve ourselves and the lives around us.


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And so if you could say
in a couple sentences


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what you gleaned as your purpose.


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What is it?


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In a couple of sentences. How many?[laughter]


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So what is my purpose, is that the question? Yes.


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My purpose is to


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uplift other people.


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To make people realize


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that they are awesome
just the way they are.


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They do not need to achieve
anything more than just being.


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And when they realize that,
they find themselves


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They live a purpose driven world in life, and they become happy. Because isn’t life about happiness?


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And love.


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I think life is truly about love.


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100 percent.


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So let's talk about Be the Bubble.


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I want to just do a little aside,
but I think it's so interesting


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that you were in this bubble
because when I'm doing therapy


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with my clients,
I ask them and it's kind of silly, but


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I ask them, who's the most
powerful character in The Wizard of Oz?


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And if I were to ask you that, who is it?


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Yourself.


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No, in The Wizard of Oz


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who's the most powerful character?


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No you tell me.


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Glinda


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Because she directs everything, right?


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She directs Dorothy to go
where she needs to go.


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She wakes them up
when they fall asleep in the poppy fields.


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She's the one who imparts the wisdom on Dorothy


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at the end of how she can get home.


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But the most interesting part of her
is that she travels in a bubble


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Oh wow, yeah.


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and that's her protection.


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So. That’s so interesting. I want to know.


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Be the Bubble.


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You were in a bubble in this non


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drug induced psychedelic experience.


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Explain the book for us.


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Explain the book.


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So just before I do that, If I may,


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why did I write the book?


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And how did I write it.


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I went to speak to a


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a leader of a community in South Africa.


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And about my story and my book.


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A couple days later he phoned me and said


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Oh, my goodness, that was amazing.


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You can share your story everywhere you go. It was brilliant.


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And this guy deals with,


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you know, the best brains in the world. Right?


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So that gave me motivation to write the book..


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I decided that I'm going to create a meeting, every single day before work, an hour and a half.


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90 minutes before I start work, with me and my book
and let me write it. 


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And that’s how I wrote it, this was during Covid.


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So Be the Bubble essentially


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exists of six different discoveries


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of how we face life. They all interlink to one another


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to enable you to face life.


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Okay.


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So the first discovery is actually be the bubble.


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What Be the Bubble actually is, is that


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It’s all about the time frame right now.


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That I’m in this protective


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transparent bubble.


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Where I’m the captain of my own ship.


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In order for me to make and


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to sail myself in the correct path,


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I need to let go of the past.


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Okay.


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All the trauma, all the negativity,
all the things that I feel that are


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holding onto is not allowing me to be free
and be present.


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I need to let go.


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How do we let go? 


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You tell me.


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How would you let go?


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Well that's a tough one
for a lot of people.


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This is what I work with, my clients on.


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In terms of being present in the.


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Now, I find that most people are either


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caught in the past,
worried about the future or both.


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And I try to get people in the now


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to remember that
now is the only time that we have.


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And I do that through connecting them
with their senses through, you know,


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just basic,


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basic observation of the present moment.


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And when they do this
in a grounding exercise,


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they usually emerge from it at peace,


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calm and happy.


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But you tell me.


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Before I get into


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how we let go, just how the book presents itself.


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Is that the time frame right now, the present


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right now exists the past,


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the present and the future.


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All compressed into now.


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In order for us to make 


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the best decision about now, and be in the present, 
we need to let go


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by forgiving


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into love.


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And how we do that
is from the previous discoveries of be the bubble.


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The first discovery is perception versus attitude


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how I see things.


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Is how I behave and my attitude towards things.


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So that's the first discovery.


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Okay.


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Everything that's happened to
me before this has happened


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for me, not to me.


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And that’s what Be the Bubble presents to the reader.


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So when we understand then we have that mind frame, we can let go by understanding.


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that what happened to me,


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happened to me to because it made me a better person,


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and it was meant to happen to me.


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That’s a stepping stone for me to summit my mountain.


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Right, it didn’t happen to me, it happened for me.


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So we can let go of our forgiving into love


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by actually realizing that whatever happened, and whatever we’re holding on


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we need to be grateful for.


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Okay. I love that.


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Okay. By, by being in


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by being in the present
and now this is when are in the bubble.


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So now we’ve forgotten about the past
we’re focusing on the future. Now we have a problem about 


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Sorry, we’re focusing on the present, but now 
we have a problem,


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about the future.


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What if I don’t achieve? What if I fail?


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What if I don’t sell that company?


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What if I don’t make a million dollars? What if,


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What happens if I don’t lose that 50 pounds?


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What then? 


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What happens if they don’t love me? 
What happens if I don’t,


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be who I’m meant to become?


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The anxiety.


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So how we let that go in the future


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is that we realize that right now, we are enough.


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We aer enough right now.


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And obviously there are, daily designs 
and routines that we do


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to enable us to feel that way.


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If we let go the past and we forget about the future


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and focus on the present,


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be the bubble in this transparent sphere where we’re the captains of our own ships.


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We understand the mission and the 
purpose of why we were born,


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and we’re meant to be here right now


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with everything that’s happened to us, 
to be the best that we can be


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we will live life, we will be happy.


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We will have that mindset
where, when there is love, we will be there.


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We will welcome that love. 
We will welcome that positivity.


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So that’s the summary. [laughter]


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In the shortest
amount of time is possible.


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But it does take a great deal
of mental energy to be able


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to look at the past as something
that we can learn a lesson from.


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Why do you


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think so many people hold on to resentment
and hold on to the hurts from the past,


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rather than look at them
like lessons and learn to let them go?


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I think it's easier to be the victim.


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It's easier to say, this happened to me
and that's why I can’t.


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That's why I couldn't.


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It's easier 


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that anger emotion is probably the easiest emotion to feel.


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That comes before the let-go and 
being who I really am, it’s easier.


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So, for you


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after you had this non


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drug induced psychedelic experience


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did you continue


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To try to reach that place


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or to use meditation.


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Yeah.


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So the last
the last discovery of Be the Bubble


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is daily design,
 everyone's different


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and I’ve created my own daily design which I share with people when I


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speak and I do workshops
and that type of thing.


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My daily design is that every morning 
I get up and I pray.


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First of all, I pray with gratitude, with love and acceptance.


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I do mindfulness in meditation and I do activity.


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And that's


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those are my three things that gets me
ready for the day.


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That puts that Be the Bubble mindset into my head.


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Where whatever happens, I can face.


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What ever happens is what’s meant to happen.


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And attached to that is that,


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actually when I immigrated to, way off, when I immigrated to Los Angeles three years ago


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I had this commitment


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that I'm actually not in  control of anything.


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And when you kind of push that away


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and you accept what comes
you have this mind set of openness,


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of acceptance,


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of that this happens to me for me.


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and I’m going to do the best that I can 
because it’s here.


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How would you consult someone who's


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rigidly stuck in that victim mentality?


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What would you say to them
in order to help them release?


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Well, I think we need to go to the reason 
of why they feel that way.


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And we need them to let it go.


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We need them to let it go by realizing that, 
that happened for them.


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And what are the positivities and options and potential that it’s created for them.


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You know,


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Then how do you help
someone who is fixated on the future


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and worried and wondering
when the sky is going to fall?


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The majority of the time?


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These are the types of clients
that I see most often.


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They're either stuck in the past,


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fretting about the future,
or they're doing both.


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So how do you get them to stop
fretting about the future?


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Easiest methodology


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is actually psychedelics and ketamine therapy


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Well, we're definitely going
to get into that in the second half,


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but give a little teaser so that people,


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can look forward
to the next half of this episode.


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Just to add to that
provided that it’s safe.


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Because there’s some contraindications where it’s not safe, obviously.


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So I mean just


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just in my personal experience
it took me about 12 years


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to understand


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which is quite a short time
 if you think about the life journey


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But from an incident to about 12 years to understand why it happened to me.


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What I want to do.


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With psychedelics and ketamine therapy


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That's a much quicker timeframe to realize that.


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I believe. Back then


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Ketamine and psychedelics were not


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really open in the world.


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They probably were doing it underground and that type of thing.


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In the 70s for sure.


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In the 60s.


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It wasn't, it wasn’t open, or not


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Especially not where I was.


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But now it is.


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And I think that you can reach that path much quicker


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and much sooner to understand why things happened.


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And also and, anatomically


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That's scientifically


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which we’ll go into after the break I believe


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It’s proven


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from the data, from the research that’s done.


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So what is it about that
that gets people to stop ruminating


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about the future? 


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So.


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Ketamine essentially writes, more specifically


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blocks the NMDA receptor


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receptor.


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Flourishes the glutamates
which promotes neuroplasticity.


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Neuroplasticity really is rewiring of the brain.


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Allows us to change, adapt, to let go of things,
without doing anything else.


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Just the ketamine, which some say is a miracle drug.


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That kinda promotes


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symptoms of depression,
anxiety, trauma and more.


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And so by blocking


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that you are only in the present.


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I think, everyone reacts differently to certain things.


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It allows one to accept


00:25:27:14 - 00:25:30:22
 what happened to them, 
that whatever happened to them


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and now there the victim, this happened to me and I can’t continue with life


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and Im the depressed because of X, Y and Z


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I'm worried about the future


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allows them to change the experience
that they’ve had


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so it allows them to let go.


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to just be in the present.


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The letting go I think is the key.


00:25:51:00 - 00:25:53:01
So we are going to get into that much more


00:25:53:01 - 00:25:56:01
in the second half
of this amazing episode.


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So thank you so much for joining us.


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And tune in next time for this second
half of this episode with trauma survivor,


00:26:04:12 - 00:26:09:09
healing Innovator and mental health
trailblazer Brad Silberman.


00:26:09:09 - 00:26:11:18
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