Healing Through Psychedelics and Psychiatry with Visionary in Residence Kalen Flynn

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Episode Description

Meet Kalen Flynn, a Holisticism Visionary in Residence alumni, multi-passionate physician, and resident psychiatry trainee who empowers patients to connect with their innate capacity for healing in a holistic, intuitive, and accessible way. Kalen studied Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai and has spent months living in the Amazon with indigenous Shipibo healers who practice herbal medicine and ayahuasca ceremonies, learning about the incredible healing power of plants. In this episode, Kalen, Michelle, and Wallis discuss the modern mental health landscape, where the system is failing its patients, and how the intervention of psychedelic therapy may create a paradigm shift in our approach to healing.


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“I've been so blessed to get to learn from people who have been working with psychedelics in a traditional medicine way.” – Kalen Flynn

“I really quickly learned that I had to keep my mouth shut so that I would be able to climb those ranks and get into medical school and graduate!” – Kalen Flynn

“Our system is so broken --- when you're looking at autoimmune disease, or mental health, the system is failing.” – Kalen Flynn

“I've been working on this, this fear of being seen… It is such a process to allow myself to be seen.” – Kalen Flynn

“All day long, we're just trying to cope with being in the world and being human, it's really hard.” – Michelle Pellizzon

“Shame feels like a tool of patriarchy. I think about how distracted I was my whole life by being ashamed of myself or my body or my choices, and how that kept me from being present.” – Michelle Pellizzon



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If you liked hearing about Kalen's path to discovering clarity in her purpose check out "Energetic Internet Boundaries, Projector Magic, and Gene Keys with Daje James" where Daje James of @thestorydoula and Michelle dive into approaching internet culture with ease, the fear of being canceled, creating and sustaining boundaries while expanding your image and brand online and how to use your Gene Key to tap into your innate strategy. Daje James is the founder of Brave School and the Brave School Podcast where she muses on spirit, strategy, and the creative process.

SHOW NOTES

  • [0:00:06] Podcast begins.

  • [0:00:56] Announcement: Our winner of last month's raffle for 1:1 Akashic Records reading with Michelle is Kathleen Teresa!

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  • [0:01:50] We’re launching The Four Day Intuitive Business, Energetic Recalibration tomorrow! Stay tuned

  • [0:02:09] Summer solstice is coming up!

  • [0:02:14] Michelle gave a quick overview of the four-day energetic recalibration

  • [0:03:22] At the end of that four-day experience, you should feel really good about what happened in the last six months, and you should also have a really clear directive of where you want to go next

  • [0:05:10] The doors to the North Node open officially on June 20, which is the Summer Solstice

  • [0:05:27] Michelle gave a glimpse of what’s inside the North Node library

  • [0:09:30] We've proven that running business, as usual, the way that Google or Facebook destroys the world, is not the right way. We cannot follow in their footsteps. We have to choose new pathways

  • [0:11:24] This is the last time that we're going to open the doors to North Node in a big way

  • [0:12:30] I love my team, I love having a small team, I love being able to be deeply connected to the people I work with. I also really love offering them tons of freedom, and being able to have business not as usual, so that I can create a really safe, supportive space for the people that work with me

  • [0:14:44] Today's guest is Kalen Flynn. Kalen is a psychiatrist

  • [0:17:53] Kalen is teaching a class for Holisticism on Exploring the Food and Mood Connection - Nutrition for Mental Health, on June 23, at 1pm

  • [0:20:33] Kalen introduced herself, her background, and why she does what she does.

  • [0:20:46] “My huge interest and reason for going into psychiatry was to work with psychedelics.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:24:09] “I've been so blessed to get to learn from people who have been working with psychedelics in a traditional medicine way.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:28:26] Kalen shared a story when she was in Berlin, and there were 20 of them who were murdered of shooting in their college campus.

  • [0:29:30] “That shook me to my core. And then from there, I started looking at my ways of making sense of the world stopped making sense.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:31:20] “It was a crystal clear calling!” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:33:15] “I really quickly learned that I had to keep my mouth shut so that I would be able to climb those ranks and get into medical school, and graduate!” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:33:31] “My family was really supportive.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:33:45] “Our system is so broken --- when you're looking at autoimmune disease, or mental health, the system is failing.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:35:33] “I've been working on this, this fear of being seen… It is such a process to allow myself to be seen.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [0:37:53] There's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society!

  • [0:38:24] Kalen talked about The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

  • [0:45:20] The first psychedelic that will probably be approved, and it's not a traditional psychedelic but MDMA, is approximately on 2023.

  • [0:59:24] I t just doesn't make any sense to let things get so so so bad, and then you don't intervene.

  • [1:00:22] “All day long, we're just trying to cope with being in the world and being human, honestly. And it's really hard.” – Michelle Pellizzon

  • [1:08:03] There are some interesting people who are working with hearing voices and what that means for people, and there’s even a patient-led group called Hearing Voices Network that helps people who think that these experiences might not be something to be pathologized. But it might be something that empowers them or helps them.

  • [1:09:13] “I encounter on the street who were potentially mentally ill or homeless. I always listen to what they say. It’s like a message from the universe that I need to hear. I feel like they're clearly accessing a plane. I'm just not on that plane that they're on. So what information can I take from it?” – Wallis Millar-Blanchaer

  • [1:13:19] Doing a three-week intervention of just changing the diet, not in any sort of crazy way, not focused towards weight loss but just focusing more on nutritional foods, you could see improvements in both depression and anxiety.

  • [1:14:05] “You need vitamins like vitamin C, or zinc, and just a bunch of nutritional stuff. And I think that that's so undervalued.” – Kalen Flynn

  • [1:16:06] Try the 21-day clean up your diet challenge --- temporarily change your eating patterns and see how you feel and what works.

  • [1:20:56] Even a glass of wine with the right friends and the right moment can be the most therapeutic thing in the world, even if it does cause anxiety later.

  • [1:22:33] “Shame feels like a tool of patriarchy, because I just think about how distracted I was my whole life by being ashamed of myself or my body or my choices, and how that kept me from being.” – Michelle Pellizzon

  • [1:23:42] Follow Kalen on IG @visionarymedicine or visit her website at https://www.visionarymedicine.co/

  • [1:24:50] Podcast ends.

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