In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Marta Kaczmarczyk, a wellbeing and health optimization consultant and the founder of the psychedelic society of the Netherlands.

Topics:
- Marta's Background
- The nervous system
- Burnout, stress and other imbalances of the nervous system
- Somatic therapies
- Psychedelics and the nervous system
- Biohacking
 
About Marta Kaczmarczyk
Marta is a wellbeing and health optimization consultant living in the Netherlands. She bases her methods in systems theory – if you face any difficulties in your life, you need to look at them holistically, there is no isolated cause for any problem.
She helps people to rewire their brain towards a positive outlook on the future and get you out of the survival mode. She has a rich portfolio that equips her for this type of work: MSc in Cognitive Science, Post-MSc and academic research on persuasion techniques for healthcare and wellbeing, two years of guiding psilocybin truffles one-on-one sessions, co-creation of the first longevity clinic in Europe, half a year of work as an assistant facilitator at one of the most prominent legal psychedelic retreats in the world, and more...

Links:
http://embodyingthemind.com/
https://www.instagram.com/embodying_the_mind/

About Tim Cools
Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/

In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Erica Siegal, psychedelic researcher, clinician and psychotherapist and founder of NEST, about making psychedelic care accessible, and practicing harm reduction and creating support communities in the psychedelic space.

Topics:

• Erica's Background
• Promoting Harm-Reduction with Psychedelics
• What it is like to be part of a safety team at a festival
• Supporting Others' Psychological Needs and Supporting Integration Process
• The Current Faults in the Psychedelic Renaissance and the Importance of Community
• The Importance of After-care Support
• The Challenges in Psychedelic Care Work
• Warning Signs for the Formation of Psychedelic Cults
• Avoiding Economical Hierarchy and Power Dynamics in the Psychedelic World
• The Ethical Boundaries in Psychedelic Therapy
• How to Take Care of Yourself as a Psychedelic Care Worker

About Erica Siegal
Erica Siegal specializes in trauma-informed therapy, anxiety management, compassion fatigue/professional burnout in first responders and caregivers, and the integration of non-ordinary states.  She completed the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Training program in 2018 and has spent several years working as a psychotherapist on the FDA-approved MDMA-assisted psychotherapy clinical trials. 

Erica has provided crisis mental health, harm reduction outreach and community support to over 30 transformational festivals and large-scale events since 2013.  This work has given her unique perspective and expertise in extreme psychological distress, substance-induced altered states of consciousness, poly-substance use and addiction.  She has collaborated on multi-disciplinary emergency response teams, trained first responders in emotional resilience and provided integration and support after traumatic events.  

In 2019, Erica founded a harm reduction focused practice, NEST, to provide compassionate and comprehensive trauma-informed services to individuals, groups and communities, specifically oriented toward first responders and care professionals.  NEST provides telehealth psychotherapy, harm reduction education, event support services, and psychedelic integration.  

Erica takes a humanistic, harm reduction approach to her work, helping her clients foster a sense of self determination to improve their overall sense of wellbeing.  Utilizing mindfulness techniques, somatic awareness and compassion practices into the integration process can help to make deeper meaning of the ketamine-assisted sessions. 

Links:
https://linktr.ee/NESTharmreduction
https://www.instagram.com/psychedelicsocialwork

About Tim Cools
Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/

In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Jessika Lagarde, psychedelic-assisted guide, integration coach, freelance writer and co-founder of Women on Psychedelics, about liberating and de-stigmatizing women in the psychedelics discourse.

• Jessika's Background
• Empowering Women in the Psychedelic Space
• Opening the discussion about Womens' bodies and minds
• Avoiding Spiritual Bypass When Working with Medicine
• Working with Psychedelics in Tolerant Environments
• Integrating Different Perspectives for Promoting Acceptance and Inclusiveness in the Psychedelic Space
• Harm Reduction with Psychedelics
• Women on Psychedelics

About Jessika Lagarde

Jessika Lagarde is a psychedelic-assisted medicine guide, integration coach, Women On Psychedelics co-founder, and freelance writer in the psychedelic space. Since 2020, she has been behind WOOP's content production, where her passions for storytelling, women's empowerment, and psychoactive substances converge. Jess' goal as an advocate for psychedelics is to work towards the normalization of these substances and the end of the stigmatization of women’s mental health and women’s drug use.

Links
www.womenonpsychedelics.org
www.instagram.com/womenonpsychedelics
www.instagram.com/theglobalpaths

About Tim Cools

Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.cools