Trauma & therapy Archives - Peter Attia

#339 – Unpacking trauma: How early wounds shape behavior and the path toward healing | Jeff English

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:15:00 +0000

“My coping skills live in a part of the brain that gets hijacked when the emotional brain takes over, and this doesn't always have to be about trauma." —Jeff English

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#315 ‒ Life after near-death: a new perspective on living, dying, and the afterlife | Sebastian Junger

Peter Attia — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:00:38 +0000

“I was allowed to go to the precipice, look over the edge, and then allowed to come back." —Sebastian Junger

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#208 – Tragedy, grief, healing, and finding happiness | Kelsey Chittick

Peter Attia — Mon, 23 May 2022 08:45:36 +0000

“There's just a real relief when you stop wishing it was different, whatever it is.” —Kelsey Chittick

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A suicide safety net at the Golden Gate Bridge

Peter Attia — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:00:18 +0000

A juxtaposition of beauty and tragedy

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#195 – Freedom, PTSD, war, and life through an evolutionary lens | Sebastian Junger

Peter Attia — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:45:14 +0000

"If you experience that [equality of all people], you do not want to give it up. And that's one of the things that soldiers experience in combat with each other in a platoon.” - Sebastian Junger

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#191 – Revolutionizing our understanding of mental illness with optogenetics | Karl Deisseroth M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:45:49 +0000

“It turns out that behavioral states that mammals have, they can be cleanly broken apart into these features, and we could show that with optogenetics.” —Karl Deisseroth

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#190 – Paul Conti, M.D.: How to heal from trauma and break the cycle of shame

Peter Attia — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:45:34 +0000

“Trauma changes the instrument that we use to understand our trauma. It's changing our brain.” —Paul Conti

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How do you move forward after making a fatal mistake?

Peter Attia — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:00:33 +0000

Accepting the limits of personal control

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Qualy #2 – The 5 habits Tim Ferriss returns to most reliably

Peter Attia — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:29:40 +0000

This episode of The Qualys is from podcast: Tim Ferriss: depression, psychedelics, and emotional resilience. Subscribe on: APPLE PODCASTS | RSS | GOOGLE | OVERCAST | STITCHER

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#186 – Patrick Radden Keefe: The opioid crisis—origin, guilty parties, and the difficult path forward

Peter Attia — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:45:45 +0000

“Today the opioid crisis is a heroin and fentanyl crisis… absent Oxycontin, we might not be where we are today.” —Patrick Radden Keefe

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#182 – David Nutt: Psychedelics & Recreational Drugs

Peter Attia — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:45:49 +0000

“It turns out that the drugs that have been most vilified and which we've been taught are the most dangerous, turned out to be the least dangerous.” —David Nutt

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How should we do drugs now?; searching for a Bob Ross painting

Peter Attia — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:00:46 +0000

A few things worth checking out: 08/22/2021

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#172 – Esther Perel: The effects of trauma, the role of narratives in shaping our worldview, and why we need to accept uncomfortable emotions

Peter Attia — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 08:45:02 +0000

“I don’t fundamentally believe that one can know oneself without knowing oneself in relationship to others.” —Esther Perel

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Alternative perspectives on drug use and addiction

Peter Attia — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:00:30 +0000

Considerations for drug use and treatment

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#164 – Amanda Smith, M.D.: Diagnosing, preventing, and treating Alzheimer’s disease, and what we can all learn from patients with dementia

Peter Attia — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:45:21 +0000

“At the end of the day, it really has to do with how people see themselves, how people interact with the world, what kind of relationships they have, how able they are to let go of things that they've lost and how able they are to focus on the positive.” —Amanda Smith

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MDMA for PTSD?

Peter Attia — Sun, 30 May 2021 10:00:27 +0000

MDMA-assisted therapy gets one step closer to its projected 2023 FDA approval

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Psilocybin for depression?

Peter Attia — Sun, 23 May 2021 10:00:26 +0000

The psychedelic drug goes head-to-head with Lexapro in a recent trial

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Promise and challenges for psilocybin and MDMA use in treatment

Peter Attia — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 11:00:21 +0000

What lies ahead before FDA approval

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#146 – Guy Winch, Ph.D.: Emotional first aid and how to treat psychological injuries

Peter Attia — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:45:47 +0000

“We have a choice in the stories we tell ourselves. We don't have choice about the facts, we have choice about our organization, our perspective, and the narrative we create around them.” —Guy Winch

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#139 – Kristin Neff, Ph.D.: The Power of Self-Compassion

Peter Attia — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:45:51 +0000

“It's not that self-esteem is bad. We want to feel worthy. It's really why we feel worthy, how we feel worthy, that’s important.” —Kristin Neff

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A few things worth sharing: 11-08-2020

Peter Attia — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 12:45:27 +0000

Mental health; Minty-fresh toothpaste

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#135 – BJ Miller, M.D.: How understanding death leads to a better life

Peter Attia — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:45:29 +0000

“People die much more miserable than they need to because they haven't dared to look at this thing called death before it's too late.” —BJ Miller

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#122 – Lori Gottlieb: Understanding pain, therapeutic breakthroughs, and keys to enduring emotional health

Peter Attia — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:45:32 +0000

“Change happens gradually, then suddenly.” — Lori Gottlieb

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#119 – Terry Real: Breaking the cycle of shame, anger, and depression

Peter Attia — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:45:31 +0000

“Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one generation, has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.” — Terry Real

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