Conscious Physician: Medicine & Psychedelics

Sarah Merritt MD is board certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, and addiction medicine.  She is a clinician in private practice in Bowie, Maryland.  She advocates for patients and empowers them to get the most from their relationship with their pain physicians, other doctors, and healthcare providers.  She works with patients to find small, practical changes in their daily liv...

“My life been a journey of pain, and making sense of that.” Currently a Spiritual Counselor at Hospice of New Mexico, Jeremy has a rich educational history in Religious Studies + Political Science. As a queer, non-christian person, Jeremy has a Masters in Divinity AND a Master in Sacred Theology with a concentration in chaplaincy that allowed them to consider spiritual care for the LGBTQIA+ surviv...

“We’re so fortunate to be in this time, in this country, pursuing psychedelic research.” This is rich one, listener. Dr. Lawrence Leeman received his degree from University of California, San Francisco in 1988 and completed residency training in Family Medicine at UNM. He practiced rural Family Medicine at the Zuni/Ramah Indian Health Service Hospital for six years. He subsequently earned a fellow...

Music by Shervin Hajipour, a 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Tehran called, “Baraye.” He was arrested two days after the song's release by Iranian intelligence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY_U5QfeQQc&ab_channel=PirouzShamekh “The world is looking to women as an emerging power capable of shifting the paradigm of war, violence, and nationalist hostility. The divine feminine is capable of...

This week on Conscious Physician: Medicine + Psychedelics, we have the pleasure of chatting with Sharon Fekete.   Sharon Fekete is the Founder of The Doctor Whisperer and has been whispering strategies to physicians for almost 20 years. As a firm believer in advocating toward improved mental health, she published ‘The Broken Road to Mental Health, in Life & in Business on her 25th sober a...

This week, our very own podcast producer, Elle Knowlton, joins Lida at the mic to share her vulnerable sobriety story. After a traumatic event in 2019, Elle turned to alcohol as a means of self-soothing. More than a year of daily drinking later, she bravely asked her mom for help, who directed her to a local psychiatrist offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy treatments for mental health and add...

Welcome to part two of our conversation with Dr. Brandon Warrick. In this second half of our episode, we discuss the correlation between mental health and physical health - and the way DIS-EASE manifests in the body. We mention Gabor Mate and his juicy offerings: https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/ We touch on modern psychedelic intervention for addiction, focusing on alcohol research...

This week the Conscious Physician Podcast shares the mic with Dr. Fatemi’s colleague and mentor Brandon Warrick, MD. Warrick was born and raised in South Dakota where he entered the medical field as a nurse before attending medical school. He then completed his residency in emergency medicine, worked in private practice, pursued a fellowship in medical toxicology, was boarded in addiction medicine...

“How do you have a more spiritual psychedelic experience? Well, you live a more spiritual life.” This week on the Conscious Physician Podcast we chat with Dr. Rick Strassman, the first American psychiatrist to conduct psychedelic research on a human control group following the Controlled Substance Act of 1970. Dr. Strassman shares his wealth of psychedelic wisdom ranging from the necessity of inte...

Welcome, beloved listener, to Medicine + Psychedelics, a podcast where we discuss science, spirituality, and psychedelic medicine as healing modalities to optimize human life. In this space, we’ll hear from experts in the field, share personal stories, and put words to the profundity of this work. In the premiere episode, cohosts Dr. Lida Fatemi and Elle Knowlton introduce themselves, their storie...