Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin

Researchers left people alone in an empty room with nothing but their thoughts and a button that delivered an electric shock. The results may shock you. We have more mental health advice than any generation in history. We are also more anxious, more depressed and more medicated than ever. That is not a coincidence. Roger argues that the standard advice is backwards, and that the way most people ha...

What is your therapist actually taught in graduate school, and what happens to a student who won’t go along with it? Leslie Elliott Boyce entered a counseling master’s program to deepen her study of psychology and how to help people in emotional pain. What she found inside the classroom changed her view of the entire profession, and ended her path to becoming a licensed therapist. In this conversa...

What if the voices heard by people diagnosed with schizophrenia aren’t hallucinations? Jerry Marzinsky spent 35 years in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and emergency rooms, and he did what almost no one in his field would: he asked the voices what they wanted. What they told him led him somewhere psychiatry won’t go: entity attachment, demonic possession, and what it means if our thoughts aren’t...

Was the chemical imbalance theory a scientific discovery, or did it grow out of MK Ultra-era drug experiments? Philosopher Justin Garson, author of The Madness Pill, traces the history of psychiatry from LSD in 1960s San Francisco to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, and how it paved the way for every “chemical imbalance” theory that followed. In 1973, Justin’s father was diagnosed with pa...

Is manifestation real, or just another pop-culture fad sold on vision boards and wishful thinking? In this episode, Roger and Tracy go beyond manifestation to the science of belief, with research and real stories that will challenge everything you've been told about your health and your body. Genetic determinism is a lie, and once you understand the power of your beliefs, you'll never look at your...

Anna Runkle, the Crappy Childhood Fairy, is an author, educator, and creator whose work focuses on childhood trauma, emotional dysregulation, and what is commonly described as Complex PTSD. Her YouTube channel has more than one million subscribers, and her book Re-Regulated lays out the daily practice at the heart of her work. After years of conventional therapy left her struggling, Runkle develop...

In this episode of the Radically Genuine Podcast, Roger and Tracy Thurman explore the story of the client who inverted the relationship between therapist and patient and became a messenger in Roger's spiritual awakening. Together they discuss the battle for human consciousness, how psychiatric drugs function as spiritual weapons, soul groups and soul contracts, synchronicity and guidance, breaking...

Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist, author of Man of My Word, and founder of The Conscious Resistance Network. He joins Roger & Thurman to discuss Agenda 2030, technocracy, surveillance, decentralization, and what it means to build a life outside increasingly centralized systems. CONNECT WITH DERRICK BROZE: A Man of My Word: How I Overcame Addiction, Depression, and Mental & Phys...

Dr. Roger McFillin and Tracy Thurman examine the Milgram obedience experiments, Solomon Asch’s conformity studies, Festinger and Carlsmith’s cognitive dissonance experiment, and Facebook’s massive emotional contagion experiment, breaking down what each reveals about authority, conformity, manipulation, and how easily human behavior can be influenced. STUDIES & EXPERIMENTS REFERENCED: Stanley M...

Matthew Lynn Guthrie is the award-winning director of Follow the Silenced, named Best of Festival and Best Director at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. He spent four years pulling back the curtain on a story the government worked hard to bury. Matt shares the childhood tragedy that set him on this path and the voice he heard in a hospital waiting room that he still follows today. He e...

Your child's school library has a new genre: psychiatric propaganda for seven-year-olds. In his final solo episode, Dr. Roger McFillin goes full circle, back to the chemical imbalance lie he exposed in the very first episode five years ago. This time he follows it to where it lives now, in picture books written for second graders. He breaks down My Life with Anxiety , a children's book that teache...

Tracy Thurman joins Viva Frei to break down Pennsylvania's war on the Amish. The listeria death she says never happened. The raid on Amos Miller's dairy. USDA agents telling Miller to do the one thing his own agreement forbade. The 502-page Pennsylvania rule that would let health officials into a schoolhouse without a warrant and question children without their parents present. And why the Amish —...

What if the feeling that rolled in this morning didn't start inside you at all? Dr. Roger McFillin describes a week of unexplained dread and asks whether the three explanations modern psychology and material science offer — the event, the mind, the brain/body — are built on a paradigm that's simply incomplete. Can we pick up on the energy of others and events outside us? To what degree has energy...

Del Bigtree — Emmy-winning producer, host of The HighWire, the most watched independent voice in health media. Dr. Roger McFillin — board-certified clinical psychologist. Del brought Roger on The HighWire for a segment on the Lindsay Clancy case. Then he kept the cameras rolling for Off the Record, the long-form Friday conversation where the show goes places broadcast television never would. Twent...

Many people sense that something is profoundly wrong with the world they are living in. They feel it before they have words for it: that every system around them, medical, political, financial, the media itself, was built to keep them distracted while the cage went up. They watch the news and feel powerless. They seek help and leave feeling worse. They follow the rules and find that the rules were...

Thirteen psychiatric drugs. Seven prescribers. Four months. Three dead children. Everyone knows what Lindsay Clancy did. Almost nobody knows what was done to her first. Her husband told them the drugs were making her worse. A hospital team wrote it in her chart. She said it herself, over and over, in her own words, in writing. There is a note in that record explaining why nobody listened. One phra...

Why does a man with everything going right for him quietly fall apart on the inside? Jeremy Lipkowitz was a PhD student at Duke studying the genetic code that supposedly explains what a human being is. On the outside it looked like a life going exactly to plan. In private he was losing to a compulsion nobody around him knew about, and the more he achieved the worse it got. Eventually he stopped tr...

Matt Walsh, the conservative commentator from the Daily Wire, set the internet on fire this week with a thread about therapy. The people defending him and the people attacking him are making the same mistake. Dr. McFillin's honest verdict on what's true, what's reckless, and the questions nobody thought to ask. Nobody is going to like all of it.

In 2008, bankers made reckless bets with your money, burned the economy to the ground, and kept their bonuses while you paid the bill. Economists call it moral hazard: when the person making the decision never suffers the consequences of being wrong, they get careless. They get greedy. And they stop caring whether what they're selling you actually works. We swore never again. We were lied to. Righ...

What did a new client say that nearly knocked Dr. Roger McFillin out of his chair? Why has honesty become the rarest thing in American life? And what if the label you were handed was never true? Be honest. You've watched it happen. Every flaw becomes a condition. Every choice becomes a symptom. Every struggle becomes a disorder. An entire culture has quietly agreed to stop telling the truth about...

Anthony Freda drew one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in advertising history — and illustrated the op-ed pages that helped sell a war. He was paid extraordinarily well to move product, opinion, and entire populations. Then he walked away. In this episode, Dr. Roger McFillin sits down with the illustrator-turned-whistleblower to trace the hidden machinery of persuasion — from Edward Be...

At 20, Tracy Thurman was told she'd never work again. Disabled, written off, handed a lifetime sentence by the same system that put her there. The doctors had a word for what happened to her: bad luck. They were wrong. And what finally brought her back was something the government will send armed agents to seize. This isn't a conversation for people who are comfortable. It's for the ones who alrea...

Jonathan Dickinson sat on the floor of a temple in Gabon, initiated into the Bwiti tradition. He built the only ethical supply line out of that forest when no one else would. He co-authored the safety guidelines the entire field depends on, was part of the landmark Stanford research, and runs one of the world's leading ibogaine clinics through Ambio Life Sciences. This year he poured fifteen years...

What if the scariest thoughts in your head mean nothing at all? William Schultz spent ten years trapped inside obsessive compulsive disorder. It got so bad he became afraid of his own shadow, checking it every time he flipped a light switch. Then he made one brave decision that put him in remission within two months. No drugs. No endless analysis. Today he's a psychotherapist in St. Paul, presiden...

What kind of man gets studied at Yale, Brown, and Harvard, builds a 300 person international research consortium, and still has powerful people working to erase his name? Dr. Daniel Ingram is not a guru. He is a retired level one trauma emergency physician. A published neuroscience researcher. The author of a book that has shaped contemplative practice for tens of thousands of readers. The acting...