The Messenger
Teach Me or Heal Me
Welcome to Teach Me or Heal Me, a podcast about the moments that break us, the medicine that finds us, and the journeys that reshape us. Here, you'll hear anonymous voices, mostly veterans but not exclusively, sharing their real stories of pain, resilience, and transformation. These are people who found their way to psychedelics not out of curiosity, but out of necessity. Trauma, grief, disconnection, and the search for something that could make it bearable or simply meaningful, again. They speak candidly about what led them to these substances, what happened during those deeply personal jou...
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Aug 2, 2025
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#8 02.08.2025 1:19:44
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #8 was a friendly reunion with a Marine that I served with. I saw a Bryan Hubbard post where he read off a letter from the wife of a Marine who was struggling from the loss of his teammates in Iraq. December 1st 2005 was a tragic day for our battalion that left 10 dead and 11 wounded. This event...
#7 27.06.2025 1:14:42
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #7 served as a medic in the army and took that task to heart. His purpose in emergency medicine carried on to his civilian life as a flight nurse and that mission consumed him, fully. Maybe too fully... the years of service, importance of his role, and desire to never fail set the bar of expectat...
#6 23.06.2025 1:32:41
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #6 was a Navy Corpsman and Air Force PJ who thrived in the SOF community and felt that loss of community in his reintegration to civilian life. Ultimately his family and commitment to them led him to seek help. He accepted an offer for the Trifecta Study that ended with a psychedelic journey that...
#5 06.06.2025 1:26:39
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #5 is an Army veteran who experienced numerous TBI's and after struggling with cognitive issues he received a devastating prognosis of early onset dementia at the age of 40. He was instructed to go home, take the pharmaceutical drugs that might delay his decline, and told there was nothing...
#4 24.05.2025 1:28:11
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #4 is the spouse of a veteran who saw the impact psychedelics made on him and it inspired her to take the journey. She had struggled with a foggy memory of being taken as a young child which manifested into a phase of substance abuse, infertility, and self destruction. Her journey not only assi...
#3 19.05.2025 1:22:37
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #3 served as a Marine Scout Sniper and career fire fighter. He found himself questioning his place in the world, his value, and whether or not there was any meaning to it. He began to feel like an observer or Non Player Character, going through the motions of life for somebody else's benef...
#2 14.05.2025 1:48:50
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #2 served in the Navy and is a career firefighter. He's dedicated his life to serving his country and community but found himself spiraling after divorce. A lifetime of pain and struggle began to impact every relationship he had until he no longer wanted to participate in the game of life....
#1 10.05.2025 1:38:54
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. Guest #1 was a wrecking ball in high school who survived a gunshot and stab wound. Spent 5 years in the Air Force and then landed at the Department of Corrections serving warrants for violent felons. The toxicity of police work took a toll and he decided to save his soul from it by retiring 3 months...
Introductions 07.05.2025 7:15
Send us your story to be a future guest. Please include a contact method for us to reach out to. In this episode you'll be introduced to Teach Me or Heal Me, learn about the mission and purpose behind the project, meet the host and hear a bit of his back story. Enjoy.
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