All right, team, welcome back to the Man Talk Show. And I am Connor Biedon. I'm your host. If this is your

first time to the show, I just want to say welcome.

And this show is really dedicated to the betterment of you as a man in whatever way, shape, or form, whether you are wanting better yourself, health and wellness, and your mindset,

in your relationship, in your sex life.

This show is a culmination of guests and conversations that dives deep into a lot

of these topics. And if you are not new to the show and you are a reoccurring guest, I just want to say

thank you and share a little bit of gratitude for you continuing to tune into these episodes

and these conversations. This show, this podcast has grown

exponentially over the course of the last several months of the course of this year. And that is

largely due to you, dear listener, sharing the conversations with people in your life. So if you

find this conversation fascinating, please don't hesitate to man it forward and share it with somebody

in your life, man or woman, that you think would benefit from it, that you think would enjoy it.

So let me tell you, with all of that said, a little bit about my guest. I actually met this

gentleman at a social function a couple months ago, and we got to talking about his work, and his work is

in the psychedelic field. So my guest today is Dr. Nicholas Bruce, and he is a licensed psychotherapist

in Los Angeles, California, specializing in integrative ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He is also a licensed internal family systems therapist

or IFS. He's certified in mindfulness facilitation at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center in Los Angeles,

California, and as a compassionate cultivation teacher at Stanford University's Center for Compassion. He is also a

therapist at the LA site for MAPS, sponsored phase three clinical trial of MDMA-assisted

psychotherapy for PTSD. So as you can imagine, Nick and I are going to dive deep into a few things.

We're going to talk about

first and foremost the sort of fears and worries and anxieties that can come along with

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