Fear, Shame and Embarrassment with Matt von Boecklin
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After years of struggling with kratom abuse—intensified by frequent relocations and the mental toll that came with them—Matt began looking for practical, physiological support for the earliest and hardest phase of quitting. Drawing on his background in chemical engineering, he developed Quit Kit, a three-week supply of targeted nutrients designed to ease withdrawal symptoms and support dopamine regulation.
Today, Matt speaks openly about addiction, recovery, and resilience, emphasizing the role of biology, community, and honest support in helping people quit—and reminding others that they don’t have to go through it alone.
They are three sisters born into a large family of ten children in the late 1950s and early 1960s, raised in a disadvantaged area of Dublin.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson. I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma. A big thank you to our sponsors and our guests who are supporting this show. |
| 0:15.5 | So five, four, three, two, and one. Our folks, welcome back to the podcast. Super excited to have us on my guest today. |
| 0:22.0 | Matt, I'm Becklin. |
| 0:23.1 | Matt, welcome. |
| 0:24.4 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:25.2 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:26.8 | All right, Matt, here we go. |
| 0:28.4 | So Matt is the founder of QuitKit, a science-backed recovery tool created from his own |
| 0:32.9 | lived experience with Kratum addiction. |
| 0:35.9 | After years of struggling with Kratum abuse, intensified by frequent |
| 0:39.9 | relocations and the mental toll that came with them, Matt began looking for practical, physiological |
| 0:44.9 | support for the earliest and hardest phase of quitting. Drawing on his background in chemical |
| 0:50.0 | engineering, he developed QuitKit, a three-week supply of targeted nutrients is designed to ease |
| 0:55.5 | withdrawal symptoms and support dopamine regulation. All right, Matt, before we get going, before I |
| 1:01.9 | ask you what Kratum is, because I know, I don't know, and a lot of people are probably wondering, |
| 1:07.5 | before we do that, share with the listeners where you're from originally and where you are currently, and we'll dive in. So I was born and raised in Seattle, you know, |
| 1:16.6 | shout out, and now I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Okay. Awesome. All right, so, |
| 1:23.9 | Kratem. How do you spell it? What is it? Yeah, K-R-A-T-O-M. It's been around for a long time with humanity. It |
| 1:33.7 | originates from the Kratum tree in Southeast Asia and people there have used it for medicinal |
| 1:39.5 | properties such as slight pain relief and an energy boost for centuries. But it wasn't until recently |
| 1:45.6 | when it was brought to the West that cradle manufacturers and proprietors realized they could |
| 1:51.1 | synthesize the psychoactive ingredients that provided that mild pain relief and energy boost |
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