PT470 – Angie Leek, LMFT/LPC-S, SEP & Justin LaPree – Wounded Healers and the Power of Community in the Veteran Space
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, Johanna interviews Angie Leek, LMFT/LPC-S, SEP: Vital instructor, Founder of the Holos Foundation for Transpersonal Healing, and psychotherapist offering KAP through her private practice, Holos Counseling; and Justin LaPree: Vital graduate, decorated Marine, former firefighter, and Founder and President of Heroic Path to Light; a retreat center in Austin, Texas offering psychedelic-assisted therapy and community to veterans, first responders, and Gold/White Star families.
LaPree shares his personal journey of struggling to reintegrate into life after war and the daily traumas he lived as a firefighter leading to an eventual suicide attempt, and the healing he found when he rediscovered the community and purpose he had been longing for. And Leek tells her story of her spiritual emergency and the nonlinear path she found for coming to terms with her repressed trauma, further illustrating a common theme we see in this space of the wounded healer, and the challenge of taking care of yourself first in order to be able to heal others.
They discuss the importance of specialized communities for trauma healing; the need for a support system and the power of sharing experiences with others; how they both work with their clients, the idea of viewing preparation as "pre-integration"; why families and friends also need to be prepared; and how, if you feel like something needs to change or you're in need of a community, maybe it all begins with you.
They also talk about how much they loved Vital and the impact it's had on their life paths. The deadline for applications for the 2024 cohort of Vital is tomorrow, December 20, at midnight, so if you're ready to take the leap, head to vitalpsychedelictraining.com to apply now!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Caitlin and I'm a vital graduate. What inspired me to join the program was that I wanted to see a multidisciplinary approach to have the broadest perspective on these emerging therapies and therapeutic modalities. So I personally wanted to see how new psychedelic therapies would be implemented across various contexts. |
| 0:24.0 | So from the traditional retreat models, all the way to medical, clinical settings, and even at-home |
| 0:30.4 | therapies. So it was important to me to have this broad perspective. |
| 0:34.7 | After I completed the 12-month program, I went on to build a biotech company in the |
| 0:41.0 | psychedelic space, and we're focused on addressing the root causes of people's chronic pain and |
| 0:47.3 | inflammation. The most rewarding part has been putting people together to solve problems, And I personally really like high-impact |
| 0:56.4 | work. And so, you know, being able to chip away at solving the problem around alleviating |
| 1:03.7 | human suffering is really a core driver for me. Being a part of Vital was it came at a pivotal point |
| 1:10.5 | in my own lifelong healing journey and it |
| 1:13.4 | connected me with some of the most amazing healers in the space, relationships that I'm really |
| 1:19.1 | forever grateful for. So if you're interested in getting involved in the psychedelic world and making |
| 1:24.4 | a meaningful shift in your own life, visit vital psychedelic training.com for more |
| 1:30.0 | information and to join the next cohort. |
| 1:41.8 | Hello and welcome to psychedelics today. My name is Johanna Hilla and I am the coordinator of |
| 1:47.7 | education and training for our 12-month training program, Vital, which is starting again on the 23rd |
| 1:56.4 | of January. In these vital psychedelic conversations, we invite our students and our instructors |
| 2:04.1 | to share some of the most compelling stories resurging in the psychedelic space, speak about |
| 2:11.8 | themselves and their own work. And in this episode, I had the great pleasure to host Justin LaPrie, the founder of Heroic Path to Light, |
| 2:22.5 | a project that supports veterans in the space with psychedelic healing and also an Anglic, |
| 2:29.4 | who is one of our instructors, founder of the Holos Foundation and a therapist. |
| 2:36.4 | In this discussion, we dive into subjects such as trauma healing, healing in the veteran space, |
| 2:43.8 | the role of community in healing, and also leadership and what it means to be a leader in the psychedelic space as well as how to |
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