PT570 – How Family Healing Shapes Veteran Recovery, with Jesse Gould & Allison Wilson
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews two members of the Heroic Hearts Project: Founder and President, Jesse Gould; and Director of Development and Head of Family Relations, Allison Wilson.
Gould gives a background of Heroic Hearts Project and discusses their current projects and future goals, and Wilson talks about her nonprofit, The Hope Project, and its recent merger with HHP to bring more of a focus to the other side of veteran healing: the families of veterans. While Heroic Hearts and other veteran-aligned organizations have been an answer to many vets unable to find help otherwise (and frustrated with the inconsistencies of the VA), they talk a lot about that missing piece – how crucial it is to have family involved in a veteran's reintegration, and how that healing can impact future generations.
"The Veteran's Guide to Psychedelics: A Preparation and Integration Workbook" was recently released, with all proceeds going to HHP, and they are hosting their first Gala event, "Operation: Freedom To Heal," this week, December 5, in Los Angeles. The goal of the event is to fundraise, gather community, and recognize the supporters who have gotten Heroic Hearts to where it is today, and will feature live and silent auctions and a performance by Melissa Etheridge. Email Allison@heroicheartsproject.org if you'd like to attend.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to psychedelics today. |
| 0:14.5 | Joe Moore here, joined today by Jesse Gould and Alison Wilson from the Heroic Hearts Project. |
| 0:20.6 | We're talking about some upcoming event they're putting on and also their book and a little |
| 0:26.3 | bit more background on some of the extended programming they're doing that Allison's helping |
| 0:31.4 | with. |
| 0:31.9 | And I think it's a great, lovely little episode. |
| 0:35.2 | And yeah, listen to this one. |
| 0:36.8 | And if you're down, I would love to see you in L.A. at their event. |
| 0:40.8 | All right. See you on the other side. |
| 0:46.1 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to psychedelics today. We are joined by two members of the Heroic Hearts Project team, |
| 0:51.5 | Alison Wilson and Jesse Gould. How are you both doing today? |
| 0:55.5 | Great. How are you? |
| 0:59.0 | Doing fantastic, Joe. It's been a while. Good to see you again. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, totally. Totally. So we're here to talk a little bit about an event that's coming up as a gala for fundraising for Heroic Arts Project in Los Angeles in early December. |
| 1:14.5 | Before we dig into that, Jesse, can you give us an outline of what is Heroic Arts Project? |
| 1:20.2 | Absolutely. So, I myself am a veteran. I think we've dug deep into the history in previous psychedelics today podcast. So definitely |
| 1:29.7 | check those out. But yeah, Army Ranger, deployments, Afghanistan, I like many veterans and veteran |
| 1:37.5 | families faced mental health issues, struggles, post-military. And going to the BA BA it was essentially the avenue to be on medications |
| 1:48.2 | the rest of my life and that didn't seem like an ideal step to take and fortunately I heard about |
| 1:53.5 | psychedelics around that time super skeptical never done a psychedelic in my life never had interest in |
| 1:58.7 | doing them but found my way to Peru, |
| 2:02.1 | kind of a leap of faith, and went to an ayahuasca retreat, and super challenging, but in that, |
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