PT578 – How Psychedelics Can Help Build a Better You: The Power in Letting Go, with Tommy Aceto
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kyle interviews Tommy Aceto: former Navy Seal and trauma medic, and now, ambassador for the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition and advisor at Beond Ibogaine.
He talks about how much the psychedelic space focuses on healing and mental health, but doesn't talk enough about the overall wellness that can come from a consistent practice: that the more you become aware of your body, emotions, and breath, the more robust your neural pathways will become – and that you can actually change your neurochemistry and build a more energetically powerful system. With these pathways being opened, fewer psychedelic experiences are necessary, and with practice, these mind states can be achieved simply through meditation or breathwork. The idea of surrender and entering a state of receivership is scary, but he believes the most important skill to begin that transformation is to learn how to truly let go.
He also talks about:
- What the psychedelic scene is like in Nashville and the south
- His work with the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission and what happened with the bill to grant 42 million for ibogaine research
- His most powerful 5-MeO-DMT experience and how it reconnected him with the divine
- The science and practice of gratitude: how reframing painful experiences can actually rewire the brain
- How cold exposure (notably ice baths) can prepare your system for a psychedelic experience
and more!
Happy New Year from all of us at Psychedelics Today. Let's hope for big psychedelic wins in 2025!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Psychedelics today. My name is Kyle Bueller and I am the host for today's episode. |
| 0:19.1 | And today I get to chat with Tommy Aceto. Tommy has been on the podcast in the past, so you can go back and check out his |
| 0:26.4 | most recent episode with Cort Wing and Joe. And if you're scrolling through the podcast |
| 0:31.9 | archive on any of your apps, that episode is called the veteran community and operator |
| 0:36.8 | syndrome, psychedelics, and Redefining Pain Management. |
| 0:40.8 | And so for this episode, I actually found myself in Nashville, Tennessee for Thanksgiving. |
| 0:45.3 | I had a friend just kind of traveling across the country. |
| 0:48.1 | He happened to be in Nashville and decided to celebrate Thanksgiving and his birthday |
| 0:52.0 | and reached out to Tommy since Tommy lives in |
| 0:55.0 | Nashville to sit down. So we got to sit down in person for this interview. So if you want to go |
| 0:59.8 | check out the video, you can check that out on our YouTube channel where the video will be up there |
| 1:05.1 | for this interview. And so in this episode, we chat about psychedelics and what's maybe happening in the south compared |
| 1:11.9 | to places like California and Colorado. |
| 1:14.7 | And Tommy highlights Nashville's growth and the emerging psychedelic community in there and how |
| 1:21.5 | it could be a hotspot for psychedelics because of a lot of the creativity that comes out of Nashville, |
| 1:27.3 | especially with the music scene. |
| 1:29.0 | And we chat about Tommy's experiences as a Navy SEAL, his experiences with FathemaO DMT. |
| 1:35.8 | We also chat a little bit about the Kentucky Opio Settlement Commission and the Kentucky Bill for Ibogaine and what happened there. |
| 1:43.3 | We also chat about breathwork, |
| 1:45.7 | integration, and yeah, one of our favorite topics, nervous system regulation and the importance of that |
| 1:51.5 | and really developing those skills before going into psychedelic experiences. And also chat a little |
| 1:57.7 | bit about Tommy's experience with Beyond, which is an Ibegain center down |
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