In 2020, I began to observe the impact of grief and loss embedded into our global culture during COVID. I began traveling in order to bear witness to how each individual culture was coping and how they weathered these emotional storms.

The glaring pattern I saw again and again was the increase in addiction as the grief and loss went unresolved. In 2022, the DSM-V released an update that included “Prolonged Grief Syndrome.” My work since has been a direct response to the medicalization of the natural process of grief.

I have since interviewed several representatives of other cultures and immersed myself in their countries to learn new strategies to bring back to the Western world. Learn more in my Substack & Youtube interviews.

There is a new paradigm emerging in our approach to addiction and recovery. Myself and other researchers no longer see it as a life sentence of a disease; it is a loss of connection and a series of adaptations to deal with loss. In Johann Hari’s book Chasing the Scream” he states: “The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection.”

I have transitioned my addictive patterns around alcohol and have been sober since 2019. My writing and therapeutic investigations focus on addiction interruption through psychedelic experience and skill building to rebuild a life with connection at its core.

Learn more in my Substack and Youtube Interviews

I am a 25-year Yogic practitioner and meditator. Altered states are an integral part of our lives and act as rewards and, at times, consequences of our actions. Food, chemicals, and even our breath change our state. The goal of my life’s work is to manage and eventually understand and allow each state change as it comes.

I have personal and professional experience leading people into altered drug states, breath work, and mediation with the assistance of Biofeedback. I did the licensure program at Sonoma State University in Biofeedback in 2003 and it has informed my work since.

In 2013, I began exploring therapeutic psychedelic altered states after many years of recreational use and abuse of substances. Only after going overboard in my exploration did I begin understanding the skills I was seeking but not finding through externally derived state changes. I knew someone somewhere had to know more about this, but I was not finding it in the psychological community or in the academic circles. I began to search other cultures for practices that are actively used today to sort through lose and grief. Sometimes psychedelic experiences are integrated, but more often, community rituals and traditions are re-alivened in order to heal its members.

Would you care to join me on this exploration?

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As I love a good story, it is made great with data and learning from observable patterns.

I have joined forces with some incredible group of Medical and Psychedelic professionals to create Ibogaine Economics. Ibogaine is known for its ability to interrupt addictive cycles and compulsive and impulsive behaviors associated with addiction PTSD and traumatic memories.

Along side several partners, we are bringing over 30 years of Iboga and Ibogaine session stat to share the outcomes of this powerful experience.

We have published an economic overview for the State of Tennessee in The CME Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience. More to come soon!

I have led marketing for companies and organizations since 2017. My clients include law firms, blockchain, wellness, psychedelic co., and startup/tech. Mobile/ Desktop Apps, Big Data/ Analytics, online and in-person membership, content companies, Commercial R.E.

For more information: lytmarketing.co