Mindbalancewithdrparsa

06/10/2026

Gratitude isn't something you think.
It's something you surrender into. 🙏🚲

This moment. Wind, movement, hand on heart. This is what it feels like when you stop fighting life and just let it be.

That's the work. In the treatment room and out of it.

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

Western grief therapy tells you to let go. Stop expecting them. Build a life without them. That's the goal.

But a researcher in Spain has been studying ayahuasca and grief for over two decades. What she found challenges everything we think we know about loss.

30 to 40% of participants felt the presence of the person who died. Not a memory. A felt encounter.

One woman whose partner died by su***de went in carrying guilt. She came out carrying compassion. Not because the grief disappeared. Because it changed shape.

As a physician who works with altered states daily, this stopped me. We may be asking the wrong question entirely.

Not: how do you let go? But: what happens when you don't have to?

***delosssurvivors

06/06/2026

We give dying patients morphine for physical pain. But we give them nothing for the existential terror of dying. That's about to change.

In palliative care, we've gotten good at managing physical suffering. Pain, nausea, breathlessness. But for the thing that keeps someone up at 3 AM — the raw, wordless dread of ceasing to exist — our tools remain surprisingly limited.

Psilocybin and ketamine are changing that. Not with sedation. Not with numbness. With something that looks different for each person. For some, less fear. For others, a deeper sense of connection, meaning, or acceptance.

Not because they stopped caring about life. But because something shifted in how they relate to the reality of its ending.

This is not fringe. This is the future of how we die.

06/06/2026

What if the mental health crisis isn't about broken individuals?

We take a DSM diagnosis. We label a patient. We say: something is wrong with you. You need to be fixed.

But we're doing this inside a society that is already sick. Already disconnected from nature. From each other.

We pull one person out of the collective. Label them. Tell them they need to be fixed. Not because something is wrong with them — because something is wrong with all of us.

What if the mental health crisis is simply a reflection of a collective crisis of disconnection?

The plant medicine seems to be giving the same message: change your relationship with yourself, with each other, with the earth.

Filmed at — Europe's premier psychedelic research conference.

06/05/2026

What's underneath the ego? Spaciousness — not emptiness.

Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/Ek5iB2abaBE

06/01/2026

Your brain knows how to heal. It just needs the right conditions.

Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/Ek5iB2abaBE