EP082: Standing In Your Truth with Dr. Kelly Brogan and Sachin Patel from Perfect Practice LIVE 2020
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Today\\u2019s episode is a discussion that took place during the Perfect Practice Live Online Experience on Saturday, August 29th, 2020 with Dr. Kelly Brogan, a holistic psychiatrist and the author of the New York Times best-selling book A Mind of Your Own as well as Own yourself. She co-edits Integrated Therapies for Depression and is the Founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset and the membership community Vital Life Project.
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Key Takeaways:
[:44] Majeed Mogharreban and Sachin Patel welcome Dr. Kelly Brogan to the Perfect Practice Live Online Experience event stage for a live session. Sachin asks her to talk about her background story.
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[6:53] Dr. Kelly touches on the process of adultification as she discovered it during her shift from reliance on conventional treatments to opening up her horizons as a practitioner.
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[8:42] On resistance to unconventional thinking, Dr. Brogan learned the futility of debate and polarisation and has seen first hand how exposure to information \\u2014 no matter how scientific \\u2014 does not always result in transformation of thought and beliefs.
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[15:47] Dr. Brogan touches on what childhood trauma is and how she has seen them show up in adult life through her practice as well as in her personal life.
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[20:40] From how the system generates lifetime patients for itself especially when it comes to psychiatry, to the importance of critical thought in order to gain agency, Dr. Brogan explains what it means to shed your illusory self in today\\u2019s world.
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[27:05] Sachin shares a personal story about hair and segues the conversation to the feeling of fear of safety that can be instilled into a child and how it may positively or negatively impact their adult life.
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[34:00] What the \\u201cwork\\u201d looks like for Dr. Brogan; she talks about her relationship to her husband as well as things she calls hygiene practices like meditations and brushing your teeth.
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[38:11] The first thing to take care of with patients \\u2014 or oneself \\u2014 is the low-hanging fruit of physiological imbalances, a basic cleanup of Maslow\\u2019s hierarchical lower rungs. Dr. Brogan talks about the steps that should follow.
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[45:11] The Vital Mind Reset \\u2014 Dr. Brogan touches on how it began and what it is today, as well as some mistakes she made along the way.
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[51:54] Dr. Kelly Brogan shares her message for moving humanity and the planet forward but to do it, we need to put self-care first \\u2014 Sachin gives a literal example of her doing just that.
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[56:18] Sachin and his audience wholeheartedly thank Dr. Kelly Brogan for sharing so much of her expertise.
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Mentioned in this episode
Dr. Kelly Brogan\\u2019s Telegram
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Books:
A Mind of Your Own, by Dr. Kelly Brogan
Own Yourself, by Dr. Kelly Brogan
A Time for Rain, by Dr. Kelly Brogan
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More about your guest
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More about your host Sachin Patel
How to speak with Sachin
Go one step further and Become The Living Proof
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Books by Sachin Patel:
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Tweetables:
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\\u201cIt\\u2019s a poison apple that is being offered to us in the form of conventional treatment.\\u201d \\u2014 Dr. Kelly Brogan
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\\u201cYou can have this experience of self-initiation and \\u2026 begin the process of adultification and becoming the you that is in the cage of our unprocessed childhood traumas. \\u2026 That is the underpinnings of \\u2026 what we call chronic illness and mental illness.\\u201d \\u2014 Dr. Kelly Brogan
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\\u201cThe system basically says \\u2018We will take care of you as long as you comply,\\u2019 and sometimes what\\u2019s referred to as a Stockholm Syndrome develops and those who ultimately are abused by this system end up defending the system.\\u201d \\u2014 Dr. Kelly Brogan
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\\u201cLove is not control, it\\u2019s not manipulation, it\\u2019s not merger, and it\\u2019s not even agreement; it\\u2019s accessing the love that we know is there at times we cannot otherwise perceive it.\\u201d \\u2014 Dr. Kelly Brogan
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\\u201cThe first thing to take care of with patients \\u2014 or oneself \\u2014 is the low-hanging fruit of physiological imbalances.\\u201d \\u2014 Dr. Kelly Brogan
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\\u201cThe work is really as simple as, \\u2018Every time you\'re upset by something, it\\u2019s an opportunity.\\u2019\\u201d \\u2014 Dr. Kelly Brogan
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\\u201cThe healing is in the peeling.\\u201d \\u2014 Sachin Patel
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