Dr. Gabrielle Pelicci, Author of All This Healing Is Killing Me

“Dr. Gabby” (Gabrielle Pelicci, Ph.D.) is a TED speaker, a professor, an expert on Global Wellness & Psychedelics, and the bestselling author of the memoir, ALL THIS HEALING IS KILLING ME. With over 3000 hours of training in Yoga, Bodywork, Meditation, Mind-Body Medicine, Energy Healing, Herbalism and Health Coaching, she guides people and groups towards wholeness using writing as medicine. Her work was rooted in a traumatic childhood that included growing up in a home with sever domestic violence, and a lifetime of keeping it largely to herself. As she writes in her memoir, she was only three years old the first time she saw her father hit her mother, seven when he tried to kill her, and eight, the year her parents divorced. Her mother never quite recovered, and Gaby spent a lifetime outrunning the trauma, through a modeling career, various failed relationships, and a whole lot of academic success, which didn’t really soothe what ailed her at all. She studied at Columbia and did a doctorate in Transformative Studies. Her journey is detailed in her memoir, including how she found psychedelic plant medicine, which she says not only reset her nervous system, but on many levels, also changed her life. On today’s podcast we talk about the history of plant medicine, both traditional and psychedelic, the first war on drugs way back in the middle ages, and what’s been lost as we’ve cut traditional healing practices out of our lives. We explore the Stoned Ape Theory, discuss Steve Jobs’ first LSD trip, and why so many people think they can out-achieve their traumas. We look at all of the ways that we numb ourselves to survive, which works at first, until it doesn’t, and we find ourselves at a loss to access the vulnerability that is required to heal. Dr. Gabby’s father’s violence may have muted her and it may have helped shaped her, but it never did break her. After years of searching she was able to hold both her father and mother accountable for their choices during her childhood, even after their deaths. But the best part is that she found herself able to forgive herself for the things that she needed to. And even though for a while there all that healing really was killing her…nowadays she feels like it’s all blue skies ahead. About Gabrielle: https://www.gabriellepelicci.com/ The Release Podcast: 

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