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The "What is Money?" Show

Navy Seal on Healing PTSD and Addiction with Psychedelic Therapy w/ Tommy Aceto (WiM557)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Aceto joins me to discuss making the unconscious conscious with psychedelics, the necessity of role models and storytelling, the journey of becoming a Navy Seal, the process of healing PTSD with psychedelic therapy, Bobby Kennedy and the politics of health, social media's affect on mental health, and how to fulfill our true potential in the modern world. Tommy Aceto is a former US Navy Seal and intelligence officer, father, breakthrough therapies advocate, writer and director, life coach and retreat coordinator, and veteran mental health chief officer at the Give to Give Foundation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He surrendered, took on the shame of the world, love hits him, and now we get the Holy Spirit.

0:07.6

The Christ story is obviously profound and at the bedrock of Western civilization.

0:15.1

People really don't care about what you do.

0:17.4

They care about what you do after.

0:19.4

You reach a rock bomb.

0:20.3

That's what people are looking at.

0:22.7

So you are a former Navy SEAL. You went on a non-traditional medical journey to heal yourself.

0:30.4

After 16 years, I was diagnosed PTSD. I showed up to the medicine, rock bottom. I had an ex-wife that did some things to me.

0:40.6

Pretty shitty.

0:42.3

Took my kids, played the system.

0:45.3

I've been through some things in my life,

0:47.2

but that was, I think, the hardest thing I had been through up until that point.

0:51.0

Yeah, because it actually hit me where it really hurt.

0:53.1

So I learned how to let go on psychedelics, but I also learned how to let go and surrender through my faith

1:00.2

when it got real hard in Hell Week. 212 miles with a boat on your head. You're hypothermic,

1:07.9

most of the wreath. Skin's rotten off. The chafing is the worst out of everything.

1:13.6

And if you have a reason to quit, your mind's going to go there.

1:16.6

And you get that thousand yards stare.

1:19.6

And one of the hardest things for me is when we lose someone to suicide.

1:30.9

It's usually because they couldn't let go.

1:35.1

The thing that saved me was being strong enough to let go. You'll love this quote by Carl Jungung if you haven't heard it that's i've like been repeating

1:49.5

it on almost every episode until you make the unconscious conscious it will continue direct your life

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