Trauma and Ecstasy: How Psychedelics Made My Life Worth Living || Alex

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It's been a while since our last story shared. But, as always it feels good to be back with another one. Hope you all are well, today Alex joins us, and he's got a story to tell.

This will have graphic, and sensitive content. It's a raw conversation about sexual abuse, and the journey towards healing. At 23 years old, Alex was biking around the Netherlands, and afterwards felt an extreme discomfort in his pelvic area. What followed was a host of other health conditions that led him on a search for answers.

With no results after years of different therapy treatments, it was something Tim Ferris talked about that caught Alex's attention, MDMA. A forethought of wanting to work through his anxiety, quickly turned into Alex revisiting his childhood trauma, and the sexual abuse ...