Inner Source

Dr. Sandra Dreisbach
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Join Dr. Sandra Dreisbach on Psychedelic Source, your trusted connection to the psychedelic community and the evolving landscape of psychedelic medicine. Each episode features expert discussions on ethical practice, business development, and community building in the psychedelic ecosystem. Whether you're establishing your practice, seeking professional growth, or deepening your understanding of psychedelic medicine, this show serves as a source of community perspectives and practical resources to thrive in this dynamic space.

  1. Ep24 Anubhav Bhattacharyya—The Book Already Inside You, Storytelling as Healing, and Done Over Perfect

    5D AGO

    Ep24 Anubhav Bhattacharyya—The Book Already Inside You, Storytelling as Healing, and Done Over Perfect

    What if the story you've been meaning to write has been inside you all this time, waiting for the right kind of presence to draw it out? That question sits at the center of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Anubhav Bhattacharyya, book architect and co-founder of Chevaun, where he helps people take a book from rough outline to a published reality in seven weeks or less. His process is entirely human-driven, built on genuine collaboration and a conviction that everyone carries at least one story worth sharing. In this episode, Dr. Sandra and Anubhav reflect on the making of her book Dancing at the Edge of Darkness, a journey that began when Anubhav spotted something he called "uniqueness" in Dr. Sandra's LinkedIn presence and reached out. What followed was months of creative partnership that challenged her academic conditioning, stretched the boundaries of what a book could be, and wove together fiction, philosophy, the hero's journey, and psychedelic integration into something neither could have made alone. They explore why storytelling has been humanity's most durable form of healing, from campfires to contemporary consciousness work, what it means to hold space for someone else's voice without overwriting it, and the piece of wisdom that frees every stuck writer to begin: done is better than perfect. If you've had a book living in the back of your mind for years, this episode may be what finally gets it out of there. Find all the show notes and links here: https://innersourcepodcast.com/24

    32 min
  2. Ep23 Barbara Ann Michaels—Humor as Healing, the First Laugh, and Reclaiming Play as a Lifelong Practice

    APR 20

    Ep23 Barbara Ann Michaels—Humor as Healing, the First Laugh, and Reclaiming Play as a Lifelong Practice

    What if the moment you finally laugh at something that once broke you is actually proof that healing has already arrived? That's the quiet power at the center of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Barbara Ann Michaels — performance artist, interfaith minister, and the self-described Jester of the Peace. Barbara has spent decades using humor not as a distraction from pain but as a precise instrument for releasing it. She founded Humorville, an immersive pop-up wellness experience where participants receive a passport to something they want more of in their lives, marry it, vote themselves president of it, and receive a letter from it weeks later in the mail. It sounds playful. It is playful. And it is, as Dr. Sandra discovers in real time during this episode, genuinely transformational. What does it mean that laughter and tears are actually the same cathartic energy? Why is vulnerability a more radical artistic choice than anger? What is "the first laugh" — and how do you know when it's safe for humor to enter a story that was once too painful to touch? How does humor create connection across divides that logic and reason alone cannot cross? And what would it look like if we stopped treating play as frivolous and started recognizing it as one of the fastest paths to authentic inner change? If you've been searching for healing in serious places and wondering why it keeps feeling incomplete, this episode is worth your full attention. Find all the show notes and links here:  https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/23

    51 min
  3. Ep22 Emile Hung—There Are No Perfect Conditions: How to Heal, Build, and Keep Going Anyway

    APR 14

    Ep22 Emile Hung—There Are No Perfect Conditions: How to Heal, Build, and Keep Going Anyway

    What do you do when the conditions you're waiting for... never actually show up? In this episode, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Emile Hung — a final-year medical student, premium ghost writer, and nutritionist who runs her entire online business from Havana, Cuba... through rolling blackouts, spotty Wi-Fi, and all the beautiful chaos that comes with it. Emile walks us through what burnout in medical school actually feels like from the inside — not the polished version we hear at conferences, but the real one. The kind where you stop being able to get yourself to class. Where patients start noticing before you do. Where you finally have to admit that the culture designed to teach you how to care for others... was quietly dismantling you. You'll hear how a single gym in Belize became the unexpected turning point in her recovery. And why a medical student had to walk into a fitness facility to learn what nutrition actually does to your hormones, your metabolism, and your mental state — things that never came up once in years of medical training. Dr. Dreisbach, who was navigating her own bankruptcy while they were co-creating the Shadow Work Facilitator free e-course together, reflects honestly on what it looks like to build something meaningful in the middle of imperfect circumstances. Their collaboration — forged across time zones, interrupted by blackouts, stretched across asynchronous messages and creative problem-solving — becomes its own quiet lesson in what trust and resilience actually require. By the end of this episode, you'll know how to recognize burnout before it strips your empathy entirely... how to use nutrition as a genuine mental health tool rather than an afterthought... how to find the right mentors even when they're not physically in your world... and how to stop waiting for the perfect moment and just take one small step anyway. Because if Emile can build something real from a Wi-Fi spot in Havana during a blackout... the question becomes less about conditions and more about what you're actually waiting for. Find all the show notes and links here:  https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/22

    35 min
  4. Ep21 Bárbara Espina—The Crisis Nobody Plans For: Spiritual Emergency Response, Ethics, and Holding Space

    APR 7

    Ep21 Bárbara Espina—The Crisis Nobody Plans For: Spiritual Emergency Response, Ethics, and Holding Space

    What happens when a plant medicine ceremony goes sideways... and there's no one trained to help? That's the gap Bárbara Espina decided to fill. In this episode of Inner Source, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Bárbara — a psychologist, plant medicine practitioner, and co-founder of CERT (Spiritual Emergency Response Team) — calling in from the Sacred Valley of Peru, where she's spent over a decade doing work most people don't even know exists. Bárbara shares how CERT came to life not from a polished plan, but from watching crisis after crisis unfold with no real infrastructure to catch the people falling. She walks through what spiritual emergency actually looks like in practice — how it differs from clinical crisis, why context changes absolutely everything, and what real-time response looks like when someone's documentation is missing, the language barrier is real, and the person in front of you is somewhere far from their ordinary mind. Dr. Sandra brings her own thread into the conversation — specifically around the invisible architecture of transformation, the power of conscious storytelling, and why making the unconscious visible isn't just philosophical. It's the foundation of ethical facilitation. She also shares how tools like the Thyrsus Oracle Deck grew directly from her own process of making those invisible inner threads something she could actually see, hold, and work with. Together, they pull back the curtain on something the plant medicine space rarely discusses openly: the facilitator's own experience. The harm they sometimes absorb. The things they don't say. The quiet isolation of holding space for everyone else while having nowhere safe to land themselves. By the time this episode is over, you'll know how to: → Recognize the difference between a genuine spiritual emergency and a clinical psychiatric crisis — and why getting that distinction wrong can cause serious harm → Prepare before traveling to a plant medicine hub like the Sacred Valley, including what to have in place before anything goes wrong → Identify the subtle ways infantilizing ceremony participants works directly against their transformation — and strips away the very agency that healing depends on → Hold the boundary of non-harm for yourself as a practitioner, not only for the people in your care → Find or build the kind of community support structure that's honest, sustainable, and free from the usual pressures of your regular professional circle Bárbara also opens up about her upcoming retreat, Wisdom of the Holders — a gathering built specifically for plant medicine facilitators who are ready to be seen, supported, and held... for once. If you hold space for others in any capacity — whether professionally or personally — this conversation will change how you think about what sustainable, ethical care actually requires. Find all the show notes and links here:  https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/21

    46 min
  5. Ep20 Marc Aixalà—Healing From the Inside Out, Shadow Work, and the Answers Already Inside You

    MAR 22

    Ep20 Marc Aixalà—Healing From the Inside Out, Shadow Work, and the Answers Already Inside You

    What if the most important thing a psychedelic experience could ever show you... is that you already have everything you need? That's the quiet power running through this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Marc Aixalà — psychologist, Holotropic breathwork facilitator, co-founder of the ICEERS Integration and Support Service, and author of one of the most grounded, respected books on psychedelic integration available today. Marc has supported over 1,000 cases through the ICEERS support line. He's spent years training psychedelic therapists, working within psilocybin clinical trials in Barcelona, and developing integration models that actually give people their power back — rather than creating new dependencies on systems, substances, or practitioners. And in this conversation, he and Dr. Sandra bring their combined experience to some of the questions that don't always get asked. How do you actually define integration in a way that serves your unique journey — not someone else's protocol? Why does beginning with the end in mind matter not just before an experience, but long after it? How do you approach challenging visions, shadow material, and the voice of plant medicine without losing your own discernment in the process? What does it really look like when healing is led from the inside out... rather than handed to you by an expert? Marc also shares the story of how it all began — a heartbroken engineering student reading books in his mother's pharmacy basement, discovering that psychedelics opened something in him that no career path had touched. How Holotropic breathwork gave him the backbone to make sense of scattered experiences. And why the mentors who showed up along the way may have shaped him more than any technique or training ever could. Dr. Sandra brings her background in philosophy, moral psychology, and years of integration training to this conversation — asking with genuine curiosity about parenthood, identity shifts, the danger of over-medicalizing psychedelics, and what it means to truly know yourself before you ask any medicine to show you more. This isn't a clinical overview. It's a real conversation about healing, meaning, community, and the stories we tell ourselves — and what happens when we finally learn to read them differently. If you've had an experience — psychedelic or otherwise — that's still living in you unresolved, this episode is worth your full attention. Find all the show notes and links here:  https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/20

    55 min
  6. Ep19 Dr. Dawn Ella—How a Near-Death Experience, a 3-Day Coma, and Retrograde Amnesia Became a Blueprint for Multi-Dimensional Healing

    MAR 16

    Ep19 Dr. Dawn Ella—How a Near-Death Experience, a 3-Day Coma, and Retrograde Amnesia Became a Blueprint for Multi-Dimensional Healing

    What happens when trauma strips away almost everything you remember about yourself... and what gets left behind turns out to be more powerful than anything you lost? In this episode of Inner Source, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Dr. Dawn Ella — visionary entrepreneur, inventor, soul physician, Doctor of Divinity, and living proof that healing is possible from the most unimaginable circumstances. Dr. Dawn Ella's story begins with a near-fatal incident involving a date rape drug, a three-day coma, a near-death experience that delivered a divine assignment, and retrograde amnesia that reset her identity almost entirely. What followed was a 19-year journey of rebuilding — neurologically, spiritually, and creatively — that ultimately gave rise to a science-driven, multi-sensory healing technology called Soul Link, and a nonprofit dedicated to humanitarian innovation. This is not a surface-level wellness conversation. Dr. Dreisbach brings her signature depth, compassion, and integrative lens to draw out insights that are as grounded as they are expansive. By watching or listening to this episode in full, you will learn: How to understand the Bridging Technique — the clinically informed, spiritually revealed methodology at the core of Dr. Dawn Ella's work — and why combining sound, frequency, and immersive visuals creates a healing synergy no single modality can replicate on its own How to identify the soul fragments that are dimming your light and blocking your forward movement, and why recognizing them as mirrors rather than failures changes everything about how you approach personal growth Why retrograde amnesia, rather than being only a loss, became the ultimate reset into present-moment consciousness — and what that teaches all of us about identity, awareness, and the parts of ourselves that are truly permanent How to use multi-sensory therapeutic tools to support neurological healing, emotional transmutation, and elevated states of well-being — with real documented outcomes, including a case where the Soul Link app contributed to someone waking from a coma Why the principle that everything is an inside job is not just a spiritual concept but a practical framework for understanding your own shadow, your own blockages, and your own path to wholeness How to stop thinking small about your life and your impact, and start aligning with the bigger picture of what you are here to contribute What it actually means to give from overflow rather than lack — and how that shift in orientation accelerates both your own healing and your ability to show up fully for others Dr. Dreisbach models in real time what thoughtful, courageous inquiry looks like — asking the questions many hosts wouldn't dare, creating space for nuance around altered states, ethics, memory, identity, and the sacred intersection of science and spirituality. Whether you are brand new to inner work or years into your transformation journey, this conversation will stretch your sense of what is possible from the inside out. Find all the show notes and links here:  https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/19

    42 min
  7. Ep18 Gaia Harvey-Jackson—How to Get Free: Trusting Yourself Even When Life Isn't Okay

    MAR 9

    Ep18 Gaia Harvey-Jackson—How to Get Free: Trusting Yourself Even When Life Isn't Okay

    Most conversations about inner healing stay safely on the surface. This one doesn't. In this episode of Inner Source, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Gaia Harvey-Jackson - women's empowerment facilitator, ecstatic dance DJ, private coach, and co-founder of True Nature - for a conversation that goes somewhere most podcast interviews simply won't. Because Sandra wasn't just a colleague who admired Gaia's work from a distance. She was her client. For over a year. That context changes everything. Gaia shares her multidisciplinary approach to what she calls "rewilding" - helping women peel back the layers of conditioning that have quietly pulled them away from their authentic selves. Through embodiment practices, ritual, ecstatic movement, feminine archetypes, and the kind of community that actually sees you... her work creates spaces where new stories become possible. Sandra, in turn, opens up about her own transformation through their coaching relationship - including the energy mapping exercise that made it impossible to keep pretending she wasn't running on empty. And the deeper moment when they uncovered the belief that had been underneath the behavior all along. That receiving had never felt safe. That one realization touched everything. By listening to this conversation in full, you'll learn how to begin identifying where your energy is leaking - and why naming it clearly is often the most powerful first step anyone can take. You'll understand how to recognize the difference between giving from abundance versus giving from depletion, and what it actually takes to shift that pattern from the inside out, not just intellectually understand it. Gaia walks through how she structures her workshops and programs - following an arc not unlike a psychedelic experience itself - and explains why she never teaches a one-size-fits-all approach. She'll help you think about how to find your own authentic expression of this work, whether you're a facilitator in the making or simply someone doing the hard, beautiful work of knowing yourself better. In one of the most grounded sections of this conversation, Sandra and Gaia both make a compelling case for how to build peer support, mentorship, and supervision into your practice - not as a luxury, but as the foundation of ethical, sustainable work. What that actually looks like in real life. And why the willingness to say "I don't have all the answers" is where trustworthy guidance begins, not ends. Gaia also speaks honestly about her own relationship with psychedelics - how her journey moved from recreational to ceremonial, and why so much of her current work is about creating those same profound shifts through entirely different pathways. If you've ever felt like you were giving more than you actually had. If receiving - whether love, money, recognition, or even basic care - has always felt somehow complicated or even threatening. If you're building a healing or facilitation practice and wondering how to stop carrying it all alone... This conversation was made for you. Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/18

    49 min
  8. Ep17 Why I Changed Everything: From Psychedelic Source to Inner Source (And What It Means for Your Journey)

    MAR 4

    Ep17 Why I Changed Everything: From Psychedelic Source to Inner Source (And What It Means for Your Journey)

    Ever feel like the path you started on... isn't quite big enough for where you're going? Dr. Sandra Dreisbach gets vulnerable about the real reasons behind her podcast rebrand - and trust me, it's so much deeper than just a name change. In this raw, behind-the-scenes conversation with Jason Croft, Sandra walks you through: → How to recognize when your inner transformation is calling for outer change (even when it feels scary) → Why connecting to your "inner source" creates more powerful impact than any external strategy ever could → The hidden codependency patterns that keep healers, helpers, and facilitators stuck... and how to break free → How to expand your mission without abandoning your roots → Why giving yourself permission to pivot isn't just okay... it's essential for sustainable growth This isn't your typical "rebrand announcement." It's a reflection on listening to that quiet inner voice that knows you're ready for something bigger. Whether you're in the psychedelic space, doing deep personal work, or simply feeling called to your own transformation... Sandra's journey will give you permission to trust your own inner knowing. Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let yourself evolve. Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/17

    33 min
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Join Dr. Sandra Dreisbach on Psychedelic Source, your trusted connection to the psychedelic community and the evolving landscape of psychedelic medicine. Each episode features expert discussions on ethical practice, business development, and community building in the psychedelic ecosystem. Whether you're establishing your practice, seeking professional growth, or deepening your understanding of psychedelic medicine, this show serves as a source of community perspectives and practical resources to thrive in this dynamic space.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Sandra Dreisbach
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Dr. Sandra Dreisbach
  • Show Website
    Inner Source