Trust & Forgive: Turning Trauma Into a Doorway for Healing w/ Dr. Richard Grossman | EP 438
Send me a Text Message What if the grief you carry isn't a burden, but a teacher? In this deeply moving episode, Brian is joined by integrative healer Dr. Richard Grossman to explore how trauma—no matter how devastating—can become a path to awakening. With over 40 years of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Amazonian plant medicine, Dr. Grossman shares the pivotal moment he received the message: “Trust and forgive.” Together, they dive into why true healing often begins not with a...
What if the grief you carry isn't a burden, but a teacher?
In this deeply moving episode, Brian is joined by integrative healer Dr. Richard Grossman to explore how trauma—no matter how devastating—can become a path to awakening. With over 40 years of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Amazonian plant medicine, Dr. Grossman shares the pivotal moment he received the message: “Trust and forgive.”
Together, they dive into why true healing often begins not with answers, but with presence. Whether you're wrestling with recent loss, ancestral trauma, or feeling stuck despite years of therapy, this conversation offers a fresh lens—and genuine hope.
🔑 Key Topics:
- 🌱 Trauma as a doorway—not a dead end
- 🧬 How generational trauma can live in the body
- 🍃 The role of plant medicines like Ayahuasca in emotional healing
- 💡 Why understanding pain isn't always necessary to release it
- 🎯 How to stop carrying the "backpack" of old wounds
- 🙌 Learning to be with suffering without analysis or judgment
- ✨ What it means to "see the tree as a tree"—and life as magic
🔗 Guest Resources:
🌐 Visit Dr. Grossman's website: https://heartfeather.com
📘 Get his book: Trust and Forgive: The Medicine of Your Life on Amazon
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About Richard Grossman, L.Ac., O.M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Richard Grossman’s fascination with healing started quite early in his life, triggered in part by a severe physical and emotional traumatic event.
As the son of a pharmacist, he grew up surrounded by doctors, but when given an assignment to decide what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered that he wanted to study the effects of plants and medicines on the mind.
His spiritual search also started early. He was a voracious reader, focusing on Asian and South Asian philosophies and shamanism. He looked for God and meaning, asking questions that adults could not or would not answer.
By the age of 15, he had concluded that the only reason to be alive was to help others out of their suffering. It was the beginning of his calling to the path of the healer.
Richard’s spiritual journey started in his early teens, culminating, at 18, with a trip to India. There, while meditating on the banks of the Ganges, he understood that without a spiritual component, true healing was impossible.
In 1980, he enrolled in the Oriental Medicine program at the California Acupuncture College in Los Angeles. Three years later, he was one of three students from his school to attend post-graduate acupuncture training in Beijing, a course sponsored by the World Health Organization and attended by physicians from around the world.
Upon his return, he began a thriving private practice. He continued his studies, earning a Masters in Acup…
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