How To Feel Nothing | Processing Psychedelics From The Inside Out
How to Feel Nothing is a podcast about psychedelic integration, trauma, and the nervous system—told from inside the process.
You don’t need another map of your mind. You need a way back into your body.
How to Feel Nothing is for anyone who's touched something real—through psychedelics, grief, crisis, or revelation—and now finds themselves caught between insight and action.
Hosted by a clinician who survived a near-death injury and got tired of watching the field chase transcendence while ignoring perception, this show invites you into the messy, relational, and often uncomfortable terrain of integration.
We cut through spiritual bypass, Cartesian embodiment, and psychedelic ego cosplay to ask harder questions:
What does it mean to process experience, not just interpret it?
What happens when feeling nothing is the most honest place to begin?
What if healing isn’t coherence—but contrast?
Equal parts clinical reflection, philosophical excavation, and unsentimental presence, this podcast is not about finding your higher self.
It’s about learning to stay with what’s already here.
Hosted by Todd Brossart, LCSW, BCD, founder of Somacology (psychedelic somatic therapy) and the Daily Mindfulness Lab, as well as an instructor candidate with the Psychedelic Somatic Institute, this podcast draws from Todd’s 17 years of clinical experience working in mental health, including his 12 years of service at the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient mental health clinic.
Todd’s approach is deeply informed by his own transformative journey following a near-death experience and lengthy hospitalization, which reshaped his understanding of trauma, healing, and resilience. Combining professional expertise with personal insight, Todd dives into evidence-based strategies for mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and trauma recovery.
Tune in to explore how to reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom and achieve lasting well-being.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Unlocking Emotional Healing: The Power Of Felt Sense | Why Getting Over Trauma Isn't Enough
Trauma shapes how we live—organizing our lives as if the past is still happening. The body holds onto these experiences, leaving us disconnected from our most powerful resource: our felt sense.
In th…
Exploring Somatic Healing and Psychedelic Therapy: A Path to Trauma Resolution | This Is Somacology
We're going through a psychedelic therapy revival.
Join psychotherapist Todd Brossart as he introduces the Somacology channel and discusses some of his personal journey following a near-death injury …
Owning My Naivete
If you could have a conversation with yourself back when you started your career in healthcare, what would you say? What does that person need to know in order to sustain their mental health over the…
In Memoriam | Honoring Rachel
If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while, you’ll know that I hold a belief that there’s still someone out there who I haven’t met yet, that will change my life in profound ways. This episode is…
Getting to Live | A Mindful Reframe
We all have to do things. Some things we are excited about. Other things, not as much. Rarely do we consider what we get to do in our lives, taking it for granted. In this episode I offer a quick min…
Subtracting Self-Care | Moving Toward What Matters
Should self-care always mean you get to feel calm? Should self-care be limited to feeling good? Let’s reimagine self-care for a moment. Instead of adding things to your life in the name of self-care,…
Post-traumatic Growth: Celebrating Year Two with Gratitude and Joy
What doesn't kill us, can make us stronger! On the two-year anniversary of a near death experience, I invite a friend of the podcast, John Evans to sit down for an extended conversation about post-tr…
After Violence: Reflections on Boulder
So often we feel hopeless and powerless after tragedy and trauma. I know I've felt that way recently with the tragedies in Atlanta and Boulder. Both events serve as reminders of how violence can deva…
Healthy and Unhealthy Discomfort
Life serves up discomfort to us in many ways. At times we've all avoided challenges in order to escape the stress that goes with feeling uncomfortable. This week's episode examines how our struggle a…
Box Breathing
“Just breathe.” Depending on how stressed you might be, hearing those words may not be well received. Enter box breathing! It's a proactive breathing exercise aimed to help you regulate your nervous …
The Just World Belief
Do good things only happen to good people? Do bad things only happen to bad people? And are all honorable actions eventually rewarded? The Just World Belief states that your actions are inclined to b…
Natural and Manufactured Emotion
There are two kinds of emotions. The first kind of emotions are those that happen naturally. We often experience natural emotions as they unfold after something happens. The second kind of emotions a…
Being with Less Self | Remembering Mindfulness
Our human lives are inundated with the needs of the Self. The self (I/me/my) has many preferences, needs, biases, desires, and conditioned habits. While we're often unaware of how we are being contro…
Setting Expectations for the New Year
New Year’s tends to bring about a newfound motivation for change. After a taxing 2020, I think we're all ready to turn the page! When making New Years resolutions we tend to hope for the best. Behind…
2020 in a word
What word would you use to describe the past year? I asked 70 people that very question and received many different responses. But I also asked a second question. What did you learn to value about th…
The Ready-to-Experience Mind | Paying Attention with Perspective
You have the ability to focus your attention on just about anything! Yet sometimes we become so close to our worries that we struggle to see what’s beyond the thinking mind. This week I talk about ou…
Giving Presence
One of the greatest gifts we can offer anyone is our true presence. Unfortunately this year, many of us won't be able to congregate for the holidays. Does this mean we won't be able to be present or …
Committing to a Mindful Recovery and Breaking Patterns of Suffering |A Conversation with John Evans
“Don’t talk. Don’t trust. Don’t feel.” Rules that were taught early and often to my guest in this week’s episode. In this special interview, I connect with friend and colleague, John Evans, peer supp…
Our Core Human Yearnings & The Impact of Trauma
We all have core yearnings that make us human. In today’s episode I'll introduce you to six core human yearnings that stem out of the therapeutic approach of acceptance and commitment therapy, and ho…
The Long Hike | Committing to What Matters
I recently summited my 21st different 14er mountain (14,000 ft.) in my home state of Colorado. The 12 mile trek was a grueling experience that lasted over 8 hours. It was a commitment. If I wasn't cl…