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
Will I Remember This?
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Bonus Time | A Stoic Mindset
Assuming today was your last day, what would you do to live now, while you still had time? Today's episode dips into the stoic mindset of living our life as if it were bonus time.
"We are not given …
Trauma & Recovery
A friend once told me that trauma is like a shape-shifter. I couldn't agree more. In this episode I share a few insights that I recently stumbled up on in my ongoing recovery from a near-death experi…
Saying No to Say Yes to What Matters
It goes without saying moving is both time consuming and exhausting. This weeks episode is a quick one. I talk about the importance of saying No, in order to say Yes to what matters.
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Catastrophic Thinking | Stepping Back from Thought
Catastrophic thinking is more common than you might realize! In this episode I talk about what catastrophizing is, and seven ways to step back from distorted thinking.
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Looking to further your mindf…
Fatherly Love
Happy belated Father's Day to all the dad's out there. It's extra special for me with the recent birth of our son. This week I share a note to my son and reflect on the current state of the podcast.
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For Mike
It was another difficult week. Unfortunately there's further need to hit the pause button. A family member of mine passed from COVID-19. See you next week!
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Looking to further your mindfulness pract…
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter. A note to self.
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Time for Pause
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In Remembrance Of | Honoring Those We've Lost
Memorial Day is a special day! It’s a day of remembrance for all the men and women who died while serving in the military. Today’s episode is about the power of remembrance and how important people f…
The Problem with Toxic Positivity
Good Vibes Only - is a saying and a belief that, "life can only be lived well by having good feelings." Unfortunately, living by this strategy makes people feel worse off in the long run. What if the…
Quarantine Questions | 25 Prompts for Self Reflection
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Sometimes we don't know what questions we should be asking ourselves. We leave it to the mind to help us get by. And when has that ever gone awry? Jokes aside, s…
At Ease Mindfulness Framework
To honor Mental Health Awareness Month, I'll be sharing different insights and approaches to help you cultivate greater mental and emotional awareness. Because it's not what we think and feel that's …
Little Did He Know | A Different Kind of Hope
Often we think of hope as having a specific outcome in mind. But when our hopes don't come to fruition, our dreams are dashed. We may feel helpless - and hopeless - and potentially give up on what ma…
Seeing From the Heart | A Love Letter
What gets in the way of seeing and speaking from your heart? What keeps you from saying what you need? Throughout our lifetimes, we're repeatedly confronted with solving the problem of how to overcom…
What's Essential is Invisible to the Eye | A Life-Saving Mindfulness Practice
Most of our lives we pay attention to what's physically present in front of us. But there's something essential that's invisible to the eye that we forget about. In this episode I take you through a …
One Year To Live | Recovering From Trauma
One Year Later! Recovering from a traumatic, near-death experience feels like a long and winding road. In this episode I speak from my experience of what it feels like to grieve a near fatal accident…
The Value of Acceptance | Opening Up to Life
Often we don't see the value in acceptance. We think of acceptance as giving up, or giving in to the things we don't like. But that's not the case!
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Think of acceptance as a skill that'll help you …
Finding Hope in Uncertain Times | 7 Ideas to Manage Your Stress
Feeling uncertain? Not sure what to do about it? Remember that in times like these we have to live our way into a new way of thinking and being. We don’t think our way into a new way of living.
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Coping with Emotional Contagion | Staying Present During a Crisis
During times like these we need to slow down and check in with what matters. In this podcast I share five thoughts on how to cope with emotional contagion from a mindfulness perspective:
1. Welcome e…