Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
by Craig Heacock MD
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Psychedelics and the Enneagram with Joy Gribble
Oct 9, 2026
1h 16m 51s
The legacy of institutionalization-- Orphanages, attachment trauma, borderline personality disorder, and C-PTSD
Sep 25, 2026
1h 06m 53s
Psychiatric Illness in Parallel-- Bipolar vs Schizoaffective Disorder, Genes vs Environment, Insight vs Anosognosia
Sep 11, 2026
1h 02m 13s
Summer Special Part 2-- Laura Mae Northrup and her treatment journey
Aug 14, 2026
1h 13m 47s
BFTA Summer Special: Healing sexual trauma with psychedelics and entheogens-- Laura Mae Northrup shares her journey
Jul 31, 2026
30m 53s
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- 🇺🇸United States · MedicineHOME#9120K to 104K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Medicine#452.5K to 13K
- 🇪🇸Spain · Medicine#591.1K to 5.9K
- 🇸🇦SA · Medicine#271.1K to 5.7K
- 🇧🇷Brazil · Medicine#143462 to 2.4K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/9/26 | Psychedelics and the Enneagram with Joy Gribble | Dr. H sits down with psychotherapist and Enneagram expert Joy Gribble (Reflective Healing; Elemental Psychedelics) to explore the fascinating nexus between psychedelic-assisted therapy and the Enneagram. Support the show Joy Gribble https://www.reflectivehealing.com/about-joy-gribble-fort-collins Elemental Psychedelics https://www.elementalpsychedelics.com/ Explore every episode through themes, domains, formats, and speakers. The BFTA CODEX is a listener-built and curated field guide to th... | 1h 16m 51s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | The legacy of institutionalization-- Orphanages, attachment trauma, borderline personality disorder, and C-PTSD | This is the story of Milena, starting with her early years in a Bulgarian orphanage, then the hope and promise of being adopted by an American family, and finally the emerging and increasingly ominous consequences of early attachment trauma and institutionalization. Adoption is complicated and multi-layered….and the unforeseen consequences of adoption can play out over a lifetime. Milena thought she had won the golden ticket out of the orphanage and into a new life in America, but after... | 1h 06m 53s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | Psychiatric Illness in Parallel-- Bipolar vs Schizoaffective Disorder, Genes vs Environment, Insight vs Anosognosia | In this season 8 opener Rosy shares both her experience recovering from bipolar disorder and the heartbreak of watching her beloved son begin to show signs of an even more extreme form of bipolar disorder called schizoaffective disorder. This is a story in parallel, two lives deeply intertwined, yet also slowly tearing apart as her son’s illness became increasingly severe. Support the show Elemental Psychedelics https://www.elementalpsychedelics.com/ Explore every episode through themes, do... | 1h 02m 13s | ||||||
| 8/14/26 | healingtherapy+3 | Laura Mae Northrup | Elemental PsychedelicsBFTA CODEX+4 | — | psychedelicstherapy+3 | — | 1h 13m 47s | ||
| 7/31/26 | sexual traumapsychedelics+4 | Laura Mae Northrup | — | — | psychedelicssexual trauma+4 | — | 30m 53s | ||
| 5/15/26 | farewellpodcast changes+3 | — | BuzzsproutTimber Choir+1 | — | BFTApodcast wrap-up+3 | — | 10m 49s | ||
| 5/1/26 | Complex PTSDClassic PTSD+4 | Tracy | — | — | PTSDMDMA therapy+5 | — | 1h 00m 02s | ||
| 4/17/26 | positive countertransferencepsychotherapy+3 | — | Buzzsprout | Ft Collins | positive energycountertransference+3 | — | 14m 02s | ||
| 4/3/26 | bipolar disorderTHC+4 | Whitney | bipolar disorderTHC+1 | — | bipolar disorderTHC+5 | — | 49m 06s | ||
| 3/20/26 | suicide preventiongun access+3 | — | Donna's Law | — | suicideguns+5 | — | 1h 01m 10s | ||
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| 3/6/26 | griefsomatic therapy+3 | Darci Meyers | Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in StoriesBuzzsprout+1 | — | somatic therapygrief+4 | — | 1h 04m 50s | ||
| 2/20/26 | psychedelic-assisted therapyadoption+3 | Kari | — | — | psychedelicstherapy+3 | — | 47m 52s | ||
| 2/6/26 | addictiongrief+3 | Kate | The Coleman Institute | — | addictiongrief+5 | — | 1h 04m 48s | ||
| 1/23/26 | psychopharmacologymedication management+3 | Dr. H | BuzzsproutBringing Therapy into Med Management | Ft Collins | psych medspsychiatry+3 | — | 22m 57s | ||
| 1/9/26 | Transcranial Magnetic StimulationKetamine+4 | Dr. Elizabeth Fenstermacher | TMS Clinic at the University of Colorado- Anschutz | — | TMSketamine+5 | — | 1h 11m 12s | ||
| 12/26/25 | psychiatric illnessautoimmune responses+5 | — | PANDASPANS+1 | — | psychiatryautoimmune+5 | — | 1h 20m 45s | ||
| 12/12/25 | psychotherapyhere and now+3 | — | Back from the AbyssBuzzsprout | Ft Collins | psychotherapyhere and now+4 | — | 16m 11s | ||
| 11/28/25 | Is DID real? Parts, alters, exiles, and what's allowed in the therapeutic space | Dr. H sits down with Jade Miller, a peer support specialist and advocate for public education about DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). In the first part of this episode, Jade shares her story and how she came to understand that the puzzling gaps and often frightening incongruities in her life were caused by her rotating through a number of dissociated identities or alters, initially protecting her… but eventually leaving her powerless to stop repeated traumatization. Jade and Dr. H t... | 1h 07m 37s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | Parenting through the storm-- Adoption, trauma, acceptance, and humility | BFTA storyteller Frank shares the joy, confusion, chaos, utter fear, and deepest gratitude when he and his partner Brad adopted and raised two boys, ages 4 and 2, from the foster care system. Twenty years ago, when Frank adopted the boys, trauma was not in the public awareness as it is today, and he was told that these little boys, who had spent some time in a meth house, might well have some challenges…..but he never could have expected what awaited. Can love overcome trauma? Can stability a... | 1h 01m 04s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | When our minds forget our bodies remember-- A trauma therapist comes back to life | Rachael, a trauma therapist and today's storyteller, describes how her early childhood abuse was buried by the protective mechanism of dissociative amnesia. As Rachael wrote to Dr. H, “The only way I could continue to live, with no way out, with no one to tell, with no words even to describe what was happening to me, was to forget what was happening to me….when our minds forget, our bodies remember.” Rachael saved herself by forgetting, then was forced to finally face what happened to h... | 1h 13m 41s | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | Treatment-resistant bipolar disorder-- Finding stability at last | This story is a mirror to Elizabeth’s story from season 1 episode 1. Today’s storyteller Sarah was so moved by Elizabeth’s story that it helped her to trust Dr. H's recommendation to take a pretty scary medication, the extremely powerful antipsychotic and mood stabilizer called clozapine. So why tell this story again? As they say, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does often rhyme, and Sarah’s story rhymes beautifully with Elizabeth’s. Both had severe and treatment resistant bipolar... | 54m 40s | ||||||
| 10/3/25 | Hiding in plain sight-- Life, work, and therapy on the autistic spectrum | In today’s story we explore what it’s like to be on the autistic spectrum, and more specifically, how a later life diagnosis can totally change the way you view the world and yourself. Aurelie, our storyteller today, was an autism expert, a clinical psychologist who had trained with some of the premier autism experts in the country…yet she didn’t discover her own autism until she was 40 years old. This episode explores why women on the spectrum are so often missed, how women on th... | 1h 05m 04s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 | Trapped in secrecy and shame-- A boy, his coach, and healing trauma with MDMA | How do you rebuild trust amidst the ashes of trauma? This is the story of Sean, an up and coming star tennis player whose coach carefully selected him and then groomed him for years of sexual assault. His trust destroyed, Sean had to find a way to try to trust again…..and after many years of hiding and pretending and near self-destruction, Sean finally was able to share the details of what happened to him. Thus began his therapeutic journey of finding compassion for himself and trust toward o... | 1h 36m 25s | ||||||
| 8/14/25 | BFTA Summer Special-- The Wisdom of the Psychedelic Therapy Underground | In this fourth annual summer psychedelic special, Dr. H sits down to hear some hard-earned wisdom from a therapist colleague who has been doing underground MDMA and psilocybin work for years. Support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/396871/support "I Love You, I Hate You, Are You My Mom?" An intensive experiential workshop exploring transference with Dr. H and Dr. Hillary McBride, Feb 4th-6th 2026 in Joshua Tree, CA https://www.craigheacockmd.com/i-love-you-i-hate-you-ar... | 1h 01m 39s | ||||||
| 6/6/25 | Chris, Craig, and Special Guest Fish in Fishbowl 6 | Chris and Craig invite Antonio Sacre, an LA-based professional storyteller, author, and BFTA super-advisor into the Fishbowl to deconstruct season 6. BFTA episode recommendations/Podcast page https://www.craigheacockmd.com/podcast-page/ "I Love You, I Hate You, Are You My Mom?" An intensive experiential workshop exploring transference with Dr. H and Dr. Hillary McBride, Feb 4th-6th 2026 in Joshua Tree, CA https://www.craigheacockmd.com/i-love-you-i-hate-you-are-you-my-mom/ Suppo... | 1h 51m 33s | ||||||
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Chart history for Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
Peaked at #27 in SA, currently #27 in SA.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| Australia | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| Spain | — | #59 | #59 | — |
| HK | — | #63 | #63 | — |
| TH | — | #76 | #76 | — |
| KE | — | #81 | #81 | — |
| United States | — | #91 | #91 | — |
| AT | — | #101 | #101 | — |
| SA | — | #107 | #107 | — |
| Norway | — | #109 | #109 | — |
| GR | — | #114 | #114 | — |
| Canada | — | #129 | #129 | — |
| AE | — | #136 | #136 | — |
| Brazil | — | #143 | #143 | — |
| Finland | — | #144 | #144 | — |
| MY | — | #144 | #144 | — |
| CZ | — | #185 | #185 | — |
Chart Positions
17 placements across 16 markets.
Chart Positions
17 placements across 16 markets.