The Treatment That Helped Bring Me Back to Life | Ketamine Therapy and Postpartum Healing / Dr. Carl Bonnett

About this episode

Sandy and Wade discuss the transformative impact of ketamine therapy on postpartum healing with Dr. Carl Bonnett.

This episode is one of the most personal, powerful, and hope-filled conversations we’ve shared in this postpartum healing series. In episode five of Getting Magnetic , Sandy and Wade sit down with Dr. Carl Bonnett, founder of Klarisana, to talk about the treatment that became one of the biggest turning points in Sandy’s healing journey. After postpartum psychosis, deep depression, trauma, fear, and months of feeling like she was fighting just to make it through each day, ketamine therapy became a doorway to relief, perspective, and real healing. Sandy opens up about what it actually felt like to walk into treatment terrified, what she experienced during her sessions, and how those moments helped her process trauma, grief, identity loss, and the crushing weight she had been carrying in her body and mind. This conversation goes far beyond mental health treatment. It is about pain, surrender, healing, rebirth, and what can happen when someone finally finds a path that helps them come back to themselves. Dr. Bonnett also shares his story, what led him to this work, how ketamine therapy works, who it may be for, and why he believes true healing is not just symptom management, but a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sandy Critides, Wade Critides

Guest: Dr. Carl Bonnett

Topics covered

• postpartum healing
• ketamine therapy
• mental health
• trauma
• depression
• hope
• healing

Keywords

• ketamine therapy
• postpartum psychosis
• mental health treatment
• healing journey
• trauma
• depression
• hope

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Klarisana

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