#22: Change Your Mind with Maxime Maanders

#22: Change Your Mind with Maxime Maanders

From LifeWise by Tania Cotton

February 2, 2026 · 1h 36m · Episode 22

About this episode

Maxime Maanders discusses a holistic approach to healing psychological trauma through the integration of ancient wisdom and modern psychology.

Meet Maxime Maanders, a clinical psychologist and plant medicine specialist with a holistic perspective on human healing. His approach brings together ancient wisdom and evidence-based psychology offering an integrative understanding of what it truly takes for us to heal from psychological trauma. KEY THEMES Psychology, Mental Health, Western Science, Ancient Wisdom, Emotions, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Human Connection, Our Connection to Nature, Music, Group Therapy, Pain and Suffering. BOOKS A Course in Miracles: Scribe – Helen Schucman, Editor/Collaborator – William Thetford. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk FILM Dune based on a novel by Frank Herbert: Dune is not just a sci-fi adventure, it's a meditation on power, ecology, and how inner transformation can reshape the outer world, for better or for worse. QUOTES "You don't have to do it alone but you have to do it yourself" "The longest (or hardest) way men travel is from the head to the heart" -- Various "Trauma that starts in relationship heals in relationship" "How can people who are not in touch with themselves expect to help patients get in touch with their true self?" "Trauma is not what happens to…

People in this episode

Host: Tania Cotton

Guest: Maxime Maanders

Topics covered

  • Psychology
  • Mental Health
  • Plant Medicine
  • Trauma Healing
  • Human Connection
  • Ancient Wisdom
  • Group Therapy

Keywords

  • psychological trauma
  • plant medicine
  • psychedelics
  • mental health
  • human connection
  • group therapy
  • ancient wisdom

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Course in Miracles, The Body Keeps the Score, Dune

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