Can Cannabis Help with PTSD? Trauma Recovery, Emotional Processing, & Cannabis Therapy
About this episode
The episode explores the relationship between cannabis and PTSD, focusing on trauma recovery and emotional processing.
What happens when trauma lives not just in the mind, but in the body too? In this episode of Living the Green, cannabis nurse Abi Amirdash and therapist Michal Cohen, LCSW explore PTSD through the lens of the nervous system, hypervigilance, sleep disruption, emotional processing, and healing. Together, they discuss how cannabis, therapy, mindfulness, and even connection to nature may help people feel safe in their bodies again and begin finding their way back to the present moment. 🌸 Meet Your Hosts Michal Cohen, LCSW Psychotherapist, mindfulness guide, and psychedelic facilitator with over two decades of experience supporting people in healing trauma and deepening self-understanding. Based in Hawai‘i, Michal integrates trauma-informed, somatic, and mindfulness practices with a harm reduction lens inspired by Dr. Gabor Maté. → Instagram: @the_take_a_trip_therapist → Website: www.therapywithmichal.com Abir “Abi” Amirdash, APRN Cannabis nurse practitioner & advocate, integrative health leader, and founder of Pakaloha Care Clinic. Abi bridges science with spirituality through two decades in medicine, from oncology to geriatrics to cannabis medicine, helping people reconnect…
People in this episode
Hosts: Abi Amirdash, Michal Cohen
Topics covered
- PTSD
- cannabis therapy
- trauma recovery
- emotional processing
- mindfulness
- nervous system
Keywords
- cannabis
- PTSD
- trauma
- mindfulness
- healing
- nervous system
- emotional processing
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