“The more I touch my pain, the more I touch my joy.”
For Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, everything is integrated.
Joy springs from the same deep well as pain. There is no clear delineation between social change and spiritual transformation — they are inextricably intertwined. Healing — on an individual and collective level — requires living into this wholly interconnected, interdependent reality.
The Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician testifies to the pain and payoff of integration. From receiving her son’s devastating ALS diagnosis to working with populations of people in highly precarious situations — like unhoused folks and refugees — Dr. Sethi has found authentic joy must emerge from the softness of vulnerable, limited human bodies. By learning to face reality — including the reality of our feelings — “we become more powerful and we are more clear. We have more clarity, more motivation, more capacity to execute.”
This conversation abounds with deep wisdom and gracious challenge to step into the vulnerability that will power our movements forward in love. I can’t wait to hear what you glean. Happy listening, dear Soulful Revolutionaries!
About Dr. Sethi:
Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients in Seattle’s refugee, uninsured and homeless populations as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as senior faculty for The Center for Mind Body Medicine. Her first book, Joy Is My Justice: Reclaim Yours Now, published in May 2023, is a radical call to claim Joy as our birthright, the deepest liberation we can know and a path to power through oppression. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington and a primary clinical investigator there on the plant medicine, psilocybin.
More info on her practice and her book are at her website: https://www.tanmeetsethimd.com
Instagram: @tanmeetsethimd
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