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    <title>The Permission Slip - Episodes Tagged with “#Personalresponsibility”</title>
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    <description>I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. 
I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing.
In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. 
Credits
Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place.
Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way.
Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise.
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    <itunes:summary>I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. 
I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing.
In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. 
Credits
Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place.
Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way.
Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise.
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  <title>S1 | E18 Amy Anesi - Dear Friend &amp; Former Spouse</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this extended season-finale episode, I sit down with my former wife, Amy Anesi, to tell the truth about our marriage, divorce, and what came after. We speak candidly about infidelity, financial collapse, emotional trauma, and the long road of healing that followed.

Rather than re-litigating the past, we examine how conscious self-work can transform even the most painful endings into functional, respectful, and even loving relationships. Amy offers perspective I cannot access alone—calling out blind spots, grounding the narrative, and modeling what emotional maturity actually looks like.

This episode is not about having a “perfect divorce.” It’s about doing your work so the past stops running your life. If you’ve experienced heartbreak, shame, relational collapse, or feel stuck in an old story about yourself, this conversation offers a radically different possibility.</itunes:subtitle>
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Instead of turning divorce into a lifelong war story, we explore what it looks like to take responsibility, metabolize pain, and consciously evolve beyond blame. This episode challenges the dominant cultural narrative that divorce must be ugly, adversarial, and permanently scarring. It doesn’t.
With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.
This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children.
 Special Guest: Amy Anesi.
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<p>With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.</p>

<p>This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children.</p><p>Special Guest: Amy Anesi.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://patreon.com/mattkosterman">Support The Permission Slip</a></p>]]>
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<p>With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.</p>

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