Unscripted With Nell Daly

In this episode, I risk my professional reputation once again.  Mac and I bond over ayahuasca and MDMA.  She steps up to the mic to talk about her book Irritable Hearts (about her own struggle with PTSD after an assault while on a foreign assignment) and her recent expose for Rolling Stone magazine -- apparently there's an underground network of therapists and doctors who treat patients with hallucinogens, not to mention studies taking place at top American universities on the use of psychedelics to treat addiction, PTSD and depression.    

This episode is for men and the women who love them.  Larry Hagner -- speaker, author, host and founder  -- tells me his life story; an incredibly moving tale of loss and resilience and how that lead him to start The Good Dad Project, an online community of thousands of men who come together to talk about all the issues that men face in America today, but usually suffer with in silence.    

The medium and author of the book Intuitive Being, Jill Willard -- featured in GOOP, Vanity Fair and Elle -- illuminates the intimate connection between our inner voice and spirit.  She teaches us, step-by-step, how to access that powerful inner and outer world in order to live a more spiritually guided intentional life.

Have you ever heard of consciousness? Or stages of Enlightenment? In this episode I'll tell you a story that I've been warned could discredit me from the medical community.

In this bonus episode, as a follow up to my interview with Dr. Julie Holland, I crack the birth control pill conversation open one more inch and ask us to remember our own stories of being put on the pill as young women and what we felt. I ask you to reconsider this prescriptive protocol for the sake of our daughters.

Are you a woman (or with a woman) who doesn't have a sex drive? Or, are you a woman who takes an antidepressant or a benzo to get through the day?  We've all pretty much been there, so no pill shaming here.  In today's episode I go toe-to-toe with pioneering psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland.  We talk shop about what happens to women's bodies when we medicate them and how our natural moods actually make us awesome. 

Everyone has faced loss: a breakup, death of a loved one, divorce, a huge professional setback.  In the West, we are programmed to avoid or numb our pain with things like alcohol, shopping, food, endless hours on social media or sex. In today's episode, one of the most profound spiritual thinkers of our time, Francis Weller, explains to us the value of facing our fears and grief while staying conscious.  He says, "In our symptoms lie our souls deepest desires." After years of seeing patients, I couldn't agree more.  Learning to have an apprenticeship with sorrow is the first step to living a life unscripted. After spending an hour listening to Weller, you'll know where to start.   

Nell Daly, an Ivy-league educated conventionally trained psychotherapist, nationally recognized television commentator and single mother of three wakes up, one day, to the fact that she's been actively taking part in something corrupt and tragic for years  -- the over medication of our society.  This is the back story behind Unscripted and a teaser of what's to come.