On Post-Traumatic Growth, Psychedelics, Overcoming Depression and Achieving a Healthy Money Mindset: An Interview with Benoit Kim

The Mental Health and Wealth Show

Benoit Kim is a US army veteran, Penn-educated former policymaker turned psychotherapist, and host of the Discover More Podcast. In this episode, he shares how he got his depression, his coping mechanism to overcome it, and how it led him to shift into a different career. We also talk about the phenomenon called post-traumatic growth (which is on the other side of PTSD), psychedelics, and what it looks like to have a healthy money mindset.

“The famous mental health adage states that the opposite of depression is expression, what you don't express gets depressed. And of course, it's a general blanket statement, but it is the core ethos of a lot of mental health issues.” - Benoit Kim

“I attribute a lot of my growth and this new lens that allows me to navigate life in such a hyper-intentional way to the phenomena of post-traumatic growth.” - Benoit Kim

“When you let yourself grow from such hard experiences, that's the real beauty of healing and growth.” - Melanie Lockert

What You Will Learn From This Episode

• How acceptance of limitation leads to healing
• Importance of breaking the stigma on masculinity
• Advantages of having an intentional personality
• What is post-traumatic growth and how to achieve it
• Why physical health and mental health are not two separate entities
• The mental health and emotional signs telling you that it is time for a career change
• How journaling and looking back at your life's data points can help you make changes and grow
• What a healthy money mindset looks like
• Psychedelics - its effectivity and risk factors
• What does it look like to have psychedelic-assisted therapy
• How healing can transform life and get people to optimal performance

About Benoit Kim:

Benoit Kim is a US army veteran, Penn-educated former policymaker turned therapist, and host of the Discover More Podcast. He worked in the policy sector for a few years then pivoted recently into the clinical field as an aspirational psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist. Lastly, he started the podcast 3 years ago by simply leaning into curiosity, and the show was featured on Top Apple Podcasts 200 chart two times in 2022.

Resources:

• Discover More Podcast by Benoit Kim
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Chronic Pain and Emotional Trauma: An Interview with Kent Bassett and Dr. Howard Schubiner of This Might Hurt Film
• On Toxic Masculinity and Mental Health: An Interview with Colin Becker
• Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
• Dear Debt blog by Melanie
• New York Times article featuring Melanie
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich Podcast by Ramit Sethi
• How To Change Your Mind on Netflix

Connect with Benoit:

• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Instagram

Connect with Melanie

• mentalhealthandwealth.com
• melanielockert.com
• Instagram
• Support the podcast through Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/melanielockert
• Buy Melanie’s book “Dear Debt”
• Contact: [e-mail]

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