Content note: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation, violent crime, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Please take care of yourself while listening. Nothing here is medical advice.
Mark Michaels was conceived by donor insemination in 1958 and didn't find out until he was past thirty. He calls himself an uncontrolled experiment — half joking, but only half. The medical advice at the time was to keep it secret, mix the sperm to muddy the paternity, count a live birth as success, and assume everyone would forget.
Mechelle sits down with him for a conversation. They talk about what happens when the story you were never told still lives in your body. About the ten-week intensive — ketamine with EMDR, MDMA sessions, treatment goals he set and then blew past — that did more for him than decades of previous therapy. About the therapist who ended things the moment he wanted to try something new, and the one before that who fell asleep during sessions and denied it.
Mark discovered his fundamental attachment style is secure. Strongly so. He had spent years assuming he was anxiously attached, reading his whole life through the lens of trauma. What he's doing now is rewriting that narrative — not to deny what happened, but to see how good it actually was underneath it. That leads somewhere provocative. Mark argues there are narrative channels we get funneled into and advocates taking control of your own story, whatever that story turns out to be.
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