Rick Andstrom: From Navy SEAL to Healing, Psychedelics, and Performance

On The Next Man Up, Coral Osborne interviews her friend Rick Andstrom about masculinity, trauma, and healing. Rick introduces himself as a dad and retired Navy SEAL (25 years in the Navy, 20 as a SEAL), describing post-military work including facilitating psychedelic-assisted therapy, time in Ukraine, and founding Mercury Human Performance, a “human performance lab” blending synthetic shooting, fitness, and wellness practices. He recounts a difficult childhood, what drew him to SEALs, multiple medical washouts from BUD/S, and how mindfulness training helped him succeed. Rick discusses the psychological and neurological toll of war, repetitive blast injury, taboo around mental health care, anger, suicidality, and losing friends to suicide. He explains how MERT/TMS led him to psilocybin, then VETS and a supervised ibogaine program in Mexico, including insights about his life, addiction, and reconciliation with his mother. They emphasize integration, meditation, non-judgmental awareness, and uncertainty in intimacy, and Coral shares how Rick facilitated psychedelic sessions for her and her family, leading to greater honesty, acceptance, and connection.EPISODE THEMES📝📌 Healing the Mother Wound📌 Mindfulness Through Pain📌 War Trauma Invisible Wounds📌 Nonjudgment and Nonduality📌 Psychedelics and Spiritual BypassingEXCLUSIVE OFFERS 📣https://www.coralosborne.com/pod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CONNECT WITH RICK 📩Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rick_andstrom/CONNECT WITH CORAL OSBORNE (THE NEXT MAN UP)🎙️Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://www.coralosborne.com/podcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theunrealcoralosborneYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@nextmanupwithcoralSubstack: https://substack.com/@coralosborne