Your Brain Is a Filthy Liar: Psychedelics, Parenting & Self-Deception with Elisabeth McKay
January 14, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
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Find out how the stories your brain tells you keep you stuck and how to rewrite them.
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In this episode
- How childhood inputs create lifelong patterns of anxiety and control
- What brain pattern mapping reveals about self-deception
- Why psychedelics can break cycles that talk therapy often cannot
- How small moments of awareness can permanently shift your narrative
About this episode
Dr. Dave Rabin sits down with Elisabeth McKay—author of Your Brain Is a Filthy Liar—to explore how psychedelics and brain pattern mapping reveal the stories we tell ourselves. From her first psilocybin trip at 13 that sparked radical empathy to her work on breaking cycles of self-deception, Bizzie shares how childhood inputs shape lifelong patterns of anxiety, control, and personality disorders.
Together they dive into parenting, fear of death, and the healing potential of psychedelic medicine, showing how micro-moments of awareness can rewrite entire narratives that have governed our entire lives.
🌿 “Self-deception isn’t malice—it’s protection. But it’s also a prison we can escape.”
Elisabeth McKay
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Dr. Dave Rabin MD, PhD, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist trained in Ketamine and MDMA-assisted therapy, brings you the newest developments from the world of psychedelic science and technology. From researchers and investors to physicians and shamans to nonprofit pioneers and policy-makers — each week, Dr.
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