A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee has listeners in 49 countries?! 🤯🌏 I can’t wrap my head around how far+wide our community is. I lived in isolation+shame for SO long from severe #MentalIllness & unimaginably painful circumstances—where my truth was deeply uncomfortable & intolerable to most. 1/

Where my lived experience was too much+unacceptable. I started my podcast to liberate myself & finally share my truth on my own terms—unvarnished, uncensored, brutally honest. To share the truths of others & understand our minds & #MentalHealth through science+lived experience.

Together, we’ve co-created a community that honors our actual human experience in its fullest form. Together, we’ve brought mental health advocacy AND research to folks in 49 COUNTRIES around the WORLD! 🌏

Never could I ever imagine that I would have a community of so many friends who would understand & accept me so fully; and more importantly, who extend that love, empathy, curiosity, & radical acceptance far beyond to themselves+everyone around them. This is the greatest gift 🥺

To every single beautiful human who has tuned in & every brilliant guest who has generously shared themselves on A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee—thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being here & being you. 🙏🏾🫶🏾 Trust me when I say that we are only scratching the surface right now…

And this is the beginning of SO much more! And I couldn’t do it without you. ☀️🫶🏾❤️ 🔗 Find A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/um… OR search on all podcast platforms! 🎙️ #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MentalHealthMatters #SciComm #RealOCD #Psychiatry #Neuroscience

🎓 FROM FOSTER CARE TO HARVARD NEUROSCIENTIST: The Choice to Live, Maternal #Psychedelics, & Post-Viral Chronic Illnesses with Dr. Ya’el Courtney Ya'el Courtney, PhD ☄️ Ep. 46 @AChatwithUma is out everywhere now! Truly a MUST listen🌟👏🏾 🎙️Tune in here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/umarc… 1/

In Ep. 46 of A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee, I talk to Dr. Ya’el Courtney Ya'el Courtney, PhD—a neuroscientist whose life traverses extreme circumstances that most only read about. From surviving an abusive home to couch-surfing through high school, her path to neuroscience is beyond extraordinary. 2/

At 15, Ya'el Courtney, PhD fled a violent fundamentalist household. She battled EDs, self-harm, & poverty—working night shifts while teaching herself high school. She forged a transcript to escape, later confessed, earned a GED, & won a full scholarship to Kent State. 3/

Ya'el Courtney, PhD’s love of science brought her to Harvard University, where she earned her PhD in neuroscience. In the Lehtinen Lab, she discovered how serotonin-sensing cells in the fetal brain guide development—and how #psychedelics can derail that process in pregnancy. 4/

Now a Jane Coffin Childs postdoc at Stanford, Ya'el Courtney, PhD studies how infections like Epstein–Barr, COVID, & Lyme trigger long-term neurological disease. We talk science, survival, solidarity, & making academia accessible for those w/out a safety net. #LongCOVID #ChronicLyme 5/

We also discuss disordered eating, working full time through undergrad, the cost of doing science while poor, navigating academia with chronic illness, and the unspoken labor of advocating for equity from within elite institutions. Read through all topics covered below!👇🏾 6/

Ya'el Courtney, PhD’s story is a testament to the power of showing up anyway—of choosing truth, carving out possibility where none existed, & building a future no one handed you. Her courage & brilliance make this one of the most profound episodes of A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee—Tune in! 👏🏾❤️ 7/

🤯TRIPPING IN YOUR SLEEP: Psychedelics, The Placebo Effect, & How Human Connection Heals the Brain with Dr. Boris Heifets Boris D Heifets 💭 Ep. 51 A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee out now! 🌟 This ep is truly a dream come true (no pun intended)--a MUST listen! 🙌🏾 Tune in 📲 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/um…

This was truly one of my favorite A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee episodes I’ve ever released!✨ I'm so grateful for how Boris D Heifets shared not only his work, but his own story, with such honesty, generosity, + depth 🙌🏾🙏🏾 📖 Read below for full show notes+timestamps & listen at the link above!☝🏾

New episode of A Chat With Uma | Podcast by Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS: Dr. Boris Heifets explores how psychedelics, placebo, and human connection shape the brain—and what this means for the future of psychiatry. bit.ly/4n1zHHy Boris D Heifets @UmaRChatterjee

‼️THIS is why Stanford University researchers Boris D Heifets & Carolyn Rodriguez are studying MDMA for OCD 🧠 Tune into the FULL episode with Dr. Boris Heifets on A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee! 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/um… #MDMA #Psychedelics #PsychedelicScience #OCD #PTSD #OCDAwareness #ERPTherapy

Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS Stanford University Boris D Heifets A Chat With Uma | Podcast by Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS Wonderful information-great interview @UmaRChatterjee and Boris D Heifets 👍👍

Thank you Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS for hosting me - for those that don’t know her, Uma is one of the most effective advocates for OCD and science whom I’ve met. Really appreciate her enthusiasm!

☝🏾How #MDMA showed Boris D Heifets what REAL human connection feels like 😱 Tune into the FULL episode with Dr. Boris Heifets on A Chat With Uma | Podcast by @UmaRChatterjee! 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/um… #Psychedelics #PsychedelicScience #Autism #OCD #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #SocialConnection #Loneliness