EP 119 | IMPOSSIBLE HEALING: OVERCOMING ALS WITH ANDREW FLETCHER

Suicide by success…

This is a story of impossible healing. One of the biggest blessings I have in my life is getting to meet and work with inspiring people doing big time miracles in their lives with plant medicines. In the last year, I have had the immense pleasure of getting to know and work with my soul brother Andrew Fletcher.

Andrew is a remarkable, generous, (and very funny) man with a fascinating healing story. He grew up in poverty in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spent his childhood years in and out of institutions, foster care, and juvenile hall. After an English teacher took an interest in him, he received a full ride scholarship to Clark University before going to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, despite battling ongoing addiction and substance use issues.

Andrew spent 15 years practicing as a rebellious but well-liked emergency room physician, before his medical license was revoked due to a relapse into addiction. After a long battle to regain his credentials and sobriety, he enrolled at the University of Maine School of Law, earning his Juris Doctor degree and subsequently becoming a member of the Washington D.C. Bar.

On the surface, Andrew’s life was going great. He was a practicing doctor and lawyer. He had a beautiful wife, spacious home, and plenty of money. But inside he was battling a deep lack of worthiness that no amount of success or achievement could solve. The only heartfelt emotion he had the capacity to experience was anger.

Soon after he graduated from law school, he began to have muscle twitching in his hands that eventually progressed to his legs. He went to see a neurologist and was eventually diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is defined as “a fatal neurological disorder that causes the gradual deterioration of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.”

After a four year battle for his life inside the traditional medical system, he began to look deeper within and seek out holistic healing, spirituality, and plant medicine. His relationship with the ALS began to change from one of war, to one of radical acceptance.

In this week’s episode, hear in depth about Andrew’s impossible healing journey into mindbody medicine, psychedelics, integration, and how he stopped the ALS in its tracks and is no longer seeing progression of this illness. (And no longer identifies as having it at all.)

Love,
Sinclair