Ep26 Scott Wright—A Filmmaker's Own Awakening, Decades of Silence Breaking Open, and the Medicine of Connection

What if the most powerful kind of healing doesn't arrive until the second half of life?

That question sits at the heart of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Scott Wright, documentary filmmaker; former radio DJ known across America as "The Shadow," and director of The Next Chapter: Psychedelics, Healing, and the Second Half of Life, premiering this June in Toronto.

Scott didn't set out to make a film about psychedelics. He set out to understand his own life: the decades of insecurity and self-judgment that shaped how he showed up for the people closest to him. A single journey in Mexico cracked something open, and what came out the other side was a documentary following eight people in their late fifties through their late sixties as they faced down a lifetime of buried grief, trauma, and one question almost everyone eventually asks. What is my life about now?

In this conversation, Scott and Dr. Sandra talk about what it actually looks like to do "the work" later in life. What does it take to let go of decades of armor you didn't even know you were wearing? What happens when eight strangers go through something this intense together and are still calling each other two years later? They talk about growing up in a generation that treated therapy as something only "broken" people needed and about the message Scott hopes people take from his film: that healing is still available to you, no matter how long you've been carrying what you carry and no matter how old you are when you finally set it down.

If you've ever wondered whether it's too late for you to change, this conversation is worth your full attention.

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