I donate ALOT. But before I do I have questions- and anytime a non profit does not reply to detailed questions about their spending it's A RED FLAG. I asked numerous times for disclosures on spending.How funds were allocated for 2023 and 2024 How many veterans were assisted in each year? CRICKETS.
I'm a Marine Corps Veteran who has suffered from anxiety and depression during and after my service. Heroic Hearts Project helped me receive psychedelic-assisted therapy with Ayahuasca in the Amazonian jungles of Peru. Ayahuasca allowed me to process and let go of the pain and trauma we carry from life for far too long. What I experienced in those ceremonies is beyond words, and I can only show appreciation for what Heroic Hearts has done for other veterans and myself. I would give this nonprofit more stars if I could; truly an incredible organization saving lives!
HeroicHearts Project is an amazing organization and what their doing with connecting veterans with psychedelics is incredibly powerful. I’ve been able to do a retreat with HHP in Peru and had an incredible healing journey and witnessed the same with many other veterans in need. This is such an important mission they are doing and I’m thankful to have been connected with not only a great organization but an amazing group of people that help.
Under Jesse Gould's leadership, Heroic Hearts Project has made great strides in advancing therapeutic solutions for veterans suffering from PTSD, TRD, and a host of other mental challenges.
With continued YoY growth, Heroic Hearts Project is now positioned to further extend its coverage and support of veterans in need.
Scores of veterans have now been lifted and supported by Heroic Hearts Project, at no cost to them. One can only stand in admiration of this effort, while admitting that the challenge remains great.
One thing is for certain--with organizations like Heroic Hearts Project, we have, perhaps for the first time in a long time, ample hope that veterans will receive the therapy and support they need, with the wish that they are fully restored to a healthy life.
This is only the beginning.
I had my first psychedelic experience while still in the military. At the time, I had no idea what psychedelics were, and my purpose for taking them was to satisfy my curiosity about the experience. I had read articles and anecdotal accounts of how psilocybin and LSD could improve focus, mood, and creativity beforehand and wanted to see if I could exploit these drugs for their purported benefit. I had no understanding of what I was doing and had no respect for the medicine beforehand- in short, I abused them. It wasn't until after years of grappling with my experience and interpreting what I saw that I started to understand its healing potential. I wanted to share this experience with others who I knew could benefit from them, whether it be my friends dealing with clinical depression or the soldiers I had deployed with living with mental trauma and affecting their everyday lives. Still, I was aware of the stigma surrounding many psychedelics and reservations about their use. Had it not been for my personal venture, I would still feel the same-hesitant and skeptical. Heroic Hearts is an organization I wish I had found sooner. The group does far more than send veterans to retreat centers; they offer themselves as a tribe, a safe and familiar environment for veterans conducive to their healing. Their goal to reduce, if not totally eradicate, the stigma around hallucinogens is backed by their involvement in multiple studies and research reporting objective results outlining the benefits of psychedelic use. Had I known then what I learned by following the organization, I would have saved myself years of confusion in understanding my personal experience with psychoactive substances. I have high hopes, however, that through more exposure to the group, more veterans will have access to a safe environment designed to help them heal, and fewer people will be left to try and navigate their experiences alone.
I recommend this group to every veteran I know!
Heroic Hearts Project is doing the critical work of healing our country’s warriors, work that is desperately needed for the health of our country.
It's astounding to witness traumatized veterans find healing via HHP's program. Their PTSD symptoms are eradicated and veterans get their lives back. The program truly saves veterans' lives by sending them to ayahuasca retreats in Latin America, where the medicine is legal and ceremonies are safely conducted with integrity and support.