Summit Presentation Topic
“Psychedelics as Tools to Aid
in End of Life Care”
Grateful “Deb” Servetnick
Deborah “Grateful Deb” Servetnick
Founder and President – ServeMedicine
(501(c)3 Non-Profit that provides End of Life Journeys)
Transformational Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Coach
Deborah “Grateful Deb” Servetnick, M.Ed., is a teacher, speaker, and leader in transformational psychedelic preparation and integration coaching and lives in Baltimore. Her participation in the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Cancer Study in 2012 rekindled her love for psychedelics, and opened her to an expanded dimension of consciousness, which continues to guide her. The journeyers who coach with Deb have decided for a great life, not just a great 6 hours.
Deborah has formed a new Non-Profit Organization called ServeMedicine that organizes and free psychedelic journeys for people diagnosed with End of Life terminal illnesses that will launch in May 2023.
Deborah Servetnick has been a transformational teacher all her adult life. Deborah grew up in Philadelphia, graduated Temple University, situated on the site of the ministry of Russell Conwell, author “Acres of Diamonds”, the classic treatise on abundance, awareness, and presence. Her love for the Grateful Dead brought her to Berkeley, CA where she studied a variety of bodywork and energy modalities, Chinese medicine, Rebirthing, and meditation. Her intuitive healing practices led her to work with people with AIDS and other life-threatening illness, and while engaged as an ACT-UP activist in San Francisco and Philadelphia, she was ordained as a minister offering hands-on healing and holding space for the dying and their transition.
Deborah was at the first Burning Man and by the age of 30 she studied with Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, experienced her first ayahuasca ceremony, and met the Dalai Lama. It was during a Dark Night of the Soul breast cancer diagnosis in 2011 that she returned to psychedelics for healing and a new way of living.
Deborah was led to join a groundbreaking psychedelic research study for cancer patients with end-of-life anxiety and depression at Johns Hopkins University. It reset her life.
Deborah’s autobiographical story appears in the best selling book “Short, Sweet, Sacred” and she was featured in Unlimited Sciences‘ film “Breast cancer, psychedelics, and end-of-life anxiety – a survivor’s story”
She’s also interviewed in “The Psychedelic Renaissance - from Drug to Medicine” by Belgian filmmaker Robin Van Nuffel.
Deborah has taught thousands to move from a conditional life to a life they love living through a transformational spiritual curriculum in alignment with a psychedelic experience, using the same tools that saved her life. Psychedelicoaching is her passion and she has been an outspoken leader in Decriminalization, testifying for and assisting in the legalization of medical cannabis in Maryland. Deb is a repeat presenter at The DC Psychedelic Society and was an organizer and field activist for Initiative 81, resulting in pivotal entheogenic legislation in Washington, DC in 2020. She is a recipient of the first grants awarded by the Plant Medicine Coalition, where she brings psychedelic integration to first responders, front liners, and medical professionals, through Covida and beyond, in the District.
