So you wanna know more about me..

So you want to know a little bit more about me?

Well, my name is John. John Borden the Fourth. Back when JB1 was born, John was - by far - the most popular male name in the United States. Which means that if you were to meet another “fourth,” odds are that they are named John as well.

Like the JB’s before me, I grew up in suburban New Jersey, just east of Philadelphia. I was born into a middle class household, which afforded me a great deal of benefits I took for granted much of my life - no fear of starvation, sheltered from violence or real struggle. But with that came a great deal of stress.

My parents both grew up in tense environments - my father’s from anxiousness around JB2’s anger and the drinking that proceeded it, and my mother’s from a lack of social or financial security. Despite this, always did their best to love and protect me and my half brother and sister, but like their childhoods, mine was tense. Anger, anxiety and substance abuse were prevalent throughout my childhood, which I accepted as the norm. 

Because of the tense environment, I developed an unquenchable need for acceptance. I found an outlet for acceptance excelling in school and achievement on the baseball field, but largely struggled to fit in. I suffered from a great deal of anxiety, and it consistently manifested itself in my actions - even going so far as pretending not to know how to read on my first day of high school because I was told that my academic achievement made me an outlier. I often pretended I was someone I wasn’t through high school, and learned to solidify that false version of myself through college and my early career.

Although I found acceptance in college, because I was constantly molding myself to fit the expectations of others, I was never able to focus enough on what I wanted to create a true vision for my life. But despite this, things were going okay as a young adult. I was president of my social fraternity at Seton Hall and was promoted multiple times in my first career out of college. I even had a girlfriend who I was discussing marriage with. 

But then everything changed in October of 2018 when the office I managed was broken into overnight, and assets that I mismanaged were stolen. At the time, I didn’t understand my role in the robbery. So, when I was fired a few days later, I developed a great deal of resentment towards everyone else who was involved in the scenario. 

Losing that job left me with a lot of free time, which I spent by aggressively pursuing immediate gratification. I drank a lot. I engrained a developing cocaine habit. I began recklessly pursuing sexual satisfaction.    

And a spiral began that spun and spun and spun until eventually I found myself living in central Connecticut, where I had little social connection, and a huge problem with addiction. 

Eventually, I reached my breaking point and started to take back control of my life. It started with a move from the northeast to Tampa,. But even after the move, my addictive habits persisted. Until I found psilocybin.

Over a month, ramping up my experimentation from microdosing to macrodosing, I was able to learn enough about myself and the way I had been experiencing the world to completely shift my understanding of life itself. I was able to understand the foundations of my anxiety and the habits that had formed to shield myself from it, ridding countless addictions and overcoming deep seeded traumas.  

Fitness had always been a main piece of my life, but once free of addiction, I found a level that previously was unattainable.

As a kid, I was devoted to baseball, finding every way to maximize my performance through weight and performance training. Then, when I reached college, I developed my powerlifting abilities to the point of elite strength. After my psilocybin experience, I recognized the need to diversify my training and started to reintroduce a number of the performance, flexibility, mindfulness and endurance aspects of my fitness regimen. 

A year and a half after shedding my habits and refocusing on my body, I reached the point where I felt physically full and mentally ready to share my experience with the world. I decided to quit my 9-5 and devote myself full time to helping others through the wealth of experience I gained through so many highs and lows of life. Now, I have reached a new level of physical health by diversifying my training through a combination of weight lifting, HIIT training, distance running, sprints, bike rides, yoga, pickle ball, rock climbing, and any other opportunity I can get to move my body!

And that’s where Get Psyched was born - out of a realization that I was uniquely able to overcome my vices, optimize my mind and body, and put myself in a position to help others do the same. I got my personal training credentials and started classes to help me better provide assistance to those looking to utilize psychedelics for transformational purposes, all with the goal of helping others find the same salvation through attention to mental and physical health that I have developed.

If you’re reading this, know that there is strength within you that is waiting for you to find it. And I’m here to help you tap into it.

Let’s go get it! Lets get psyched.