How do I know when my psychedelic use becomes less of the catalyst to further inner work and a band-aid to take care of everything? Where is the line.
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Fuck Inner Work.
Today is my 540th day alcohol free and it’s largely due to the inner work I’ve focused on the last year and a half. It’s some of the hardest practices in my life but equally rewarding as they begin to cement as part of my own being.
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Psilocybin Journey Log #3
A recap of a journey I took towards self discovery. The preparation, dose, intention, and integration documented. This is deeply personal to me and my hope is that by sharing these experiences I can bring relevance to the appropriate use of these plant medicines.
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Navigating Holiday’s in the First Year of Recovery
My first trip back for a big holiday with the family was filled with anxiety and a constant concern over how best to act. I am a 5 hour flight from them and so there are large gaps of time between family gatherings and outside of occasional phone calls the progress and changes not just in my life but in my thinking aren’t apparent to my immediate family. So, showing up all reformed may come off as showy and coming back with little changed in my demeanor or how I act would beg the question, “what is he doing?”. This is the kind of things that go through my head. I made the mistake of thinking there’d be a ticker tape parade the first time I came back this summer and that was a huge disappointment that actually regressed some of the progress I had made to date. Giving up…
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Entheogens & Recovery From My Addiction
You will hear me use the terms Psychedelics and Entheogens interchangeably. Most will relate closer to Psychedelics as that term was coined by Dr. Humphrey Osmond in the 50’s and let’s be honest, it really defined the 60’s. In an effort to distance the movement from the recreational use of psychedelics a new term arose in the late 70’s by Carl A. P. Ruck, a mythology scholar, called Entheogens derived from the greek en (within) theo (divine) and gen (creates). Put more simply, divine medicine. A much more fitting term for the maturity with which these plant medicines are being studied and used to treat a multitude of mental and physical health disorders/trauma. While it may be confusing to most how the use of Entheogens can help with addiction recovery but that’s more about your perception of these plants and how they’ve been portrayed in the news and media. Is it weird to you that…