Tag: Psychedelics

I recently watched a Netflix documentary on psychedelics called “How To Change Your Mind” from Michael Pollan (who also has a book on the same subject). The documentary and the book talk about the effects that substances like Psilocybin (the chemical released by “magic mu...

In the years I’ve spent in integration circles listening to what people are working on in psychedelic spaces, I’ve listened to this share repeated many times: “I’m unable to ask for help.” The story typically goes like this, “I needed help, I wanted to say help...

If you’re reading this blog when it’s published on Thursday 6th February 2020, I will be on day five (of six) in a darkness retreat. The six-day experience is to spend time alone in darkness and in silence as an introspective process. While in the darkness I’m planning to t...

The first thing I will admit is how little I know… about a lot of things, but particularly the current landscape of the psychedelic industry for therapeutic purposes. How did I end up at ‘Psychedelics in the South’ on a Sunday afternoon? Rewind to a little over a month ago w...

All my life I’ve been so sure about who I wanted to be. ‘I want to be known for something’, I’d say. I wasn’t quite sure what it was, but I knew it from a young age. At one point I wanted to be a singer. It’s a talent I’ve always had and seldom used,...

I’m talking, of course, about the treatment of intractable conditions such as depression, PTSD, and addiction, which time and time again these mind-altering substances have shown genuine promise in alleviating the symptoms of. Now more than ever before — amid a mental health crisis th...