I was recently interviewed on the Serenity Brault Podcast where I answered questions about ayahuasca healing practices.
Interview - Inside Out Health Podcast
Why Digital Hygiene Is Important For Your Mental Health
In the past 30 years consumption of digital content and interactions with digital devices has becomes a central feature of the contemporary modern lifestyle. Many people spend more time during the day with their screens than with another person. Our screen life has expanded and expanded to the point where it has overtaken our entire lives. The average American now spends between an estimated 10 and 12 hours per day consuming consuming media of all kinds (including broadcast TV and radio).
Plant Spirit Medicine Versus Psychedelics As Medicine
During the final panel with all the speakers at the Queering Psychedelics conference held in June of this year, a participant asked why we use the term medicine to refer to the substances (i.e. plant medicine) and not to the practices associated with their use.
I think it’s an excellent question and one worth exploring because it says a lot about the differences between the approach being taken in the current “psychedelic renaissance” and traditional plant medicine work.
3 Things You can Do Today to Cope Better
Self care has become a hot mainstream topic, probably because of the skyrocketing levels of depression, addiction, obesity and other lifestyle-related problems.
Because of the commercial nature of American culture, a lot of ideas around self-care are being co-opted and packaged as products/services to be purchased and consumed. But the reality is that the most fundamental and essential aspects of self-care cost nothing.
How to Deal with A Troubling Psychedelic Experience
Plant medicines and psychedelics, used in thoughtful and intentional ways, can be incredibly life changing and transformative. They offer the potential for profound spiritual experiences and deep healing. But these experiences can also be very challenging, difficult, dark, or painful. This is especially true when the person is unprepared for the magnitude of what they experience. Even people going through positive transformative journeys with psychedelics can find themselves struggling to come to terms with what happened or return to a balanced state. It is not always a smooth process.
Why Pursuing Happiness Doesn’t Work
Why Psychedelics Are Suddenly Receiving Massive Mainstream Attention
Google Search Trends just posted its highest score ever for the search term “psychedelics.” I’m flooded with emails from people interested in psychedelic therapy. Suddenly psychedelics are on the tips of everbody’s tongues. What is going on?
Psychedelic Therapy: The State Of The Art In 2018
With the incredible amount of public attention being showered upon psychedelic research, and a growing acceptance in mainstream psychiatry, it is a good time to take a step-back and examine the current state of the research as 2018 gets underway.
Much has been made of the so-called “psychedelic renaissance,” which has emerged following a 30-year drought in psychedelics research and above-board therapeutic uses. Coupled with a surge in interest in plant medicines like ayahuasca and the recent popularization of micro-dosing psychedelics for both mental health and productivity, its safe to say that psychedelics have again penetrated mainstream consciousness.
How To Integrate A Psychedelic Experience
Integration is a much talked-about term among users of psychedelics these days, but I have found that for many it is still an abstract or vague concept. It can be hard to wrap one’s head around a process that is multi-dimensional and so deeply personal.
What does integration really mean in practical and tangible terms? From my experience guiding people before, during, and after intensive, week-long ayahuasca retreats, integration is the process by which the experiences that occurred during ceremony, or during a psychedelic experience, translate into actual changes in your life.