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Without an intention for microdosing, working with psychedelics is simply an experience.

Having experiences can be interesting — they can be pleasurable (or sometimes not) — but experience without intention is just experience. It’s unlikely you’ll achieve the transformation you’re after.

Intentions provide foundation and meaning to things that we do in life, particularly practices intended to support us in healing, growing, and changing.

Setting an intention is an important first step when microdosing for transformation to achieve the results you’re seeking.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How to set a powerful intention
• How to choose the right intention for your microdosing cycle when there are so many things you desire
• How you should use it in your microdosing cycle to support your results

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There tends to be a bit of fear and some misconceptions around microdosing psilocybin, so this episode is a Microdosing Psilocybin 101 overview that addresses the most common questions people have when they are curious about working with this type of plant medicine.

In this episode, I’ll answer the most common questions I get asked about microdosing psilocybin, including:

• What is it?
• Is it safe?
• Is it legal?
• Can I drive, work, and parent?
• Can I have a bad trip?
• How quickly does it help you make a change?

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• The War On Drugs: A History by David Farber
• Dopesick — A Hulu Mini-Series on the Opioid Crisis
• Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelics + Consciousness Research
• The Immortality Key — Brian C. Muraresku

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If you are ready to step fully into what you are here to do and live every day with the kind of magic you know is possible, apply for Expand. 

Expand is an intimate three-month online community experience that supports you through one full microdosing cycle combined with deep mental, emotional and somatic work so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire.

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In January 2021, Joy Asibey-Gabriel, a successful feminine adornment coach, joined my Empower program with the intention of stepping forward in her career.

She felt like she needed to focus all of her attention to be more visible and bolder with her work and assumed other areas of her life were less important, like her relationship.

When she started working with the t medicine, she realized that there were places that she just didn't want to look at and those were the exact places where she needed to focus her healing and growth to break through.

She said, “The medicine just allowed me to see, and I knew I had to look at this and do something about it and make some changes.”...

“It gave me the ability to process things and move through feelings and experiences and emotions in a way that was even surprising to me. I look at some of the things I've achieved over the last, I'd say six months, and I'm like, ‘Wow.’ It's a, it's a lot.”

If you have those inner rumblings and areas of your life that you may not feel like are most important to look at right now, or you don’t feel ready to look at them, tune in to hear:

• Joy’s experience with working with medicine in my Expand and Empower programs,
• How she faced all the things she didn’t want to face, feeling supported by the medicine
• And how that transformed her into her most expanded self, hitting income goals, and manifesting quickly

Connect with Joy:

Joy Asibey-Gabriel empowers visionary women to co-create their style through an intuitive, pleasure-first approach to dressing that aligns what you wear with the amazing woman you are. Together, you’ll uncover your signature style and design a wardrobe filled with pieces you love to put on and that make you look and feel amazing, so that you, in turn, can illuminate the world.

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Expand is an intimate three-month online community experience that supports you through one full microdosing cycle combined with deep mental, emotional and somatic work so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire.

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Microdosing for transformation is the opposite of how we are trained to approach Western medicine.

When we go to the allopathic doctor and they give us a prescription, we’re taking medicine either for some kind of healing or for symptom relief.

This is the opposite of microdosing — microdosing is not a magic pill.

When we microdose for transformation, we’re looking for a connection to a deeper part of ourselves so that we can get to the root cause of what ails us.

When you’re working with plant medicine to break long-standing patterns that you can’t seem to shake, there are 5 aspects to keep in mind that make that type of transformation possible.

In this episode, I’m sharing exactly what those are so that you can have a deeper understanding of what it looks like when you use microdosing to support you in this way.

When you tune into this episode, you’ll discover:

• What a microdosing container is and why it’s needed to get results
• An analogy to help you understand what the healing cycle will feel like when microdosing
• An example of the types of changes you can expect (because it’s likely not what you expect!)

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APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE

If you are ready to step fully into what you are here to do and live every day with the kind of magic you know is possible, apply for Expand. 

Expand is an intimate three-month online community experience that supports you through one full microdosing cycle combined with deep mental, emotional and somatic work so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire.

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I approached Ayahuasca with the intention of having a baby.

But when I drank the brew, I saw tie dye and candy.

At the time I said to myself, “This is ayahuasca? This is just one more disappointment. Like, really?”

I left feeling great, but apparently having received nothing — that was my impression.

And then the next day, the most amazing thing happened.

Tune into this episode to hear how I was called to plant medicine and how my healing through this process led me to become a psychedelic guide.

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If you are ready to step fully into what you are here to do and live every day with the kind of magic you know is possible, apply for Expand. 

Expand is an intimate three-month online community experience that supports you through one full microdosing cycle combined with deep mental, emotional and somatic work so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire.

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Are you doing all the things and perhaps not seeing the change that you're looking for?

Maybe you've been in therapy for a while, or you have an on-and-off meditation practice, and you've done some mindset work.

You know your patterns, you know your triggers, and you know what you want.

Yet somehow you're not quite showing up as who you want to be in the world.

There are four aspects of change that are so often missed, and this is going to help you adjust how you relate to your own healing and growth process.

These four shifts and perspectives and way of being with yourself are going to help you step more fully into all the things that you desire in life.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• 4 overlooked aspects to making a change
• Why discipline alone doesn’t usually work — especially when you’ve been in a pattern for months or years
• Why many people never get to the true, deep, personal work that needs to happen to make a change
• What multidimensional healing is and why it’s needed for major and lasting transformation

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If you are ready to step fully into what you are here to do and live every day with the kind of magic you know is possible, apply for Expand. 

Expand is an intimate three-month online community experience that supports you through one full microdosing cycle combined with deep mental, emotional and somatic work so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire.

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There tends to be a bit of fear and some misconceptions around microdosing psilocybin, so this episode is a Microdosing Psilocybin 101 overview that addresses the most common questions people have when they are curious about working with this type of plant medicine.

In this episode, I’ll answer the most common questions I get asked about microdosing psilocybin, including:

There is a lot of misinformation out there. I encourage you to use this episode as a starting point for rethinking how you think about sacred medicine.

📚Resources

The War On Drugs: A History by David Farber

Dopesick — A Hulu Mini-Series on the Opioid Crisis

Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelics + Consciousness Research

The Immortality Key — Brian C. Muraresku

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Aliveness is living and loving the fullest expression of yourself, with nothing left out, and in doing so finding the pathway to what you long for.

What would aliveness look like in your life?

This podcast is for those who are ready to stop running through the motions, change old patterns you can’t seem to shake, and break through healing plateaus to create a full, juicy life filled with aliveness.

A life where you are living and loving the fullest expression of yourself, with nothing left out, and in doing so finding the path to all that you long for.

On this podcast, Alison Crosthwait, a former licensed psychotherapist and microdosing guide, and her guests explore how we create lasting change and the role that plant medicine plays. 

You’ll discover Alison’s unique approach, which combines psychedelic plant medicine, psychotherapy, and energetics, as well as esoteric healing modalities that support multilayered healing to activate long-lasting transformation.

So if you’re ready to expand the possibilities in your life and experience the aliveness you’re seeking, click that subscribe button on your favorite podcast app so you never miss an episode. And if you have a friend who is deep into their personal growth and healing journey, be sure to share this podcast with them too.

Alison is here to educate and support you in discerning if and when a microdosing practice is right for you. She has deeply supported dozens of clients through their first microdosing journey and beyond to facilitate massive and deep shifts in their lives, and she can support you in doing the same.

You can learn more at www.alisoncrosthwait.com and connect on LinkedIn or Instagram at @AlisonCrosthwait.

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Darla McCann is a transformational life coach, vibrational energy healer, and Master Educator. She is founder of the “Purposeful Passion Driven Life” program and host of the “Call IT in With Dar” podcast. She is a published author and is always excited about sharing her tips for “Self Care in 10 Minutes or less” with busy women!

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The differences and similarities between using ayahuasca compared to psilocybin for healing.  Send me a message on instagram or Linked In to talk more about whether these medicines are right for you.