Spiraling is how it feels when you are in that state of flailing overwhelm. Where everything bad and wrong and scary and stressful keeps getting amplified. When you take one step forward and ten steps back. It's the perfect shit storm of anxiety, hypervigilance, hypersensitivity, and low capacity that creates room for all your negative thought patterns to run wild.

We call it spiraling because it feels like you are falling into a deep and winding abyss (and your nervous system is activated and being very dramatic.)

Often you are so identified with the spiral as being YOU DOING IT WRONG that you forget that you have a choice.

The spiral is not YOU. It's your human experience which is narrated by a lot of programming coming from outside of you.

We sit with psychedelics because they create space. They are a universal pause creator that invites other perspectives to get in. And what happens when you pause and allow the spiral to show you itself, to look at it more fully. To feel into it. To contemplate it. To redefine and reframe what is happening to an opportunity instead of life being out to get you... you realize that you're not actually falling, going backward, or failing. Because the spiral is always expanding and evolving.

This week on the show, I'm exploring what to do when you're caught in the downward spiral. You'll learn how to recognize this in yourself, and how to slow things down so you can gain a different perspective and ride the spiral into deeper healing and more authenticity. The spiral is your friend, and you've got this!

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