In season one I talked about sexual violence as a form of spiritual abuse and I have recieved many questions about that over the last 6 years, so I decided to do a deeper dive on this topic. This episode outlines my thoughts on spirituality as a frame for thinking about the impact of sexual violence on individauls and communities, as well as a frame for the path toward healing.

I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can sign up here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list My new book: Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

Welcome back people! The new season of Inside Eyes starts today, with 16 episodes of in-depth information about the use of psychedelics and entheogens to heal sexual trauma. This episode sets the tone for the series, explains what we will be covering, and gives a frame for how to think about the work of healing sexual violence with expanded states of conciousness.

I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can sign up here:

https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list

My new book:

Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World

Website and IG:

lauramaenorthrup.com

@lauramaenorthrup

Inside Eyes is back with 16 new episodes! And I am almost ready to share it with you, but we need to finish raising $3500 to pay the audio engineer by the end of November 2025 to stay on track with recording (for a February 2026 release). Every dollar helps!

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I wrote a book! It is called Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World. It is for therapists, guides, and other types of healing practitioners. You can buy a copy anywhere books are sold, including here:

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This episode is part of a show swap with the podcast Back From The Abyss. BFTA is a series about psychiatric healing hosted by Dr. Craig Heacock. There are a lot of parallels with Inside Eyes and this episode is an incredible interview with trauma expert Saj Razvi, exploring ketamine therapy, cannabis therapy, as well as a powerful personal story from Saj.

Listen to part two of this episode here.

Find out more about Back From The Abyss: www.bftapodcast.com.

You can listen to Dr. Heacock's interview on Therapy Chat here, or learn more about him here: www.craigheacockmd.com.

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To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

For the one year anniversary of Inside Eyes Laura interviews Dr. Shanna Butler, a psychologist, professor, and ketamine therapist about the creation of ritual and ways to practice ritual within one's own cultural lineage.

You can find more info about Shanna here: www.shannabutler.com.

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Community that forms around the healing use of entheogens and psychedelics is not without it's own instances of sexual harm. In the final episode of the season, Laura Mae Northrup, MFT talks about psychological dynamics that underlie sexual harm in healing relationships and what the community can do to prevent it.

To celebrate the end of season 1, Laura's online course on How to build a Successful, Sustainable Private Practice as a Healer is on sale! To get 40% off from now until December 15th, 2019 use the coupon code GoodbyeForNow.

Come party! Join Laura on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland for an end-of-the-season party! More details are on the Facebook event page or on Laura's website.

If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes!

To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

For the second to last episode of the season, Laura interviews Kufikiri Imara of Decriminalize Nature Oakland. The episode explores harm reduction from practical and philosophical perspectives and takes an expanded view that includes not only harm to users, but also harm to the medicines themselves and the traditional stewards of many entheogenic plants.

You can learn more about the work of Decriminalize Nature Oakland here.

Laura mentions the work of Dawn Davis, PhD (C) about loss of Peyote habitat: you can learn more here.

This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland for an end-of-the-season party! More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website.

If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes!

To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

James has heard about the amazing breakthroughs that trauma survivors are having with MDMA. Determined to explore an ongoing question of if she was sexually abused as a child, she embarks on two guided journeys.

This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. The season will come to an end in November and there is an end-of-the-season party! Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland. More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website.

If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes!

To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Lena is a survivor of long-term child sexual abuse and decided to try healing with guided MDMA journeys. She had an unexpected outcome from her journey work that resulted in a lasting altered state of consciousness. In this episode we talk about the complex nuances of her "soft psychosis" diagnosis and explore why that term doesn't adequately describe her experience.

This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. The season will come to an end in November and there is an end-of-the-season party! Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland. More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website.

Here is Kitty Sipple's presentation at Breaking Convention: Psychedelic Accessibility: Disability, Chronic Illness, & the Psychedelic Experience

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Jonathon shares about his experience of child sexual abuse & healing with LSD and mushrooms. He takes a DIY approach to his medicine work, while also seeing a therapist and doing EMDR.

If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leave a review! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes.

Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!