Inside Eyes

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.

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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.

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

For most of Kate's life she didn't remembered the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. She shares about using Ayahuasca & psilocybin-containing mushrooms in her long process of remembering the sexual abuse and healing from complex trauma.

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

In episode 10 of the season Laura interviews Tonya about DIY healing with psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Tonya has a complex trauma history and shares about how she set up her solo journey and her process in working on self-esteem issues and PTSD.

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

In episode 9 of the season Laura interviews Ajesh about his experiences using Ayahuasca to heal from child sexual abuse. Ajesh spent most of his life not remembering the sexual trauma from his childhood. He talks about confronting shame, the courage to ask for help, and forgiveness.

Ajesh references Spring Washam's book, A Fierce Heart. To hear more from Spring Washam, check out episode 1 of this season.

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

In episode 8 of the season Laura interviews Rosa about using MDMA to heal from child sexual abuse. Rosa says she now thinks of her life as "before MDMA & after MDMA." Her MDMA experiences provided unexpected healing around migraines and body image

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

In episode 7 of the season Laura interviews Melissa about her DIY healing with MDMA & LSD. Unlike other episodes in this season, Melissa doesn't identify as having a specific sexual trauma, but rather describes a more elusive general wound around self-worth, love, and sexuality.

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

In episode 6, Laura interviews Jennifer Patterson, a breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed herbalist. She is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, & words to explore survivorhood, body(ies), and healing. In this interview, Jennifer talks about her healing processs with Iboga and LSD, as well as queerness, surviving child abuse, trichotillomania, and cultural appropriation of Indigenous people's entheogenic practices. She is the editor of the incredible collection of essays: Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016). You can find her on Instagram @corpusritual or at her website: http://ofthebody.net/

Here is a link to the article discussed in the episode, about Shipibo healers organizing in resistance to spiritual extractivism: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0906-in-the-declaration-of-yarinacocha-shipibo-healers-organize-to-resist-spiritual-extractivism

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