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Get ready for some magic! We are joined by our editor, and favorite wizard, Seth to discuss his healing journey from suicidality and depression through the use of psychedelics (mdma, ketamine, mushrooms). We also discuss using plant medicine as an active Mormon (at the time) and many other magical things.

Seth has a powerful story that will resonate with so many! We are excited to share it.

Trigger Warning: We discuss triggering topics in this one such as suicidality and suicide ideation. Please take care and reach out for help, if needed:  800-273-8255


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Join Mike, Doug and Shelise as we discuss Sweat Lodges, mushrooms, Day of the Dead, our old long-lost friend, Lucifer, and so much more.

Often it's only through our discomfort where we really learn to find ourselves. What is our discomfort trying to tell us? Are we willing to sit with it and listen, or do we constantly seek to numb out, distract or escape?

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We are so excited to be joined by Rebecca and Andrew from Plant Parenthood! We talk about families who are opening up the lines of communication to discuss the use of plants and other alternative healing modalities.

Such an amazing conversation. We think you’ll love Andrew and Rebecca as much as we do!

About Plant Parenthood:

Plant Parenthood is an online and in-person community of parents who use psychedelics, plant medicine and cannabis. We bring people together to learn, integrate and connect. 
Whether you’re using these substances to address trauma, promote personal growth, build a spiritual life or just for fun, Plant Parenthood is a resource for connecting with peers and accessing knowledge from science, anthropology and thousands of years of indigenous wisdom.  Our goal is to de-stigmatize the conversation around psychedelics and parenting.

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Plant Parenthood is run by Rebecca Kronman, LCSW and Andrew Rose.

About Rebecca:

At her private practice in Brooklyn, Rebecca works with clients to prepare for and integrate after psychedelic experiences. She is an assisting trainer with Fluence. She has two boys, ages 3 and 6.

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About Andrew:

Andrew Rose is a psychedelic educator, harm reduction and integration coach, certified mindfulness teacher, writer and consultant. He is currently the Director of Content at Numinus, and previously the Director of Programming and Psychedelics at Mindspace. Andrew is also an assisting trainer on the faculty at Fluence, a co-director of Plant Parenthood, a community organization supporting parents and families who use psychedelics, and a member of the advisory board for the Montreal Psychedelic Society.

Andrew has been practicing meditation since 2002, having studied mainly in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition before becoming interested in the clinical applications of mindfulness. He completed his training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in 2018 and has been educating clinicians, therapists and the general public about psychedelics and their therapeutic applications since 2017. He completed MAPS’s MDMA Therapy for PTSD training program in 2021, and continues to see individual clients as a psychedelic integration coach and mindfulness teacher.

Andrew is passionate about furthering our collective understanding of what wellbeing really means, and how it can be effectively and sustainably practiced, communicated, and scaled for the benefit of all beings. He continues to draw inspiration from various Buddhist lineages and other esoteric traditions, and is passionate about all forms of ecstatic practices for reaching non-ordinary states, including movement, somatics, and sound.

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In this week's special episode, Mike, Doug and Shelise are joined by our Producer Extraordinaire and integration coach, Peter Gulka to discuss many of the tips we would like to have known before embarking on our own psychedelic journeys, including:

• Preparation, mental health and safety (these medicines are not for everyone)
• Alternatives to psychedelics (mediation, mindfulness, holotropic breathwork, etc.)
• Setting intentions
• Finding a guide
• Holding space
• Guiding someone through an unpleasant journey
• Integration

And much more. We hope you enjoy and wish you well on your own journeys!


Links:

Mormons on Mushrooms Community
Waves Peer Coaching
Instagram: @wavespeercoaching


More about Peter:

After years of struggle with mental health symptoms, Peter was ready to try something different and attended his first psychedelic meetup in 2017. Following his transformative experiences with plant medicine, Peter became involved in the local Calgary psychedelic community helping to facilitate events.

While the deep, inner work was progressing, Peter was inundated with the stresses of everyday life - including COVID-19 in 2020. Eventually, it was his wife who helped him take a leave from work to process and release past trauma.

Peter feels called to work with those seeking to learn from plant medicine - to assist in relieving unnecessary suffering from those with similar experiences to his own. He empowers people to see themselves in new ways and their problems from new perspectives, allowing them to release years of pain, and heal themselves.

Peter is the founder of Waves Peer Coaching.

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Join Doug and Mike for our first LIVE episode! We discuss the gods we choose to worship, the psychological link between Mormons and chain restaurants, our recent dreams (including maggots and Dune!) and so much more.

We hope are able to feel the loving energy generated by our in-person eye-gazing channeled straight to your hearts. Much love and enjoy!


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We're back for another juicy one! Join Mike, Doug and Shelise as we unpack purity culture, religious indoctrination and sexual shame with the founder / host of Purity to Polyamory:

Purity to Polyamory is a podcast and writer/creator dedicated to helping people in deconstructing purity culture, oppressive religious structures, and recovering religious trauma survivors who are exploring non-traditional relationship structures such as ethical non monogamy and polyamory.

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Generational trauma can be defined as trauma that isn’t just experienced by one person but extends from one generation to the next.  As we continue the process of inner work, we soon discover that many of the wounds we carry are much older than us and may have continued in our family lines for generations.

In this episode, Mike, Doug and Shelise reflect on a listener email and discuss the process of beginning to heal our ancestral lines.

Enjoy!


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Aubrey Marcus Sexual Healing Episode w/ Layla Martin

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As we engage in self work, we often find that difficult, familiar emotions resurface--emotions that we may believe we have already dealt with and released. When this happens, we can easily believe that we are regressing. However, emotions come in waves, and progress isn't measured by the absence of emotions but in our capacity to experience more, to feel more, and to ride even stronger waves.

Join us this week as Mike, Doug and Shelise unpack recent experiences with our shadows. What happens when we embrace these strong emotions rather than pushing them away?

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Aubrey Marcus Sexual Healing Episode w/ Layla Martin

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Get ready for a high-energy, high vibrational love fest as we get of out our heads and drop into our bodies, talking all things embodiment and ecstatic dance with Tiffany Mertens (Mystic Mentorship).

About Tiffany:

Tiffany is a spiritual mentor and empowerment coach who specializes in helping men and women heal themselves through movement and rituals.

Over the years she has been doing the heavy heartfelt work, healing old wounds and patterns, while curiously exploring the depths of her soul's calling.  She began working with her shadow and through the reflections of her mentors, realized how important it is to have an open platform and a judgement free space to dig deep and uncover the sometimes brutal truths. This led to creating her own mentorship program, Mystic Mentorship so she could share her experience with others who are also learning how to create more conscious connection to others, while deepening the love they have for themselves. In addition to her soul work, she is an international performance artist and facilitates classes and workshops based around ecstatic dance.

"The power of movement is exceptionally unique and once you tap into it, it will blow your mind! These classes help both men and women feel even more connected to themselves, their bodies, and their imagination to reach deep states of pleasure and flow. I’M GOING TO HELP YOU HEAL YOUR WOUNDS SO YOU CAN TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AND FEEL FREE TO BE YOUR BADASS AND VIBRANT SELF."

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So excited to be back with Glenn from Infants on Thrones!  And yes, it is another episode where we play in the sandbox of symbols and stories and fictions that are probably a little different – or maybe very very different – from the normal symbols and stories and fictions of everyday discourse that we rarely stop to recognize as symbols and stories and fictions because we just think of them as “reality” – which, when you really stop to think about it, is only experienced and communicated through multiple competing systems of symbols, stories, and fictions.  Stop.  Take a breath.  This is fun, right?  Playing with symbols and stories and fictions all in the service of learning how to become a more kind, compassionate, understanding, accepting, nurturing, joyful, peace-making human being.

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