What if your deepest pain was the key to your greatest healing?

In this transformative episode of Medicine With The Medals, grief coach and psychedelic guide Alix Kirshner shares how loss, addiction, and illness became the catalysts for her awakening,  and how she now helps others move through soul transitions with courage, compassion, and ceremony.

What You’ll Learn:

• How grief can emerge from any major life transition, not just death.

• Why resisting pain deepens suffering, and how to move through it instead.

• The role of psychedelics like psilocybin, ketamine, and cannabis in emotional healing and spiritual awakening.

• What “soul transition coaching” means and how it helps people honor endings and new beginnings.

• The neuroscience of healing, how psychedelics create neuroplasticity that supports lasting emotional transformation.
  

Episode Highlights:

• 02:18 – Alix’s journey from personal tragedy to purpose as a psychedelic guide.

• 06:43 – How grief shows up in everyday transitions, even joyful ones.

• 09:21 – The spiritual and physical connection between suppressed emotions and illness.

• 13:08 – Alix’s first psilocybin experience during chemotherapy, and the moment that changed everything.

• 16:52 – What it means to develop a loving relationship with yourself through shadow work.

• 18:35 – Inside the practice of psychedelic integration and self-compassion.

• 20:40 – The lesson every healing journey leads to: trusting the medicine within.

Meet the Guest:

Alix Kirshner is a certified psychedelic guide, grief and soul transition coach, and founder of Higher Healing, where she supports clients through transformational experiences with psilocybin, ketamine, and cannabis. Her work bridges spiritual growth, trauma integration, and neuroscience-backed healing.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Psychedelic integration and somatic embodiment

• The “As Above, So Below” healing principle

• Neuroplasticity and emotional reprogramming

• Self-love and self-forgiveness practices
  

Closing Insight:

“The medicine is just a tool, the real healing is remembering that the medicine already lives within you.”

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