In 2017, Andrea Bird received her terminal diagnosis. In December of 2018, having no experience with it up to this point, she received underground psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to grapple with the challenge of dying. She is on the show for this episode to share her psilocybin story publicly for the first time.

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************** Episode Breakdown

• Receiving the terminal Diagnosis
• Deciding to take psilocybin during her dying process
• Learning to be a dying person
• The context of her first journey
• The story of her first journey
• What her first psilocybin journey taught her about how to die
• Learning to love yourself
• Integrating that first journey into life (and dying)
• The shadow winter
• What brought her into her second journey
• 'Saying to good to everyone I love'
• Dying of cancer during the pandemic
• A fierce training of living in the present moment
• Giving back the gift of life
• Andreas suggestions in preparing for psilocybin during your dying time
• The role of poetry in learning to die

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