In this heartfelt episode, join me on a deeply personal exploration of 11 ways to cope with invisible illness, delving into the hidden struggles that shape the spiritual path to wellness. From addiction and mental health battles to chronic pain, autoimmune disorders, and perimenopause, I'm shining a light on the unseen challenges of dealing with chronic or relapsing health issues often overlooked by society. We'll navigate the complexities of the medical system, seeking recognition and understanding, and bridge the worlds of Western medicine and alternative healing. 

Learn essential coping strategies for navigating the invisible illness terrain, including the importance of managing expectations, celebrating small victories, and finding support in your tribe. Together, we delve into the transformative power of self-care, stress management, and the significance of being your own advocate. Listen to the end to hear the most important and powerful action you can take to start healing NOW.

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Welcome to Season 4 of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast, where I share about my choice to change the name of the show and how to navigate big transitions. I'm Sinclair Fleetwood, your spiritual coach, ceremonialist, and psychedelic integration queen. Walk with me on the sacred bridge of transition and learn how to support yourself through times of unraveling so you can build your capacity and become more resilient. 

In this episode I discuss my reasons for trying out changing the name of the show. (I later decided to change it back!) The name "Mystical Heart Oracle" signifies a connection to Divine Source, which is accessible and available to everyone. It is my intention here to offer inspiration and real-world tools so you can do the practical magic of becoming your true and empowered self in your own life.

The name "Mystical Heart Oracle" signifies a connection to Divine Source, which is accessible and available to everyone. It is my intention here to offer inspiration and real-world tools so you can do the practical magic of becoming your true and empowered self in your own life. 

Supporting yourself through a transition involves trust, self-compassion, and expanding your capacity to feel. Embrace the messy journey, knowing that both challenging and beautiful experiences contribute to your growth. In this episode, we'll talk about the challenges of change and how to make it through like a true spiritual warrior (with or without plant medicine.)

Regret nothing. Leap, and the net will appear.

Thank you for being part of this journey. I look forward to an inspired and supportive year ahead. Let's walk across the bridge into your power and sovereignty together.

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Today's episode is all about understanding anxiety and learning exactly what steps to take to take back control of your experience. How to transform anxiety is first allowing it to be there. To understand that the resistance and the avoidance and the fighting it is not the solution. Learn about flight, freeze, fawn, and fight responses, and the relationship between chronic pain, fear, chronic illness, and anxiety.  According to Dr. Gabor Maté, repressing your authenticity is one of the highest indicators of whether or not you will have chronic illness. 

Can you lay down your sword? Can you invite the anxiety in to stay a while? Can you meet it with non-judgment and acceptance? Can you open to have a different relationship with the anxiety that is more indifferent? More zen and chill? Let's dig into how to do this in this episode.

Also, listen to the end to hear the juicy news bomb about the future of this podcast and what's coming next. 

FULL SHOWNOTES: https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/how-to-transform-anxiety/

I learned about the beautiful and simple principle of Ayni: sacred reciprocity while I lived in Ecuador. Ayni is a Quechua word and concept that is the backbone of the worldview in their ancestral culture. The Quechua people are the descendants of the Inca people who are native to Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. In the teaching of ayni, they live in a commitment of mutualism that is beneficial to all the beings and the Earth itself. You can always feel safe to give because that energy will always be returned to you. This is much different than the transactional way we live in modern society.

In this episode, I explore the concept of sacred reciprocity, how it is our duty and gift of giving back to do integration work, and how this principle can reach into every area of your life. 

SHOWNOTES: https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/ayni-sacred-reciprocity/

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What do the holidays, overdoing it, and not enoughness have in common? An undercurrent of needing to be perfect, do it right, impress your friends and family, and make things nice. Because that's how you've always done it. But when you start following a spiritual path and questioning the origins of these customs and traditions we follow, you might be like me and start wondering, "Why am I trying so fucking hard?" In this episode I share about a big fat epiphany I had yesterday after eating too much Thanksgiving food, and I explore the details of what it looks like to do spiritual healing on yourself in real time. We are not doomed to keep repeating our mistakes. We have the power to change the things we want to change, and to investigate these protective coping mechanisms and find something softer and more beneficial. Let's let go of striving and efforting and not enoughness this holiday season and let it be easy.

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SHOWNOTES: https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/the-holidays-overdoing-it-and-not-enoughness/

As a spiritual business coach, Beth Weinstein helps current and aspiring coaches, healers, psychedelic pioneers, therapists, and spiritual leaders align with your soul's path and grow your business so you can help more people, share your unique medicine, and have a thriving transformational business you love.

Using her experience growing multiple businesses (including three of her own), along with neuroscience-backed methodologies, spiritual teachings, practical business action plans, somatic therapy modalities, and subconscious reprogramming, Beth offers a multi-dimensional approach to help you get past your blocks and grow your business in a successful, impactful way.

She guides you in a step-by-step process to grow your business in a balanced, co-creative approach combining practical business coaching and heart-centered growth strategies together with soul-centered leadership coaching, embodiment work, energetic alignment and mindset mastery. Beth’s programs serve new and early-stage medicine folk and spiritually-minded people who are being called to make a difference in the world with a transformational business.  

Beth is a dear friend, the host of Medicine For These Times: The Psychedelic Entrepreneur podcast, as well as the founder of the annual Psychedelics, Sacred Medicines, Soul’s Purpose & Business online summits. In this episode, Beth opens up about her long path to becoming a successful spiritual business coach, and I share about my amazing experience in Beth's True Path Group Mastermind program in 2022.

Beth is generously offering my community a $400 discounted rate if you join her True Path Entrepreneur Mastermind for 2024. Doors are open now! Tell her I sent you and you can use the code SINCLAIR400 to receive your discount.

SHOWNOTES: https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/spiritual-awakening-with-beth-weinstein

Unless you've been living under a rock, you might have noticed that there is a lot of heavy and hard shit going on in the world at the moment. When the foundation of the system begins to crack and fail, it can cause anxiety and panic. The thing is, in order for the new way of life to take root, the old one has to crumble away. Dying empires don't typically make their final exit without a lot of brutal struggle. This process can be long and slow, and often big avalanches of change come fast and hard. It may feel like everything is a dumpster fire and there's nothing you can do about it. You may feel lost or afraid or even paralyzed, afraid to move or speak out. In this episode, I'm offering hope for dark times. A heartfelt acknowledgement of the pain and suffering that's occurring in Gaza, and a simple path to finding that ray of light in your own heart so that you can keep going. Put your mask on first, so that you can be a lightbearer in a dark world.

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Stacey M. Constante is Ecuadorian, first generation born in the U.S. She is a women’s holistic hormone practitioner, nutritionist, herbalist, registered nurse, and mother. She has been following the medicine path through the Americas for the last six years. Along the way she has been slowly merging the teachings of allopathic and ancestral medicine. 

Stacey began her career as an ER nurse. While working at different hospitals, she noticed the gaps in modern medicine. As she grew her relationship with plant medicine, she could no longer look away from the broken system we have been led to believe in. She felt she was sending patients through a revolving door with more questions than when they arrived. She began to question why nutrition, herbs, mental health, and other ancient healing modalities were not being spoken of. It was medication after medication, a quick fix, but never mentioning lifestyle changes or getting to the root of the problem.  

Having suffered with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and substance abuse, Stacey also developed late-stage endometriosis at age 25. She was told she may not be able to have children and that this was a chronic condition she simply had to live with. She turned towards acupuncture, nutrition, and herbs. She sat with sacred plant medicines in ceremony settings from North America to South America. Since then, she has spent her time learning about medicinal herbs and plant knowledge from many indigenous keepers and from the plants themselves. 

The frustration she felt immersed in allopathic medicine inspired her to walk a different path. She believes one of the most empowering moments is when we discover we have the ability to heal ourselves. We just need to provide our being the necessary tools it needs to do so.

SHOWNOTES: https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/returning-to-medicines-of-the-earth-with-stacey-constante/

Does it feel like EVERYTHING is a contest? The vibe of scarcity, not enoughness, and needing to win at all costs is pervasive in our culture. But where did it come from? Why is everything a competition? It actually doesn't have to be this way. Saying NO to competition and comparison is a deep deprogramming that you can start doing right now in your own life. In order to have a better world, we have to believe that it's possible. Many people on the spiritual path are waking up to the understanding that not only does competition not resonate, it's harmful and feels shitty and we don't need it. 

Psychedelics are here to show us the path to a new understanding. In this episode, learn how competition and comparison run in the background of our society and why it's each of our responsibility to invite the vibration of collaboration, co-creation, and belonging into our lives instead.

SHOWNOTES: ⁠https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/saying-no-to-competition-and-comparison/

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Rea Beaubien is a medicine woman, ceremonialist, healer, and artist. For more than 20 years she has been a mother, spiritual seeker, and facilitator of ancient rituals in the mountains of Crestone, Colorado. She shares sacred awareness teachings locally and globally, inspiring others to transform. This work brings forth positive and lasting changes contributing to a brighter world. Rea’s mission is rekindling our connection to and nurturing the Divine Feminine as was spoken of in prophecies. She believes that in this shared renaissance we are coaxed to return to who we really are. To play, listen, express, believe, get dirty, surrender – and most of all – to feel. As a result of visions and teachings received under lineages of North America, Rea created Heart of Ma, a global community providing sacred plant medicine retreats for more that 20 years. Heart of Ma offers the opportunity to safely transform, ground, and heal.

In this episode, Rea boldly shares about the toll the medicine path can take on the health and wellness of facilitators and space holders, her difficult decision to slow down and take a break, and her thoughts about the fast-paced, often reckless psychedelic revolution that is happening now. 

SHOWNOTES: https://www.sinclairfleetwood.com/nurturing-the-divine-feminine-with-rea-beaubien/

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