We are done with the masks. We are done with pretending to be white bread, milquetoast, mediocre, grayscale, asleep people. We refuse to accept and conform to such limited belief systems. Such mundane, rule filled civilizations based on extraction and competition and consumption. Such boring and sad standards of beauty. The crushing despair of conformity and sameness. We refuse mediocrity.

So how do you help yourself feel safe to take off the mask and let your freak flag fly in a world that has punished you for being you?

What can plant medicine show you about how to be truly authentic? Not just in the way your ego expresses, but by being a hollow bone open to being filled by Spirit...

Are you willing to let go of your expectations? Your identities? Your attachments? What are you willing to offer to Source to be truly free?

In this week's episode, we're going to explore the spectrum of authenticity, how to unmask yourself, and what it means to go on the integrative ride of your life. Learn how you can change the world by being your fullest, most connected self, all with plant medicine as your loving guide.

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Do you feel bogged down by negativity and struggle from the moment your eyes pop open in the morning? Do you find it difficult to move your attention away from pain and suffering and everything that sucks? Does "reality" feel like a terrible place where bad things keep happening?

In this episode, I invite you to examine the role of complaining and giving voice and energy to the vibration of scarcity and lack that may be pervading your life.

What would happen if you stopped yourself from complaining? What kind of energy and life force would be freed up to shit your focus to other things? Could complaining be the reason why you feel like your creativity and curiosity are limping along?

Complaining is like being stuck in a hole and refusing to stop digging. Every day is a gift. And everything that is coming into your life in every moment is here to teach you something. To help grow you. Expand you. Let's talk about it.

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Are you suffocating under your stuff? Do you procrastinate? Hoard? Feel grippy and graspy and feral around letting go of stuff you don't use?

Anywhere there is an accumulation, there is death. Accumulation is the opposite of flow. It's the opposite of ease. It creates stuckness. Tension. Stagnation. Murkiness.

What if you only allowed things you use, need, or love to be in your life? What would it feel like to make room? In your home? In your heart? In your life?

What magic would swoop in and fill the beautiful space inside you if you allowed it to?

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Sometimes I forget that a lot of people think "psychedelic integration" is just sitting around in circles full of psychonauts talking about what happened in your latest medicine journey in extreme detail. It's all about the visionary experience and who saw what and how deep they went. "Psychedelics are trippy! AMAZING! YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TO ME ON MY JOURNEY!"

I will probably get dragged for this, but what a snoozefest.

It's not hard or rare to talk endlessly about getting blown out by psychedelics. They can blast you completely out of yourself if you like. You can kill your ego and go to faraway lands and explore the Universe and meet with the machine elves and dissolve and die and recombine in a million different ways forever.

OK. Cool. Now what? What are you doing with all that? What are you doing with the immense privilege of receiving support from these sacred plant teachers?

This week's episode is all about redefining what psychedelic integration actually means, and how you can lean all the way into yourself and your path home to Spirit.

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What if I told you that the way we understand love is incomplete at best and wrong at worst? What if LOVE isn't definable? What if it doesn't fit in a box? What if your experience of love is only a small percentage of what is actually possible? The alchemy of love is the process we all go through inside our conscious awakening where the real scope of LOVE is made known inside our hearts.

Alchemy is magical transformation. Expansion. Even explosion. It is the process of something taking an even more pure and true form through the lens of magic and Divine Guidance. It can feel like a breaking, ending, or death. And in that rupture lies the seed of the new beginning.

In this episode, I explore how love serves as a catalyst for healing and growth, whether in the context of self-love, relationships, or spiritual connection. Join me in a conversation about the profound intersections of psychedelics and love, uncovering insights into how these experiences can deepen your understanding of yourself and your connection with love itself.

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The medicine of softness is the gift of the feminine path. The path of more gentleness, slowness, contemplation, and care. In this episode I explore the different ways to sit with plant medicines, and why sometimes, it's not always necessary to receive lessons the hard way.

We live in such a stimulating, fast-paced, dopamine fueled society and slowness asks us to stop. Be present. Find the subtle layers and textures and silence within. Psychedelics don't need to blast you out of yourself, they are here to awaken your true path to your heart.

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Without a rooted, integrated energy system, it's almost impossible to see movement in the areas of mindset, healthy emotional expression, and deeper connection to Spirit. Calling your power and presence back home give you the resources to stay the course.

When you stop being how everyone expects you to be, you have to get comfortable disappointing people. Not being liked. Belonging to yourself instead of fitting in. Maybe people disagree with you. Someone not being pleased with you. And that all being fine and dandy because you are living in a new realm.

When you've been going against yourself and pivot to start saying NO to bullshit and YES to yourself, some people might not receive this well. Hence, you become the Villain.

High five to all y'all glorious, boundary enforcing, emotionally healthy supervillains doing that spirit life and lifting up everyone around you by taking care of you!

Sovereignty is about being self-governing. Self-watering. Self-resourced. The queen or king (or non-binary unicorn) of your own domain. Putting yourself and your needs first. Resourcing yourself and filling your own cup so that you can be the medicine. Being the expert on yourself. Being oriented inward. In tune with your intuition and your own energy. Alchemists don't self-sacrifice.

Regrowing the forest of your heart is no fucking joke. You can't be out there leaking energy all over the place, looking for someone to tell you a process of what to do and how to do it. Own your heart wisdom. Your inner knowing. Get support that actually supports you. Act from a place of inspiration rather than fear.

Start taking care of yourself like your life depends on it. Because it does. Anoint yourself with the beauty of your own existence. Let its juice and joy ooze out of your mouth and eyes and hands and life like honey. Leave a trail of roses in your wake. Drip nectar from your heart onto everyone you meet.

Confidence and embodied power are magnetic. Charismatic. Stop chasing what you want and be yourself. Own your power. Take back your sovereignty. Put out your heart vibes. And watch your life transform.

This week's episode is all about living that sovereign empowered life. Learn the practical steps to reclaim your connection to your own wise heart. How to integrate all your parts. And how to look good doing it.

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Someone asked me a fantastic question this week that I liked so much I made a podcast about it. "How do I connect and build a relationship to Spirit?"  I currently have a freewheeling, joyful, strong connection to Source, Goddess, All That Is -- it might look effortless from the outside.

But the truth is, I spent most of my life being an angry, drunk atheist, not having any connection to God, being completely lost out in the world without the slightest idea of how any of this worked. I did not believe in it. I didn't want to believe in it.

This week's episode is about reclaiming prayer and connection to Spirit. To start to change your mindset and your belief system so that you can create something more beautiful and beneficial instead. You have agency and sovereignty to choose your own reality. What do you want it to be? Learn how to take the easy road back to prayer and spirituality and make it exactly what you need so it supports you fully.

Holy hella wow, y'all ONE HUNDRED EPISODES?!?! My heart is so full, thank you so much. It is with humble gratitude and awe that I am here making this show, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for joining me on this journey. In honor of all the movement over these last four years, I thought it was fitting to focus on exactly how to get out of your own way. That's what we're all doing here, after all. 

Walk with me through a profound exploration of the two fundamental energies that shape your life: resistance and allowance, contraction and expansion. Learn how integration isn't just about merging psychedelic experiences into wholeness and authenticity; it's about moving from resistance to radical acceptance and allowing.

Discover why you resist and how this resistance manifests in your body, emotions, and nervous system. Explore the role of psychedelic medicine in opening you up, grounding you, and fostering self-trust, enabling you to overcome limiting beliefs and rewrite your story starting now.

Overcoming resistance is simple but not easy. Learn why focusing on problems only breeds more resistance, and how shifting your mindset away from trauma and suffering towards power, confidence, and peace is the only real path of liberation.

The heart is never confused or lost. The mind is what muddies the water. Learn the art of letting go, releasing attachment to outcomes, and allowing yourself to receive with open arms.

Join me in celebrating this big ass milestone as we dive deep into the heart of integration, uncovering the wisdom needed to transcend your limitations and step into your true power. Get ready to get out of your own way and embrace the limitless possibilities that await.

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Eddie LeShure's personal journey took him deep into the throes of active addiction and incarceration on a drug arrest. His two years behind bars were mostly spent in the notorious Attica Prison where he survived a rebellion in 1971 that killed 43 inmates and employees. As a survivor of extreme trauma, his personal healing and how he works with others has always been guided by deep understanding and compassion. 

His primary passion is providing trauma-sensitive, somatic mindfulness and self-compassion practices to support us effectively embracing our full range of thoughts, feelings and physical sensations.

Eddie is a Certified Yoga Instructor (RYT 200), Meditation Teacher, Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC), Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSS), Spiritual Emergence Coach ® (IMHU),and Breathwork Facilitator. His path of recovery led him from prison to awakening with the help of psychedelics, breathwork, yoga, and meditation. He is the co-founder of A Mindful Emergence, where he provides preparation, facilitator, and integration services for those intentionally using plant medicines and other psychedelics. 

Learn about Eddie's miraculous journey out of addiction and into healing on this week's episode!

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