Episode 12: Reconnecting With Culture Through Psychedelic Healing
This is a “behind the scenes” account of Episode 12 of the Founding Mothers podcast. Listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
I wanted to record an episode that began to imagine a world where we relate to medicine outside of the westernized pharmaceutical industry. (In fact, I plan to record many an episode on this topic).
I’ve personally had some pretty amazing experiences intentionally working with psilocybin, ayahuasca, and cannabis (separately, not all together) … as well as some not so great experiences, when I was lacking the right intention, container, and knowledge around how these plants would each interact with my body or how to “set myself up for success”.
As our guest Lorena Nascimento shares on this week’s episode, psychedelics are pretty “hype” right now, and so it’s likely that if you’re reading this, you’ve had your own experience with some form of psychedelic drugs (even if that experience is just hearing about it ad nauseam from your friends, family members, or documentaries on Netflix).
So why start with a conversation with the People of Color Psychedelic Collective, specifically?
For one, I’m aware that the War on Drugs in the United States has also been a racialized war, one where communities of…
