Episode 5

Written By Michaela Carlin
 
 
 
 

Can psychedelics help us become more loving, emotionally intelligent partners and parents? Join Michaela Carlin for a deep dive with Rebecca Kronman, founder of Plant Parenthood, about the gifts and challenges of working with psychedelics as parents, and the joy of building community support networks around a shared desire to heal and grow for ourselves and all our relations.

Rebecca Kronman, LCSW is a licensed therapist and founder of Plant Parenthood, a digital and in-person community of parents who use psychedelics. She is also an assisting trainer with Fluence, a company that trains healthcare practitioners in harm reduction informed psychedelic preparation and integration. 

At her private practice in Brooklyn, she works with clients using mindfulness, experiential techniques and ketamine assisted psychotherapy to address depression, anxiety and life transitions. She also helps clients prepare for psychedelic experiences, incorporate insights or cope with challenges post-experience.

She has been featured in GQ, NBC News, Double Blind, Chacruna and The Plant Medicine Podcast. Outside of work, she is a mother of two boys ages 5 and 7.

Topics discussed on this episode . . .

  • How Rebecca’s expertise in mindfulness, somatic healing and psychotherapy intersects with her personal and professional work with psychedelics 

  • The current poverty of discussion about psychedelics and parenting and the birth of Plant Parenthood

  • Perspectives on how psychedelics can help us become better partners and parents

  • How psychedelics can help us process issues from our families of origin, including ancestral trauma

  • Rebecca’s move away from the organized religion she was raised with and how she has integrated elements of ceremonial medicine work into her family’s spiritual life

  • How couples in the Plant Parenthood community are engaging with psychedelics to work on their relationships

  • Rites of passage for children and how to adopt but not appropriate indigenous approaches 

  • The need for affinity communities within the broader psychedelic space

  • How mothers are subject to a unique level of scrutiny during pregnancy

  • Indigenous paradigms of parenting and psychedelic use

  • The healing power of fun 

  • Accessing altered states without psychedelics – e.g. through meditation or yoga - in support of psychedelic integration work

  • Disembodiment as a survival mechanism and learning to listen to the body 

  • What does a harm reduction approach look like for pregnant and/or nursing mothers using psychedelics?

  • Thoughts on parents introducing psychedelics to or even using psychedelics with their children once they have reached an appropriate age

  • How Rebecca is drawn to offer her children significant experiences in nature to nurture their capacity for awe and wonder

  • Motherhood as a mystical experience

Rebecca Kronman’s Links & Resources

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

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Special thanks to Jeremy Colbert (Taragápe) for the original podcast theme music.

You can find out more about Jeremey’s work here:
taragape.com and @taragape

 
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