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Psychedelic literally means ‘soul revealing’. What reveals the soul to oneself is psychedelic.
Mother earth is psychedelic. Her body is covered with psychoactive, Sacred medicine. Can Earth medicines help us become more conscious partners, lovers, parents and leaders?
The Psychedelic Mom Podcast is a podcast to inspire, transform, and awaken you to a part of the movement that's transforming the world.
I invite you to join me in deep conversations that explore the beauty, wisdom, practices, and challenges of waking up, and personal stories of others on this wild path including; wise women and men across disciplines including elders, authors, historians, psychologists, mothers and fathers and medicine keepers to understand the current times we are living in and why waking up to our true essence is crucial to the rebalancing of our world.
Episode 15
Join Michaela Carlin for Part Two of an intimate conversation with bufo alvarius facilitator, Ana Medina. The conversation deepens into discussions of how bufo can bring us back to the moment in our evolution when we transitioned from a state of oneness into the body as an individual soul, learning from bufo that we are the divine, and understanding that the soul's quest is to come into the body to learn specific lessons and grow in its evolution.
Episode 14
Living life as a suburban mom in Virginia, little did today’s guest Ana Medina know that a profound experience of divine love and belonging during her first journey with ayahuasca would ultimately lead her to reclaim her ancestral Mexican roots and become a medicine woman specializing in the facilitation of bufo alvarius/5-MeO-DMT. Tune in to Part 1 of a beautiful conversation between two psychedelic Moms about the journey of awakening, healing trauma, and what it means to hold space for those seeking to meet themselves at a soul level through work with “toad medicine”.
Episode 13
Can the practice of prayer become our personal guidance system? Listen in to a riveting conversation about the radical transformation of Stuart Adam, a downtown New York City artist who left a life of heroin addiction to become a spiritual alchemist who helps people transmute and navigate their day to day reality with prayer practices rooted in the elements, tobacco and much more.
Episode 12
Join the Psychedelic Mom, Michaela Carlin, for a deeply personal conversation with musician and psychedelic integration specialist, Jeremy Colbert (Taragápe), that includes the story of Jeremy’s journey seeking to share psychedelic medicine with his mother, a discussion of the gravitational pull of the shadow on our consciousness and the healing power of bringing that shadow into the light, and ways we can work with masculine and feminine energies to lay a foundation of self-love for aligned action.
Episode 11
Join The Psychedelic Mom, Michaela Carlin, for an inspiring conversation with thought leader, Jackson Strong, about ushering in “The Golden Age”, where we recognize that it's up to us to claim The Great Truth within ourselves, alchemize the traumas of our lives, and expand until we can taste our individual magic and bring it forth to the world with beauty, power and magnificence.
Episode 10
Can entrepreneurship be a spiritual path? Tune in to this week’s episode to explore this and other provocative questions with guest, Beth Weinstein, a spiritual business coach who helps people develop their ‘unique medicine’ into a thriving business so that they can make money doing what they love. Beth shares candidly about her decades-long journey working with psychedelics and how they have contributed to deep emotional healing and helped her discover her soul's true path in business.
Episode 9
What is it like to try to recover from an accident that turns your whole world upside down in a single second? Tune in for an inspiring conversation with Jim Harris, a National Geographic photographer who was paralyzed in an dramatic accident that ultimately led him to discover both the neurological and psycho-spiritual healing potential of psychedelics.
Episode 8
On this week’s episode, Shiri Godasi is back for a followup interview to share about the latest unfoldings in her life, including new developments in her work, as well as the many changes that have come as a result of becoming a single mom following her separation from her former partner. Michaela and Shiri share deeply about the joys and challenges of being on the path of becoming an individuated, integrated being, and how powerful it can be when leaders in the psychedelic space vulnerably reveal their humanity.
Episode 7
As her own psychedelic-assisted healing unfolded, this week’s guest, Paije West, transitioned from a career as a traditional birth doula to a “psychedelic” doula, offering opportunities for psycho-spiritual rebirth for both women and men.
Join two “psychedelic” moms for an intimate conversation about the profound privilege and responsibility of holding space for people in their most vulnerable moments as they seek healing of deep emotional wounds and addictions with the support of psychedelic medicines.
Episode 6
For anyone exploring the realm of psychedelics it is immensely helpful to have a foundational understanding of trauma, particularly how developmental trauma shows up in our ways of relating and responding to ourselves, each other and life itself as adults.
In this intimate and educational interview, Michaela Carlin and Carista Luminare discuss a working definition of trauma and dive into the various “attachment styles” we develop in response to the level and quality of safety we felt in connection to our original primary caregivers, and how those styles play out throughout our lives.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 4
Join Michaela Carlin and guest, Shiri Malcolm Godasi – two “Psychedelic Moms” – for a profound conversation about Shiri’s call to healing through psychedelics, her unique approach to psychedelic integration work, and the deeply considered decisions she has made in relation to psychedelics and her own pregnancy and mental health.