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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.

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Episode 25

Tracey Tee and your host, Michaela Carlin, discuss the role of mothers in the psychedelic space, the challenges and joys of motherhood, and the impact of earth medicines on their experience parenting. They also dive into the benefits of microdosing, which can help mothers feel more present, tap into their creativity, and explore aspects of their identity that may previously have been unconscious.

The interview delves into the importance of self-love, reconnecting with the body, and learning from the stories of our ancestors. Tracey Tee's journey with psychedelics and earth medicines has taught her about surrender, courage, compassion, sovereignty, forgiveness, and love, and she encourages others to create their own new stories as well.

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Episode 24

Today’s guest, Katie Moseley, a psychic and psychedelic awakening coach, is modeling a transformational approach to parenting. In this conversation between two psychedelic moms, Katie shares her vision of parenting, which involves accepting the full spectrum of emotions into the relational field, including the dark and primal ones, so that a family can practice moving through difficult emotions and co-regulating together.

Katie also discusses her work as a clairvoyant, emphasizing the importance of keeping one's energy clear to stay in tune. Her approach to clairvoyant work involves connecting to a specific “timeline” and feeling into what the person is most aligned with and needing to connect to in that moment. This intimate conversation offers valuable insights into a mother’s intuition, conscious parenting, mindfulness meditation and clairvoyant work.

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Episode 23

In this solo episode, Michaela Carlin, The Psychedelic Mom, shares about how motherhood and earth medicines such as ayahuasca, iboga and bufo alvarius can offer transformative experiences that provide valuable lessons on love, non-judgment, compassion and patience. She explores how these journeys help reveal our connections to generational lines and the Great Mother, fostering personal growth and also better parenting.

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Episode 22

Tara Nichols is a bioenergetics practitioner who has overcome both Lyme Disease and Mold Illness as well as an eating disorder and now dedicates herself to helping others heal. In this conversation Tara and Michaela Carlin discuss holistic approach to healing; the connection between mind, body, soul, and spirit; and the importance of dealing with emotions in the healing process.

Tara recommends alternative healing methods such as bio-energetic testing, emotional support tinctures, energy work, yoga, sound healing and microdosing. Her journey involved making daily choices towards recovery and her subsequent healing is a testament to the power of self-love, self-care and transformative alternative modalities.

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Episode 21

This week on The Psychedelic Mom, Dr. Johnathan Edwards, an anesthesiologist who specializes in working with adolescents and mental health, discusses the youth mental health crisis and the use of ketamine in this population.

Michaela and Dr. Edwards discuss the benefits of ketamine, the negative impact of lockdowns on mental health, and the importance of adjunct psychological therapies to psychedelic treatments. They explore the potential benefits of using ketamine to treat adolescents, which has gained attention for its effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms and preventing suicide.

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Episode 20

In this special solo episode, The Psychedelic Mom, Michaela Carlin, shares perspectives on what it might look like to move forward in right relationship with sacred earth medicines. Michaela explores the current complexities of the psychedelic space, emphasizing the need for a higher level of consciousness and humility to solve complex problems. She highlights the importance of supporting indigenous wisdom and voices, acknowledging her own limitations as a white woman of privilege.

Michaela reflects on the themes of coming home, deep knowing, and the wisdom of plants in psychedelic experiences, and questions the Western therapeutic psychological model and the capitalist-driven big pharma industry in relation to psychedelic healing. She calls for an intersectionality of voices and open dialogue as the psychedelic renaissance continues to unfold.

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Episode 19

In this week’s episode, Swedish artist David Lindberg shares about his transformative experiences with psychedelics that have led him to understand the concept of God and non-duality and expanded his creativity. David and Michaela dive into the importance of self-love and healing childhood wounds, how psychedelics can help access hidden parts of oneself and help heal them, and the need to let go of aspects of ourselves that no longer serve us in order to live in alignment with our truth.

Lindberg also talks about the importance of creativity and discipline and how he collaborates with an idea or energy to create something beautiful. He shares about his project called Tribe, which is a parallel world of creatures representing his spiritual journey that has been inspired by indigenous cultures and created with the help of AI.

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Episode 18

As this week’s guest Monica Rodgers sees it, we are living through a “great apocalypse”, which is also a time of revelation that is helping humanity to excavate and reveal the illusions that are holding women back from expressing their divine nature. Listen in to a conversation between two psychedelic mothers and podcasters as they discuss the personal and cultural impacts of the wounding and the healing of the divine feminine.

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Episode 17

Join the psychedelic Mom, Michaela Carlin for an intimate conversation with special guest, Aaron Orsini, an expert at the intersection of psychedelics and autism. Michaela and Aaron discuss Aaron’s profound journey of self-understanding and transformation with the help of psychedelics, as well as the gifts and challenges Michaela has experienced being the mom of an autistic daughter.

If you’re tuning in to today’s episode and seeking support with your own autism or that of someone you care about, including how psychedelic may help, please visit PsychedelicAutism.com where you can contact Aaron directly to set up a Zoom consult to explore your questions and be guided towards further resources.

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Episode 16

Did you know that psilocybin mushrooms can be fed 5-MeO-DMT during cultivation to create an entirely new psychedelic medicine called psilomethoxin? Meet today’s guest, Ben Moore, military veteran and founder of the Church of Psilomethoxin, and listen in as he explains about the profound healing psilomethoxin has brought him and other veterans with whom he has created a psychedelic healing community.

Ben Moore and your host, Michaela Carlin, explore essential topics of our time, such as how the patterns that shape our lives can be recognized and transformed with the assistance of psychedelics and how a lack of self-responsibility and the courage to change is at the root of many of society's systemic problems.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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