For the one year anniversary of Inside Eyes Laura interviews Dr. Shanna Butler, a psychologist, professor, and ketamine therapist about the creation of ritual and ways to practice ritual within one's own cultural lineage. You can find more info about Shanna here: www.shannabutler.com. If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup 

Anniversary Episode: Practicing Ritual with Shanna Butler

This episode is part of a show swap with the podcast Back From The Abyss. BFTA is a series about psychiatric healing hosted by Dr. Craig Heacock. There are a lot of parallels with Inside Eyes and this episode is an incredible interview with trauma expert Saj Razvi, exploring ketamine therapy, cannabis therapy, as well as a powerful personal story from Saj. Listen to  part two of this episode here. Find out more about Back From The Abyss: www.bftapodcast.com. You can listen to Dr. Heacock's interview on Therapy Chat here, or learn more about him here: www.craigheacockmd.com. If you would like to support Inside Eyes, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup 

Bonus Episode: Back From The Abyss

Community that forms around the healing use of entheogens and psychedelics is not without it's own instances of sexual harm.  In the final episode of the season, Laura Mae Northrup, MFT talks about psychological dynamics that underlie sexual harm in healing relationships and what the community can do to prevent it.  To celebrate the end of season 1, Laura's online course on How to build a Successful, Sustainable Private Practice as a Healer is on sale!  To get 40% off from now until December 15th, 2019 use the coupon code GoodbyeForNow.  Come party! Join Laura on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland for an end-of-the-season party!  More details are on the Facebook event page or on Laura's website.  If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup 

Dynamics of Sexual Harm in Psychedelic & Entheogenic Spaces

For the second to last episode of the season, Laura interviews Kufikiri Imara of Decriminalize Nature Oakland.  The episode explores harm reduction from practical and philosophical perspectives and takes an expanded view that includes not only harm to users, but also harm to the medicines themselves and the traditional stewards of many entheogenic plants.   You can learn more about the work of Decriminalize Nature Oakland here.   Laura mentions the work of Dawn Davis, PhD (C) about loss of Peyote habitat: you can learn more here.  This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland for an end-of-the-season party!  More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website.  If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup 

Harm Reduction for Entheogens & Psychedelics with Kufikiri Imara

Lena is a survivor of long-term child sexual abuse and decided to try healing with guided MDMA journeys.  She had an unexpected outcome from her journey work that resulted in a lasting altered state of consciousness.  In this episode we talk about the complex nuances of her "soft psychosis" diagnosis and explore why that term doesn't adequately describe her experience.   This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. The season will come to an end in November and there is an end-of-the-season party! Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland.  More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website.  Here is Kitty Sipple's presentation at Breaking Convention: Psychedelic Accessibility: Disability, Chronic Illness, & the Psychedelic Experience  If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or  Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup 

Lena – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, & Lasting Altered State of Consciousness

James has heard about the amazing breakthroughs that trauma survivors are having with MDMA.  Determined to explore an ongoing question of if she was sexually abused as a child, she embarks on two guided journeys.   This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. The season will come to an end in November and there is an end-of-the-season party! Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland.  More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website.  If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or  Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup  Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

James – MDMA & Questions of Sexual Abuse

Jonathon shares about his experience of child sexual abuse & healing with LSD and mushrooms. He takes a DIY approach to his medicine work, while also seeing a therapist and doing EMDR.   If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leave a review! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering! 

Jonathon – Mushrooms, LSD, Child Sexual Abuse, DIY Healing, & Suicidality

For most of Kate's life she didn't remembered the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. She shares about using Ayahuasca & psilocybin-containing mushrooms in her long process of remembering the sexual abuse and healing from complex trauma.   If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Kate – Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, & Repressed Memories

In episode 10 of the season Laura interviews Tonya about DIY healing with psilocybin-containing mushrooms.  Tonya has a complex trauma history and shares about how she set up her solo journey and her process in working on self-esteem issues and PTSD.   If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Tonya – Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, Complex Trauma, & DIY Healing

In episode 9 of the season Laura interviews Ajesh about his experiences using Ayahuasca to heal from child sexual abuse.  Ajesh spent most of his life not remembering the sexual trauma from his childhood. He talks about confronting shame, the courage to ask for help, and forgiveness.  Ajesh references Spring Washam's book, A Fierce Heart.  To hear more from Spring Washam, check out episode 1 of this season.   If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Ajesh – Ayahuasca, Repressed Memories, Child Sexual Abuse, & Forgiveness

In episode 8 of the season Laura interviews Rosa about using MDMA to heal from child sexual abuse.  Rosa says she now thinks of her life as "before MDMA & after MDMA."  Her MDMA experiences provided unexpected healing around migraines and body image If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Rosa – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociation, Migraines, & Body Image

In episode 7 of the season Laura interviews Melissa about her DIY healing with MDMA & LSD.  Unlike other episodes in this season, Melissa doesn't identify as having a specific sexual trauma, but rather describes a more elusive general wound around self-worth, love, and sexuality.   If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Melissa – MDMA, LSD, Sexuality, DIY Healing, & Grief

In episode 6, Laura interviews Jennifer Patterson, a breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed herbalist. She is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, & words to explore survivorhood, body(ies), and healing. In this interview, Jennifer talks about her healing processs with Iboga and LSD, as well as queerness, surviving child abuse, trichotillomania, and cultural appropriation of Indigenous people's entheogenic practices. She is the editor of the incredible collection of essays: Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016). You can find her on Instagram @corpusritual or at her website: http://ofthebody.net/ Here is a link to the article discussed in the episode, about Shipibo healers organizing in resistance to spiritual extractivism:  https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0906-in-the-declaration-of-yarinacocha-shipibo-healers-organize-to-resist-spiritual-extractivism If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leave a reviewing iTunes or Stitcher! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

Jennifer Patterson – Breathwork Facilitator & Herbalist speaking on Iboga, LSD, College Rape, Queerness, Child Abuse, & Trichotillomania

In episode 5 of the season Laura interviews Jaime, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.  Jaime shares about how using MDMA & Mushrooms helped to heal around many symptoms, including suicidality.  Jaime also talks about how MDMA supported them to build a more loving relationship to their body, as a non-binary transgender person.   If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leave a review! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering! 

Jaime – MDMA, Psilocybin, Child Sexual Abuse, Suicidality, & Non-Binary Transgender Identity

In episode 4 of the season Laura interviews Gloria, an astrology-loving, queer black femme. Gloria talks about a sexual assault she experienced in her 20s and the healing she found using Ketamine and Mushrooms. She shares about her experience being mixed race and queer and finding other people of color to connect with in the psychedelic world.     If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leave a review! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering! 

Gloria – Ketamine, Psilocybin, Sexual Assault, Suicidality, & Being a Black Queer Femme in Psychedelic Spaces

In episode 3 of the season Laura interviews Shan, a tattoo artist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse.  Shan talks about her experience healing with Ayahuasca and the unexpected effect that the medicine had on her Rheumatoid Arthritis.   You can see Shan’s tattoo work on Instagram @needlesiren If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leave a review! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering! 

Shan – Ayahuasca, Child Sexual Abuse, & Rheumatoid Arthritis

People all over the United States are talking about access to entheogens and psychedelics, such as Ayahuasca, LSD, Psilocybin, & MDMA, as forms of medicinal healing.  How people gain access to these (mostly) illegal medicines is the big question.  Who currently has access to this type of healing and who will likely have it in the future?  What is the difference between medicalization, legalization, and decriminalization?  In episode 2 of the season, Laura interviews Ismail Ali of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and Jag Davies of the Drug Policy Alliance to find out the answers to these questions and more.    For more on drug policy activism, check out Students for Sensible Drug Policy. You can find Jag Davies on Twitter @jagdavies. If you would like to support the show, subscribe! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering! 

Ismail Ali & Jag Davies on Entheogens & Psychedelics – Legalization, Decriminalization, & Medicalization

Welcome to the first episode of Inside Eyes.  In this episode Laura lays out the purpose behind this season with thoughts on the political and spiritual significance of sexual trauma, followed by an interview with Spring Washam, renowned meditation teacher, Ayahuasca advocate, and author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities.  She is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, an organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom in Peru.   If you would like to support the show, subscribe! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup.   Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering! 

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