My Mushroom Journey to Healed Trauma, Less Shame, and More Love (Part 3: Therapy Alone Wasn't Cutting It)

The second main reason I decided to do mushrooms last year was because after eight years of talk-therapy, I was ready for something new.

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If you recall, last entry I wrote about one of the main reasons why I decided to do mushrooms last year. Today, I want to share with you the other reason.

My therapeutic process ached for a level-up.

I’ve been in and out of therapy for eight years and for the most part I cannot say enough good things about therapy in general and my own experiences in particular.

Wonderful therapists have sat across from me and walked me up to and through some of the most profound insights of my life. Prior to regular therapy, my awareness of and connection to my emotional landscape was paltry at best and utterly severed at worst. I’m a deeply emotional person—always have been—but until I started seeing a therapist trained in EFT (Emotional Focused Therapy) I simply was not able to access those emotions. Like the wind, they were there and causing all sorts of effects, but I struggled to ever see them or know them (let alone have the resources to do something about them).

So for years I have sat on a couch and opened myself up to the loving, non-judgmental, compassionate ears of therapists trained to walk me back home to myself.

It has been transformative in all manner of ways.

And yet…