All Posts

People search "is psilocybin safe" and get either a scare headline or a puff piece written by someone selling something. Neither answers the actual question. So here's a straight one: what makes a psilocybin experience safe, what makes it risky, and the specific medical stuff worth knowing before you consider it. Is psilocybin safe? For most healthy adults, yes, when it's used deliberately: known dose, screening beforehand, a trained facilitator in the room. Psilocybin has a

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing too much. It comes from spending all of yourself in one direction and having nothing left for the rest. I spent years in a career where 8 to 12 hours of my day belonged to someone else. And not just my time but also my energy (the distinction matters). I got paid, but the real cost was my capacity to give back to myself, my family, my community. When I wasn't at the office, I was home doing my other job. Coo

The Journey of Listening to Our Bodies When was the last time you truly listened to your body? Not to manage it or fix it, but to hear what it was trying to tell you? For many of us, that question stings. It's not that we haven't been paying attention to our bodies; we've been doing that our entire lives. However, we've often treated our bodies as problems to solve rather than allies to navigate this world. Sadly, many of us aren't the ones deciding what to do with what we di

"…the rich tradition of psychedelic experience as a creative catalyst and amplifier of imagination is beginning to receive legitimate scientific and cultural recognition." — Lucid News Creative catalyst. That's how I've experienced psilocybin. I've always been creative, but my creativity was a tool that I used in my career as a marketer, home designer and DIY'er and sometimes creative writer. But never art for art's sake. The creativity was always a means to an end, and that

I've been kicking back for the past couple of weeks, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. First there was vacation. Then a psilocybin facilitator retreat- which, yes, is its own kind of deep work, but also involves a lot of stillness. And then I came home and I wanted to paint. I wanted to rest and recharge. A recharge after the recharge. Ridiculous, right? Except it's not. I'm in my luteal phase. My body is literally signaling me to slow down, turn inward, get dreamy. I'm

I've been thinking about getting Botox lately. Again. I say "again" because I used to get it. I still have a skincare routine. My hair has gone gray naturally. I'm not here to perform some perfect journey of natural beauty: that would be just another unrealistic standard. But something has shifted in me, and I can't stop thinking about why I'm even considering it. It's not in a casual "maybe I'll try it" way. It's that specific, anxiety-tinged feeling where you catch your ref

One of the most common questions I get is about microdosing psilocybin. I understand the curiosity. Microdosing feels approachable and is gentler than a full therapeutic psychedelic journey. For many, it seems like a way to experience some benefits of psilocybin without turning their life upside down for a day. Personally, I share that curiosity. I have experience with microdosing, and I see why it has gained popularity. However, there’s a lot of noise, mixed information, and

I was genuinely excited to see t his recent bulletin in the MAPS newsletter focused on hormone-informed psychedelic medicine for women. It felt especially resonant because my capstone project during psilocybin facilitator training centered on tuning into my own menstrual cycle and how psilocybin affected me across it. That work made something increasingly clear to me: psychedelic experiences do not happen in isolation. They happen in real bodies, and women’s bodies are cycli

As psilocybin becomes part of more everyday conversation, a lot of outdated ideas keep getting recycled. Some come from old drug education messaging. Others come from assuming all substances work the same way. They don’t. And psilocybin is a good example of that. Here are a few of the most common myths, and what we actually know instead. Psilocybin Myth #1: Magic mushrooms are addictive They aren’t. Psilocybin mushrooms are considered non-addictive, largely because of how the

As psilocybin enters mainstream conversation, it’s often framed as something newly discovered: a promising compound, a breakthrough treatment, a frontier of modern science. But for many Indigenous cultures, psilocybin mushrooms are not new. They are medicine. And, not metaphorically, not symbolically. Medically, practically, and holistically. Long before clinical trials and neuroscience labs, Indigenous healers have worked with mushrooms to understand illness, relieve sufferi

I’ve never really been into New Year’s resolutions. The whole new year, new you energy- goals, pressure, aggressive self-improvement, has never worked for me. For me, it’s looked like a diet that lasts a few weeks, an exercise regimen that’s way too intense and burns me out, or a new hobby I abandon because I feel bad at it almost immediately. Not exactly uplifting. And honestly… why do we need a new year to start something new? Instead of resolutions, I’ve been focusing on t

I just got back from a group psilocybin retreat in Oregon, and it felt like a really meaningful way to wrap up the year. I was genuinely excited going into it. I’d worked with one of the facilitators before, a good friend had done this retreat, and it felt like the right moment for something like this.

Psilocybin as medicine is being studied for depression, anxiety, addiction, and brain flexibility. Here’s what current research shows and what it does not. Psilocybin has long been associated with counterculture imagery, but over the past decade it has quietly entered mainstream scientific research. Universities, medical journals, and public health organizations are now studying its potential therapeutic role in mental health with increasing seriousness. For women in midlife,

Anti-aging usually brings to mind skincare and supplements, not psychedelics. Yet scientists are beginning to explore whether psilocybin influences the cellular stress responses that drive biological aging. The research is early, but the questions are getting more interesting. Why Psilocybin Is Entering the Anti-Aging Conversation Aging is often framed as inevitable decline: slower recovery, lower energy, systems that simply don't bounce back the way they once did. But biolog

What the Research Is Showing About Flexibility, Healing, and Change Many women in midlife find that thought patterns feel more entrenched and stress responses linger. Neuroscience suggests this reflects reduced brain flexibility with age. New research indicates psilocybin may increase neuroplasticity, even later in life. Many women in midlife notice that patterns of thought and emotion can feel more entrenched than they once did. Stress responses linger, old narratives resurf

Journeys aren't always comfortable, but they are ALWAYS clarifying. Importantly, psilocybin was never the work. It is one modality, used alongside therapy, reflection, and intentional integration. Together, those tools have changed my life in ways I couldn’t have predicted.