Access to Healing, Who Gets to Heal
Access to Healing, Who Gets to Heal? On the cost of medicine, ancestral wisdom, and the right to healing Healing has become an industry. We can purchase a retreat, book a ceremony, subscribe to a meditation app, or order medicine to our doorstep. An entire marketplace has emerged around our longing to feel whole. There […]
When the Sacred Becomes Ordinary
When the Sacred Becomes Ordinary There is a particular kind of knowing that can emerge in the wake of profound experience. For a moment, the boundaries we have grown accustomed to inhabiting begin to dissolve. The world feels startlingly alive. The trees, the body, the stranger passing on the street all seem to participate in […]
Microdosing Means You’re Always a Little High. Here’s What’s Actually True.
Microdosing Means You’re Always a Little High. Here’s What’s Actually True. It sounds logical. Psychedelics alter perception, so taking a small amount must mean walking around with a smaller version of a trip, right? Not quite. Microdosing was never meant to describe being mildly intoxicated all day. In scientific literature, the term generally refers to […]
Grief, Mushrooms, and the Mystery of Letting Go
Psilocybin and Grief: Making Space for Loss, Ritual, and the Mystery “Every one of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow. We must learn the art and craft of grief, discover the profound ways it ripens and deepens us.”— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow The Lost Art of Grieving And yet, in today’s […]
The Subtleties of Microdosing and Macrodosing
Microdosing vs Macrodosing: The Whisper and the Roar Psychedelics have found themselves in the cultural spotlight once again, but much of the conversation has become centered on dosage. Should you microdose? Should you macrodose? Which is better? Perhaps a more nuanced question is this: What kind of relationship are you seeking with the medicine? When […]
Psilocybin Dosage Guide: Understanding the Mushroom Dose Spectrum
If you’ve spent any time around mushrooms, you’ve probably heard people talk about dosage as though there is a simple formula: “take this much and you’ll have this kind of experience.” But friends, psilocybin doesn’t quite work that way. Dose matters oftentimes profoundly but it is only one piece of a much larger picture. The […]
The Mental Health Revolution Happening Outside of Pharmacies
Not medical advice. This article is educational. Psilocybin is not a treatment for any medical condition, and nothing here is a substitute for care from a qualified health professional. If you take prescription psychiatric medication, do not stop or change it without talking to your prescriber. Microdosing for mental health describes taking sub-perceptual doses of psilocybin, […]
Microdosing with Golden Teachers
Microdosing Golden Teachers has quietly become one of the most rewarding practices in my life. My Story with Golden Teachers Of all the mushroom strains I’ve encountered, Golden Teachers hold a particularly special place in my heart. They were among the first mushrooms I ever journeyed with, and over the years they’ve accompanied me through […]
Remembering We Belong: Mushrooms and Our Relationship with Nature
“Bodies do not precede what they belong to; it is from within the lively web of becoming and belonging that we gain definition.” — Bayo Akomolafe The Illusion of Separation One of the greatest gifts mushrooms have given me isn’t simply a new perspective on myself or my life. It has been a new relationship […]
Psilocybin vs. SSRIs: Understanding Two Paths to Mental Wellness
“The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.” At first glance, that statement feels obvious. But if you’ve ever struggled with depression, anxiety, or relentless self-criticism, you know something deeper: our minds don’t always feel like places we can choose to inhabit. Sometimes they become prisons. The same thoughts echo through […]
