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Sex + Setting: Friends Don’t Let Friends Sleep with Shamans

By Zoe Helene — 2016

As is the case with many spiritual or transformational experiences, it’s all too easy to confuse the profound healing la medicina delivers with the shaman who helped deliver it. As a result, people may open up and trust someone who might not have their best interests at heart, leading to devastating feelings of betrayal and confusion, and even post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Yoga for Pain Relief

In this post, I apply the principles of therapeutic yoga to working with chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraines, or back pain.

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Self-Care After Trauma

Self care is about taking steps to feel healthy and comfortable. Whether it happened recently or years ago, self care can help you cope with the short- and long-term effects of a trauma like sexual assault.

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Trauma-Related Guilt in People with PTSD

People who develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also commonly experience guilt. In particular, individuals who have endured traumatic events may also begin to feel what’s known as trauma-related guilt. But what does the term mean exactly?

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Would You Consider Trying Psychedelics to Take Your Practice to Another Level?

Here, we explore the potential role of psychedelics within a yoga practice or as therapeutic treatment.

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Microdosing Psilocybin Mushrooms

Microdosing psilocybin mushrooms can lead to a psychedelic healing experience. The mushroom user can revisit trauma and find new insights.

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The Grandmother Plant—and What Turned on Consciousness

Here, we asked Graham Hancock about plant medicine, the purpose and meaning of hallucinogenic experiences, and what bigger opportunities he sees for humanity in all of this.

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UFC Eyes Psychedelics as Therapy for Fighters’ Brain Injuries

Last month, Ian McCall told HBO’s Real Sports that his 17 years in mixed martial arts led him to a painkiller addiction. “I was medicated and so numbed out from such a young age, I turned into a monster,” he told correspondent David Scott.

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Why Canada Could Be Next to Allow Psychedelic Therapy (And How It’s Already Changing Lives)

Now, as a handful of patients and more recently doctors and therapists have been granted exemptions to use psilocybin, the nation’s federal health agency is considering making changes to existing policies that could open the door to much more than magic mushrooms.

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Psychedelic Therapy Schools Are Popping Up Like Mushrooms

For hundreds or thousands of dollars, you can get certified to administer mind-altering—and some say, mind-healing—drugs.

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The Return of Psychedelics to Counseling: Are We Ready?

Those of us who are professional counselors are perhaps most likely to recognize psychedelic drugs by their recreational or street names — acid, magic mushrooms, ecstasy — and to consider them to be drugs of abuse that may be dangerous to our clients.

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