Inside Eyes Laura Mae Northrup: Psychotherapy, Trauma, Psychedelics, & Entheogens

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.

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.  

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.  

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.

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.  

For most of Kate's life she didn't remembered the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. She shares about using Ayahuasca & mushrooms to heal.