Bonus Episode: Back From The Abyss
Inside Eyes
This episode is part of a show swap with the podcast Back From The Abyss. BFTA is a series about psychiatric healing hosted by Dr. Craig Heacock. There are a lot of parallels with Inside Eyes and this episode is an incredible interview with trauma expert Saj Razvi, exploring ketamine therapy, cannabis therapy, as well as a powerful personal story from Saj. Listen to . Find out more about Back From The Abyss: . You can listen to , or learn more about him here: . If you would like to support Inside Eyes, please leave a review on ! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: or...
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Anniversary Episode: Practicing Ritual with Shanna Butler
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For the one year anniversary of Inside Eyes Laura interviews Dr. Shanna Butler, a psychologist, professor, and ketamine therapist about the creation of ritual and ways to practice ritual within one's own cultural lineage. You can find more info about Shanna here: . If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on ! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: or Twitter: or Facebook:
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Dynamics of Sexual Harm in Psychedelic & Entheogenic Spaces
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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.
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Harm Reduction for Entheogens & Psychedelics with Kufikiri Imara
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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.
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James – MDMA & Questions of Sexual Abuse
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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.
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Lena – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, & Lasting Altered State of Consciousness
Inside Eyes
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.
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Jonathon – Mushrooms, LSD, Child Sexual Abuse, DIY Healing, & Suicidality
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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.
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Kate – Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, & Repressed Memories
Inside Eyes
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.
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Tonya – Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, Complex Trauma, & DIY Healing
Inside Eyes
Tonya has taken a DIY approach to her healing with mushrooms and shares about how she set up her solo journey and her process in working on self-esteem issues and PTSD.
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Ajesh – Ayahuasca, Repressed Memories, Child Sexual Abuse, & Forgiveness
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Ajesh spends his whole life not remembering the trauma he experienced as a child. He shares about using Ayahuasca and his process in confronting shame & cultivating forgiveness.
info_outlineIn episode 7 of the season Laura interviews Melissa about her DIY healing with MDMA & LSD. Unlike other episodes in this season, Melissa doesn't identify as having a specific sexual trauma, but rather describes a more elusive general wound around self-worth, love, and sexuality.
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Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!