Inside Eyes

Inside Eyes is a podcast that focuses on the use of psychedelics & entheogens to heal from sexual trauma. This show looks at healing and trauma through a spiritual & political lens.

Inside Eyes Season 2 is on the way! 11/11/2025

Inside Eyes Season 2 is on the way! Inside Eyes is back with 16 new episodes! And I am almost ready to share it with you, but we need to finish raising $3500 to pay the audio engineer by the end of November 2025 to stay on track with recording (for a February 2026 release). Every dollar helps! Please donate here: I wrote a book! It is called Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World. It is for therapists, guides, and other types of healing practitioners. You can buy a copy anywhere books are sold, including here: Are you a clinician and interested in working together? I have two consult groups for clinicians such as therapists, guides, and coaches coming up in 2026. Winter 2026: https://forms.gle/5yzJVouXPPvf9v8n8 Spring 2026: https://forms.gle/Th5ZKwSsYAZW9QrZ8 And you can read more about individual consultation with me here: Thank you for listening and supporting the show! If you want to stay up to date on when it releases or find out more about working with me, join my email list (I only send a handful of emails per year): https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/38989840

Bonus Episode: Back From The Abyss 07/29/2020

Bonus Episode: Back From The Abyss 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 Twitter: or Facebook: /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/15395522

Anniversary Episode: Practicing Ritual with Shanna Butler 07/29/2020

Anniversary Episode: Practicing Ritual with Shanna Butler 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: /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/15385148

Dynamics of Sexual Harm in Psychedelic & Entheogenic Spaces 11/11/2019

Dynamics of Sexual Harm in Psychedelic & Entheogenic Spaces 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11986439

Harm Reduction for Entheogens & Psychedelics with Kufikiri Imara 11/04/2019

Harm Reduction for Entheogens & Psychedelics with Kufikiri Imara 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11289275

James – MDMA & Questions of Sexual Abuse 10/28/2019

James – MDMA & Questions of Sexual Abuse 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11289248

Lena – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, & Lasting Altered State of Consciousness 10/21/2019

Lena – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, & Lasting Altered State of Consciousness 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11289284

Jonathon – Mushrooms, LSD, Child Sexual Abuse, DIY Healing, & Suicidality 10/14/2019

Jonathon – Mushrooms, LSD, Child Sexual Abuse, DIY Healing, & Suicidality 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11289239

Kate – Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, & Repressed Memories 10/07/2019

Kate – Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, & Repressed Memories 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11289236

Tonya – Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, Complex Trauma, & DIY Healing 09/30/2019

Tonya – Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, Complex Trauma, & DIY Healing 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11289227

Ajesh – Ayahuasca, Repressed Memories, Child Sexual Abuse, & Forgiveness 09/23/2019

Ajesh – Ayahuasca, Repressed Memories, Child Sexual Abuse, & Forgiveness 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. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11264870

Rosa – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociation, Migraines, & Body Image 09/16/2019

Rosa – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociation, Migraines, & Body Image Rosa used MDMA to heal from child sexual abuse & now thinks of her life as "before MDMA & after MDMA." /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11264585

Melissa – MDMA, LSD, Sexuality, DIY Healing, & Grief 09/09/2019

Melissa – MDMA, LSD, Sexuality, DIY Healing, & Grief Melissa has taken a DIY approach to healing with MDMA & LSD and talks about her process around grief, sexuality, and self love. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/11092313

Jennifer Patterson – Breathwork Facilitator & Herbalist speaking on Iboga, LSD, College Rape, Queerness, Child Abuse, & Trichotillomania 09/02/2019

Jennifer Patterson – Breathwork Facilitator & Herbalist speaking on Iboga, LSD, College Rape, Queerness, Child Abuse, & Trichotillomania Jennifer Patterson, a breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed herbalist, shares about her healing processs with Iboga and LSD. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/10966295

Jaime – MDMA, Psilocybin, Child Sexual Abuse, Suicidality, & Non-Binary Transgender Identity 08/26/2019

Jaime – MDMA, Psilocybin, Child Sexual Abuse, Suicidality, & Non-Binary Transgender Identity In this episode, Laura interviews Jaime about using MDMA & Mushrooms to heal symptoms of child sexual abuse. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/10601291

Gloria – Ketamine, Psilocybin, Sexual Assault, Suicidality, & Being a Black Queer Femme in Psychedelic Spaces 08/19/2019

Gloria – Ketamine, Psilocybin, Sexual Assault, Suicidality, & Being a Black Queer Femme in Psychedelic Spaces In episode 4 of the season Laura interviews Gloria, an astrology-loving, queer femme, about using Ketamine & Mushrooms for healing symptoms of sexual trauma. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/10638935

Shan – Ayahuasca, Child Sexual Abuse, & Rheumatoid Arthritis 08/12/2019

Shan – Ayahuasca, Child Sexual Abuse, & Rheumatoid Arthritis In this episode Laura interviews Shan, a tattoo artist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse, about her experience using Ayahuasca. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/10638893

Ismail Ali & Jag Davies on Entheogens & Psychedelics – Legalization, Decriminalization, & Medicalization 08/05/2019

Ismail Ali & Jag Davies on Entheogens & Psychedelics – Legalization, Decriminalization, & Medicalization In this episode Laura interviews Ismail Ali (MAPS) and Jag Davies (Drug Policy Alliance) about accessibility to healing with entheogens and psychedelics. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/10596959

Season 1 Intro & Spring Washam – Spirituality, Sexual Trauma, Ayahuasca, & Accessibility 07/19/2019

Season 1 Intro & Spring Washam – Spirituality, Sexual Trauma, Ayahuasca, & Accessibility In this episode Laura lays out the purpose behind this season with thoughts on the political and spiritual significance of sexual trauma, followed by an interview with Spring Washam about Ayahuasca, the spiritual impacts of sexual violence, and accessibility to healing with entheogens. /episode/index/show/insideeyes/id/10579364

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