EP 20: My Psychedelic Healing Journey - Ayahuasca, Mushrooms and Sacred Ceremony

This episode is one of the most personal I've ever recorded. I'm taking you inside my entire journey with psychedelic medicine - from the moment a friend first said "mushrooms can help with that," to sitting in over 100 Ayahuasca ceremonies, to becoming a facilitator alongside my teacher and my best friend in the jungles of Costa Rica.

I share the full timeline - my first mushroom ceremony with my husband, the grief and the bliss that cracked me open, the death and rebirth cycles that taught me how to surrender, moving to Sedona for nine months to study and heal, and the moment facilitation found me without me ever looking for it. I also get honest about safety in ceremony spaces, the importance of working with experienced and tradition-rooted facilitators, and why integration is the piece most people skip that matters the most.

My hope is that this episode meets you where you are on your path - whether you're curious, called, or already deep in the work, and reminds you to trust the timeline of your own healing.

I also talk about:

• Why I took a seven month pause from all ceremony and medicine work

• The difference between safe and unsafe facilitation and what to look for

• How neo-shamanism and lack of tradition can create harm in psychedelic spaces

• The role of shamanic music and set and setting in ceremony

• How every program I've created was channeled through Ayahuasca

  
  

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Listen to Lauren’s other plant medicine episodes on the Lauren of Love Show:

EP363: Ayahuasca, Sexual Trauma, and My Recent Healing: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110809

EP347: My Healing Experience with Ayahuasca in Peru: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110826

EP338: Healing My Womb and Sexual Trauma with Kambo and Bufo-5 Meo DMT: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110835

EP329: Ayahuasca Lessons from Costa Rica: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110843

EP327: Plant Medicine, Spiritual Warfare & Mental Health: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110845

EP298: Q&A! Plant Medicine, Ayahuasca & Self Healing Path: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110875

EP297: The Hard & Healing Road of Ayahuasca Plant Medicine: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110876

EP296: My Teacher and My Favorite Ayahuasca Vision Memories: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110877

EP295: My Most Impactful Ayahuasca Visions: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110878

EP294: Going to Peru, Ayahuasca, and My Four Year Study with Plant Medicine: https://laurenoflove.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-lauren-of-love-podcast/episodes/2149110879

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