Ceremonies, rituals, habits, routines - whatever your addled brain wants to call them - really help with making the specific microdosing benefits you want happen for you.

Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, has been labeled a break-through treatment for depression and mood disorders by the FDA.

In the past few months, I’ve been getting more questions about microdosing and ADHD than usual. I’m going to share two perspectives: What I intellectually know/have studied. And what I’ve seen with clients/feel & intuit with the mushrooms.

People who experience trauma are at an increased risk of developing dysfunctional stress responses like emotional dysregulation, flashbacks, and detachment.

If you ingest something new that is supposed to affect your brain, and you feel it working right away, it might be very effective, but it is likely not sustainable.

For people nervous about public speaking or presenting, the present-moment awareness generated by microdosing helps them to not be overcome by anxiety in the moment.

Due to stigma, societal conditioning, cultural dogma, and a lack of accessible resources, we have a tendency to think of mental health as being in a state of good or bad.

Quality intention setting is so much more than writing an affirmation on a piece of paper (<-- that's just a reflection of your intention). It’s also easy to conflate intentions with goals. Yet they’re two distinct things.

Stacking, as related to microdosing, involves combining psilocybin with complementary - generally non-psychedelic - substances for a synergistic effect.

An isolated component from a plant is less effective than it would be when interacting with the other components inherent within the plant.

When I meet someone who has gone on a guided journey and not gotten much out of it, I ask them how many times the facilitator worked with them pre and post journey knowing what their answer is going to be.

Any legit plant medicine guide and facilitator must ask for your medical history and be knowledgeable and open about interactions between the substance used for the guided journey, anything you’re taking, and any conditions you may have.

CW: Sexual Assault

When you’re tripping, whether recreationally or therapeutically, you are in a vulnerable and suggestive state.

This places the impetus of your physical safety and well-being on the facilitator or tripsitter.

People don’t like that I call this out because it kinda flies in the face of the aura of guided psychedelic experiences. But I stick by it: what a facilitator calls themselves, or refers to themselves as, is important.

There are some not obvious, but no-so-small things that a plant medicine guide or facilitator shouldn’t overlook.

What’s a flow state? A flow state - also known as being ‘in the zone’ - is a mental state where one is completely immersed in an activity.

Have you ever come across the term Ekphrasis?

Even if you haven’t, you’ve certainly experienced it.

One person gave me an intense side eye, whipped out a smirk I would come to love, and said “Good fucking luck.”

Those were the first words Patrick Dalton ever said to me.

I didn’t really want to write this; I can count on one finger the posts on leaving New York that I thought were any good.

You want to get in the habit of waking up early? You asshole. Why would you do this?