Four women—two daughters, their mother, and their grandmother—recently gathered in Colorado for the emotional trip of a lifetime. They went through psychotherapy through psychotherapy psilocybina compound found in mushrooms.
The retreat, specially tailored for women, was legal The decision of the voters of Colorado last year to decriminalize the use of psilocybin.
When three generations of one family came together, they hoped for a new and different way to heal.
Delaney Sanchez, 23, said she was diagnosed with teenage anxiety, which manifests itself in panic attacks. Medicines to treat it, he said, have not been effective.
“They’ve made me very … kind of numb to everything,” she said.
Recently, her mother, Dana Sanchez, 59, asked if she wanted to try mushrooms as a family, including her 77-year-old grandmother.
“We had talked about it … to my dismay, which I really cared about, and I kind of felt like if my grandma could do it, I should be able to do it,” Delaney Sanchez said with a laugh.
Magic mushrooms took root in the counterculture movement of the 1960s and found their way into research laboratories. About 200 species of mushrooms are known to contain an active ingredient that causes psychoactive effects. But psychoactive drugs, including psilocybin, were outlawed in 1970.
Nearly 30 years later, scientists began re-examining psilocybin and found that it increased brain activity. Today, clinical trials are underway at leading research institutions, and some are now turning to it in their quest for healing.
Heather Lee, who has been a therapist for more than 30 years, said she was one of the first to receive certification in psychiatric-assisted psychotherapy. Colorado became the second US state to vote in favor of a regulatory system for substances such as psilocybin and another hallucinogen, psilocin.
“Mushrooms seem to be very subtle teachers,” Lee said. “They bring light and bring to the surface the material that needs to be treated.”
Her final therapy session with four women involved drinking mushroom tea, after which each woman retreated to a private space for introspection, aided by eye masks and headphones preloaded with soundtracks. Lee said he can’t guarantee people’s safety, but that he is “really careful” during his sessions.
Not long after drinking the tea, Dana Sanchez began to feel anxious, while Delaney Sanchez became agitated and sick.
“Of course, I had a rough start,” Delaney Sanchez said. “I struggled with it a lot…with an overwhelming sense of anxiety and justice, I felt trapped by my own panic. And then, I just had to let go. And I just feel like once it became more peaceful. “.
Danielle Sanchez, 25, smiled during her session and later said she found a deep sense of peace and love.
“I felt like I could face my own fears, like putting a smile on my face and just saying,
Donna Strong, the grandmother, faced a more somber reflection that she and others shared more than four hours after drinking the tea in what Lee calls an integration session.
“Mine was a little dark. I just couldn’t move. You know, I felt uncomfortable. And I’m thinking maybe it’s been my whole life,” Strong said.
All of the women said they felt healing had taken place, a shared experience that Dana Sanchez was grateful for.
“The gift is the women of my family,” he said. “As strong as we are, but also growing together and releasing stuff together.”
Lee believes a psychedelic renaissance is taking place.
“People are hungry for emotional and psychological healing,” she said. “We need soul healing.”
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