Landed great for me Kerby. In my experience in this space I hear a lot “this person just needs this” or “that person just needs this”. Can’t say that I’m innocent with those thoughts. It can be challenging. Sometimes you want to throw or scream the thoughts of and embodiment of radical acceptance or something like that. Because you feel that would “fix” so much inside them. If they aren’t there they won’t hear it anyway. For example I sat with a family member once for a mushroom journey and because it was a family member I thought it would be okay to be a bit more influential. I mostly held space like I usually do but at times I threw in a bit of coaching about things like control and acceptance but in the end it didn’t really matter the person was not in that space to really here it. Improvements were made but I do believe that it is better to meet them where they are in the space with support, groundedness and your own curiosity and acceptance.

@Stephan Kerby I have a friend with a a very similar situation. He felt that he had to be the biggest and toughest. Only later realizing that a big reason for that was because of fear. Thank you for sharing.

Something that I have been working through most my life is having this constant companion of “being in trouble” or guilt, shame and or fear of being in trouble. Stems from heavy religious beliefs that I grew up in. It has been a lot better the last few years but still something that comes up for me and in a moment can completely shut me down and create self loathing and hatred for myself.

Absolutely agree. Catalyst for the change perfectly describes it for me. I feel that having a foundation of therapy beforehand can immensely help with this change. In my experience in many ways psychedelics go back to basics in therapy but instead help embody them instead of just having the theoretical knowledge.

@Stephan Kerby Thought of this while watching this video. Easier said then done and easier done then embodied. Awareness practice has already helped create the pause before reaction. This has created a great deal of choice in my life. But one thing that I still want to continue building is confidence and embodied joy. Side note that 5-MEO-DMT was the catalyst for this pause practice. Was not coached, it just naturally happened. Only after listening to Kerby talk about a while back I realized what it was.

Thank you for creating this and creating great content for the community.