@Brian Chaplin love the info and great analogies in this video! Super helpful. Thanks

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I’ll share my experience. When I started life my daily life was already pretty good. I started to have a better understanding to talk to acupuncture patients of mine that were Microdosing. My first few weeks were all carebears and rainbows - all of the energy and creativity I had forgotten about. THEN…when I was in a difficult situation with a family member I was surprised that in that situation I had greater anxiety, even some palpitations and very little control over my tears. I lost my poker face and couldn’t just smile and move on. I feel like the MD was helping/forcing me to be absolutely present and deal with the problem in real time. Unfortunately it wasn’t an “appropriate” time so I did have to sit with and fight some teary emotions to try to be “more normal” or act the way I would usually behave and put the emotions aside to deal with later (or more likley never). After truly enjoying my first few conflict free months of MD I was kind of shocked as not at all prepared for the deal with your emotions now experience I was having when an uncomfortable situation arose. A few days afterwards, still tender and sad I did start having clarity around the situation I had never had before, and a greater vocabulary to see it more clearly. With that my emotions regulated and I felt a greater understanding and an resolution that I didn’t have for years. Now, looking at the situation- it still sucks but I’m less reactive and more clear. Now, it’s easier for me to talk to my patients about that shift in being more presents I had been ignoring the situation and dismissing my own pain and discomfort for years. With the MD I had to deal with my emotions and make some changes. I’m infinitely happier for working through something I likely would have let keep upsetting me. I hope that helps someone. 💖

@Brian Chaplin absolutely my pleasure. Glad it can help. I’ll also include this info (with the permission of my patients) A couple of people I support were not really prepared for their time macrodosing. They were hoping to just enjoy the feeling better part without doing the work. One realized she had too many things on her plate and wasn’t prepared to feel the feelings. She decided to stop, get on with the immediate things that she needed to deal with in her life and began to start carving out some self care practices. After things in her life settled a bit, she was able to microdosing with intention and make some lovely shifts. Another client, encouraged strongly to get into therapy before microdosing from a whole host of emotional issues struggled microdosing. She said “it took me to dark places” after about a week of struggling with the dark spaces she stopped microdosing and spent the next few months making life changes from those dark spaces. She started back up again a few months later and was able to get more of the pleasant effects she was originally looking for. It’s a great ally to make changes, see different perspectives and do some healing. It’s also very ok to go as slow as we need to get all of the parts of us integrated ❤️‍🩹

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Thanks! Super helpful 💖