55. Highly Sensitive People are the Psychedelic Plants of the Human Realm - Lola Pickett

Empaths are trending right now; let’s dig beneath the surface into what it really means to be empathic and/or to have a highly sensitive nervous system, and then talk about the plant and fungal allies that can help us to relax, recalibrate, and ground.

IN THE INTRO:

• The difference between empathic and highly sensitive people
• High sensitivity is an evolutionary adaptation
• Ritual is remembering

IN THE INTERVIEW:

Part I, Lola interviews me:

• How I came to walk the plant path
• My experience as a vegan postpartum woman
• What fat does for our bodies- resilience and deep nourishment- and why it’s extra important for Highly Sensitive People
• Remembering the intelligence that is woven throughout every cell in our body (not just the brain)
• Overcoming the empathic tendency to shut everything out
• Healing the legacy of highly sensitive/empathic ancestors making harmful decisions in an endeavor to self medicate
• How psychedelics can help heal and empower HSPs
• Reishi as an ally
• The importance of touching something before ingesting it
• Practicing the felt sense of our food
• Making a game of tuning into and experimenting with changing the aperture of your sensory gating channels
• Knowing your strength as an empathic person 

Part II, I interview Lola:

• How Lola came into relationship with psilocybin mushrooms
• Time is the most persistent illusion
• Knowing that all is well, not as a bypass, but as the deeper reality of nature
• The stark difference between altering your consciousness recreationally and doing so ceremonially
• Tracing the motherline to find the medicine that belongs to you
• Being deep in an ancient cave with the bones of your ancestors
• Psychedelics, neurogenesis, and healing trauma

LINKS:

• Lola’s website
• Empath to Power podcast
• Foundations of Ritual online course with Daniel Foor
• The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereaux 
• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
• My website MythicMedicine.love 
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
• Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)