#113 - How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip | Solocast

I am always available for psychedelic service. When I am called to serve, there’s nowhere I’d rather be than sitting calmly beside someone going through the challenging journey known colloquially as a "bad trip." I recently had the opportunity to offer psychedelic peer support, also called "trip sitting," at a party. Although I’ve covered trip sitting before in episodes with Sara Gael of MAPS’ Zendo Project and the TeaFaerie a legendary tripsitter, I thought it would be instructive to share a story of my firsthand experience of offering peer support in the wild. If you’d like to learn more about trip sitting, I highly recommend the Zendo Project which offers trainings, and the Fireside Project, the first ever psychedelic peer support hotline (dial 62-FIRESIDE). If you’d like to hear more about my own background and the history of psychedelic peer support, check out the article I wrote about Zendo and trip sitting back in 2015 called “I Did Psychedelic First Aid at a Festival in Costa Rica.” May we all have opportunities to serve and be served. The psyche you calm… may be your own. Links I Did Psychedelic First Aid at a Festival in Costa Rica: https://medium.com/@eamonarmstrong/i-did-psychedelic-first-aid-at-a-festival-in-costa-rica-edf0d96eaeeb Zendo Project: https://zendoproject.org/ Fireside Project: https://firesideproject.org/ Sara Gael (Zendo Project) on Life is a Festival” https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/sara-gael The TeaFaerie on Life is a Festival: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/the-teafaerie Fireside Project on the Psychedelic Therapy Podcast: https://www.mayahealth.com/podcast/fireside-project