Psychedelics and the Healing Power of Love | Dr. Adele LaFrance

Sep 9, 2023

Dr. Adele LaFrance, a psychedelics and emotional processing expert, discusses the healing power of love. The podcast explores emotional processing, psychedelics' role in supporting emotional capacity, and encounters with love during psychedelic experiences. It also delves into the complexities of love, sexuality, and sexual healing, emphasizing the need to integrate love's healing power. The discussion includes the impact of historical trauma on emotional disconnection, gender conditioning's influence on emotional expression, addressing unaddressed wounds and emotional triggers in relationships, and the different dimensions of love. Dr. LaFrance also highlights the importance of creating a safe environment for psychedelic therapy, boundaries in therapeutic relationships, and the effects of unhealed wounds and historical trauma on sexual relations.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

The Role of Love in Psychedelic Experiences

03:14 • 5min

Reconnecting with Emotions and Instincts

08:13 • 6min

Emotional Expression and Gender Conditioning

14:10 • 6min

Addressing Unaddressed Wounds and Emotional Triggers

19:51 • 10min

Exploring the Dimensions and Importance of Love

30:07 • 20min

The Role of Love in Healing

50:15 • 11min

Creating a Safe and Comfortable Environment for Psychedelic Therapy

01:01:04 • 13min

Unhealed Wounds and Historical Trauma

01:14:26 • 11min

Dr. Adele Lafrance joins us to explore psychedelics and the healing power of Love.

Our conversation begins with an exploration of emotional processing and how difficulties and deficiencies in emotional processing both our mental health, our relationships, and our general wellbeing. We then step into psychedelics and the role they play in supporting our emotional processing capacities.

From there we turn towards Love, what it is and all the accidental ways we conflate it with things that can include love but aren’t love itself: romance, lust, infatuation, attachment, obsession, etc. We talk about the healing power of Love, both in our day-to-day lives and in various forms of healthcare, and why as a society we need to better learn how to wield and integrate that healing power of love. We then talk about encounters with Love as a transpersonal force during psychedelic experiences, the role of love in supporting people in their psychedelic experiences, and even the strange phenomenon of being harmed by too much Love on 5-MeO-DMT.

Of course, although love itself is not sex, with any mention of love we evoke consideration of sexuality, sexual dynamics, and sex itself. Thus, we also talk about sexual healing, the complexity of sexual energy and behaviour in therapy, and even the risks, challenges, and opportunities of having sex while on psychedelics.

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Episode Breakdown

(0:00) Opening
(1:35) Episode overture and guest bio
(5:45) Patreon thanks
(6:43) Interview begins
(7:44) Emotional processing and the damaging impact of poor emotional processing
(12:49) Culturally conditioned deficits in emotional processing
(19:50) Learning to own triggers, rather than project them
(22:14) The role of psychedelics in emotional processing (and vice versa)
(28:02) Our emotions are the most reliably true aspect of our psychedelic experiences
(31:18) Disambiguating “Love”
(37:01) Love as a transpersonal force
(40:01) Love in psychedelic experiences
(44:08) Being harmed by too much love on 5-MeO-DMT
(48:03) Our sociocultural context can negatively impact our psychedelic integration
(50:05) The role of love in our healing journeys
(51:48) The role of love in supporting people in psychedelic experiences
(53:59) We need to acknowledge love is a transpersonal force
(56:40) The complexity of sexual energy and behaviour in therapy
(1:05:11) Psychedelics and sexual healing, and sex on psychedelics
(1:15:57) The Love Project: what it is, how it came to be, and how you can get involved
(1:23:33) Closing regards
(1:24:25) Outro