Quicky #20: Sex and Psychedelics (with Tobias Penno)
Apr 11, 2023
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Tobias Penno, Mental Health Practitioner, discusses similarities between sexuality and psychedelics, emphasizing responsible use, preparation, and therapeutic benefits. Topics include sensory awareness during sexual encounters, integrating psychedelic experiences into daily life for emotional healing, and the transformative tool psychedelics offer for self-discovery.
Proper preparation and integration are crucial for safe and meaningful psychedelic experiences.
Psychedelics can enhance sensory exploration and intimacy, shifting focus from conventional sexual pleasure.
Deep dives
Recreational Use of Psychedelics
Participants share contrasting experiences of their first psychedelic encounters, highlighting the importance of guidance, safety, and preparation. While some enjoy a recreational and uplifting bonding experience with friends, others recount less safe and more exploratory experiences without proper preparation or integration. The discussion touches on the varying meanings of 'recreational' use and the caution needed when engaging in such experiences, emphasizing the disparities in outcomes.
Exploring Psychedelics and Sexuality
The conversation delves into the intersection of psychedelics and sexuality, detailing personal experiences of enhanced sensory perceptions and expansive erotic encounters without traditional physiological responses. The discussion reflects on the liberating and diverse nature of sexual experiences under the influence of psychedelics, highlighting a shift towards sensory exploration and intimacy over conventional expectations of sexual pleasure.
Integration and Lasting Effects of Psychedelic Experiences
The episode emphasizes the importance of proper integration and reflection post-psychedelic experiences to derive lasting benefits and meaningful changes in one's life. Recognizing the transformative potential of psychedelics in addressing mental health issues, the conversation stresses the need for debriefing, meaning-making, and implementation of insights gained during psychedelic sessions to avoid falling into cycles of temporary euphoria without real change.
Quicky #20 is from Season 2, Episode 6: #21 Sex and Psychedelics (with Tobias Penno)
Today I had the pleasure of talking with Mental Health Practitioner, Tobias Penno, Bach. Sci. Engineering, Masters of Social Work (Hons; Research Prize Faculty of Health & Medical Science UWA) Tobias is an Emotional Health Practitioner & Social Worker with a background in Government Child Protection and Counselling. After years of professionally managing extreme child, family and relationship stress, Tobias has found his passion in healing Emotional Pain & Trauma through the body. Tobias currently runs a clinical practice, Emotional Healthcare, where he combines somatic techniques with narrative therapy, as well as working with people to prepare and integrate psychedelic experiences. Tobias is a researcher at the University of Western Australia, with an award-winning dissertation titled How Ayahuasca Offers Psychosocial Wellbeing, and is currently working on a PhD researching the links between attachment trauma, the body, and best-practice in psychedelic integration therapy. We spoke about the similarities between the sexuality and psychedelic industries and communities, from the challenges to the successes.
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