Psychedelics

For most of us, psychedelics come with a lot of baggage. Drugs. Hippies. Bad trips. Losing control. Yet there's another conversation happening around them — one about perspective, identity, creativity, connection and what can happen when the patterns we've spent years living inside suddenly become a little less fixed.

Nasreen El-Mariesh, transformational coach, certified psychedelic integration coach and co-founder of Women are the Medicine, on what psychedelics actually are, the difference between microdosing and a psychedelic journey, why integration matters, and why so many women seem to be getting curious about them in midlife. Underneath all of that, this is really a conversation about control — the stories we tell ourselves, the patterns we keep repeating, and the slightly terrifying possibility that sometimes the thing getting in our way might be us.