Podcasts by Inside Eyes

Bonus Episode: Back From The Abyss from 2020-07-29T09:00

This episode is part of a show swap with the podcast Back From The Abyss. BFTA is a series about psychiatric healing hosted by Dr. Craig Heacock. There are a lot of parallels with Inside Eyes an...

Anniversary Episode: Practicing Ritual with Shanna Butler from 2020-07-29T09:00

For the one year anniversary of Inside Eyes Laura interviews Dr. Shanna Butler, a psychologist, professor, and ketamine therapist about the creation of ritual and ways to practice ritual within ...

Dynamics of Sexual Harm in Psychedelic&Entheogenic Spaces from 2019-11-11T08:00

Community that forms around the healing use of entheogens and psychedelics is not without it's own instances of sexual harm.  In the final episode of the season, Laura Mae Northrup, MFT talks ab...

Harm Reduction for Entheogens&Psychedelics with Kufikiri Imara from 2019-11-04T08:00

For the second to last episode of the season, Laura interviews Kufikiri Imara of Decriminalize Nature Oakland.  The episode explores harm reduction from practical and philosophical perspectives ...

James – MDMA&Questions of Sexual Abuse from 2019-10-28T10:00

James has heard about the amazing breakthroughs that trauma survivors are having with MDMA.  Determined to explore an ongoing question of if she was sexually abused as a child, she embarks on tw...

Lena – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse,&Lasting Altered State of Consciousness from 2019-10-21T15:37:24

Lena is a survivor of long-term child sexual abuse and decided to try healing with guided MDMA journeys.  She had an unexpected outcome from her journey work that resulted in a lasting altered s...

Jonathon – Mushrooms, LSD, Child Sexual Abuse, DIY Healing,&Suicidality from 2019-10-14T10:00

Jonathon shares about his experience of child sexual abuse & healing with LSD and mushrooms. He takes a DIY approach to his medicine work, while also seeing a therapist and doing EMDR.  

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Kate – Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse,&Repressed Memories from 2019-10-07T10:00

For most of Kate's life she didn't remembered the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. She shares about using Ayahuasca & psilocybin-containing mushrooms in her long process of remembering t...

Tonya – Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, Complex Trauma,&DIY Healing from 2019-09-30T10:00

In episode 10 of the season Laura interviews Tonya about DIY healing with psilocybin-containing mushrooms.  Tonya has a complex trauma history and shares about how she set up her solo journey an...

Ajesh – Ayahuasca, Repressed Memories, Child Sexual Abuse,&Forgiveness from 2019-09-23T10:00

In episode 9 of the season Laura interviews Ajesh about his experiences using Ayahuasca to heal from child sexual abuse.  Ajesh spent most of his life not remembering the sexual trauma from his ...

Rosa – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociation, Migraines,&Body Image from 2019-09-16T10:00

In episode 8 of the season Laura interviews Rosa about using MDMA to heal from child sexual abuse.  Rosa says she now thinks of her life as "before MDMA & after MDMA."  Her MDMA experiences prov...

Melissa – MDMA, LSD, Sexuality, DIY Healing,&Grief from 2019-09-09T10:00

In episode 7 of the season Laura interviews Melissa about her DIY healing with MDMA & LSD.  Unlike other episodes in this season, Melissa doesn't identify as having a specific sexual trauma, but...

Jennifer Patterson – Breathwork Facilitator&Herbalist speaking on Iboga, LSD, College Rape, Queerness, Child Abuse,&Trichotillomania from 2019-09-02T10:00

In episode 6, Laura interviews Jennifer Patterson, a breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed herbalist. She is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, & words to explore survivorhood, body(ie...

Jaime – MDMA, Psilocybin, Child Sexual Abuse, Suicidality,&Non-Binary Transgender Identity from 2019-08-26T10:00

In episode 5 of the season Laura interviews Jaime, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.  Jaime shares about how using MDMA & Mushrooms helped to heal...

Gloria – Ketamine, Psilocybin, Sexual Assault, Suicidality,&Being a Black Queer Femme in Psychedelic Spaces from 2019-08-19T10:00

In episode 4 of the season Laura interviews Gloria, an astrology-loving, queer black femme. Gloria talks about a sexual assault she experienced in her 20s and the healing she found using Ketamin...

Shan – Ayahuasca, Child Sexual Abuse,&Rheumatoid Arthritis from 2019-08-12T11:00

In episode 3 of the season Laura interviews Shan, a tattoo artist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse.  Shan talks about her experience healing with Ayahuasca and the unexpected effect that t...

Ismail Ali&Jag Davies on Entheogens&Psychedelics – Legalization, Decriminalization,&Medicalization from 2019-08-05T16:37:30

People all over the United States are talking about access to entheogens and psychedelics, such as Ayahuasca, LSD, Psilocybin, & MDMA, as forms of medicinal healing.Listen

Season 1 Intro&Spring Washam – Spirituality, Sexual Trauma, Ayahuasca,&Accessibility from 2019-07-19T01:17:33

Welcome to the first episode of Inside Eyes.  In this episode Laura lays out the purpose behind this season with thoughts on the political and spiritual significance of sexual trauma, followed b...