Possible and probable, however, are different things. It is entirely possible to heal with psychedelics but the probability of that healing happening or that healing actually transforming your life is determined by several different factors. One such factor is our relationships.
Like former guest on Adventures Through The Mind, Bruce Sanguin, says in his book about healing with psychedelics,
we are wounded in relationship and heal in relationship.
We lose the possibility of healing when we do not apply what our psychedelic healing experiences offered us into the various relationships we hold in our lives. This isn’t easy work. It means taking an uncomfortable look at ourselves, our motivations, our unconscious needs, and many other aspects of ourselves we might otherwise want to assume are all well and good. Furthermore, relationships with other people are complex and often difficult to navigate. To add to the complexity, though, it’s not just our relationships with other people in our lives that we must hold in consideration. We also have a relationship with the psychedelics we are working with for our healing. How we regard and engage that relationship influences what type of healing or transformation psychedelics can offer us.
Again, relationships with other people are complex and often difficult to navigate. The same can be said for our relationships with psychedelics. In fact, a better understanding of human relationships and how to engage in them in a healthy way can work as a model for engaging our relationship to psychedelics and psychedelic healing in a healthier way.
It is with this overlapping value between human relationships and our relationship to psychedelics that we welcome Mel Cassidy to Adventures Through The Mind for her second time [first interview here].
Mel Cassidy is a relationship coach and sex-positive nerd who guides social misfits and cultural rebels to experiences of joyful, embodied, authentic open relationships. Mel is certified in Counselling for Intimacy and Relationships, Holistic Peer Counselling, and is a ZEGG Forum facilitator. They are a student of the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sexology, and pursue education focused on trauma-informed approaches to the mind-body relationship.
Mel Cassidy has also been engaging a relationship with psychedelics since they helped Mel heal after multiple miscarriages earlier in life.
Mel joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to explore how their models of understanding and engaging human relationships apply to understand and engaging our relationship to psychedelics, psychedelic healing, and psychedelic communities.
Find out more about Mel Cassidy through her website Radical Relationship Coaching. On this site, you will find more about Mel’s coaching practice, Mel’s blog, and their 6-week online course Monogamy Detox.
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We lose the possibility of healing when we do not apply what our psychedelic healing experiences offered us into the various relationships we hold in our lives. This isn’t easy work. It means taking an uncomfortable look at ourselves, our motivations, our unconscious needs, and many other aspects of ourselves we might otherwise want to assume are all well and good.
Mel Cassidy is a relationship coach and sex-positive nerd who guides social misfits and cultural rebels to experiences of joyful, embodied, authentic open relationships. Mel is certified in Counselling for Intimacy and Relationships, Holistic Peer Counselling, and is a ZEGG Forum facilitator. They are a student of the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sexology, and pursue education focused on trauma-informed approaches to the mind-body relationship.
