70. The Long Strange Trip of Psychedelic Transformation: Who am I and how did I get Here? with Stefanie Cohen - Pt. 1

In this conversation, friends and colleagues Michaela Carlin and Stefanie Cohen pull back the curtain on their long, strange trips of psychedelic transformation. Michaela and Stefanie open up about their personal journeys, sharing about the profound shifts in identity they’ve both experienced on the medicine path, the intensity and importance of their shadow work, and the concept of spiritual healing. Stefanie describes her past struggles with depression and SSRIs, culminating in her first experience with Ayahuasca in 2015, which set her on a path of self-discovery and healing. Michaela did not begin her psychedelic explorations from a place of suffering, but rather was led onto the path by a lifelong curiosity about consciousness. She shares about encounters with shadow selves, generational trauma and deep self-love in her very first psychedelic journey and how they changed her life forever. The conversation further explores reasons why certain people are drawn to the path of psychedelics, pondering how past lives, embedded traumas, or profound questions about the nature of existence may factor in.