How to harness plant medicine for meaningful impact

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Adam Quiney. Adam is an executive leadership coach specialising in working with the “Smartest People in the Room.” A former software developer and attorney, Adam’s learned the hard way about the costs that come from keeping your heart safe and chasing after external rewards to feel whole and complete.  From love, Adam is connection, passion, presence, wit and brilliance. From fear, he is awkward, robotic, apathetic, irrelevant and arrogant. He’s learned to embrace all these parts of himself, and works with others to do the same in their own lives. Living with his beautiful wife and their dog in Victoria, B.C, he is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place.   In today’s episode, Adam and I explore how to harness plant medicine to create meaningful impact in the world - in particular, discussing the power of plants as ancient “medicine” - in whatever form they are worked with, whether herbal, psychedelic, or archetypally.  We begin to understand how plant medicine can help us heal and step more deeply into the meaningful work we are born to do, and how we can integrate the journey with plant medicine to fully express our gifts.   What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   The purpose of plant medicine is to help us to  heal. We think that we already have “medicine” in the world, but the medicine we know in the Western world is actually “drugs” that temporarily halt the symptoms and disconnect us Instead, “medicine” is something which supports us to do our own healing and reconnect us to our soul’s wholeness.  This is often more challenging because we have to confront the wound that got created in us that has been stored for years Genuine healing, like this, can feel like we are getting ‘worse’ before we get better - because we have to go through ‘breakdown’ - or healing response - before the ‘breakthrough’ - the hardest part is staying the course in the midst of us doing that whilst everyone else is popping pills We have learned to relate to ourselves as “this is just the way I am ” - which has us numb our possibility.  Possibility often looks like ‘impossibility’ because it’s found in the unknown and creates us to fear that “there’s no way I can do that” What plant medicine does is to support us to come out of our conscious mind, drop our ego and personality - and connect with pure spirit - so that we can lean into the areas we have shut the door on - unconsciously - and visit them to reveal and face the fears we have and start to heal them, making them conscious The more healing we do - the more wounds we heal - the more we reconnect to who we were born as, and the more we can discover our true purpose. In fact, the more we heal, the more magnetic we become to be around, and the more of a clear channel we are as healing activators of others - aka the more we can step into our gifts as healers.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: Archetypal Aurum (Gold): www.nicolebarton.co.uk/aurum  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Books: Other Worlds by David Luke https://www.instagram.com/drdluke/?hl=en-gb  Books: The Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences by Rick Strassman https://www.rickstrassman.com/  Adam’s website: http://adamquiney.com More information on Adam’s journey - https://adamquiney.com/ayahuasca/  Adam’s  podcast, The Transformational Leader: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/get-lit/id1386362594 Adam’s  Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/aquiney Adam’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamquiney/ Adam’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamquiney_/ Adam’s  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHz_zDZJOeYp9V-6I0P6qcw   Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox