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Plant medicine is everywhere right now and so is the quiet confusion that follows it: Was that healing, or was it just a peak experience I’m chasing again? We sit down with clinical hypnotherapist Derek Ivey to talk honestly about addiction, recovery, and why “spiritual” substance use still carries real risks when the integration piece is missing.

Derek shares his own journey through alcoholism, relapse, and the moment he knew he wouldn’t survive if he kept going. From 12-step recovery to Buddhism, Reiki, and deeper consciousness work, we track how shame and suppression can drive the need to alter our state just to feel confident, playful, or connected. We also talk about the cultural normalization of uppers and downers, coffee to push through the day and alcohol to shut off at night, and what changes when we stop forcing our bodies into a schedule that doesn’t fit.

We go deep on psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine, including the neuroplasticity window and why it can either support new habits or amplify the inner critic if you return to old patterns. Derek offers a grounded alternative through transpersonal journey work and hypnotherapy: not “renting the view,” but building the window, learning how to access non-ordinary reality and nervous system regulation without needing a chemical shortcut.

If you’ve been curious about psychedelics, navigating sobriety, or trying to heal without bypassing your real life, this conversation gives you language, nuance, and practical next steps. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more people find Wisdom Rising.

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