What happens after you see something you can’t unsee?

After the breakthrough. After the realization. After the experience that changes the way you see yourself or your life.

What do you actually do with what you now know?

In Part Two of my conversation with Dr. Eric Russell, we go into the part of transformation that I think we need to talk about more: what happens after.

We go deeper into plant medicine and integration, and why making sense of a powerful experience is only the beginning. Integration asks something more of us. It asks us to look at our behaviors, our patterns, our relationships, and sometimes the entire life we’ve built around an older version of ourselves.

Eric and I also talk about the responsibility that comes with holding space for others in psychedelic work. We get into discernment, projection, the importance of doing your own inner work, and what can happen when a guide hasn’t learned to separate their own fears and stories from someone else’s experience.

And then the conversation widens.

We talk about shedding identities. Outgrowing relationships. Grieving versions of ourselves we once needed to be. The strange in-between where you know you can’t go back, but you don’t quite know what comes next.

We talk about control, surrender, trust, and how incredibly destabilizing change can feel while you’re actually living through it.

Because a breakthrough can change what you see.

But then you have to go home and live your life.

And that may be where the real transformation begins.

This is Part Two of my conversation with Dr. Eric Russell. If you haven’t listened to Part One, you can begin with “When the Life You Built No Longer Fits.”

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