What happens when the life you worked so hard to build stops feeling like yours?

In Part One of my conversation with Dr. Eric Russell, we begin with his story: a childhood filled with curiosity, a career built in the corporate tech world, years spent living in survival mode, and the unexpected rupture that forced him to question the direction his life was taking.

But our conversation goes much deeper from there.

Eric is a doctor of psychology, plant medicine educator, and integration coach, and together we explore the intersection of psychology, identity, plant medicine, and personal transformation.

We talk about what happens when we suppress parts of ourselves in order to belong or succeed, and how difficult it can be to recognize that the life you've built around those identities may no longer fit.

We also begin exploring Eric's experience with psilocybin and the role plant medicine played in changing the way he understood himself and his life. From there, our conversation opens into some of the deeper and more nuanced pieces of psychedelic work: preparation, safety, integration, discernment, and the responsibility that comes with helping someone make meaning from a powerful experience.

This isn't simply a conversation about leaving one life and creating another. It's about what happens when something disrupts the way you've been living and you begin looking more closely at what belongs to you, what you've inherited, and what you may be ready to reconsider.

This is Part One of my conversation with Dr. Eric Russell.

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