Terpene Therapy

This week I took Sheba to one of my favorite tiny corners of the city: the trails between Bowman Field and Seneca Park/Golf Course. I've always enjoyed this small area that often gets overlooked in favor of the larger trail systems near by! It provides a unique view of the airport and you can sit there and watch planes take off all day if you wanted to! During this episode I reflect on my pas...

Today I decided to take Sheba for a walk at Calvary Cemetery to reflect on the past weekend, which was eventful to say the least! I had the opportunity to take my Mom's ashes back to her hometown of Princeton, IN for a memorial service for both her and my Uncle Rob. It was a good ceremony and I ended up closing a couple of spiritual loops that needed to be closed; in the proper way of course....

This week Sheba and I went to go explore Eva Boardman Park, one of the more underrated locations in my local area! It's a bit of a shorter episode this week since I am having to make arrangements for my Uncle's funeral, but you know I had to capture some consciousness anyway! I picked this location because it is a place of only good memories for me and it's one of those locations wh...

Today I decided to explore a new trail at Iroquois Park that I had never been on before! Sometimes you have to take a chance on something new in this life, and so walking the new path is a great metaphor for the topic of the episode. I share some ideas on living within the balance between universal chaos and the synchronistic mindset. Walking the line between the two seems to be important in regar...

Today is a calmer day on the seas of life over here for me, so I decided to take sheba to one of my favorite locations in Cherokee park: The Chauffeurs Rest! This is a very special part of this park for me, as it is home to the tree of wisdom, which has been featured in a couple of previous Terpene Therapy episodes! I like to come here whenever it is time to reflect on pivotal moments of life and...

Today's hike is located at Caperton Swamp aka Old Gregg's Lair. I always like to come here to reflect on life whenever things get very heavy, as they have been for the past week. Luckily over the years I've learned to navigate rough seas and this section of my life will play out as it does; just as every other section has. I wish the best for my friend, psychosis is no joke and it c...

This week has been a bit of a rough one, I had to help a good friend of mine through a psychotic break with reality after a relapse and now my brain feels burnt out. These types of situations reactivate some of the more severe PTSD responses that I normally can ground myself from but haven't been able to do as successfully this past week. But thankfully I have the group ride and the ability t...

Today's hike ended up turning into me talking about the lore of Sheba's existence. She's such a good girl and I realized I had never really talked about her in detail! It was fun to go down memory lane and think about some memories with her that I normally don't even think about! It was incredibly hot today (103ºF) so we didn't record as long as we normally do! Support the...

This week I decided to experiment with another biking episode while on the way home from another group ride! This one was special though, we rode out to a community center out in the west end of Louisville to help clean out some stuff that was taking up space that can be better utilized once cleared out! Giving back to the community in a positive way is a beautiful thing! I also had an opportunity...

This week Sheba and I hiked the Jim King trail! She's been loving the relatively cooler weather recently and has been acting extra hyped to be outside! She's also been trying to eat groundscores and I have to be extra attentive so she doesn't eat anything that could be bad for her. I also reflect on the past weekend's 40 mile bike ride with the group that I've been riding...

This past week was a pretty good week all things considered! I went for a cool bike tour of "dark history" around the city on Saturday! The day before I got to play mini golf with some good friends of mine too and we spent the whole time reminiscing on some shenanigans from many years ago. Lots of alphabet soup was being eaten at the time. I also share some of my thoughts on the recent c...

This week I decided to get a camera mount and attempt a cycling episode! The audio on this one was fun to navigate during editing but I think I made it work! This ride is the cooldown from a 7 mile sprint race that was held by this group ride that I found on Instagram. It's cool to have a community of people who are into biking the same way that I am and I'm glad that it was a welcoming...

This week has been a pretty good week all in all! Got to hang out with Justin and Billy Wayne at the comedy show on Saturday and that was an entirely enjoyable experience! It was the finals for the comedy competition at Planet Of The Tapes and every comedian there killed it! I'm also excited for the group bike ride that I'll be going on this week, it's going to be a lot of fun! I ho...

This past week has been an interesting one in the legislative landscape regarding cannabis and the laws that surround it in America. There was a bill introduced last week called the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. This bill creates a framework for how a nation wide legal cannabis market could look and provides a fair tax structure for small business vs. large businesses.  There also s...

This week is a shorter episode due to it being absolutely boiling outside; Sheba was still demanding a walk though! I decided to take her to Brown Park so she could harras the local geese population. I also talked about something I was thinking about during my last therapy session. The reason most people decide consume various compounds boils down to the triangle of circles. The bottom left circle...

This week I'm appreciating the break in the weather both physically and mentally. I got to hang out with my homie after he wasn't doing so well last week and make some amends in that regard. I also talk about the relationship between cycling and consuming cannabis that I had built up over the last decade and how it's been cycling while sober; it's definitely different but not t...

This week I decided to walk to a park to capture the real time effects on my consciousness from my therapeutic ketamine prescription. I talk a bit about my experience with how my mom's death impacted my views on life, death, and the connection between the consciousness and the meat suit. I also briefly touched on my perspective on therapy in general and how it seems to work for me. There&apos...

This week we're exploring one of my favorite parts of the parklands, the Moss Gibbs Woodland Garden! The bottlebrushes are blooming this week and I wanted to capture them before they're gone! I also talk about harm reduction when dealing with thoughts resurfacing from a past addiction. Sometimes, when you go deep enough into the murky waters, the thoughts and cravings never truly leave y...

Today I decided to go out to a part of Iroquois Park that I normally don't go to but since it's a bad tick season this year, I have to walk Sheba on paved areas out in nature! I've always enjoyed this section and there are no cars to worry about as well! It's been a wild adventure as far as the therapy goes for this past week; I've been utilizing meditation and visualizati...

This week I am taking advantage of the new traffic patterns around the waterfront here in town to capture a stream of consciousness about my new addition to EMDR. My therapist recommend a combination of EMDR and Ketamine and so far this week it seems to have a synergistic effect on my mood and my dreams/sleep quality! Set, setting, and intention make a world of difference compared to when I used t...

This week we have a very corny title for a very philosophical episode lmao.  Last week I felt compelled to buy a copy of Be Here Now by Ram Dass and there was a section of that book that heavily related to my life so I decided to share it with y'all here today. The coming down portion is valuable insight to anyone out there who's experienced in traveling. It's not the end all be all...

This week we're at Riverview Park to explore and catalogue more of the Levee Trail with Sheba! This environment always inspires nostalgia for me and reminds me of a simpler time in my life. It's been very rainy around these parts so I'm grateful for the opportunity to get outside and enjoy the sunshine! Cactus Carl is also continuing to grow at a good rate, it wont be long until the...

This week I'm exploring a section of the loop in Turkey Run park while I was waiting to get my AC unit fixed and reflecting on how grateful I am to have functioning AC when it's working. Once it gets up to 80+ degrees in the house I begin not sleeping as well and it also makes my dreams strange, like a half fever dream.  This combined with the continuation of the EMDR process led to a fe...

This week I began the first of the many experiences with the EMDR process and it's been a heavy week to say the least. It seems like this process has taken a lot of repressed memories and brought them to the forefront for reprocessing; this ultimately will be good. However, right now it's difficult to deal with and has been affecting my sleep. This is to be expected though and I feel lik...

Today I'm shaking off some of the heaviness that I've been feeling since last week's near death experience by hiking a few miles in the woods of Jefferson Memorial Forest. I go over some fun memories of hiking out there a few years ago as well as a wild experience with an Amanita Regalis mushroom. I also do my part to help clean up nature by picking up a bottle of red Rhotos that I...