Laura Mae Northrup

Inside Eyes

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Hosted by psychotherapist and author Laura Mae Northrup, MFT, Inside Eyes focuses on the use of psychedelics and entheogens to heal from sexual trauma. Season one is several in-depth interviews with survivors about their experiences healing within expanded states. Season two provides harm-reduction based information on how to create safer experiences healing in an expanded states. This show looks at healing and trauma through a spiritual and political lens.

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Laura Mae Northrup

Episodes

Tonya – Mushrooms, Child Sexual Abuse, Complex Trauma, & DIY Healing 30.09.2019 30:57

In episode 10 of the season Laura interviews Tonya about DIY healing with psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Tonya has a complex trauma history and shares about how she set up her solo journey and her process in working on self-esteem issues and PTSD. If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes ! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twit...

Ajesh – Ayahuasca, Repressed Memories, Child Sexual Abuse, & Forgiveness 23.09.2019 29:52

In episode 9 of the season Laura interviews Ajesh about his experiences using Ayahuasca to heal from child sexual abuse. Ajesh spent most of his life not remembering the sexual trauma from his childhood. He talks about confronting shame, the courage to ask for help, and forgiveness. Ajesh references Spring Washam's book, A Fierce Heart . To hear more from Spring Washam, check out episode 1 of t...

Rosa – MDMA, Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociation, Migraines, & Body Image 16.09.2019 43:38

In episode 8 of the season Laura interviews Rosa about using MDMA to heal from child sexual abuse. Rosa says she now thinks of her life as "before MDMA & after MDMA." Her MDMA experiences provided unexpected healing around migraines and body image If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes ! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or on Twitter...

Melissa – MDMA, LSD, Sexuality, DIY Healing, & Grief 09.09.2019 38:19

In episode 7 of the season Laura interviews Melissa about her DIY healing with MDMA & LSD. Unlike other episodes in this season, Melissa doesn't identify as having a specific sexual trauma, but rather describes a more elusive general wound around self-worth, love, and sexuality. If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes ! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram:...

Jennifer Patterson – Breathwork Facilitator & Herbalist speaking on Iboga, LSD, College Rape, Queerness, Child Abuse, & Trichotillomania 02.09.2019 1:04:45

In episode 6, Laura interviews Jennifer Patterson, a breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed herbalist. She is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, & words to explore survivorhood, body(ies), and healing. In this interview, Jennifer talks about her healing processs with Iboga and LSD, as well as queerness, surviving child abuse, trichotillomania, and cultural appropriation of Indigenous peop...

Jaime – MDMA, Psilocybin, Child Sexual Abuse, Suicidality, & Non-Binary Transgender Identity 26.08.2019 35:28

In episode 5 of the season Laura interviews Jaime, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Jaime shares about how using MDMA & Mushrooms helped to heal around many symptoms, including suicidality. Jaime also talks about how MDMA supported them to build a more loving relationship to their body, as a non-binary transgender person. If you would like to support the show, please share this episode w...

Gloria – Ketamine, Psilocybin, Sexual Assault, Suicidality, & Being a Black Queer Femme in Psychedelic Spaces 19.08.2019 48:57

In episode 4 of the season Laura interviews Gloria, an astrology-loving, queer black femme. Gloria talks about a sexual assault she experienced in her 20s and the healing she found using Ketamine and Mushrooms. She shares about her experience being mixed race and queer and finding other people of color to connect with in the psychedelic world. If you would like to support the show, please shar...

Shan – Ayahuasca, Child Sexual Abuse, & Rheumatoid Arthritis 12.08.2019 42:52

In episode 3 of the season Laura interviews Shan, a tattoo artist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Shan talks about her experience healing with Ayahuasca and the unexpected effect that the medicine had on her Rheumatoid Arthritis. You can see Shan's tattoo work on Instagram @needlesiren If you would like to support the show, please share this episode with someone who may benefit and leav...

Ismail Ali & Jag Davies on Entheogens & Psychedelics – Legalization, Decriminalization, & Medicalization 05.08.2019 1:12:55

People all over the United States are talking about access to entheogens and psychedelics, such as Ayahuasca, LSD, Psilocybin, & MDMA, as forms of medicinal healing. How people gain access to these (mostly) illegal medicines is the big question. Who currently has access to this type of healing and who will likely have it in the future? What is the difference between medicalization, legalizati...

Season 1 Intro & Spring Washam – Spirituality, Sexual Trauma, Ayahuasca, & Accessibility 19.07.2019 34:57

Welcome to the first episode of Inside Eyes. In this episode Laura lays out the purpose behind this season with thoughts on the political and spiritual significance of sexual trauma, followed by an interview with Spring Washam, renowned meditation teacher, Ayahuasca advocate, and author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment . Spring is considered a pioneer in bri...