The Psychedelic Integration Podcast with Sinclair Fleetwood

It's been about a month since I mic dropped myself off the show and went on an indefinite hiatus. Since then, I have been finding clarity and restoring my creativity in beautiful ways. As Anne Lamott says so eloquently, "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." While I am happily unplugged from the show, my work is alive and kicking. My NE...

We love to fight with ourselves. To micromanage every aspect of our awakening. To make healing a thankless, soul sucking job that dangles perfection in front of us like a moldy, gross carrot we can never reach. This is resistance. Resistance isn't you doing it wrong. It's a normal human response to change. Change is uncertain. It's destabilizing. It threatens the identity you've worked hard to mai...

You know that voice in your head that tells you you're not good enough? The one that picks apart everything you do? Most people think once they notice it, they can just turn it off. But that's just not how it works. A savage inner critic is not just painful to live with, being super hard on yourself can manifest in the body as illness. So many of our most prevalent and mysterious health problems h...

It's no secret that I am a fangirl of plant medicine retreats. The power of stepping way outside your comfort zone, immersing into nature, coming into community, and letting go of the roles you play in your everyday life can offer you an experience of seeing yourself more clearly than ever. To find answers, we often need silence and to unbury ourselves from the distractions of modern life. And to...

You've heard about the research. Maybe even studied the science. Everyone and their Mom is talking about how psychedelics are the new hot thing that is going to revolutionize mental health care. That they are showing promising outcomes in treating depression, Alzheimer's, and everything in between. The thing it... this isn't new. Western medicine is claiming invention on what indigenou...

We spend most of our lives living in the mind, bouncing between stories and regret about the past, and worry about the future. The mind can understand everything and still not be free. This is why endless searching and processing doesn't actually change anything. Because true integration happens in the body. In this episode, I explore why the most intelligent, spiritually sophisticated seekers...

Underneath all the seeking and solving and fixing and symptoms lies a fear-based belief: That there is something wrong with you that needs to be solved. That there is a normal, optimized life that everyone else is having (except you). And that you are always doing it wrong. Because you are wrong. Healing becomes your whole life, when it was just meant to be a guide back home. Instead it became a w...

From supporting your mitochondrial function to healing your liver to dialing in your ideal gut balancing protocol, the digital age has sold us hard on there being a “right way” to feel, look, have sex, do romance, eat, work, and be. Oh, and you’re doing it wrong. The truth is, following the white rabbit of optimal wellness is making people sick. Really sick. Chronically ill with multiple tiers of...

Leadership. What a snooze. This is a word that feels stuffy and boring to a lot of wild-hearted, spiritually minded explorers. But strong, confident leadership – rooted in values and beliefs that center the well-being of all beings – is exactly what we need right now. There comes a point on the spiritual path where healing stops being expansion and starts being the place you hide so you can stay s...

The era of endless healing is over. Are you an awakened, spiritual straight-A-student, and stuck in a never ending spiral of self-doubt and healing? In this inaugural episode of We Are Standing on the Edge (formerly The Psychedelic Integration Podcast ), we dive into why “doing the work” (modalities, breathwork, meditation, journaling, reflecting, seeking insight, and even plant medicine) often do...

I just published the last episode of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast. When I started this show, integration felt like THE missing piece in closing the circle of care in the psychedelic experience. Sadly, it still is. As much as we have amplified the conversation about what is required for real change after the medicine, it still doesn't feel like it has landed in the collective. At least n...

Psychedelics open you fast. They snap you awake. They can return sensitivity, perception, and truth to a system that has been armored for a long time. And then you go back to your life. Where nothing has changed. The pace doesn’t slow down. The stress doesn’t ease. The media keeps shouting. The nervous system stays braced. In this episode, I talk about what happens when sensitivity comes back onli...

You are running out of time. Not in the “you’re going to die tomorrow” way. But in the “you need to hit the brakes NOW because you’re out of runway” kind of way. Our work together begins here. In the moment where you finally admit you can’t pretend anymore. You can’t carry your own transformation. When your body and heart are moving from subtle alerts to full on fire alarms. Parts of you crying ou...

Winter is the deep dive into the void. It seems empty. Lonely even. But this is the season where everything is born. The Winter Solstice is the darkest night. It's time to start our return to the light. In this episode, we are closing down the year with honor to the light, in reverence to the fruitful darkness. The necessary spaces of stillness and emptiness. When there is nowhere to go and no...

Why do we fight ourselves so hard when we’re standing at the edge of real transformation? In this episode, we explore the spiritual physics of surrender — the natural laws that explain why resistance shows up, why it gets louder right before a breakthrough, and how surrender becomes the doorway to clarity, relief, and alignment. You’ll learn what resistance actually is (on a nervous system, ego, a...

Our linear, materialist understanding of death is fundamentally flawed because it allows the terrified ego to define what death is — instead of looking to Nature and Spirit for the truth. We intuitively know the life cycle is a circle, yet we run from death because it appears to be THE END. But the medicine of a conscious life shows us a deeper truth: Life is circles and spirals and expansions. De...

The rebellion within is the rebellion without. It comes from nervous system activation. From boundaries being crossed again and again. From unprocessed anger. It comes from the silent rage of the feminine inside that is beyond done with being silenced, coerced, and violated. And most often, in conscious embodiment, you are forced to accept that you are the one doing violence to yourself. Not on pu...

How to always be in the right place at the right time is to change your perception. Stop looking for a moment, and cultivate a relationship. Tap into the ongoing conversation between your soul, your nervous system, your emotional waves, your inspired actions, and trusting the living intelligence of the Universe. And here’s the wild part:Alignment isn’t something you go out and GET by doing stuff....

Spiraling is how it feels when you are in that state of flailing overwhelm. Where everything bad and wrong and scary and stressful keeps getting amplified. When you take one step forward and ten steps back. It's the perfect shit storm of anxiety, hypervigilance, hypersensitivity, and low capacity that creates room for all your negative thought patterns to run wild. We call it spiraling because...

Family healing is one of the most challenging and rewarding paths of working with plant medicine. At some point on this path, you may find yourself in a place of sacred solitude. When old relationships are falling away or changing, but new ones haven't started to sprout yet. This can be a lonely place of feeling like you don't belong. That there is something wrong with you. That you will never fin...

The inability to let go is fear of the unknown. It's fear of uncertainty. It's small capacity plus activation. That's it. And you can absolutely learn how to walk in power directly into the unfolding magic of the mystery with confidence and grace. Once you start working with medicines, it becomes clear that peace and joy can only be found when there is trust.​ And trust requires you to...

Libra Season! It's in the balance of our darkness and our light where our true peace resides. Not in stamping out the dragon inside, but loving it. Offering a soft place for your rage. Your disappointment. Your sharp edges. Your dirty, ugly, messiness. Welcoming your holy authenticity without apology. 🍁May this season bring you the delicious relief of a calm and peaceful heart that is no long...

Outcome independence is a concept or mindset where you detach your well-being, happiness, and self-worth from external sources. It's giving less f*cks and letting go of needing things to be a certain way to be happy. It's releasing attachment to "happiness" as a destination you can strive and achieve your way into. Instead, you focus on the journey, allowing and enjoying the unfo...

Psilocybin mushrooms are amazing creatures. An ancient consciousness that has been gathering Earth wisdom and performing energy alchemy for billions of years. How they work in nature is how they work in our bodies. The mycelium network connects, transforms, and transports. It turns death into life. It takes what is no longer needed and creates fertile ground for planting what wants to grow instead...

Grandfather San Pedro is one of the most powerful and humble plant medicines on Earth (that you may not have heard much about.) This medicine of the heart grows high in the Andes mountains, collecting the pure vibration of light from the sun and alchemizing it into potent and profound transformation. A Huachuma ceremony is an opportunity to look inward. To listen. To open. And to bloom in the dark...