A gift of therapy- Discovering the wisdom of the body with psychedelic-assisted therapy

About this episode

Kari shares her journey of reconnecting with her birth mother and discovering healing through psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Kari reconnected with her birth mother in her 40s and finally began to understand the suffering for which she had no words. This is a story of adoption and reunification, of forgetting and remembering, of finding a truth without words in the wisdom of the body. Kari’s birth mother was able to see something deep in Kari that she had never had words for….and thus began her path toward healing. Support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/396871/support Bringing Therapy into Med Mana...

People in this episode

Host: Craig Heacock MD

Guest: Kari

Topics covered

• psychedelic-assisted therapy
• adoption
• reunification
• healing
• body wisdom

Keywords

• psychedelics
• therapy
• adoption
• healing
• body wisdom

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