Inside Eyes

The episode is for guides and facilitators who are already practicing or who are considering starting to offer healing work with psychedelics or entheogens. However it is also useful to people seeking healing, and can be considered a part 2 to the previous episode about choosing a guide or facilitator. I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can join my email list here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list Read my new(ish) book! Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

This episode is a short guided meditation. If you want more info on why I have it in the season, you can go back to episodes 5 and 6 on journey preparation, and more specifically you can listen to the section on somatic theory around minute 19 in episode 6. This meditation is focused on helping you build awareness of sensations and allowing yourself to follow the movements emerging from them, in an effort to work toward body-based healing within expanded states of consciousness. If your podcasting app is inserting advertisements into the series and you want to listen to the meditation ad free, you can do so here (you can in fact listen to any of the episodes without ads here): https://insideeyes.libsyn.com/ I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can join my email list here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list Read my new(ish) book! Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

Isolation and struggles with accessing supportive community are issues many people face in the world today, but survivors of sexual violence can face this in unique ways. This episode speaks to issues around isolation and the importance of building community, for individual and collective wellbeing. I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can sign up here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list Read my new book! Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

This is part two of two episodes focused on preparing for healing sexual trauma with entheogens and psychedelics. It is also useful for people who are doing expanded state healing that does not include the use of psychedelics or entheogens. The episode covers the significance of surrendering, breaks down somatic theory as it relates to expanded state healing, and offers some thoughts about the language of symbols and archetypes. I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can sign up here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list My new book: Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

The title says it all! This episode is focused on understanding what type of suffering is meaningful and why that matters, both in sober states and expanded ones. I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can sign up here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list My new book: Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

In season one I talked about sexual violence as a form of spiritual abuse and I have recieved many questions about that over the last 6 years, so I decided to do a deeper dive on this topic. This episode outlines my thoughts on spirituality as a frame for thinking about the impact of sexual violence on individauls and communities, as well as a frame for the path toward healing. I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the series. If you want to hear about the dates for those and join, I will send that info out on my email list. I send a handful of emails per year, only when there is something special I am offering. You can sign up here: https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list My new book: Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World Website and IG: lauramaenorthrup.com @lauramaenorthrup

Inside Eyes is back with 16 new episodes! And I am almost ready to share it with you, but we need to finish raising $3500 to pay the audio engineer by the end of November 2025 to stay on track with recording (for a February 2026 release). Every dollar helps! Please donate here: https://gofund.me/224623ed9 I wrote a book! It is called Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World. It is for therapists, guides, and other types of healing practitioners. You can buy a copy anywhere books are sold, including here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/radical-healership-how-to-build-a-values-driven-healing-practice-in-a-profit-driven-world-laura-mae-northrup/ffb161304136fa99 Are you a clinician and interested in working together? I have two consult groups for clinicians such as therapists, guides, and coaches coming up in 2026. Winter 2026: https://forms.gle/5yzJVouXPPvf9v8n8 Spring 2026: https://forms.gle/Th5ZKwSsYAZW9QrZ8 And you can read more about individual consultation with me here: https://lauranorthruppsychotherapy.com/consultation Thank you for listening and supporting the show! If you want to stay up to date on when it releases or find out more about working with me, join my email list (I only send a handful of emails per year): https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/mailing-list

This episode is part of a show swap with the podcast Back From The Abyss. BFTA is a series about psychiatric healing hosted by Dr. Craig Heacock. There are a lot of parallels with Inside Eyes and this episode is an incredible interview with trauma expert Saj Razvi, exploring ketamine therapy, cannabis therapy, as well as a powerful personal story from Saj. Listen to part two of this episode here. Find out more about Back From The Abyss: www.bftapodcast.com. You can listen to Dr. Heacock's interview on Therapy Chat here, or learn more about him here: www.craigheacockmd.com. If you would like to support Inside Eyes, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

For the second to last episode of the season, Laura interviews Kufikiri Imara of Decriminalize Nature Oakland. The episode explores harm reduction from practical and philosophical perspectives and takes an expanded view that includes not only harm to users, but also harm to the medicines themselves and the traditional stewards of many entheogenic plants. You can learn more about the work of Decriminalize Nature Oakland here. Laura mentions the work of Dawn Davis, PhD (C) about loss of Peyote habitat: you can learn more here. This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland for an end-of-the-season party! More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website. If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

Lena is a survivor of long-term child sexual abuse and decided to try healing with guided MDMA journeys. She had an unexpected outcome from her journey work that resulted in a lasting altered state of consciousness. In this episode we talk about the complex nuances of her "soft psychosis" diagnosis and explore why that term doesn't adequately describe her experience. This show is all about going into the depths of wounding to heal, but don't forget that a huge part of healing is experiencing joy. The season will come to an end in November and there is an end-of-the-season party! Join me on November 16th, 2019 at 8pm, at Tamarack in downtown Oakland. More details are on the Facebook event page or on my website. Here is Kitty Sipple's presentation at Breaking Convention: Psychedelic Accessibility: Disability, Chronic Illness, & the Psychedelic Experience If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes! To stay connected, find Laura on Instagram: @lauramaenorthrup or Twitter: @inside__eyes or Facebook: @lauramaenorhtrup

For most of Kate's life she didn't remembered the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. She shares about using Ayahuasca & psilocybin-containing mushrooms in her long process of remembering the sexual abuse and healing from complex trauma. 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: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

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 this season. 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: @inside__eyes. Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!