Psychedelic Healing with Jesse Carlota Heid

Jesse Carlota Heid is the very first person I invited to be a guest on THE NOW AGE. We connected when Jesse wrote a piece for The Numinous about her former life as a habitual psychedelics user, and what this experience taught her about how we heal—still one of my favorite articles on the site. Now over ten years sober, Jesse is a writer, healer, advocate, and ritual artist, as well as being a proud infertile mother. And she is also one of the most magical speakers I have ever met, with a unique gift for articulating deeply complex and mystical concepts.

In episode #2 of The Now Age, we discuss:

• When and why "self-medicating" can be a good thing
• How and why our bodies store emotional pain
• Living with undiagnosed Endometriosis since childhood—and how she manages her own chronic pain
• The lasting fallout of abuse, poverty, and neglect and how to heal from trauma
• The power of "Story Medicine" and her work with the mythopoetic approach to healing
• The fallout from the colonization of and her own separation from her indigenous Mexican heritage

You can discover more about Jesse and her work @alignedspirit on Instagram.