Psychedelic Healing with Jesse Carlota Heid

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12/13/18 • 62 min

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.

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.

Previous Episode

Spirituality + Activism with Diego Perez (aka @yung_pueblo)

You may know Diego’s poetry from Instagram. Deceptively simple, his words are deeply impactful, and have recently been compiled into a book, Inward.

But did you know Diego got heavily involved in activism and organizing in his teens? That he is a dedicated Vipassana meditator (attending multiple 10-day silent meditation retreats per year)? And that he credits his meditation practice with showing him the missing piece in creating lasting, meaningful, social change? Fittingly for a Sagittarius New Moon launch date, Diego is also a Sag (of course!)

We get into all this and SO MUCH MORE in our conversation, including:

Why Diego believes that getting Sober Curious can be a vital piece in staying connected to our passion and our purpose.
How to use social media for social change.
Diego’s writing process—and why you’ll never see the word “spirituality” in his work.
Collective healing as a hallmark of our transition into the Age of Aquarius.

You can discover more about Diego, his book Inward, and all his upcoming events @yung_pueblo.

Next Episode

Capricorn Season 2018 Astrocast with Bess Matassa + Sandy Sitron

This week's episode features our monthly Astrocast with Numinous resident astrologers Bess Matassa and Sandy Sitron, in which we'll explore the key cosmic shifts of Capricorn Season 2018-19. The themes of the season are to find a balance between effort and allowing, to cultivate radical trust in what we can't yet see, and to construct boundaries and safe containers to help birth the legacies we long to create. Transits we'll be discussing include:

Uranus stationing direct in Aries and Mars transiting through the sign of the ram

The Lunar Cycle, including the significance of the dec 22 Cancer Full Moon and the Jan 5 Capricorn New Moon

Venus moving out of Scorpio and entering Sagittarius

The Tarot cards for the New Year, as we move from Justice/High Priestess year in 2018 to Hanged Man/Empress year in 2019.