Welcome to Trippy Monday’s, where I go over 3 things that caught my attention from this past week. Enjoy!

(1) I’ve been feeling down lately, and being very dishonest with myself about it. Nobody likes feeling down, and I’m certainly not an exception. However, I do know that feeling down is just part of life. It’s unavoidable. I always talk about how we just need to sit with however we’re feeling, regardless of how uncomfortable the feelings are, yet I still find myself doing the exact opposite sometimes. I keep myself busy in order to avoid these feelings, but I don’t even notice I do this while it’s happening. Subconsciously, part of me still thinks that if I keep myself busy enough and keep pushing, these feelings will magically disappear. This approach doesn’t work.

It got to a point this week where I started feeling sick again (it feels like I haven’t been fully healthy since I originally got sick over a month ago) and I realized that something had to change. I went to the doctor on Wednesday, came home, took an edible, and just sat down to do absolutely nothing. During this time, it finally occurred to me that I had been avoiding my feelings. Giving myself the time and space to sit and do nothing was all I ever really needed to do. It gave me the opportunity to fully embrace all of these emotions that had been coming up for me over the past few weeks and allow them to be there. I immediately felt so much calmer. 

Does mercury being in retrograde have something to do with this too? I can’t in good faith say that it for sure doesn’t. But It’s also the ebbs and flows of life. This is a reminder to you, but mostly to myself, to embrace the downs just as much, if not even more than, as the ups.

(2)  It’s easy to overthink everything and get caught up in trying to figure it all out, but this meme helped pull me back to reality a bit this week

(3) I went to a psychedelic-integration circle this week that was held by an organization called Denver Mycology. It was great to meet other people who are willing to openly talk about their experiences with psychedelics and healing. Beyond that, it was just nice to be the one speaking freely and getting asked about my personal experiences rather than me always being the one asking others. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love my podcast and discussing people’s experiences with them and will continue to always do so. But it requires a large amount of energy to continuously hold that space for others. Sometimes, it can definitely be draining. Being in a container where others were holding space for me this time was a nice change of pace, and made me realize how important it is that I give myself more time to do this. 

Sidenote, I also found myself receiving a bag of mushroom mycelium that’s ready to start growing, so I’m excited to grow some mushrooms 🙂

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-Cam