Using psychedelics in recovery, part 2

My experience with ayahuasca and mushrooms

Disclaimers

1. Trigger warning. I describe drug taking (and a bad experience doing so), and I recommend if that makes you feel queasy or unsure at all that you skip this series.

2. This is the second installment in a series about psychedelics in recovery that I’m writing because I used them. The first installment is here, and the third and fourth will be published over the next month or so. I solicited your thoughts on using psychedelics in recovery and your resources (you can still contribute if you haven’t here). I wrote the following essay before reading any of your input so I didn’t alter my opinion or experience based on what everyone else thinks.

3. This essay is about my experience using mushrooms in 2020-2022, and ayahuasca this year. There’s no value judgment or analysis in here about psychedelics in recovery or psychedelics in general or even much analysis of my experience. The next two essays will be about (1) everyone else’s thoughts/experiences with psychedelics and shared resource…