Ketamine: Is it just a drug experience or does the drug provide the experience needed?
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. I was curious about this question, posed in Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. When you take ketamine or psilocybin or ecstasy or LSD or whatever it is in […]
Tips for set and setting for ketamine session
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. The mindset video for session 3 of my Mindbloom ketamine therapy reminded me of the importance of set and setting. Here are a few tips for set and setting for ketamine sessions: You definitely don’t want to go into your ketamine session feeling rushed or […]
Surprising burst of energy and joy after ketamine session
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. I felt a surprising burst of energy and joy after ketamine session number four. Saturday afternoon after my morning ketamine session, I spent hours in bed writing and working on my website and wasn’t tired or lethargic but relaxed and at ease. At 5 pm […]
What happened during my fourth ketamine for depression therapy session
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. During the guided meditation for intention-setting, the girl narrating said to hold your intention for how you want to be and experience life these next few months. To create an intention in the positive: “I allow myself to feel joy and happiness” vs. “I don’t […]
Psychedelic medicine podcasts, articles and apps I found useful
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. Once you start dipping into the psychedelic universe, every door opens unto another and you become hungry for more information. It’s overwhelming at times so i try not to subscribe to every single thing out there but rather look for what’s really speaking to […]
Why everything’s better off-the-beaten path in Costa Rica
I’m standing around outside of Oleaje Sereno restaurant waiting for the river taxi to Rincon Beach, a remote area that backs up to Corcovado National Park on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific Osa Peninsula. “Everybody knows it as Sierpe,” writes Samuel in WhatsApp, referring to the river taxi pick-up point. “It’s like two blocks long. (Laughing-smiling face.)” Samuel […]
What happened during my third ketamine session at home
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. During my third ketamine session at home, I went all kinds of places but this time⏤compared to my first ketamine session and my second⏤I stayed engaged and aware almost the entire hour-long session. I also put the medicine (ketamine) in my cheek this time to see if […]
Integrating my second ketamine session: Is anything happening?
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. Since my second ketamine session and days beyond, I’ve asked myself “Is anything happening?” As I read more about the dissociative effects of ketamine, I recognize that perhaps that blank blue canvas and having very few thoughts flashing in my mind was an example of […]
What my second ketamine therapy session was like
I got an early start at 7:30 am with a shower and by 8 am was arranging my room. Old hat by now. Just told my husband the gist of being a Peer Treatment Monitor (a/k/a “sitter”) and off I went with three yellow dissolvable tablets of ketamine under my tongue this time. 525 mg up from […]
Setting intention for my second ketamine session
Read Sober Psychonaut disclaimer for people in sobriety exploring psychedelic medicine. Tomorrow’s intention for my second ketamine session for depression. I have all of this: IDEATION ENERGY CURIOSITY INSPIRATION CREATIVITY …brewing. My intention is to have such CLARITY about what to do with: My psychedelic experience My writing My Costa Rica project My future. And […]