238: Body: Psychedelics as a Tool for Healing with Angela Ward

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we’re going to be exploring a tool and a mechanism for healing t</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">hat,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for a very long time, was suppressed because of societal messaging. And that tool is psychedelic-assisted healing.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is an arena that has the opportunity to be flooded with funding and research. For a long time, we as humans have been connected to various forms of plant medicine and various Indigenous groups have made the use of psychedelics an important part of ceremonial healing.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So today, we’re going to break down some of the science, some of the legal avenues that people have to be able to explore, leverage, and utilize psychedelics to accentuate and expedite their healing.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leading us through this conversation today is my friend and colleague, Angela Ward! As a Registered Nurse, Transformational Coach, and “Soul Midwife,” Angela helps move people through a healing journey by leveraging psychedelics. She helps facilitate the coming together of the medical side, the spiritual side, and the psychotropic side of psychedelics as a tool for healing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Though this might be a method of healing you are not interested in trying out for yourself, I invite you to listen to this episode, regardless! I want you to go into this episode with an open mind and think outside the box of how things have always been done.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[1:22] About today’s conversation with Angela Ward.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:13] Welcoming Angela to the podcast!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:40] Angela shares her career journey and how she became interested in working with psychedelics