This week, our very own podcast producer, Elle Knowlton, joins Lida at the mic to share her vulnerable sobriety story. After a traumatic event in 2019, Elle turned to alcohol as a means of self-soothing. More than a year of daily drinking later, she bravely asked her mom for help, who directed her to a local psychiatrist offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy treatments for mental health and addiction. She completed 6 treatments, spanning 3 months, and hasn't touched a drink since. Although an inherently miraculous tale, Elle paints a realistic picture of the positives and the negatives Ketamine inflicted: it shook her out of her rhythm and made sobriety feel possible (can't wait for you to hear one particular visual she experienced while under the medicine) but it also imposed a mild dissociation from her life - something that took months of integrations to shake.
Lida puts word to the profundity of watching Elle on this sobriety journey and the two amplify the Medicine + Psychedelic mantra of INTENTION around every aspect of the psychedelic experience.
This is a special one. Thank you for listening.
Checkout Elle's Podcast, to hear her sobriety story in depth:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sacred-vortex-podcast/id1602878134?i=1000547957039
https://open.spotify.com/episode/08gpUyRkJeHbDZMi4JRwrE?si=af0313b510ee4924
Connect with Dr. Fatemi:
Dr. Fatemi's upcoming retreat: Psilocybin Assisted Coaching
https://www.consciousphysician.org/get-started/p/psilocybin-assisted-coaching-retreat
