Jul 3, 2020
In 2017, Andrea Bird received her terminal diagnosis. In December of 2018, having no experience with it up to this point, she received underground psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to grapple with the challenge of dying. She is on the show for this episode to share her psilocybin story publicly for the first time.
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Episode Breakdown
- Receiving the terminal Diagnosis
- Deciding to take psilocybin during her dying process
- Learning to be a dying person
- The context of her first journey
- The story of her first journey
- What her first psilocybin journey taught her about how to die
- Learning to love yourself
- Integrating that first journey into life (and dying)
- The shadow winter
- What brought her into her second journey
- 'Saying to good to everyone I love'
- Dying of cancer during the pandemic
- A fierce training of living in the present moment
- Giving back the gift of life
- Andreas suggestions in preparing for psilocybin during your dying time
- The role of poetry in learning to die
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