From Teen LSD Trip to Transformational Therapy: Gay Lynn's Psychedelic Journey to Heal Others

What happens when a 16-year-old girl has a mystical LSD trip and becomes a pioneering psychedelic therapist in her 60s?

Meet Gay Lynn Williamson-Grigas, licensed mental health counselor, author, and trailblazer in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

In this moving and mind-expanding episode of UnLost Cause, Gay Lynn shares how a deeply personal experience she boxed up for decades eventually became the centerpiece of her life's work.

We touch upon dreams, rituals, legal psychedelics, and how this approach is helping patients, especially those with deep trauma, rewrite their stories.

This is a masterclass in listening to your intuition, honoring the path (even when it’s messy), and embracing reinvention at any age.

Highlights:

-Childhood roots: metaphysics, dreams, and the church

-Her first LSD trip... on her 16th birthday

-Writing poetry and her first integration mentor

-Set and setting: Why her trip was expansive, not scary -Boxing up the experience for decades

-College studies and humanistic psychology

-The power of rituals: burning bowls and planting new trees

-Dream therapy and preparing for her husband's death

-The resurgence of psychedelic research

-Ketamine therapy, MAPS training, and legal practices

-The triune pathway: dreams, rituals, psychedelics -Who benefits most from psychedelic-assisted therapy?

-Personal story of recovery from eating disorders -Why she wrote "Psychedelic Dreams & Rituals"

-Advice for aspiring encore entrepreneurs

Resources:

*Psychedelic Dreams & Rituals by Gay Lynn Williamson-Grigas https://amzn.to/45deB1y

*Website: https://gaylyn.net

*How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan https://amzn.to/45oxqiC

*Holotropic Breathwork by Stan Grof https://amzn.to/3H047uJ

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