112. Epidemic of Fear: How Psychedelics Help Us Transcend Stuckness
Discover how psychedelics help retrain the nervous system to move from fear to flow. April Pride explores the roots of stuckness, the Hero’s Journey, and how microdosing and macrodosing support nervous system healing.
🔵 What You’ll Learn
- Why fear is the defining epidemic of our time—and how it paralyzes potential.
- How Traditional Chinese Medicine, neuroscience, and psychedelics all point to fear as stuck energy—and what to do about it.
- The biological mechanisms behind psychedelics’ ability to downregulate fear-based responses and support nervous system healing.
- Why flow, faith, and nervous system regulation are the antidotes to fear—and how SetSet’s integration-first approach mirrors the Hero’s Journey.
🔵 Key Takeaways
- Fear isn't the enemy—it's a threshold guardian. It signals that you’re close to a transformation.
- Psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, and LSD help retrain the nervous system, soften the amygdala, and create new associations.
- Microdosing is a nervous system rehearsal, teaching the body that “this cue is safe.” Over time, safety becomes a state, not a goal.
- Flow = faith in motion. It’s not about erasing fear—it’s about metabolizing it into freedom.
🔵 Resources
- April’s Substack series: Microdosing for Midlife
- SetSet Psychedelic Card Deck
Learn more about this episode: https://aprilpride.substack.com/p/epidemic-of-fear-psychedelics-stuckness
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