Category: Stress

Working with Suppressed Emotions

When we suppress our emotions, we don’t just push down our negative emotions but also our positive ones. Suppressing our emotions limits our ability to express ourselves fully in life, robbing us of joy, love…

Energy Needs to Flow

Everything is energy and when energy is stuck or inhibited, nothing flows. Thoughts and feelings can’t flow through and you feel energetically stagnant. That’s what my experience has been, at least. I have felt like…

How to stop automatic negative thoughts

Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) are negative thoughts that are rooted in beliefs, controlled by cognitive bias (being bias in your thinking) and can be linked to past experiences. They are automatic in that they become…

Microdosing: Day 20

Another day of malaise and struggling to find the motivation to do anything. Don’t get me wrong, this is nowhere near as bad as heavier depression where there is complete apathy and despair but still…

Microdosing: Day 17

I’m finding that the mind I had before is the mind I still have now, replete with the same well of future-focused anxiety and dread, but it’s wrapped in cotton. The blow is softened. It…

Microdosing: Day 16

Today I visited family and saw my young nephews. In the evening, we went to a car show, full of car enthusiasts (mostly men). I like to think that if today was a “bad” day,…

Microdosing: Day 13

I want to talk about some of the overarching themes (effects) that I’ve noticed about microdosing mushrooms Reduced Fear One of the surprising effects of microdosing psilocybin is a reduction in the fear response. The…

Microdosing: Day 12

Again, there’s no noticeable effect from taking the capsule in terms of feeling “high” but the mood stabilizing effects are there. In the past, where I might have felt overwhelmed or despair, these feelings do…