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Wanna join the Feminest book club? Of course you do. ;) Check out the link in bio post to learn more on how to join and check the events page on when the next book club is going to be!⠀
This month I'm covering How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by @michael.pollan. I was nervous to choose this book because well, it’s about psychedelics, and to promote it publicly may feel, unprofessional? I also feel like there’s such a stigma around psychedelics, but it’s a topic that has interested my partner and I (more on that in the future maybe) for a while so I wanted to give it a go.⠀
Another reason why I chose it was due to reading this quote from the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (in 2011) “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”⠀
Here’s my review in 3 takeaways:⠀
Takeaway #1 - Psychedelics have a profound effect on mental health ⠀
Study after study showed the amazing anecdotal effects that psychedelics had on mental health. ⠀
Takeaway #2 - Drugs are not all the same⠀
As a millennial I was raised with the D.A.R.E. program screaming “NO” as loud as I could for the police officer that came around every so often giving away small t-shirt wearing teddy bears. The program, needless to say didn’t educate (if it did, I can’t remember) on the differences in drugs and effects. Essentially from marijuana to crack cocaine they just all fried your brain...⠀
Click on that link or check out my stories for the 3rd!⠀
Pic taken in the magical lands of New Zealand where the amanita muscaria was growing around every corner #michaelpollan #howtochangeyourmind #magicmushrooms #amanitamuscaria

What are you afraid of? My top ones are probably #3 and #5.... There are only five basic fears, out of which almost all of our other so-called fears are manufactured. These are:
1. Extinction—the fear of annihilation, of ceasing to exist. This is a more fundamental way to express it than just calling it "fear of death." The idea of no longer being arouses a primary existential anxiety in all normal humans. Consider that panicky feeling you get when you look over the edge of a high building.
2. Mutilation—the fear of losing any part of our precious bodily structure; the thought of having our body's boundaries invaded, or of losing the integrity of any organ, body part, or natural function. Anxiety about animals, such as bugs, spiders, snakes, and other creepy things arises from fear of mutilation.
3. Loss of Autonomy—the fear of being immobilized, paralyzed, restricted, enveloped, overwhelmed, entrapped, imprisoned, smothered, or otherwise controlled by circumstances beyond our control. In physical form, it's commonly known as claustrophobia, but it also extends to our social interactions and relationships.
4. Separation—the fear of abandonment, rejection, and loss of connectedness; of becoming a non-person—not wanted, respected, or valued by anyone else. The "silent treatment," when imposed by a group, can have a devastating psychological effect on its target.
5. Ego-death—the fear of humiliation, shame, or any other mechanism of profound self-disapproval that threatens the loss of integrity of the Self; the fear of the shattering or disintegration of one's constructed sense of lovability, capability, and worthiness.
Credit: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brainsnacks/201203/the-only-5-fears-we-all-share

The #feminestbuilder Maggie of @parachuute is absolutely hilarious which always makes work, not work. She has built a carpool app that helps parents connect with each other to get their kids where they need to be. It was a fun new challenge to work in the tech arena and I'm so grateful to have worked (and still working) on it with her!⠀
"When I got Nikki involved I was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of things I was meant to be doing to build my business, whilst also feeling less positive about my ability to turn it into a viable enterprise. Nikki quickly understood my business through a combination of active listening and her own research. From there she provided suggestions on the areas to double down on vs scale back on. I felt all of these recommendation were practical and viable. This combined with the support she provided made me feel more in control and optimistic about the business. Time and money well spent!"⠀
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