11 - The Potential of Psychedelics for Healing Within Eating Disorders

Content Warning: Eating disorders (including bulimia and anorexia), hospitalization, body image trauma, and sexual assault  Dr. T and The Truth Fairy welcome two guests to the show - BC, a guest of Dr. T, and Nightingale, mentee of Truth Fairy - to discuss the complexities of eating disorders and the host of possibilities psychedelic medicines can offer in terms of healing pathways. The Truth Fairy, BC, and Nightingale each share their own very frank and personal journeys with eating disorders or “complex or developmental trauma” as Truth Fairy prefers to call them. They fearlessly detail their own struggles, the roots of the traumas and mental illnesses they’ve uncovered, and the ways in which different therapeutic modalities gave them each insight. The discussion touches on addiction, rebellion from patriarchal structures, developmental trauma, and biology as the group unravel the enormity of disordered eating and all the struggles such illness embodies. They share which particular medicines they have found successes through but also address that recovery is a long journey and requires a multi-disciplinary team of carers to facilitate. Their final words for listeners are ones of encouragement for anyone the conversation personally affects. “You know, often we sort of think about recovery as a destination and we have to get there like a highway. And I often sort of stop and think about how recovery, to me, it's like a windy road. And it's like, you know, going for a country drive and sometimes you might stop and have to take a break and pause for a moment. And then you get back on that road and it's windy, it's hilly, it's up and down. And as long as you're always just moving forward, that's what recovery is.” -  BC---Punk Therapy: website |email Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.