RISE: Wisdom from a Son’s Death, Marriage, Music & 🪴 Medicine with Melissa Etheridge (Ep43)

Get ready to dive deep into a journey of love, deep grief, cancer, creativity and a life-altering experience involving cookies with music icon, Melissa Etheridge. If you’ve ever wondered how grief transforms into hope and a deeper love or how her music is created that touches the soul, this episode reveals it all. You’ll discover how Melissa’s accidental hero’s dose of cannabis sparked a spiritual awakening, revealing, in part, that peace isn’t the absence of chaos but embracing life’s contrast. She shares raw stories behind her latest album RISE, a powerful reflection of loss hope, and love, including her son Beckett’s tragic death from fentanyl. Her candid insights on love, healing, and the current research into using plant medicine to overcome addiction will challenge what you thought you knew about consciousness and the mind. She also dives deep into her groundbreaking work with The Etheridge Foundation, which funds various psychedelic research, from ibogaine to psilocybin, with the goal of defeating opioid addiction. In this episode: 👉Melissa’s new album "Rise" and her inspiration behind it 👉The spiritual insights gained from an accidental heroic dose of plant medicine, and how it changed her life 👉The story behind The Etheridge Foundation and its support of plant medicine research to overcome opioid addiction 👉What she has learned about love from her long-term relationships, and her current marriage 👉Lessons from profound loss of her son Beckett and her reflections on death and eternity 👉Her candid and powerful advice on living authentically despite rejection 👉How the power of love and self-acceptance can shift relationships and societal barriers 👉The science and hope around psychedelics like Ibogaine in combating opioid addiction MELISSA'S LINKS: Website | New Album, RISE | The Etheridge Foundation  SCOTT’S LINKS: Monday Meditation newsletter | Website | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok  MUSIC – Wilderado, “Surefire (piano)”