🍄 Anniversaries of the Soul

Recently I've spoken with a couple clients who are around the one-year mark since a first psychedelic experience.

One just passed a year since her first MDMA journey. She took time to look back and reflect, and spoke about it with her parents on the day. We spoke about it too.

I asked her what the biggest lesson from them was. She told me that it was that life isn’t a race or a competition, but something to be enjoyed. Beautiful.

Another client is coming up on a year since her first psilocybin journey. I started working with her soon after the experience, when she was seeking integration support, so I’ve been lucky enough to witness and support her growth through it.

She quit her job. She took time off to process, reflect, and rebuild. She worked through The Artist’s Way. She re-entered the workforce in a more aligned role with clear ideas about priorities and boundaries. She's earning new qualifications and is about to facilitate her first in-person workshop.

She’s also built a personal mushroom practice that allows her to return to the wisdom of the mushroom, intentionally and safely, without having to travel back to the Netherlands for a retreat.

Now her one-year psilocybin anniversary is around the corner, she is looking to celebrate the occasion. I've found her journey to be inspiring. And I believe it's worthy of celebration.

The Year Mark

A year is a natural point to zoom out. To take that bird’s-eye view and notice how far you’ve come.

What’s taken root. What’s changed shape. And what might come next.

It’s also a time to celebrate. To remember that growth isn’t all grind. There’s meaning in marking things as special.

We celebrate anniversaries of birthdays and weddings. Why not the psychedelic journeys that changed us? Studies often show that people rank their psychedelic experiences among the most meaningful of their lives, right up there with births, deaths, and weddings. Those get anniversaries. So what about a rebirthday?

Countries mark anniversaries to celebrate their independence. Maybe we gained a certain type of freedom or a new constitution with our psychedelic experience.

A Decade After the First Trip

I don't recall the exact date of my first psychedelic experience, but I knew when it was roughly.

For me, my ten-year mark came a few years ago, around the time I was creating and launching The Conscious Psychedelic Explorer, my first online course offering. It felt like a fitting way to mark the occasion. And a way to revisit and share some of the lessons from my journeys.

But celebration doesn’t need to be grand. It just needs to be intentional. A way of saying: this mattered.

How You Could Celebrate

If you remember the date of a landmark experience, marking it can help with long-term integration.

Light a candle. Read your integration notes. Go for a walk and talk to a friend or the part of yourself that began that day.

If you can’t find the exact date, no problem. You can choose a day around the time to celebrate the version of you that stepped through the door.

Or start now: after your next experience, mark it on the calendar. Let it become an anchor point to revisit, once a year, just to see how things are unfolding.

Have you ever marked the anniversary of a psychedelic experience?Would you want to?

Hit reply, I’d love to hear how your journey continues.

📚 Microdose of Wisdom

“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.”
— Fabienne Fredrickson

🎵Psychedelic Supplements

A love-themed playlist from Mother Mary Myco:

"Recommend paired with headphones and some low-dose ketamine, cannabis, mdma, or a heart opener of your choice and taking yourself on a journey of self-discovery, acceptance and celebration"