🍄 The Let Me Theory

Hi Reader,

After last week’s Let Them newsletter, a few of you wrote back and let me know that the idea resonated with you.

The idea was simple but deep: Let other people make their choices and live their lives, and stop making it your job or responsibility to manage or control what they are doing.

I mentioned the book that inspired the newsletter, The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. Turns out the book is actually in two parts.

Let Them, and... Let Me.

Let Them is about letting go of control, of other people’s reactions, judgments, and expectations.

Let Me is the other side of the coin.

It’s about giving ourselves the same grace.

It is about allowing yourself to live freely too. Regardless of how others in the world see you. Regardless of what judgements or reactions may come about.
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Let me change my mind.
Let me be excited about something no one else understands.
Let me want different things from other people.
Let me still not have it all figured out.
Let me follow the thread of a dream.
Let me be who I am.

From trying to avoid disappointing others… to remembering what actually matters to you.

Remembering that truly and deeply, you’ve only got to answer to yourself.

As they say: Live and Let Live.

Psychedelics have a way of showing us who we really are underneath all the noise. What's truly important to us. And part of the challenge of integration can be to stay true, and live true to ourselves and our experiences.

Because sometimes the greatest freedom comes not from what others allow of you, but what you allow in yourself.

Simple, not always easy.

It’s another echo of the psychedelic lesson of letting go.

Let go of trying to manage how others see you.
Let go of trying to be everything for everyone.
Let yourself be what you are.

So this week, I ask:

What if you allowed yourself to really be what you are, and where you are on your journey? Full self-acceptance, warts and all? What difference would it make?

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If this stirred something, I’d love to hear. Hit reply and tell me:

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🎵Psychedelic Supplements

Synchronously came across this song this morning, here's some lyrics:
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​“Don’t spent your whole life
tryin’ to be what you ain’t.
Can’t hide your heart
With a new coat of paint.
You think they’ll accept you;
I promise they can’t.
So just be who you are,
And fuck what they think.”​
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Fuck What They Think Strung Like a Horse PREVIEW   ​

And another Ketamine playlist from Polaris Insight Center:

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and some top riffs n rhythms​

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❤️ Love and mettā,

John

John Robertson​
​Psychedelic Facilitator & Educator​
​Maps of the Mind​
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​Named Webdelics' Top 100 Psychedelic Thought Leaders and Content Creators​ 2025

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