Hosted by psychotherapist and author Laura Mae Northrup, MFT, Inside Eyes focuses on the use of psychedelics and entheogens to heal from sexual trauma. Season one is several in-depth interviews with survivors about their experiences healing within expanded states. Season two provides harm-reduction based information on how to create safer experiences healing in an expanded states. This show looks at healing and trauma through a spiritual and political lens.
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Final Thoughts and the End to the Season
This is the final episode in the season. Thank you all for listening in! If you enjoyed the season, please rate it on whatever podcasting app you use.
I will be hostin
Jun 2 22 min
Suicide and Sexual Violence
This episode is about the prevalance of suicidal ideation among survivors of sexual violence. It includes a personal story and tips for things you might do if you are fee
May 26 28 min
Tenderness
Survivors are often hard on themselves. This episode is a simple 17 point list of reminders about your humanity and the process you are in. You can listen to this episode
May 19 12 min
Solo Journeys and Peer Support
This episode is a long one and I suggest taking notes! Some of you may be considering doing expanded state work with entheogens or psychedelics on your own or with an unt
May 12 59 min
Being a Facilitator for Expanded States of Consciousness
The episode is for guides and facilitators who are already practicing or who are considering starting to offer healing work with psychedelics or entheogens. However it is
May 5 28 min
Guides and Facilitators
This episode is about choosing a facilitator or guide to support you with healing sexual trauma by entering an expanded state of consciousness. The episode is also a bit
Apr 28 58 min
Guided Meditation
This episode is a short guided meditation. If you want more info on why I have it in the season, you can go back to episodes 5 and 6 on journey preparation, and more spec
Apr 21 15 min
Integration for Healing Sexual Trauma
The title says it all! This episode explores different aspects of integration for healing with psychedelics and entheogens, when the expressed goal is working on sexual t
Apr 21 47 min
Community and Isolation
Isolation and struggles with accessing supportive community are issues many people face in the world today, but survivors of sexual violence can face this in unique ways.
Apr 14 29 min
The Divine is Unbreakable
This episode speaks to spiritual issues around surviving violence and working toward transformation.
I will be hosting some online, live, free Q&A sessions about the s
Apr 7 29 min
Journey Preparation Part Two: Surrender, Mythopoetic Language, and Somatic Theory
This is part two of two episodes focused on preparing for healing sexual trauma with entheogens and psychedelics. It is also useful for people who are doing expanded stat
Mar 31 36 min
Journey Preparation Part One: Theoretical Outline, Meditation, and Journaling
This is part one of two episodes focused on preparing for healing sexual trauma with entheogens and psychedelics. It is also useful for people who are doing expanded stat
Mar 24 46 min
Suffering with Meaning: Healing and Expanded States of Consciousness
The title says it all! This episode is focused on understanding what type of suffering is meaningful and why that matters, both in sober states and expanded ones.
I wi
Mar 17 27 min
Feelings
In this episode I break down theory about FEELINGS! I explain how the "processing" of feelings happens, why this is critical information for survivors of sexual violence
Mar 10 38 min
Eros, Sexual Violence, Political Liberation
In season one I talked about sexual violence as a form of spiritual abuse and I have recieved many questions about that over the last 6 years, so I decided to do a deeper
Mar 10 21 min
Welcome, Magic
Welcome back people! The new season of Inside Eyes starts today, with 16 episodes of in-depth information about the use of psychedelics and entheogens to heal sexual trau
Mar 10 18 min
Inside Eyes Season 2 is on the way!
Inside Eyes is back with 16 new episodes! And I am almost ready to share it with you, but we need to finish raising $3500 to pay the audio engineer by the end of November
Nov 11 2025 3 min
Anniversary Episode: Practicing Ritual with Shanna Butler
For the one year anniversary of Inside Eyes Laura interviews Dr. Shanna Butler, a psychologist, professor, and ketamine therapist about the creation of ritual and ways to
Jul 29 2020 1 h 09 min
Bonus Episode: Back From The Abyss
This episode is part of a show swap with the podcast Back From The Abyss. BFTA is a series about psychiatric healing hosted by Dr. Craig Heacock. There are a lot of paral
Jul 29 2020 1 h 07 min
Dynamics of Sexual Harm in Psychedelic & Entheogenic Spaces
Community that forms around the healing use of entheogens and psychedelics is not without it's own instances of sexual harm. In the final episode of the season, Laura Ma
Nov 11 2019 44 min
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A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.
Laura Mae Northrup presences herself in a way that welcomes the listener in. She demonstrates ethical awareness, trauma informed care practices, clinical and soul-full knowledge on important subjects surrounding healing trauma (sexual and more) and the ethical considerations needed to be spoken to in psychedelic care work. I’m a deeply grateful for the hard work, thoughtfulness, love and professionalism she has put into this. This will be a staple u will share with fellow colleagues, students, clients and friends! Deep gratitude Laura Mae! 🌿🙏🩵
Cheetah Gina · Apr 2026
I love this podcast. As someone on a deep exploratory journey with medicines, I’m getting so much from hearing about others journeys. These brave people and the skillful host are making a difference in my life. I hope new episodes are coming as they are so well done.
KM98654 · Apr 2024
This podcast is so thoughtful and full of care. It gives the gift of heightened awareness to phenomena that most people would never be able to learn about without a trusted guide, like this podcast. All of the episodes are worth listening to, and I greatly appreciated the variety of voices. The most surprising effect of listening to this podcast is what I would call an expansion in my capacity for empathy. Hearing all of the different stories and experiences in these interviews really opened my eyes and heart, and newly illuminated the world for me.
Every episode is worthwhile · Feb 2024
Could feel so much care and upholding of the dignity of all the interviewees. Appreciated how the host held the complexity of folks having been both abused and abusive. Thank you for your work
osmosisbob · Dec 2023
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