I have been a mental health therapist for almost 10 years, and I have never seen anything more promising and more effective in treating mental health, than I have seen with plant medicines. My personal story: Psilocybin has changed my life forever. Before using this plant medicine, I was struggling with high amounts of anxiety and PTSD due to infertility and trauma from needing emergency surgery after an IVF procedure. My mom had recently been diagnosed with Cancer, and my parents were on the brink of divorce after 30, plus years of them working through my dad’s sex addiction. My world felt like it was falling apart, until one day my whole family was introduced to this medicine. Plant medicine literally saved my parents marriage, and finally gave my father TRUE sobriety from an addiction that had plagued him almost my whole life. Seeing the results with my parents I choose to try out these treatments, doing my first therapeutic plant medicine session with my parents, being able to do family therapy on these medicines has been so incredibly healing, I will never be able to express how grateful I am to have had those healing experiences. I also experienced my anxiety and panic completely go away. I have been able to find incredible peace along my fertility journey and also have found that my ability to cope with the hard things in life has become so much greater. How I handled my mother’s cancer diagnosis pre plant medicine compared to now, is significantly more emotionally healthy. I am now a mother, and I am eternally grateful for all of the healing I was able to experience before becoming a mother, as I can see how the more deeply I heal the better mother I am. Not only has my mental and emotional health significantly improved, but my physical and spiritual health has drastically improved. I used to suffer from endometriosis and debilitating periods for about 15 years of my life, and after plant medicine I no longer suffer with any symptoms of endometriosis, and no more painful periods! I feel so much sacred gratitude for how plant medicine has also allowed me to feel more connected to God and my own spirituality than I ever have in my life. This deeper connection to God, and myself, has also shown me how to love those around me more easily, how to show more compassion to humanity, and to strive for more unity in my communities. These spiritual experiences alone have been extremely healing to me. To be able to connect with myself, god and the earth has changed the way I go about my daily life. I find myself being more intentional, naturally weeding out unhealthy habits whether that is with food, TV or social media. Once I started to truly heal and feel connected to divine energies, something in my being was deeply shifted, and it’s almost as if my body and soul will no longer allow me to participate in activities that make it feel bad. Instead of forcing myself to break bad habits, it has become natural and easy to choose differently for myself. It reminds me of stories people share about having near death experiences, when they feel connected to something divine, they then come back more alive, and with a different perspective on life. Professional Story: I have had many clients who have shared with me their experiences with their own use of plant medicines, and I have seen clients with some of the most severe trauma imaginable, finally start to feel like a normal human being, for the first time in their lives. I have seen victims of trauma, become empowered again. I have seen people cure chronic physical conditions, such as chronic migraines. I have seen clients who feel hopeless, anxious, depressed, and even suicidal, be able to pick themselves back up in a way that is different from clients that do not use these modalities. Plant medicine seems to be able to make more permanent and long lasting changes, nothing like any treatment or pharmaceutical medication I have seen. It is my personal and professional plea, that these treatments be made legal and readily available. As a mental health professional this is the biggest hope I have felt for humanity to genuinely heal. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to my story, what you are doing right now and the decisions you are about to make will quite literally save lives.