At that point, I’d been jogging on my own and after the journey, I signed up for a half marathon, and then the full marathon training program. I went on to run a marathon, applied for grad school and now have a master’s degree. I also found ceramics shortly after my journey and have been deeply involved in my work with clay ever since.
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All the while, the motto “ascend to your highest self” kept playing in my mind. It was like I believed in myself more deeply than I ever had done before. I went back to school after 16 years and made my research project about ayahuasca so I could study it and learn more. Now I’m training to become a therapist so I can legally do psychedelic assisted therapy with others.
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I may have been able to achieve these things without ayahuasca. However, I feel it changed the trajectory of my life course. Aya gave me energy to meet huge challenges and the innate knowledge that if I worked hard enough at something, I could achieve it. My insecurities took a backseat for once in my life.
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The thing I not did not expect from all of this, was the art. The creativity. After the ceremony, I felt like I had this art inside of me that needed to come out. I didn’t know how because I wasn’t in a creative space at that time. My hobby has been mycology. I happened to come across an ad for a six-week ceramics class at a local studio. I joined and started making altars and wall hangings inspired by my visions when I sat with medicine. I still do this now six years later!!!
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Thank you for the opportunity to share my story.