The Mama Psychedelia Podcast
Mama Psychedelia is a platform to de-stigmatize the psychedelic nature of Parenthood. We celebrate stories of the role of ceremony, entheogenic allies, and the intuitive realms in every state of the parenting journey from pre-conception, postpartum, familial rites of healing and reconciliation, birth, death, and beyond. In each episode of the Mama Psychedelia podcast, we will explore and witness lived experiences of mothers, healers, birth keepers, and ceremonial facilitators. And in the process, open the space for the expansive transformation that these ways can bring in to any human life.This platform is a home for education, de-stigmatization, and enrichment through conversations that center intuition, ancestral guidance, and medicines of the earth. This is not a space to persuade, prescribe or preach.This is, however, a space for radicalism, sovereignty, and enlightening, thought-provoking discussion. One for storytelling, breaking taboos and to share personal truths that shed light on the magic & healing that can come through the childbearing continuum. My invitation while you listen to these stories is that you allow yourself to access your deepest inner knowing, and that you open yourself to connection with the ancestors that walked before us, and to collaborate with them in all you chose to do. My wish is you can recognize the unshakeable truth that exists within you. Please do what you wish with the insight I trust you will receive in every episode of Mama Psychedelia. We are not licensed medical or mental health professionals — nothing said here is medical advice. We don’t promote or advocate for the use of illegal substances; we simply wish to hold space for education, harm reduction, and medicine work that have long histories of use in cultures worldwide.
The Mama Psychedelia Podcast
15. Sound Bowls, Breakthroughs, & Babies -Taylor Valera
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Taylor Valera, “the sound bowl mom,” she’s a mother to two, her two year old son and newborn daughter. Along with being a mama, Taylor is a plant medicine advocate, sound bath practitioner and reiki master, who shared her wisdom on healing through her personal experience and guided thought. I love Taylor’s authentic vulnerability in this conversation, as well as her beautiful platform. In this discussion, Taylor touches on her own pregnancies, the joys and challenges, her spiritual journey with sound, reiki, herbs and plant medicine such as psilocybin and cannabis. We talk about ancestral healing on her mother line, the taboos of medicine work, her own experience of being a women of colour in the psychedelic space, along with so much more. Taylor shares how mushrooms have brought deeper presence into her parenting, and healing to her heart and her history. Taylor shares how her pregnancy unfolded from disconnection after a hurricane in New Orleans in her early pregnancy to deepened connection along the journey. We discuss Taylor’s vision of having a home birth with her second child, and although she ended up transferring for her birth, she had an incredible support system, and profound lessons of surrendering to what is came through, on the other side came a healthy babe and mama. Thank you Taylor for all that you shared with us.
Resources: Where you can find Taylor:
https://linktr.ee/soundbowlmom
IG: @soundbowlmom
https://www.instagram.com/soundbowlmom/
Mackenzie's offerings:
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw