Life is a Festival — Life is a Festival

Festivals Create Lasting Transformation

Life is a Festival #128: Dr. Molly Crockett (Crockett Lab)

A new study from Yale University confirms what all always knew was true about the power of festivals.

Building an Ethical & Sustainable Healing Practice

Life is a Festival #127: Laura Mae Northrup (Radical Healership)

From psychedelic medicine to therapy to bodywork, how do we create a practice that is both ethical and sustainable?

In the Age of Fentanyl, Test Your Drugs!

Life is a Festival #120: Mitchell Gomez

If you love altering your consciousness, test your drugs and let’s end prohibition together.

Community, Death, Harm Reduction, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongMarch 3, 2022Harm Reduction, FentanylComment

How Conspiracy Thinking Hijacked the Psychedelic Community

Life is a Festival #118: Jules Evans

Over the past two years the optimistic spirituality of many within the psychedelic community has morphed into pessimism and paranoia.

Community, Critical Thinking, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, YogaEamon ArmstrongFebruary 4, 2022ConspiritualityComment

The Mycelial Way to Psychedelic Decriminalization

Life is a Festival #117: Matthew Duffy (SPORE)

Psychedelic decriminalization is on the move throughout the United States and Colorado is at its epicenter.

Community, Critical Thinking, Harm Reduction, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Race, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongJanuary 19, 2022decriminalizationComment

How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip

Life is a Festival #113: Solocast

My experience offering psychedelic peer support in the wild.

Mental Wellness, Community, Harm Reduction, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, SolocastEamon ArmstrongNovember 17, 2021Solocast, harm reduction, trip sittingComment

A Superhero Team of Indigenous Elders

Life is a Festival #110: Vivien Vilela & Rudy Randa (Aniwa Gathering)

From Benki Piyãko to the mysterious Mamos of the Sierra Nevadas, Aniwa is a platform for Indigenous Wisdom.

Community, Leadership, Green, Mentorship, Psychedelics, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongOctober 1, 2021Aniwa, Indigenous EldersComment

Healing Veterans with Plant Medicine

Life is a Festival #108: Jesse Gould (Heroic Hearts)

With the rapid fall of Afghanistan, veterans in our communities need our care and support now more than ever.

Community, Leadership, Mental Wellness, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongSeptember 1, 2021Ayahuasca, PTSDComment

Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond

Life is a Festival #107: Sutton King (Journey Colab)

What is our responsibility for kinship and reciprocity as we explore the healing power of plant medicine?

Community, Race, Leadership, Business, Mental Wellness, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongAugust 20, 2021Journey Colab, Indigeneity, EthicsComment

Ayahuasca for Healing Ancestral Racial Trauma

Life is a Festival #105: Tony Moss

A mighty deep dive on Ayahuasca healing for post traumatic slave syndrome.

An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture

Life is a Festival #104: Jamie Wheal

Jamie’s new book "Recapture the Rapture," is your invitation to the sexual yoga of becoming a homegrown human.

Autism on Acid

Life is a Festival #101: Aaron Orsini

Aaron Orsini has leveraged his own experimentation of self to become a masterful steward of a vibrant community for nuerodivergent people.

Leadership, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Harm ReductionEamon ArmstrongMay 7, 2021AutismComment

Love All Your Parts

Life is a Festival #99: Richard Schwartz

Does your inner world sometimes feels like a squabbling family, always reacting to the outside experience and to itself? You’re not alone. In fact there’s an entire style of therapy that specifically seeks to bring harmony to our Internal Family Systems.