With so much attention focused on the potential of psychedelic substances to heal trauma, there’s now increasing interest in how these medicines may also be effective in healing intergenerational trauma – trauma that is passed from one family generation to another

If that’s possible, how could the personal healing that individuals experience with psychedelics then potentially benefit our extended families and our greater communities?

These are some of the questions we explore with Susan Beaulieu, an Anishinaabe citizen of the Red Lake Nation whose own healing experience with psychedelics is now positively affecting her immediate family, and her larger Indigenous community.

In this episode, we consider some interesting questions, including:

• What is embodied knowing? What is the difference between understanding something intellectually and having an experience that lives in your body and informs how you think and act?
• Can trauma pass intergenerationally – through epigenetics and other factors, and could we be carrying around unresolved trauma from our ancestors that is affecting us in the present day (without even knowing it)?
• How could psychedelics play a role in the healing of trauma inherited from the residential school system and other atrocities inflicted on Indigenous People?
• How using psychedelics in groups could be especially useful for healing within in Indigenous communities in North America.
• The unique challenges Indigenous people face as they work to heal trauma with psychedelics and other modalities WHILE honoring their cultural lineage and treasured traditions of the past
• What we can learn from Indigenous cultures as they heal intergenerational trauma that may hold the key to bringing together disparate groups within the larger psychedelic community to help us collaborate to move the psychedelic renaissance forward

This episode covers some inspiring possibilities regarding the use of psychedelics to heal people, their families, and larger communities.

Meet Our Guest

To learn more about Susan Beaulieu and her work - go here: https://www.celebratingwomeninpsychedelics.com/guests/susan-beaulieu

To contact Susan directly email her at beau0181@umn.edu

Follow Susan Beaulieu on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-beaulieu-361a5b6

Susan is also the creator and host of an inspiring podcast focused on Native American resilience through and beyond trauma, entitled "Remembering Resilience": https://rememberingresilience.home.blog/

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