My first psychedelic experience with Ayahuasca was healing | Dr. Andrea Pennington #PlantMedicine

I’m a recovering perfectionist. And I used to be a control freak, too. So it may be hard to imagine that going on a mystical journey with ayahuasca or magic mushrooms would be accepted by me, but…as you’ll see, it was a natural part of my life journey.

In 2007, While at a shamanic retreat in Sedona Arizona I heard that getting into a trance state, accessing the soul and the subconscious mind using plant medicine — Ayahuasca.

I had made such incredible strides personally and professionally and I was ready to open my heart to love — after enduring a few painful breakups. And the idea of diving deep into spiritual territory of my heart, soul and subconscious with the aid of this sacred plant in a sacred ceremony appealed to me.

I felt that I was ready to clean out the remaining blocks to love that remained.
I heard the call, but I was scared, I was not ready to give up the last bit of control I thought I had to a plant in the jungle.
But years later, in 2017 I heard the call again, this time while on a spiritual retreat in Peru, and I felt the time was right to try it.

This is an account of my first sacred ceremony with the plant medicine, Ayahuasca while on retreat in Peru.

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