Psycho-Spiritual Education · Integration Support
The Core
Program
Education on the psycho-spiritual exploration of mental health — guided by a psychiatric nurse practitioner with extensive experience in trauma-informed care.
The 12-Week Premium Program offers self-guided prompts to explore depth. 1:1 coaching helps you go deeper. Weekly group coaching follows the 12 weeks together as a cohort.
How It Works
A structured path
from learning to living
Education on the psycho-spiritual dimensions of mental health, structured in three stages — each building on the last. Move at your own pace.
Learn
Self-Guided Learning
Explore the guidebook chapters and 12-week self-guided prompts to deepen your understanding of the psycho-spiritual dimensions of mental health.
Understand
Protocols & Practices
Review integration protocols, preparation frameworks, and microdose calendars to understand the structured approach to this work.
Apply
Homework & Tools
Use daily journals, check-ins, cycle tracking, and reflection prompts to integrate what you learn into daily life.
Two ways to go deeper: The 12-Week Premium Program helps you explore depth on your own through self-guided prompts. When you're ready to go further, 1:1 coaching with Julie provides personalized guidance — and the weekly group coaching (join the waitlist) follows the curriculum together as a cohort.
The Four Steps of the Program
A clear path
from intention to integration
The program unfolds in four steps — each one preparing you for the next. Move through them in order, returning to each as often as you need. Tap a step to explore it.
Begin by clarifying what you are reaching for — and what stands in the way. The intention is the compass that orients every step that follows.
Name your intention — what are you seeking, and why now?
Identify the barriers and blocks you carry — emotional, physical, relational, or spiritual.
Reflect honestly on what you hope to release, receive, or understand.
Protocol Information
Education on Psychedelic Microdose Protocols
Understanding
the protocols
This program is, first and foremost, a mental health and integration program. It does not require microdosing. The protocols below are offered as education only — a supplemental tool you may use with or without microdosing to help integrate experiences after retreats, travel, ceremony, or any life-opening moment.
Psilocybin is only legal in certain states, and regulations vary across states and countries. New Mexico is adopting a medical model to support psilocybin use for certain conditions. You are responsible for understanding and complying with the laws in your jurisdiction before considering any practice described here.
Microdosing involves taking a tiny fraction — usually 5–10% — of a standard dose to boost mood, focus, or creativity without hallucinogenic effects. It is a subtle, intentional practice oriented toward integration rather than transformation.
A popular 3-day cycle where you take a dose on Day 1, rest on Day 2, and rest on Day 3 before beginning again. Dosage is typically 0.1 g to 0.3 g (100–300 mg) of dried Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms. Cycles are followed for 4–8 weeks, followed by a 2–4 week "reset" break to prevent tolerance buildup.
4 days on, 3 days off. Often combined with Lion's Mane (500–2000 mg) to improve neural transmission and Niacin (100–200 mg) to improve delivery and vascular uptake, for enhanced cognitive support.
Psilocybin significantly interacts with SSRIs, SNRIs, lithium, and antipsychotics. It should be avoided by individuals with a personal or family history of psychosis or severe cardiovascular conditions. Always disclose all medications to your provider before beginning.
Psilocybin remains a Schedule I controlled substance at the federal level in the United States and is only legal in certain states, each with its own regulated medical or supervised-use model. New Mexico is adopting a medical model to support psilocybin access for certain conditions. Always check your local and state laws before obtaining or using any psychedelic substance. Participants are responsible for understanding and complying with the laws in their location.
A comfortable, secure physical environment ("setting") and your emotional readiness and intention ("set") are widely considered essential for a safe experience. This program helps you cultivate both through weekly group work, journaling, and mindfulness practice.
Cultural & Historical Context
Psilocybin in Native American
Traditions & Healing
Psilocybin has been utilized for thousands of years by Indigenous communities — particularly in Mesoamerica (Mazatec, Aztec, and Maya) — as sacred "spirit medicines" to heal the mind, body, and spirit. Far beyond modern clinical symptom management, these traditions view mushrooms as living, sentient entities that require deep reverence.
Feminine Wisdom
Cycling with the Menstrual Cycle
— The Luteal Phase
An emerging body of research and practitioner experience suggests that timing psilocybin use — including microdosing — in alignment with the menstrual cycle can significantly enhance outcomes for women navigating PMDD, perimenopausal mood disruption, and premenstrual anxiety.
Menstrual
Days 1–5
Contested — see cultural note below
Follicular
Days 6–13
Prep & integration
Ovulatory
Days 14–16
Avoid ceremony
Luteal
Days 17–28
Micro early; avoid late
This information is provided for educational and cultural context only. Psilocybin remains a federally controlled substance in the US. Always consult your healthcare provider before considering any plant medicine modality.
Learn
Ways to heal
Explore the science, traditions, and practices that support mental healing and the transformative power of plant medicines.
Hormonal wisdom, cyclical mental health, and grounding practices to support your inner landscape.
Feminine Wisdom
Expansion & Contraction:
the cyclical self
The feminine psyche does not move in straight lines. It breathes — expanding outward into the world and then contracting inward toward the self. Every month, every season, every decade of a woman's life follows this same sacred rhythm. To honour this is not mysticism — it is physiology, psychology, and profound self-knowledge woven together.
Across cultures and throughout time, women's wellbeing has been understood through the lens of the great archetypes: Maiden, Mother, Mage, Sage, and Crone. These are not merely metaphors. They map directly onto the hormonal phases of the monthly cycle — and onto the larger arc of a woman's life, from first blood through menopause and elder wisdom. Mental health, for women, is inseparable from understanding and honoring this rhythm.
Maiden
Rising Estrogen
Expansion, possibility, curiosity. The self emerges fresh — open to learning, beginning, becoming. Psychologically, this is the phase of initiation and outward movement.
Mother
Estrogen Peak
Full bloom — magnetism, generosity, creative power. The capacity to give, hold, and nourish is at its height. Socially radiant, energetically expansive, ready to serve and be seen.
Mage
Progesterone Rises
The inward turn begins. Heightened perception, pattern recognition, and truth-telling. The veil thins. What no longer serves becomes undeniable. Boundaries clarify, shadows surface.
Sage / Crone
Estrogen & Progesterone at Nadir
Contraction, stillness, and the wisdom of endings. The veil between worlds is thinnest. Dreams speak clearly. What is essential survives; what is not falls away. This is the death before renewal.
The Rhythm Beneath
Expansion & contraction
as mental health
Modern culture pathologizes the contractive phases. The withdrawal of the late luteal. The stillness of menstruation. The turning inward of midlife. But these are not failures of the system — they are the system working exactly as it should.
Healthy feminine psychology requires both movements: the outward reach of the follicular and ovulatory phases, and the inward descent of the luteal and menstrual. When we resist the contraction — through busyness, numbing, or cultural pressure to stay "on" — we accumulate what the body is trying to process. Depression, anxiety, and burnout are often the cost of a woman living exclusively in expansion.
Perimenopause amplifies this. As hormonal cycling becomes irregular and eventually ceases, a woman is initiated into a permanent turn inward — the passage from Mage into Sage and Crone. This is not loss. It is the deepest wisdom the feminine carries: the knowledge that what endures is found in stillness.
The Science
Estrogen, Glutamate
& Psychedelic Intensity
Understanding the hormonal cycle is not optional for women working with psychedelic medicines — it is essential. Estrogen directly modulates the brain's sensitivity to serotonergic compounds, and the mechanism is now well-understood.
How Estrogen Amplifies the Experience
Estrogen upregulates NMDA glutamate receptors in the prefrontal cortex and limbic system — the very regions most activated by psychedelic compounds. As estrogen rises through the follicular phase and peaks at ovulation, the brain's glutamatergic tone increases significantly.
Classic psychedelics (psilocybin, LSD, mescaline) work primarily via the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor. Estrogen enhances the density and sensitivity of these receptors — meaning the same dose at peak estrogen will produce a noticeably more intense experience than the same dose during menstruation, when estrogen is at its lowest.
This is not anecdote — it is receptor pharmacology. For women, cycle-aware dosing is precision medicine.
Menstruation: Powerful, Not Ceremonially Safe
The menstrual phase is often described in plant medicine traditions as the time when the veil between worlds is thinnest — and the science supports this phenomenology. With estrogen and progesterone both at their nadir, the brain's usual filtering and buffering mechanisms are reduced.
This creates profound openness — and profound vulnerability. Gentle microdosing during menstruation is supported: the sub-perceptual doses align with the body's inward, contemplative orientation, supporting emotional depth without overwhelm.
Ceremonial-level doses are not recommended during this phase. The hormonal scaffolding that supports safe integration — the estrogen and progesterone that buffer emotional intensity and stabilize the nervous system — is simply not present. The openness of menstruation deserves to be held, not exploited.
Cycle-Aware Guidance
Follicular
Maiden
Rising Estrogen
Estrogen rising — glutamate activity increasing. Heightened neuroplasticity. Microdosing supports emerging clarity and integration of new patterns.
Ovulation
Mother
Peak Estrogen
Estrogen peak — glutamate at its highest. Psychedelic experiences will be significantly amplified. Set, setting, and preparation are critical. Powerful for intentional ceremony with experienced support.
Luteal
Mage
Falling Estrogen
Estrogen falling, progesterone dominant. Perceptions sharpen and shadows surface. Microdosing may support emotional processing; full doses require careful discernment.
Menstrual
Crone
Nadir Estrogen
Estrogen and progesterone at their lowest. The veil is thin and the system is vulnerable. Gentle microdosing may support introspective depth. Ceremonial doses are not recommended — the openness of this phase, while profound, lacks the hormonal scaffolding to safely hold a full experience.
This guidance is educational and reflects emerging research and traditional wisdom. Psilocybin and mescaline are Schedule I substances in the United States. Always work within legal frameworks and with qualified preparation and integration support.
Healing Practice
The Power of Gardening to Heal
Gardening is a profound practice of reconnection — with the earth, the seasons, and ourselves. It offers a tangible way to slow down, nurture growth, and witness cycles of renewal. Whether you're planting seeds, tending soil, or simply sitting among growing things, gardening invites presence, patience, and a deepening trust in natural rhythms.
In the context of midlife transition, gardening becomes a metaphor and a lived experience — a way of understanding that growth requires both tending and release, that seasons change, and that what we nurture blooms in its own time.
Plant Medicine
San Pedro &
Libido Support
San Pedro (Huachuma) is a sacred Andean cactus whose primary active compound, mescaline, activates serotonin 5-HT2A receptors and opens the heart center in a way few other medicines can. Beyond its well-known emotional and spiritual effects, San Pedro has meaningful implications for libido and sexual reconnection — particularly for women in hormonal transition who have experienced a disconnection from desire, sensation, and embodied pleasure.
Reconnection to the Body
Perimenopause can create a felt sense of estrangement from one's own body. San Pedro's heart-opening, sensory-heightening quality helps women reconnect with physical sensation — often reawakening an awareness of desire that felt absent, not gone.
Releasing Shame & Conditioning
Many women carry decades of cultural and emotional conditioning around sexuality and pleasure. Ceremony with San Pedro can gently dissolve these layers, creating space for a more open and authentic relationship with sensuality.
Oxytocin & Bonding
San Pedro promotes a profound sense of love, connectedness, and warmth — qualities that map directly onto the neurochemistry of intimacy. This can deepen relational trust and reignite emotional bonding with a partner.
Nervous System Regulation
A dysregulated, cortisol-dominant nervous system is one of the primary suppressors of libido. San Pedro's ability to reduce anxiety and shift the nervous system toward a parasympathetic, rest-and-receive state creates the physiological conditions in which desire can re-emerge.
Integration & Intention
As with all plant medicine work, intention and integration are essential. Working with a trained facilitator in a safe ceremonial container, followed by reflective practices (journaling, somatic work, therapy), is the recommended approach for lasting transformation.
IMPORTANT NOTE: San Pedro contains mescaline and is a controlled substance in many jurisdictions. This information is provided for educational purposes only. Always consult your healthcare provider and work within the legal context of your location. Plant medicine ceremonies should be conducted with a trained, experienced facilitator in a safe, supportive setting.
Complementary Program
The 21-Day
Reset Plan
A foundational program to support nervous system reset and hormonal stabilization. Begin here before or alongside the 12-week integration program.
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$275/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
- —Monthly 1:1 visits with Julie
- —Weekly group coaching (waitlist)
- —Guided integration protocols
- —Daily mindfulness practices
- —Community access
Best Value
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$2,600/yr
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- —Everything in Monthly
- —Unlimited access to all learning materials
- —Monthly 1:1 visits with Julie
- —Weekly group coaching (waitlist)
- —Priority scheduling
Weekly Group Coaching: Included with Monthly and Annual plans. The cohort moves through the 12-Week Premium Program together — join the waitlist to secure your spot in the next group.
Join the WaitlistThis app is for educational purposes only and does not replace therapy or guidance from a licensed provider. Evaluations for medical needs can be added for residents of New Mexico and New York only.
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The 12-Week Premium Program, member tools, and community sections are available exclusively to enrolled members. Sign in to access your full program, or subscribe to begin.
This app is for educational purposes only and does not replace therapy, medical advice, or guidance from a licensed provider. The content here offers a framework for psycho-spiritual exploration of mental health — not diagnosis or treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact your provider or call 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). Always consult a qualified professional before making decisions about your mental health care.