Aliveness, Psychedelics, and Being Midwives of the Next World

If you ever feel like the world is just too much, like you’re ‘all over the place’, heavy, or lonely, there is one thing you absolutely should know- you are not alone in that feeling.

Dr. Maya Shetreat recognized early on in her career as an MD just how many people were walking around feeling disconnected to themselves, their bodies, and the world around them resulting in physical, emotional, and spiritual pain. She knew treating the physical body was not the whole picture- we must treat the spiritual as well.

Maya Shetreat, MD is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure. She founded the Terrain Institute to combine her knowledge and invite every one of us to join her on a journey to help better understand why we’re here in this lifetime, to learn how to embrace the “weird” parts of ourselves, and to develop a healing connection to the Earth.

In our conversation together, we talk about what it feels like to make decisions that don’t honor ourselves. Specifically how that affects us, what psychedelics can teach us about navigating the unknown, and the definitions and details of plant medicine – microdosing and other healing practices.

To learn more about Dr. Maya and the Terrain Institute visit drmaya.com | SHEtreat and follow her on Facebook and Instagram @ drmayashetreat.

New Summit March 7th: Heal Trauma and Build Resilience

Dr. Maya Shetreat, works and studies with indigenous communities and healers from around the world and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing and the sacred.

Like many of us, she grew up learning that mushrooms and psychedelics were dangerous. But when she started learning with her teacher in Ecuador, she began to understand that these are foods and medicines that have existed since long before humans and that there is deep healing associated with them. She immersed herself in the science, and as she saw very sick and stuck patients improve profoundly, she knew she had to share these medicines with the world.

She’s here to help you by sharing what she’s learned. Click HERE to register.

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Dr. Maya Shetreat

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Maya Shetreat, MD is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more.

Dr. Maya is the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she teaches Terrain Medicine™, earth-based programs for transformational healing. She works and studies with indigenous communities and healers from around the world, and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred.

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Michael Roesslein:

And we’re live. I am here with my friend Dr. Maya Shetreat. Welcome.

Dr. Maya Shetreat:

Oh, thank you. I’m so happy to be here.

Michael Roesslein:

It’s always super fun whenever we have a reason to chat and talk and record and talk about fun things. Today, I don’t know when this is going to air exactly, but just finished recording and putting together your upcoming event, which we’ll talk about at the end of this on mushrooms and psychedelics, and congratulations on that. I know what goes into producing those events.

Dr. Maya Shetreat:

Thank you so much. Yeah, it’s been a journey.

Michael Roesslein:

Yes, I’m sure. That’s a larger scale than any of the summit events that I’ve done, so I envy and don’t envy you at the same time. But I’m sure it was fun, and I’m looking forward to seeing it and sharing it. Before we get started, sometimes when I talk to my good friends, I realize that not everybody listening knows as much about each other as we do. So I’ll introduce Dr. Maya Shetreat is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more. She’s also the founder of the Terrain Institute where she teaches terrain medicine, earth-based programs for transformational healing.

Dr. Maya works in studies with indigenous communities and healers from around the world and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred, which I believe we’re going to get into a little bit today. So that’s quite the evolution from neurologist MD to ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred. Were plants and plant medicine, plants as medicine, and nature as medicine always part of your life, and then you just automatically infused that into medicine as an MD? Or did that come on after you became a doctor? I’ve never asked you this.

Dr. Maya Shetreat:

Well, I think as a little I was… No is the answer. I was definitely not. I didn’t have a mom who gave me remedies and things like that. I had lots of ear infections as a little kid. I had to drink my big glass of milk before bed every night. I took a lot of Dimetapp and a million antibiotics. I’ve got tubes in my ears. We were not, as the 70s, nobody was, like in my house, was talking about any kind of alternative or holistic or traditional healing.

And my dad who came from an indigenous background in Morocco could not have wanted to be less connected with that. Like many immigrants, he was much more interested in being an American and fitting in and like nothing that he kind of came from. He came from a family where his mom was married at nine years old and had her first baby at 12, and had 14 or 15 children, 11 of whom survived. And some really intense stories about living in refugee camps when they had to leave and so on and so forth and really, really very intense by background, which is why I can understand-

Michael Roesslein:

I understand why someone might want to leave most of that behind.

Dr. Maya Shetreat:

Yeah, absolutely. So I though was an only child and I used to-

Michael Roesslein:

Me too. High five.

Dr. Maya Shetreat:

It’s a whole thing to be an only child, but I used to have to entertain myself. So I did lots and lots and lots and lots of reading. So I kind of initiated myself into a lot of things through my reading and my home environment was not the happiest. So I had a lot of kind of time in escapism. I also used to go and play in nature by myself. So there was a creek near me and I used to go and make little, what I did not realize at the time, but make little potions and make altars and all kinds of things there, but had no name or no word for that.