011: Lauren Taus | Life Is Psychedelic, Integration Is A Lifestyle, and Intuition Is Divine Direction with Psychedelic Psychotherapist Lauren Taus
“I believe that people come to therapy or psychedelics because something inside of them needs to die and part of my job is to make that easier. May we die as many times that is necessary to live this life.”
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In this episode we talk about:
Lauren’s journey with psychedelics and how she came into her work as a psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist
Why life is psychedelic without psychedelics
The limitations of traditional talk therapy
What are ketamine and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy?
How psychedelics allow for a new way of thinking and resetting generational beliefs that proceed our lifetime
The dark side of ketamine: abuse, addiction, and k-holes
How Lauren introduced her father into the world of psychedelics, who is also a medical doctor
Lauren’s unique approach to working with her clients
How trauma gets stored in our bodies and how psychedelic may help release it
The common thread that connects psychedelics, therapy, yoga, and other healing modalities
Lauren’s take on integration
Detachment, healthy completions, and letting go in a healthy way
How to approach working with psychedelics with reverence
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“The people who work well with psychedelics are the people who are willing to do the work on the backend. It’s hard work, and it’s also satisfying.”
Where to find Lauren:
Lauren Taus graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University in 2004 with a BA in Religion before continuing on to NYU for her Masters in Social Work. Lauren is licensed as a clinical therapist in both New York and California with a specialty in addiction and trauma treatment.
As a clinician, Lauren integrates alternative modalities of treatment into her work. She trained with David Emerson under the supervision of Bessel van der Kolk at The Trauma Institute in Boston in trauma sensitive yoga, and she’s trained by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for MDMA assisted psychotherapy for complex PTSD.
Lauren is actively working under the supervision of Dr. Phil Wolfson, author of The Ketamine Papers, to offer ketamine assisted psychotherapy to accelorate healing for individuals who suffer from depression, anxiety and trauma. Alongside her father Stephen D. Taus MD, Lauren supports psychedelic assisted therapy research with the intention to bring these types of interventions back into the Western maintream model.
“This life is so sacred. Each one of us is so, so magnificent. And our patterning and our conditioning domesticate us and cuts us off from who we really are. My deepest wish and intention is to activate individuals into their own authenticity, into their own authority, into their own heart space, and into their own ability to really love themselves.”
