033: "Plant medicines & purging - a perspective from an ex-bulimic" with Charlie Nicholson

In today's episode, Charlie Nicholson, a yoga instructor and
writer who shared her Ayahuasca experience with me on episode 7
was back for another talk on Amazonian medicines.


This week we talk about her experience with Kambo (listen to #027
for more details on the effects of Kambo) and her personal
history of bulimia which I wanted to hear about in relation to
the purging process of plant medicines and how she was able to
relate to this from a new perspective, rather than being
triggered by her old mental illness.


We discuss how Amazonian cultures see purging as a release of
blocked energy or emotion and as normal and part of health and
maintenance whilst the Western world has a complete different
cognitive framework around it, which is based around shame and
sickness. 


Charlie shares how this mental illness formed in her life and why
eating disorders in general are so insidious. How they trick you
into believing the story you tell yourself, and create an endless
cycle of reacting to a negative self-belief that becomes a filter
through which you pass everything concerning yourself. In her
case, that she has no control over her life.


Fortunately Charlie found a way out of the disease and we talk
about how she was able to harness that obsessive impulse to
control and transfer it onto something healthy. In her case: Yoga
and meditation to rid herself of bulimia without any medical or
psycho-therapeutic interventions.


Even though we speak about bulimia in particular in this talk, my
hope is that it may spark recognition of patterns of addictive
behaviour in your own life, that you may have been leaning on to
escape a current reality.


Enjoy this episode and feel free to reach out to Charlie on 


IG: @charlienicyoga or https://www.charlienicholsonyoga.com/


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