Holiday Season Navigational Tips

Dec '24 • Navigational Tools and Support

Alrighty- peak holiday season is here.

For many/most that means extended time with family + (potentially) stressful external circumstances = (unnecessary) frustration + agitation + activation + triggers.

If you want the TL;DR then scroll to the bottom!

If you're contemplating engaging in psychedelics and/or cannabis whether silently solo or WITH your family- here's your guide.

1. If you're using substances (including alcohol) to 'get through' this time. That in itself is a clue that there's probably something to look at within yourself in terms of how you relate to yourself and others. So if that's the case- remove the shame- and get curious instead. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

1. What is the purpose or intention of engaging with this substance? Am I doing it because others are doing it? Am I doing it to make the experience more enjoyable? What is sub-optimal in terms of enjoyment/satisfaction? Is there a way I can find enjoyment/satisfaction in what I'm doing? Am I doing this to escape from a discomfort? What's the discomfort? How can I show up for myself, create safety and ease for myself?

2. If you're engaging with a substance socially and intentionally then here are some questions:

1. Am I safe? What's my intention? Does my intention align with the intentions of others that I'm sharing space with? Are the people around me safe? (Hint: unsafety can be infectious so if others aren't safe it's very likely that with a psychedelic, even a microdose, that you can pick up on it and even harmonize with it)

2. Is engaging with this substance worth the risk of being confronted with something that requires time attention and energy? Am I comfortable with taking space from everyone to sit with whatever arises? Do I have the space and skills to navigate confrontation?

3. When it comes to navigating the activations and confrontations that can easily arise being back with family again here are some frameworks to help you move through it?

1. What if your Soul/Higher Self chose this family precisely so that you could learn invaluable lessons that no other family could teach you?

2. If this ^ is true then what lessons are you here to learn from them?

3. If you are activated or confronted with something, ask yourself- what is this trying to teach me? What can I learn from this? How can I grow from this?

4. You can still honor, witness, observe and feel your emotions and activations without being IN them and inextricably tied to them. It's not that you ARE angry. You are EXPERIENCING anger.

5. Anger and activation is a protective mechanism- if something needs protecting, then something is unsafe. What is unsafe? And how can you create safety for yourself?

6. Your triggers are gifts. In that you are showing yourself where you are not yet free.

4. Lastly, if you can create enough meta-cognition, what can you observe and learn from being back with your family again? Are you able to see how they have impacted you? Are you able to see where some of your traits, behaviors and characteristics come from (both the functional and dysfunctional)? Are you able to see how much Love is present for you, even if it doesn't seem like it? Are you able to find the Love even if it isn't in the form you want it to be in?

TL;DR

1. Be VERY intentional engaging in substances- particularly psychedelics- over the holiday. Be intentional, get curious, create safety.

2. Your triggers are windows into your limitations of where you are not yet free.

3. You are a sovereign being creating your experience. What are you creating? And for what purpose are you creating it?

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