Welcome to date yourself instead, date yourself instead, what does it mean to date yourself instead?

I'm just going to learn how to love myself and that's it.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of date yourself instead.

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So today's episode is going to be really special and different from what I usually talk about.

To be honest, I was kind of nervous to speak publicly about this experience because it's like not something I would necessarily want to promote to a younger crowd.

I think this is a very personal experience.

It's something that I just felt was right to me at the time and it's not technically legal in a lot of places.

But I always, I don't know, I always had this fear of speaking out about this and then people labeling me as someone that like does drugs or something

and like I did something wrong.

Like I was always just afraid to actually speak about my experience but this experience completely changed my perception of the world and life in general.

I came out a different person after going through this so I think it is really important to talk about.

And after educating myself a lot about it, I realized it could be really beneficial in a lot of ways from a medical standpoint.

I also think there's this misconception about psilocybin and mushrooms and I wanted to talk about it today.

And I'm going to have a guest come on in the future episode that I'm going to be making about this and speak about psilocybin and really dive into like all the benefits from a medical perspective and how it's treated patients with like PTSD and trauma and depression and a lot of other serious conditions.

But for now, I'm really just going to focus on my experience and what I took from it and hopefully you can get a little inspired just from what I learned.

This is in no way promoting to actually go and do mushrooms and experiment with psilocybin but it's really just the knowledge that I acquired from the experience is worth talking about and I'm going to share everything that I learned.

I'm going to read you a bit of background on psilocybin.

This was published by the National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

psilocybin has historically been used as a psychedelic agent for religious and spiritual ceremonies as well as a therapeutic option for neuropsychiatric conditions.

Of all psychedelic drugs, psilocybin is reported to have the most favorable safety profile.

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