97. Solo Travel, Plant Medicine, and Finding Food Freedom | Haley Smith

Yeah.

That's a great question because you're right, it's more accurate to say I had been working on my relationship with food and my body for probably since like 2017 is when I got in therapy.

And there was an entry point to it where I had this, um, oh, what would you call, like a sliding glass door moment.

I was in a relationship and it, it blew up.

There was cheating involved, and I was in a dark night of the soul situation, and it was a friend that suggested I try therapy.

The school I was at at the time had free services for therapy.

I had never, never considered therapy, and she was like, "Why don't you just like go try it out?" And it changed my life.

I really feel like the therapist I was given was sent to me from, from God, from the universe, and she has been my therapist [laughs] for the past like 10 years now.

Um, and I bring that up to say, you know, my entry point into this and exploring my relationship with food and eating was through my relationship rupturing.

And as you know, you know, you're a therapist, we start there, but then we peel back the layers of what, like how did I get here? What's behind the surface? And it, you know, family dynamics and relationships and looking back it's like I knew I had always had a troubling relationship with food.

I would say the peak of it was in college.

I was a collegiate athlete and it was my sophomore year of college and things were just taking a, a turn south and, but interestingly, when I was triggered to get into that disordered eating pattern was also the end of a high school relationship that was long-term and-

Hmm

...

he had cheated.

So there was like some common patterns happening of, okay-

Mm-hmm

... relationships ending, there's cheating, I get into this disordered eating habit.

So, you know, you can start just seeing how it's all connected.

But yes, to your point, the awareness around my relationship with food and my body had started seven years prior to solo traveling and having the experience I did.

The solo traveling, it, it allowed me to go like seven layers deeper with it, with psychedelic therapy, and I think I was able to have that experience because of the years of therapy I had done and been chipping away at this.

But it was a turning point when it came to traveling and having the experience I did overseas.

Um, but you know, like, you know, you talk about with psychedelic therapy that there's that prep work that I think allows you to go as deep as psychedelics can allow you to go.

That was true for me too.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

That's a great question because you're right, it's more accurate to say I had been working on my relationship with food and my body for probably since like 2017 is when I got in therapy.

And there was an entry point to it where I had this, um, oh, what would you call, like a sliding glass door moment.

I was in a relationship and it, it blew up.

There was cheating involved, and I was in a dark night of the soul situation, and it was a friend that suggested I try therapy.

The school I was at at the time had free services for therapy.

I had never, never considered therapy, and she was like, "Why don't you just like go try it out?" And it changed my life.

I really feel like the therapist I was given was sent to me from, from God, from the universe, and she has been my therapist [laughs] for the past like 10 years now.

Um, and I bring that up to say, you know, my entry point into this and exploring my relationship with food and eating was through my relationship rupturing.

And as you know, you know, you're a therapist, we start there, but then we peel back the layers of what, like how did I get here? What's behind the surface? And it, you know, family dynamics and relationships and looking back it's like I knew I had always had a troubling relationship with food.

I would say the peak of it was in college.

I was a collegiate athlete and it was my sophomore year of college and things were just taking a, a turn south and, but interestingly, when I was triggered to get into that disordered eating pattern was also the end of a high school relationship that was long-term and-

Hmm

...

he had cheated.

So there was like some common patterns happening of, okay-

Mm-hmm

... relationships ending, there's cheating, I get into this disordered eating habit.

So, you know, you can start just seeing how it's all connected.

But yes, to your point, the awareness around my relationship with food and my body had started seven years prior to solo traveling and having the experience I did.

The solo traveling, it, it allowed me to go like seven layers deeper with it, with psychedelic therapy, and I think I was able to have that experience because of the years of therapy I had done and been chipping away at this.

But it was a turning point when it came to traveling and having the experience I did overseas.

Um, but you know, like, you know, you talk about with psychedelic therapy that there's that prep work that I think allows you to go as deep as psychedelics can allow you to go.

That was true for me too.

Mm-hmm.