Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Healing Isn’t a Pill—It’s a Journey Back to Yourself

10 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief conversation, Mona Sharma highlights the alarming rise in anxiety and depression, noting how many individuals resort to repeatedly seeking prescription drugs for a dissociative escape. She argues that, alongside education, the discussion of psychedelics as a therapeutic option must be prioritized. Sharma stresses that if psychedelics are used, they should be integrated with personal work—recognizing one’s inherent magnificence and continuing the healing journey after the experience, rather than relying on repeated dosing. The co‑speaker reinforces this by pointing to traditional and indigenous practices, which view psychedelics as a relationship tool between the individual and self, emphasizing the importance of holding the experience without the substance and positioning the healer within the process.

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Anxiety related disorders are on the rise. Depression is on the rise. I've worked with people who've gone doctor hopping for the sake of getting more and more prescription drugs, for the sake of that disassociating feeling, because we are living at one of the most stressful times in history. And so the urge is real and it's there. And this is where I think that, like education, going out with psychedelics right now needs to be equally as important as the discussion of the treatment in and of itself. And this is where I think, think that if we're going to use the medicine, psychedelics synergistically, it's about also recognizing and awakening them to be able to experience like how magnificent you are, to not forget you've got to continue on to doing the work afterwards, not about going back in.
I think that's exactly it. And I think the practice is to be able to be in that space and hold as much of that experience as possible without the substance. And I think, you know, if you look at traditional or indigenous cultures who've used these substances, it's been about the relationship with these things and the relationship to self. And I think what you said around you being the healer.