EP 017 SPIRITUAL BURNOUT

Today on this episode of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast, we’re coming to you from the comfort or our living room sofa to talk about Spiritual Burnout and The Healing Power of Rest. What is spiritual burnout or therapeutic burnout, what does it look like, and how can you learn how to spot it? This is a crucial subject that is rarely talked about (but often experienced) on any spiritually focused path, and can be especially profound and important to recognize as part of your psychedelic integration plan. 

In this episode, John and Sinclair have a conversation about…

• How working on spiritual development can become an obsession, making life feel heavy and hard
• Defining spiritual burnout or therapeutic burnout, and what it looks like when you don’t take rest
• How society rewards hustle culture, grinding yourself down, and overachieving and the dark side of doing this with plant medicines and psychedelics
• Why you have to take breaks from medicine to see results and allow for healing
• Setting up for disappointment by looking at ourselves as unhealed, never doing enough, and seeing spiritual development as a problem to be solved
• How to recognize spiritual burnout, what causes it, and how to shift away from feeling overwhelmed
• Shifting from perfectionism to progress and celebrating all the positive steps you take on your path of growth
• Learning how to know what season you are in and how you can work with us to integrate your psychedelic journeys over a longer period of time