Lessons from Psychedelics: Why we’re afraid to ask for help and how to start

In the years I’ve spent in integration circles listening to what people are working on in psychedelic spaces, I’ve listened to this share repeated many times: “I’m unable to ask for help.” The story typically goes like this, “I needed help, I wanted to say help, and so I sat there for what felt like hours forming and feeling the shape of the word ‘help’ in my mouth, and in the end, I didn’t ask for help.” I see a sea of heads nod in the room in agreement and understanding. I was one of those heads nodding emphatically. Even being someone who has spent thousands of hours bringing people tissues, buckets, blankets, water, sat with people, sang with people, carried people, I was unable to ask for it myself. I’d be freezing, or have snot coming out of my nose, or be so thirsty, and couldn’t say the words I’ve told people hundreds of times to say, “blanket, tissue, water…help.” Why? <a href="https://medium.com/@TeresaYung/lessons-from-psychedelics-why-were-afraid-to-ask-for-help-and-how-to-start-9f13bc800406">Learn More</a>