Using Psychedelics to Heal Trauma and Chronic Illness: A Doctor’s Perspective with Dr Aisling Quiery | Episode 4

Calm Your Nervous System

In this first ever guest episode, I’m joined by Dr Aisling Quiery, an NHS GP with a background in addictions work who also works as a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Maturation Coach, and psychedelic guide at Imperial College London. Through her additional training beyond a medical degree, her lived experience of anxiety and long Covid, as well as using psychedelics as a healing medicine in the jungle with Dr Gabor Maté, Aisling is uniquely placed to discuss the limitations of modern medicine when it comes to chronic illnesses and talk more about why GPs should be empowering their patients to look beyond test results for answers about their conditions.

In this episode, we’re chatting about:

• What Aisling believes are the main limitations of the medical model from her perspective as a GP
• Aisling’s own experience of anxiety and long Covid
• Why it’s important that GPs validate their patients’ experience of chronic illness or trauma but also empower them to heal themselves
• The idea that psychedelics can be used for healing and Aisling’s own experience of this
• How Aisling’s body remembered her birth, and how implicit memories are held in the body but are often not able to be recalled

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