Get Back To Your Authentic Self | GenX Hits Menopause E25
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In Get Back To Your Authentic Self, host Heather Reilly Hiemstra and plant medicine guide Alli Williams unpack microdosing, integration work, ceremony, and the somatic homecoming that happens when you finally stop forcing and start feeling. Alli explains the difference between ceremony and microdose, why integration is what makes plant medicine actually change your life, and why she calls a microdose “a vitamin for the nervous system.”
Heather shares the night she accidentally tripped on a Lion’s Mane chocolate at a market and woke up the next morning realizing she hadn’t liked herself this much in years.
Conversations include:
- What “plant medicine” really means — and why microdosing is the most accessible doorway in
- The difference between a Bionic Bloom ceremony, a sound-healing journey with Alli, and microdosing at home
- “A vitamin for the nervous system”: how a small dose puts a wedge between your triggers and your reactions
- Why integration is the work that turns a single experience into a different life
- Heather’s first-person account of an accidental large-dose trip — and what stayed with her three days later
- Remembering you used to operate at the pace of a tree — and why authenticity is your greatest gift to the world
Tune in to hear how plant allies, integration, and a little wedge of space can hand you back the version of yourself you forgot you liked.
About Alli Williams
Alli Williams is a Plant Medicine Guide, Herbalist, and Holistic Wellness Coach dedicated to helping leaders, seekers, and visionaries realize their potential and purpose through plant medicine, integrative health, and soul-centered coaching. A former professional basketball player, Alli now bridges the worlds of science and spirituality as an integrative coach at Bionic Bloom — the first legal psilocybin therapy center in the U.S. — and through her own practice, Alchemize With Alli, where she works with medicinal mushrooms, herbalism, MDMA therapy, sound healing, and ritual to guide clients out of “head” and back into the body.
Learn more about Alli’s work at alchemizewithalli.com.
Episode Highlights
Microdosing Is A Vitamin For The Nervous System
“I call it a vitamin for the nervous system. It gives us a little bit of time in between our triggers and how we react to them. It’s like a little wedge there. And so we start to have space to choose how we show up in the world.”
Plant Medicine Opens The Door — You Walk Through
“Plant allies are absolutely beautiful to work with, but it’s also intense, and it requires you to show up. They can show you — I always say it’s like, they open the door, but it’s up to you to walk through it.”
I Haven’t Liked Myself This Much — Heather’s Microdose Moment
“I turned to John right before falling asleep and I said, I haven’t liked myself this much — I can’t even remember. And telling it to you all on the podcast, I feel like I’m going to cry. I forgot how much I like me unfiltered. I’m always busy judging me unfiltered.”
Remember — You Used To Operate At The Pace Of A Tree
“When you work with these ancient plant spirits who have been around since the beginning of time, they’re like: remember, you used to be a part of nature. You used to operate at the pace of a tree. You didn’t have to go, go, go. All you have to do is just exist and be yourself. There’s no one else like you.”
Showing Up Authentically Is Your Greatest Gift
“It’s actually my greatest gift to the world to show up authentically and give permission to others to do the same.”
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