Reclaiming Your Inner Authority
Hey Beautiful Souls,
There’s a moment — often quiet, often overlooked — when something inside you just knows.
Not because someone told you.
Not because a teacher confirmed it.
But because your bones said yes, your gut said no, or your body leaned ever so slightly in one direction.
That knowing? That’s your inner authority.
And we’re taught to silence it.
Especially in spaces of healing, spirituality, and sacred medicine, it’s easy to hand our power over.
To the guide.
To the method.
To the process that’s “supposed to” work.
But the truth is: the most powerful healing doesn’t come from following a script.
It comes from listening inward.
From learning how to trust your pace, your insight, your path.
This month, I’m inviting you to return to that place within yourself — the place that knows.
The part of you that doesn’t need to be convinced or compared.
The part of you that can say, this is mine.
Whether you’re fresh from a ceremony, deep in a microdosing journey, or simply shifting into a new season of your life — your wisdom belongs to you.
Let’s reclaim that.
Why We Abandon Our Inner Authority — and How to Reclaim It
You’ve felt it before: that flash of knowing that quickly gets followed by a second-guess, a pause, or a pull toward someone else’s opinion.
We’re conditioned to defer.
To look outside ourselves for permission, validation, or proof that what we feel is “real.”
This is especially common after a psychedelic journey — when we’re cracked open and raw. We reach for experts, for integration frameworks, for someone to help make sense of it all. That reaching isn’t wrong — but we have to be careful not to abandon our own voice in the process.
Why do we do it?
Because we've been told our instincts are dangerous.
Because we were rewarded for compliance.
Because we were punished for saying “no.”
But here’s the truth:
You are the expert on your own experience.
Others can guide, reflect, and support — but no one else can walk your path or live your insight.
To reclaim your inner authority, begin with this:
Notice when you shrink your voice or defer to someone else
Ask: “What feels true for me right now?”
Trust the slow pace of your own unfolding — even if it looks different
Integration isn’t about doing it right.
It’s about doing it in a way that’s right for you.
Tools for Transformation
Journaling Prompt:
“Where have I given my power away in the past — and what did it cost me?”
“What does it feel like in my body when something is true for me?”
Practice:
Take a decision you’ve been trying to make — big or small — and instead of seeking outside opinions, sit quietly and ask your body.
Breathe. Feel.
And move forward from that place.
Alice’s Psychedelic Playlist
A beautiful reminder to follow your inner rhythms, not the noise of the world.
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Why are you working with the medicine—right now, in this season of your life?
In Your Corner, Always
May this be the month you come home to your own voice.
The month you stop handing away your knowing.
The month you remember: you get to decide what this healing means, how it unfolds, and what it looks like in your life.
There’s no one way to integrate.
There’s only your way — and I’ll be here, walking beside you.
Alice
PS: A new offering is quietly taking shape — an Integration Circle designed for those moving through the sacred, slow work of life after ceremony. If you’ve felt changed by your experience but unsure how to live it, something is coming in May. If you’d like to be the first to hear about it, you can sign up for early details by sending a message.