Hi ,
Thank you for the wonderful feedback on my investment model! This week I'm sharing the first in a series I'm writing over at Buffalo Collective: Why Mushrooms?
I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I am not a healthcare provider of any kind. I am the owner of some very strong opinions based on my own personal experience.
We live in a world where there are coaches for nearly every kind of underachievement you can imagine. Coaches are available to help you use social media more responsibly, manage your household with less resentment and sell your services with less anxiety. You can hire a coach to help you improve how you eat, grieve, fuck, and manage your Airbnb rental.
Of course, if you prefer to work with a licensed professional, there’s therapy that comes in a wide range of options (many of which I have benefitted from). Among your many choices are EMDR that uses physical stimuli to help your brain process trauma, talk therapy that engages with the voices in your head (IFS), and talk therapy that debunks the voices in your head (CBT).
And, if needed, you can level up into pharmaceuticals. SSRIs increase your serotonin, SNRIs add norepinephrine into the mix, and MAOIs keep those good things in your system longer, though the side effects can be brutal (and might require the introduction of one or more of those coaches).
I recently started subscribing to Joel Bein’s email newsletter where he offered a metaphor that I will wish that I had thought of until the day I die.
Be it books, seminars, talk therapy, meditation, or affirmations, they often alleviate the problems in the short-term (feel better), but you still see the fear or negative self-talk come back.
Let's take affirmation.
Usually, affirmations are like spraying air freshener on the dog doo-doo.
This, my friends, is my answer to “why mushrooms?”
Come with me as I torture this metaphor… if affirmations are like spraying air freshener on dog shit, then…
Read the rest of this post and subscribe to the series over at Buffalo Collective!
Hope you're well, safe, and warm.
Lindsay
P.S. I believe with everything in me that the terror that is currently being inflicted on the residents of the Twin Cities and beyond could be prevented and will be overcome by the same thing: Authentic human connection. In the meantime, I have deep gratitude for the commitment and work of the local community here and stand in solidarity with all of those who are affected.
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