Are Psychedelics The Answer To Connection? with Sabina Pillai

There is a serious health crisis happening globally and it’s not one you’d expect - it’s loneliness. We all crave meaningful relationships but these days many of us are struggling to create and keep them during one of the most disconnected times we’ve been in. 

A solution that many people are turning to to find support with this are psychedelics. 

That’s why I asked psychedelic-assisted therapist Sabina Pillai onto the show. She’s facilitated over a 1000 ketamine-assisted therapy sessions, and has seen the incredible potential of psychedelic medicine to transform people’s lives and help move them towards greater wisdom, wholeness and…connection.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Our deep desire to know our true selves

  • Difference between ketamine vs psilocybin

  • Why vulnerability is a superpower

  • Our universal desire for connection and what holds us back from it

  • Why bad trips aren’t actually all bad

Plus, she shares what feelings we struggle most to feel, and how psychedelics might just be a way to help with that.

About Sabina Pillai:

Sabina is a Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist, Consultant and Trainer, currently focused on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to help her clients rediscover and reconnect with their whole being. Blending her background in Buddhist psychology as well as a variety of holistic modalities, she works from a client-centered lens primarily with those struggling with severe and complex trauma, addictions, depression, borderline personality disorder, & end-of-life. She also works with Veterans and First Responders, BIPOC, LGBTQ* people, Couples, and Groups. 

Sabina works in private practice and offering integrative, trauma-focused therapy and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups. She also helps build out psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy programs for clinics and organizations and offers training workshops. 

To find out more about Sabina or to connect with her direct, you can check out her website at www.sabinapillai.com

IG: @sabina.holdingspace

Zoë Weldon