βEven as a child, pain and distance were being passed down to me like an inheritance,β Siraad Dirshe writes. βI tried my best to convince myself that I could outsmart, outwork, and out-therapize these aches and pains. That after a certain age, one just suddenly didnβt need their mother anymore.β
@sdirshe spent much of her adult life pushing aside the idea of becoming a mother. Then, she decided to try mushrooms. βI left behind the version who was too scared to name the things she wanted, like love. This was my most tender transformation yet.β At the link in bio, Dirshe writes about how psychedelics unearthed feelings about her own complicated relationship to her mother, and allowed her to see that she needed β and deserved β to become one herself.
