Enhanced Senses Podcast
Enhanced Senses Podcast
Podcast Description
Enhanced Senses explores the connection between external creative pursuits—such as sport, art, and outdoor recreation—and the internal journey of emotional healing and transformation.
This podcast features guests who have found intentional ways to integrate adventure, creativity, and psychedelics into their personal and collective growth.
By sharing these stories, we aim to inspire listeners to explore the balance between their external and internal worlds while discovering meaningful ways to contribute to their communities.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores topics such as the healing power of theater, the impact of endurance sports on recovery from addiction, and the use of psychedelics for personal growth. Episode examples include Brian Stanton discussing theater as a healing modality and Erin Witter sharing insights on endurance biking and recovery from alcoholism, highlighting the importance of community and personal development.
Enhanced Senses explores psychedelics, extreme sports, creativity, and intimacy as portals to the enhanced sense of being human. Altered states and flow states reveal the edges of human consciousness — and as AI and artificial reality reshape how we experience the world, knowing how to access that felt sense becomes essential.
Host Danielle Peecher, researcher, athlete, and community builder, is your guide through the experiences that cut through artificial reality and return you to yourself.
What does it feel like to be you?
What does your process reveal about who you're becoming?
Alyssa didn't think they were an artist. They couldn't draw what they saw the way other people could. But at 16, when they tried psychedelics, something shifted. Art and the medicine became inseparable. And they realized their non-traditional relationship with creativity, the way they actually work, was the thing that made them uniquely valuable.
Now an art therapist and co-founder of the Psychedelic Art Therapy Network, Alyssa has spent the last 13+ years teaching people that your creative process, how you think, how you make, how you relate, isn't something to optimize or hide. It's the portal to understanding yourself. They bring trauma-informed, intersectional care to this work, believing that healing and creative expression have to be accessible to all of you, not just the parts that fit.
Alyssa draws a distinction between process and product. When you stop asking ”what should this look like?” and start asking ”how does this feel?” that's when the aliveness shows up.
A creative process is only as valuable as the relationship you're willing to build with it.
Connect with Alyssa:
Website:psychedelicarttherapy.com
Instagram:@mycelialyssa
Psychedelic Art Therapy Network:@psychedelicarttherapynetwork
Website:psychedelicarttherapynetwork.org
Building your capacity to understand your own creative process—that is the practice of becoming.
Enhanced Senses Podcast is about the felt sense of being a self. Art, psychedelics, and extreme sports are the portals I've used to reach that felt sense most often in my life.
Connect with Enhanced Senses Podcast:
Instagram:@enhanced_senses_podcast
Substack:@enhancedsensespodcast
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