Welcome back to The Microdose Diet a newsletter about getting more success, passion and happiness in your life and career by using alternative medicines, such as microdosing psychedelics. 🍄

Happy New Year! Wishing you a tremendous 2024🌟

In this latest episode, I engaged in an insightful discussion with Vanathy Paranthaman. Vanathy is the director of the Conscious Mind Clinic based in Vancouver. She is a registered Nurse with a focus on holistic health and wellness. She has extensive experience working with ketamine to treat various mental health conditions and as a therapeutic breathwork expert.

Vanathy is going to share more about her work and how she uses psychedelics with her patients.

Read on and learn more about how medical professionals, such as Vanathy, use psychedelics to support their patients’ mental health.

💺 A Personal Journey to the Psychedelic and Holistic Space

Vanathy came to the medical psychedelic space thanks to her own personal journey. After a heavy childhood with a lot of family traumas she battled with severe depression, PTSD and suicidal ideations. Despite having learnt to manage her mental struggles, she decided to free herself. This is when she discovered psychedelics. In an experience quite similar to mine, she found that research on psychedelics kept crossing her path. After going on a journey powered by psilocybin, Vanathy’s personal and professional lives aligned towards the Psychedelic and Holistic space. She is now the Director of the Conscious Mind Clinic in Vancouver.

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🍄From Ketamine to Microdosing and Breathwork

The focus of the Conscious Mind Clinic is on mental health and psychedelics, as one of the tools in their toolkit. Improving mental health via psychedelics requires more “work” than just taking a magic pill once. The clinic offers microdosing coaching with different products, such as with Amanita Muscaria (for calm), psychedelic assisted therapy with psilocybin and MDMA (both approved by the Health Canada model), and harm reduction via integration and preparation.

🙌Patients’ Profiles, Results and Success Stories

The specific diagnoses the Conscious Mind Clinic focuses on are; treatment resistant depression, end of life distress and PTSD. Patients tend to have a high trauma load and by the time they come to the clinic they have already tried multiple medications and therapies, sometimes for decades. Hence the high expectations that have to be managed accordingly by the practitioners. Even if the diagnoses covered fall under the same umbrella, the profiles of the patients are very diverse. The success stories and tools used are varied too. As an example, Vanathy saw great success with clients experiencing OCD and severe anxiety.

🙋Most Common Patients’ Questions

There is a high level of expectation from those curious about psychedelics, due to the recent media coverage of the space and sometimes unrealistic messaging conveyed by enthusiasts. Accordingly the main questions are usually anchored in pretty optimistic assumptions regarding brain rewiring. The hype around the medicine has led some to believe that it is a magic pill. This can be dangerous as this can negatively impact patients’ mental health when their unrealistic expectations are not met. This is especially true when it comes to macrodosing journeys advertised as life-altering experiences without the context of what those life changes could be.

I hope you enjoyed this insightful discussion with Vanathy. You can learn more about her and the Conscious Mind Clinic on their website.

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The Microdose Diet by Peggy Van de Plassche focuses on personal and professional development using alternative medicines, such as microdosing psilocybin, tapping meditation, journaling, guided meditation and visualization ✨

I am Peggy Van de Plassche, a former banker and VC who spent 20 years in the financial services and technology industries. I now speak and write about the benefits of alternative medicines, such as microdosing psilocybin, for professional and personal growth. I created More! The Microdose Diet - the 90 Day Plan for Success, Passion and Happiness🍾 My book will be published in 2024 and available for pre-order on Amazon.ca and Amazon.com in November 2023.

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Welcome back to The Microdose Diet a newsletter about getting more success, passion and happiness in your life and career by using alternative medicines, such as microdosing psychedelics. 🍄

Starting to microdose psilocybin might seem to you like a tall order. The stigma associated with psychedelics might feel overwhelming, or you might be afraid of being high, of breaking the law and/or of potential side-effects for your health. Maybe you don’t know where to buy quality products and what protocol to follow. Perhaps you just have never taken the time to start!

I believe The Holiday season is the best time for you to start microdosing psilocybin for multiple reasons. Read on and see for yourself!

🕜 Time Is On Your Side

During The Holidays you likely are on a break from work and your regular schedule is, well, irregular. Which makes this the perfect time to try something new without the interference of work and scheduled activities.

It also give you enough time to research and find the answers to the questions you might have regarding microdosing psilocybin. And, as importantly, as you gather information, you can make your own mind about this practice.

Could you benefit from a mood boost and added productivity? 100% yes. In parallel, it would mean making an unconventional decision, something that might make you nervous. During The Holidays you will have the time to ponder what is most important to you: mood boost + jump in productivity versus following the rules established a long time ago by others who might not have had your best interest in mind 😼.

I make it sound like a no-brainer, because I am on the other side of the decision and I know how great the results have been for me. However, I sat once where you sit today. I did spend weeks researching, pondering the pros and the cons before taking the leap. I don’t want to minimize how significant this decision might be for you. At the same time, no decision is a decision. The decision of continuing with the status quo will result in the same outcome. If you are greatly satisfied with your life, then that is fabulous! Congratulations and Carry On!! If you are not greatly satisfied with your life, then that is another story.

So are you or are you not satisfied?! 😸

🗓️ Where Did 2023 Go?

As we officially reached the last innings of 2023, the question most of us are asking ourselves is: “Where did the year go?” Better questions might look like: “What did I do during this past year?”, “How do I feel about 2023?” and also “How did I feel during 2023?”

These are questions we rarely ask ourselves. Best case scenario, we make a list of all our accomplishments, everything we got to do during the year. Maybe as well a list of all the things that we didn’t get to do. We might reminisce about landmark events, seen as good or bad; promotion, retirement, new job, unemployment, marriage, divorce, birth, death, disease and so on.

But most often we are too busy preparing our “new resolutions” for the year ahead to really assess what we enjoyed during the past year, what made us grow, what we did to prepare for a more successful, engaging and happy future. But also what we missed.

In addition to the aforementioned questions, below are some questions for you to ponder - I will do the same! Journaling is a perfect way to reflect.

If I continue on this trajectory, what will my life look like in 5 years? In 10 years? Is that picture uplifting?
What do I wish I had done in 2023? What do I wish I hadn’t done?
What do I wish I had felt?

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🎯 2024 Goal Setting

So was 2023 a satisfactory year? And was it as satisfactory as you could have hoped for?

If the answer is no, then I would encourage you to explore what can be done to make 2024 a year that will feel satisfying in 12 months. I am not referring to the usual; “go to the gym 4 times a week”, “lose 10 pounds”, “change job”. That is mostly treading water.

Twelve years ago I was managing a family office, which was a real eye-opening experience on many levels. What I realized when I worked there was that if I continued to manage my career the way I was I would never get the life I wanted. For sure I would have a great job on paper, a solid comp, social acceptance and recognition. But I would never be able to live a life that, based on my own personal criteria, I would be proud of. Because it would be “someone’s else life”, a “dream life” that would have been decided by others for me, a life where I didn’t feel alive most of the time and was just checking boxes.

At the time I launched an ill-fated side business and went on to start -and fail- many ventures in the years that follow. I am not preaching to “learn from your failures”, I find it infinitely more pleasant to “learn from your success”. My point was that I had it the other way around. I though the right business, the right career would give me the aliveness, the accomplishments, the financial means, in a nutshell the life I was looking for. But there again I was just following others’ point of view - be an entrepreneur, become rich, be free. It was just another template I had borrowed from another group. It was still not my own life playbook.

But there were a few principles I understood correctly:

Incremental changes will only bring you incremental results,
Assessing what you desire based on where you currently stand / what you currently have is a very limiting approach,
The first thing that needs disruption is yourself. Not your career, marriage, weight…it is your core being that needs to be shaken up.

For many years I applied these principles the wrong way, mindlessly and at the wrong time. I did create a lot of disruption but definitely not the kind I wished! 😹

If you are not enthused with the way 2023 (and probably the 5-10 years prior) unfolded, I would recommend you make these principles yours to avoid in 5-10 years having the same un-enthused perspective on your life. However, let’s do it a mindful and strategic way.

So how do you do that?

How do you disrupt yourself in order to bring a shift significant enough that your life will be back on the right rails towards your own success, passion and happiness?

The answer is simple - microdose psilocybin strategically, with the right products and protocol. Whether you are using The Microdose Diet microdose and protocol or not is fine, as long as you; 1) access premium products, 2) use an end-to-end mindful protocol.

If you desire to see different results, you need a different approach. Not just due to the fact that The Microdose Diet is still an unconventional choice to make. But because it will help you change your entire perspective. The best way for me to explain it is by making a parallel with the movie Limitless; bigger abilities, bigger perspective, different perspective, more choices, bigger choices, different choices, less fear, more excitement...

You will likely chose to NOT make drastic life changes (one way or the other, it is your choice, microdosing will not make you do anything 🐱‍🚀), but your abilities will improve, your perspective will change, you will see more choices, you will make different choices, you will feel more excitement and less fear…

So what about this Holidays Season is the last one when you look at the past year and think meh?!😒

🚀This Is What 2023 on TMD Looked Like for Participants

Partakers in The Microdose Diet saw different results in 2023, however the underlying changes were very similar; 1) they trust themselves and their choices more; 2) they have more self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth; 3) they have a renewed interest for their career and lives; 4) they are able to set boundaries more easily and ask for what they want; 5) they feel more capable. In a nutshell, they know what they want, how to get it, and engage in the necessary actions - they are unstuck and lighter.

These overall improvements created very tangible results:

Career; promotion, job change, new ventures;

Relationships; met love partner, improved relationships with spouse, F&F, colleagues;

Mental Health; uplifted mood with reduced symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD;

Physical Health; improved ability to make healthy choices leading to more exercise, less alcohol, better diet;

Performance; productivity skyrocketed, improved cognitive abilities;

Social Life: reduced social anxiety, better ability to network, socialize and create meaningful connections;

Energy: high-quality, long-lasting energy;

Personal Growth: improved self-respect and relationship with self, less shame and guilt in making the right decisions for themselves, better ability to put their needs and wants at the top of their agenda.