Plant Medicine: An Honest Conversation With Melissa Layton

In this episode I'm joined by Melissa Layton, founder of Numinity. She is a medicine woman, wellbeing practitioner and former commercial lawyer whose work spans therapy, nervous system health and plant medicine. Melissa is one of the most grounded, discerning voices in this space, and I've been in her world - and community - for a while. This conversation is for anyone who's curious about plant medicine, and for those sceptical of it. 

In this episode we'll cover;

• How Melissa went from lawyer to medicine woman (not the classic career ladder)
• Why being successful on paper is often the very thing that breaks you open
• What years of talk therapy gave Melissa and what it couldn't
• The understandable "ick" most people feel the first time they enter a spiritual space
• Why some people come back from a ceremony transformed, and others come back more destabilised
• The part of the journey people skip - and why it's actually the hardest part

PLUS at the end of the episode you can hear my song "medicine" in full - a song I wrote after my first plant medicine ceremony experience.

REFLECTION: Where in your life are you intellectually understanding something, but not yet letting yourself feel it in your body?

Stay Connected: 

Numinity: Melissa's community. Connect on Instagram: @numinity.collective

Lauren's Instagram @laurenrayofficial & @neverjustbusiness

Lauren's Coaching Website: neverjustfine.com

Lauren's Music: https://ffm.to/laurenraymusic