Emotional Eating, Ayahuasca & Other Tales (with Jillian Acosta)
The Holistic GLP-1 Podcast with Elizabeth McGannShow Notes
Today's episode is the last we are running in 2024, and the last using the title "Drop the Weight." Beginning with the first episode of 2025, this podcast will officially begin using the name The Holistic GLP-1 Podcast, to reflect the direction Elizabeth is going in her professional work with clients offerings to the public. More on that shortly!
We couldn't be ending this year more brightly than with today's guest, the lovely Jillian Acosta, whose work includes using psychedelics as a tool to overcome food traumas of various kinds that people throughout the world suffer from.
Psychedelics have been on the world's radar ever since Michael Pollan' s groundbreaking work How to Change Your Mind was published some years back. And when we recently heard about Jilllian's focus on psychedelics in her work with weight-release clients, we knew we had to bring her onto the show.
Throughout the podcast, Jillian relates the story of the sexual abuse she experienced as a young child, the severe eating disorders she suffered for many years afterward, and how Ayahuasca provided the psychedelic key to busting through those issues to become the radiant, holistic and inspiring woman leader she is today.
Happy 2025 to all of you!
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*** SHOW NOTES [ 00:00 ] Intro [ 02:00 ] Psychedelics saved her life. [ 03:00 ] No recollection of childhood sexual abuse for 32 years, until she tried Ayahuasca [ 07:00 ] Experience of discovering her background of childhood abuse through Ayahuasca was "difficult, uncomfortable, but not re-traumatizing." [ 10:30 ] COINCIDENCE: Jillian first heard about Ayahuasca on a podcast featuring someone who overcame an eating disorder through taking Ayahuasca. [ 11:45 ] What is was like taking Ayahuasca for the first time: "lit up like a Christmas tree for one month" [ 13:00 ] Three months later, she ended her marriage [ 14:00 ] Sexual abuse revealed across three Ayahuasca ceremonies in two days [ 16:00 ] She went into solitude for two years afterwards, becoming "a medicine woman of sorts." [ 18:00 ] Psychedelics and Weight Loss [ 20:00 ] Back story: she checked herself into an eating disorder clinic at age 23 [ 23:00 ] "It's always there" - How she deals with the eating disorder now [ 31:00 ] Cue of emotional eating" "What am I trying not to feel?" [ 33:45 ] Widespread parasite afflictions: need for parasite cleanses [ 38:00 ] The terrain of the gut and gut health [ 40:40 ] Breast "explantation" experience [ 44:00 ] A "massive fan" of Ketamine [ 48:30 ] Matthew Perry's overdose on Ketamine as a cautionary tale [ 52:00 ] Trauma as the root cause of illness; psychedelics take us to the root cause of trauma [ 54:20 ] Collaborating with "badass women" over the next 18 months; day retreats in Austin, Texas
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