Pierre Bouchard LPC

New piece is live. The Frontiers paper everyone’s been debating got me thinking about why we were so willing to take ‘the body keeps the score’ literally in the first place. Link in bio.

I sat down recently with Julian Royce for an interview.

A State of Mind with Julian Royce Somatic Wisdom, Psychedelic Pitfalls, and the Art of True Healing

Nobody gave you any myths and then we gave you mushrooms.
The medicine amplifies whatever is already in the psyche. If what’s living in there is mostly optimization and self-improvement, that’s what gets amplified. Not because anyone is doing it wrong. Because that’s what the culture gave them to work with.
New piece on Substack about view, participation, and what happens when the psyche has something to meet the experience with versus when it doesn’t. We’re better dance partners when we have more material.
Link in bio.

For practitioners who’ve had that sneaking suspicion mid-session. Something’s not landing here.
New piece on why psychedelics work differently for different people, and what to do about it.
Link in bio