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A Matriarchal Approach to Micro-dosing Mushrooms

Writer's picture: Rev Jessica SharpRev Jessica Sharp

Honoring Body, Wisdom, and Spirit


When I began exploring plant medicine work with psilocybin mushrooms in 2016, I encountered a landscape dominated by Western medical-minded frameworks.


The protocols I found were rigid and prescriptive: take X amount on these specific days, follow this exact schedule. As someone raised by a Western medicine physician, who always encouraged me to tune into my body's wisdom first, something felt missing from these approaches. Over the years I tuned into this calling and developed this new protocol.


Why a Matriarchal Approach Matters

The current predominant paradigm of micro-dosing tends to mirror patriarchal medicine: externally imposed schedules, standardized doses, and a one-size-fits-all mentality. But our bodies, particularly women's bodies, operate on their own unique rhythms and cycles. We need an approach that honors this innate wisdom—one that emerges from feminine ways of knowing and being.


My Journey and Background

As a Minister through Psychic Horizons, and a carrier and student of many lineages, I operate within matriarchal spiritual traditions. My practice is deeply enriched by my lineage in Korean Shamanism, inherited from my Korean ancestors, a profound indigenous matriarchal spiritual tradition. These influences, combined with my commitment to creating and supporting matriarchal churches, businesses, and organizations, have shaped my understanding of healing and thriving as a deeply embodied, intuitive processes.


A Different Path: The Somatic-Animistic Approach

The approach I've developed centers on three core principles:


1. Deep body listening

2. Individuated heart-centered wisdom

3. Spiritual partnership with the mushroom medicine


Rather than following external protocols, this practice begins with a daily ritual of embodied presence. Each morning, we enter into dialogue with our bodies: What are you feeling today? What sensations are present? What wisdom is arising from the heart? What intentions are emerging?


From this grounded place of body awareness, we then tune in with the spirit of the mushrooms, asking: Is today right for working together? If so, when? How much?


This approach honors both our body's wisdom and the mushroom as an intelligent spiritual ally in our healing journey.


How This Differs from Contemporary Approaches

Most currently discussed and available micro-dosing protocols are designed through a masculine, Western medical lens that prioritizes standardization and measurable outcomes. While these approaches have their place, they often miss the profound wisdom available through body-centered, intuitive knowing and direct communication with the spirit of the mushrooms.


What's notably absent from the current landscape are protocols developed by women, for women, that honor our unique ways of knowing and being. This matriarchal approach fills that gap, offering a framework that's both ancient in its wisdom and revolutionary in its application to modern plant medicine work.


At its heart, this approach is anchored in the sacred practice of daily communion with oneself—a departure from externally imposed protocols. It operates from the fundamental truth that our bodies possess an innate intelligence and wisdom that far surpasses any standardized protocol. Our primary task is not to override this wisdom with external schedules, but to cultivate the stillness and presence needed to access it.


This alignment with daily practice echoes the wisdom found in ancient traditions across cultures. In Taoist, Vedic, Buddhist, and many other lineages, the path to fulfillment and healing has always begun with practices of stillness, meditation, and inner listening.


These traditions teach us that true healing and transformation emerge not from following external rules, but from cultivating a deep, daily relationship with our own inner wisdom. This approach to working with plant medicines honors and builds upon this timeless understanding.


The Women's Heart-Centered Somatic Journal

To support this protocol and practice that anchors it, I've created the Women's Heart-Centered Somatic Journal—a daily companion for deepening body awareness and heart wisdom. This Journal supports an easeful path, consistent exercise, and track record for daily 'tuning in.'


This journal guides you through:

- Daily body check-ins and somatic awareness practices

- Heart-centered intention setting and guidance

- Intuitive decision-making around medicine work

- Tracking patterns, insights, and growth


Additionally, this journal stands alone as a powerful tool for embodied living, whether or not you're working with plant medicines. It's designed to help anyone move from mental chaos to embodied feminine wisdom, and heart-centered living.


Join Our Community

If this approach resonates and or interests you, I invite you to explore working with these practices.


The Journal is available on my website (https://www.revjessicasharp.com/womenswork).


I facilitate virtual micro-dosing support groups that honor this matriarchal, body-centered approach.


These groups provide:

- Guided practice in somatic awareness and heart wisdom

- Community support and shared learning

- Safe space for exploring your unique medicine path

- Integration of traditional wisdom with modern plant medicine work


To learn more about joining a group, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/tazfCHzUbvAZYGZr6


To learn more about upcoming groups and the Women's Heart-Centered Somatic Journal, please visit [https://www.revjessicasharp.com/womenswork].

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