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It's not about getting high. It's about getting real.
What if the healing power of psychedelics met the powers of destruction we are witnessing today?
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
An account of being thrown into the centrifuge
Or, what it must feel like to die
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Things we find in gutters
And other stand-ins for overambitious plans
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Psychedelic therapy is not a magic bullet
It is a tool that gives you access to memories and emotions where traditional therapy may fail. It does not numb you. You still have to feel the…
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Into the wild waters of psychedelic healing
A personal report from the new frontier of therapy
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Why put yourself through all that?
A question I periodically get asked, always by people who have not known the reward of exploring internal landscapes or the joy of becoming free
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
The anatomy of a breakdown
What if having "mental issues" really means we are breaking free of systems that are harming us
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Rip
On doing and being, floundering and failing, finding and releasing
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Our fragile reality
Tearing up, tearing off, tearing down and moving on.
 • Alda Sigmundsdóttir
the recovery salon
the recovery salon
Writing about the recovery of our own authenticity. About leaving behind toxic situations and people. About finding ways to align with our purpose. Sharing experience, strength and hope.
Recommendations
Letter from Iceland
Letter from Iceland
Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Books
Daughter, a memoir
The Little Book of the Icelanders
The Little Book of Tourists in Iceland
The Little Book of Icelandic
The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days
Icelandic Folk Legends
The Little Book of the Hidden People
The Little Book of Days in Iceland
The Little Book of the Icelanders at Christmas
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