Building an Ethical & Sustainable Healing Practice

Life is a Festival #127: Laura Mae Northrup (Radical Healership)

Do you want to be a healer? From psychedelic medicine to therapy to bodywork, after experiencing an awakening many hear the call to serve in the healing arts, but how do we create a practice that is both ethical and sustainable? Laura Mae Northrup, author of Radical Healership, breaks it down on today’s episode.

On the show we discuss why people get into the work of healing others, as well as what Laura calls “shadow whys.” We discuss managing money as an act of love and how both overcharging and undercharging for services is unethical. Laura shares her perspective of marketing, and her experience of writing a book to support healers. Finally we discuss humility and doing your own healing work, because the client must be the hero in the journey.

Laura Mae Northrup is an author, educator, somatic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her book Radical Healership is now available for purchase. She is the host and creator of the podcast Inside Eyes, an audio series about people using entheogens & psychedelics to heal from sexual trauma. Her work focuses on defining sexual violence through a spiritual and politicized lens, mentoring healing practitioners in creating a meaningful path, and supporting the spiritual integrity of our collective humanity. She is a champion of living more fully engaged and responsible lives through the healing use of entheogens, psychedelics, play, and psychotherapy.