Belinda Eriacho: Psychedelic Healing for Native Peoples

This week’s guest, Belinda Eriacho, brings powerful insights from her lineage as a Native American woman and her life experience as a powerful healer and public speaker.

We start the show with a land acknowledgment honoring Indigenous land rights, before exploring key aspects of Belinda’s worldview, including the importance of humor and the principle of "hózhó," which means to walk in harmonious relationship with everything around you. Belinda shares her own intergenerational trauma and her sacred corn pollen path. We end our conversation with important considerations for psychedelic therapists who wish to help heal Native Peoples.

Belinda is a healer and leader from the Dine’ (Navajo) and Zuni lineage. She is certified in Integrated Energy Therapy and has advanced degrees in Health Sciences, Public & Occupational Health, and Technology. Through her personal practice and her leadership as a public speaker, Belinda supports the healing of Native Peoples and is helping to guide the Psychedelic Renaissance towards a more holistic perspective.

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LINKS

• Belinda Eriacho
• Considerations for Psychedelic Therapists when Working with Native American People and Communities
• Guidelines for Inclusion of Indigenous People into Psychedelic Science Conferences
• App for Land Acknowledgements
• Video on Intergenerational Trauma: Native American Legacy at MAPS POC Workshop
• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

TIMESTAMPS

• :05 - Belinda educates us about land acknowledgments
• :13 - How Native People use humor as a form of resilience
• :18 - The principle of hózhó,: Walking in harmonious relationship to everything around you
• :21 - Belinda shares her own story of intergenerational trauma and her personal Corn Pollen Path
• :29 - The Native American worldview, the western medical model, and the Decriminalization Movement
• :44 - Considerations when working with Native American people
• :53 - Belinda speaks to psychedelic therapists