Your Baggage = Your Value = Your Medicine

 By Shiri Godasi

It has been months since I have written a personal note to you. I’ve been quiet, for many reasons. If you follow me on other media channels then you know the extent of the challenges that have ensued in my personal life this past year, all byproducts of lacking healthy boundaries in the realms of professional development within the psychedelic revival. Slowly and humbly I return back to my tribe, with intention of sharing what has been revealed. 

For now, long story short - after an expansive and insanely challenging year, this summer our little family chose to break through the LA grind and relocated to Costa Rica. Nurtured by powerful earth elements in this lush land, some of my deepest psychological wounds have finally bubbled up in the context of what were the two thickest anchors of my identity: primary relationship, and business. And my eyes have been opened to accept the dire implications they have on the way I human, and in what ways I settle, ultimately shortchanging myself and others. 

Question: Have you ever thought of your issues as complexes? About your own stories and life experiences as baggage? Or your inclination toward depth and continuous shadow work as an inadequacy? 

How have you been settling in your own life? Specifically, what stories, so-called issues, and baggage do you carry - that you felt you had to apologize for? That may have unconsciously caused you to overcommit, just to show that you exist? Overdeliver in hopes of ‘making up' for the darkness that you carry? Overachieve to prove that you are worthy? 

An integral component in my sacred business development program (in The Psyched Soul PlaySkool of Integration & Soulpreneurship) is our hard-earned life experiences, specifically those that came through blood, sweat, and tears, (yes, including the traumas, complexes, baggage, stories, etc.) are THE essence of the soul medicine you are meant to serve in this lifetime. All of this here is a fat component of your value. 

It is through humaning experiences that you gain knowledge, wisdom, foresight, expansiveness… These experiences are what make you a wisdom keeper, a storyteller, a witch and wizard, a medicine alchemist. This is what makes you YOU - and there is literally no one like you walking the Earth, that has lived life in EXACTLY the way that you have lived it, the way you have transcended it, and how you translate it. In fact, your translation of it is the key to finding your life’s purpose and living in alignment, fulfillment, success, abundance, and wellbeing. 

We may not know each other personally - but I know for sure that YOU are worth so much - and are SO INCREDIBLY WORTHY. 

And I encourage you to OWN the fuck out your life - including and especially those difficult moments. Because you are so damned perfect, not despite what you’ve been through, but in thanks to it. And as Thanksgiving approaches, I pray you give deep thanks not just for the feast on the table but for who you are, and the immense value you carry and are here to share with the rest of us. 

It’s only been two months since we moved to CR and are finding footing in a land that is so rich, simple, and benevolent. I am so incredibly grateful for novel spaciousness that allows introspection, shedding, and realignment with our soul’s dharma. TBC…

Author’s Bio
Shiri Godasi (She/Her) is a teacher, visionary creatrix, depth poet and mother. She is best known for her pioneering methods in the field of psychedelic integration and community bridging, including founding 5 psychedelic harm reduction organizations. She is passionate about creating a decolonized, psychedelic-positive counterculture and empowering others to step into radical authenticity/radical action to co-create a just world. Her professional certification program The Psyched Soul PlaySkool of Integration & Soulpreneurship trains people to become creative system disruptors through expert psychedelic support and heart-centered leadership. Her approach draws from transpersonal psychology, New-Earth sacred commerce, Eastern philosophy and multidisciplinary arts, fusing ancient wisdom with modern practices for a ‘Psyched’ lifestyle.