About The Episode 

What does it look like for psychedelic integration to be deeply intertwined with addiction recovery? 

Listen in to Danielle Nova’s inspirational addiction recovery story and how she became  a luminary in the psychedelic support field and the founder of the global addiction recovery support network, Psychedelic Recovery. 

In this intimate conversation with Shiri, Danielle shares about her journey of profound struggle with addiction to a constellation of drugs, including pharmaceutical medications, and her path to recovery working intensively with psychedelic and sacred plant medicines for healing and transformation. 

Danielle describes her philosophy on addiction as a deeply ingrained coping mechanism, the ‘medicine’ of the desire for change, and her work creating community healing spaces for people using psychedelics in support of their addiction recovery. She also shares her mission to rehabilitate the current addiction treatment paradigm, moving away from an abstinence-only, ‘disease’ model to an empowered model of psychedelic-assisted self-healing.

Topics Covered

✨ Introducing psychedelic support luminary, Danielle Nova

✨ Danielle's pre-psychedelic life and extreme struggles with addiction

✨ Danielle's journey into psychedelic healing

✨ The turning point: psychedelic recovery and integration

✨ The potential role of psychedelics in addiction recovery

✨ Danielle’s new model for addiction recovery: Psychedelic Recovery

✨ What it means to Danielle to be a psychedelic renaissance woman

✨ A model of addiction recovery based on empowerment rather than powerlessness

✨ Five epic facts about Danielle

✨ Connecting with Danielle and her work

Episode Resources

✨ Psychedelic-Assisted Addiction Recovery Program: Psychedelic Recovery

Danielle Nova is a dedicated psychedelic guide, educator and advocate specialized in addiction recovery, medication detox support, microdosing, deep journey work and spiritual transformation. As the Founder of Psychedelic Recovery and Executive Director of San Francisco Psychedelic Society, Danielle has over six years of professional experience providing comprehensive psychedelic education programs, integration services, and compassionate guided experiences for thousands of individuals. 

Danielle spearheads a global addiction recovery support program where she is creating specialized training programs for recovery group facilitators, guiding individuals out of harmful addictive patterns and educating clinicians on psychedelics as a tool for addiction recovery. Danielle played a pivotal role in the founding of Decriminalize Nature Oakland, contributing to the historic passage of the first resolution in the United States to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi. Featured in notable outlets such as CBS News and MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference, Danielle is a trailblazer in psychedelic advocacy and addiction treatment.

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