Ep26: Connection and community in childhood, a complex first experience, and supporting end-of-life advocates

John Gilchrist is Director of Communications at TheraPsil, a Canadian not-for-profit working for psychedelic access for folks at end of life and other issues about accessibility, regulation and choice in the psychedelic space. In our conversation, we talk about his own personal psychedelic roots: his connection to community, family and lived experience, and a first experience that contained both the light and the shadow of psychedelic trips in a lot of ways. This conversation with John is being published as part of the Podcasthon movement, an annual global initiative that encourages podcasts to dedicate one episode of their show to a charity of their choice, and to release these episodes in a coordinated effort in mid-March to shine a light on some of the good work being done in communities around the world. And so, beyond John's personal psychedelic roots, we also talk a bit about the work of Therapsil, and he shares about some of the end-of-life patients who have been supported by Therapsil, and some of the ways he has been personally touched by his role working there.

Shownotes

• Therapsil’s website: https://therapsil.ca/
• To donate to their work: https://therapsil.ca/donate/
• For volunteering inquiries: https://therapsil.ca/volunteer/
• To sign up to their newsletter: https://therapsil.ca/newsletter/
• You tube channel, to watch videos John mentioned of Thomas Hartle and Janis Hughes, two patients supported by Therapsil: https://www.youtube.com/@TheraPsil/featured
• Learn more about the Podcasthon movement: https://podcasthon.org/

Music credit: Music by Mass X Audio from Pixabay