Ksenia Brief Podcast

125: Lessons from Ayahuasca and Alchemizing Grief into Presence—Jasmin Jenkins

Notes from episode:

Jasmin Jenkins (@jasmin.jenkins) is a dear friend, founder of Fall Up and an Integrative Grief Guide on a mission to alchemize grief into presence. We discuss:

• Jasmin’s healing journey after losing her brother to suicide and mother to cancer

• How she got into plant medicine

• The fear of being out of control

• Asking for what you need

• Exercising open communication in relationships

• Sacred shedding of relationships that no longer serve you

• Being in highest alignment with life

• Finding wholeness in the midst of feeling broken

• How to know you’re ready for plant medicine

• The spectrum of grief

• Alchemizing grief into the joy of presence

• The Four Invitations of Grief framework

• Embracing avoidance to feel as a pathway to awakening

• How Ayahuasca impacted Jasmin’s career

• Spirit-led investing