Can Magic Mushrooms Mend A Broken Heart?

Yup, it’s Valentine’s Day again. The holiday some love to love and some love to hate. 

A Modern Way To Valentine’s Day

Here at Wholecelium we love love in all forms. Shrooms are famed for their ability to reinvigorate your passions for life, the universe and everything after all! We think that the modern way to appreciate Valentine’s Day is by expressing all kinds of love, not just romantic. Love for your friends, parents, your houseplants and especially yourself! 

Valentine’s Heartbreak

However, despite all the best intentions, sometimes we find ourselves on the wrong side of the bouquet of roses — chewing down on the thorns.

Break-ups and relationship endings are always hard, whether you’re the dumped, the dumpee, or even if the dumping was mutual. It’s still usually the end of someone’s presence in your life. (A friendship with an ex is a nice idea — but it’s not always possible) Depending on how significant the relationship, its ending can throw up all kinds of questions: who are you without that person? Who do you want to be? Will you find someone new? It can certainly be hard on both your self esteem and your sense of identity. 

So How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?

So, how do you mend a broken heart? 

Well, there’s no simple answer. The only thing that will definitely do that is time, unfortunately. However there are things you can do to aid and speed along the process. A good support network of friends and family, self care, and a therapy or meditation regime is essential. Another thing you could add to this mix is magic mushrooms.  

Now, hear us out. We’re not suggesting that immediately after a tearful break-up you take a huge dose of shrooms. When you are feeling emotionally vulnerable or unstable, psychedelics are not a sensible idea. Neither is drinking heavily or going wild on your social media account. As a magic mushroom trip can be an intense experience, it is key to ensure that you are in a strong and secure mindset — that you are not using it as a means of ‘escape’.

However, shrooms can help with some of the symptoms that can occur as a result of a break-up. Depression, anxiety or even PTSD can occur after a particularly taxing split. Recent scientific study into the effect of psilocybin (from magic mushrooms and truffles) on these conditions has found that it can both alleviate and treat them. 

Microdosing As A Tool For Healing

If you are still feeling quite fragile, microdosing psilocybin could be an essential tool to get you back on track. Sometimes after a break-up it is hard to motivate yourself to get out of bed, focus, or just be in the moment — especially if that certain someone is still looming large in your mind. These are the beneficial effects microdosing can give:

• Improved mental health (such as a reduction in anxiety and depression symptoms which can appear or be exacerbated due to heartbreak)
• Improved and eased social interactions (great for getting back out there 😉 )
• A release of creativity
• An increase in energy
• Higher focus
• Better concentration

Tripping For Transcendence

If you are feeling like making a larger spiritual splash, a full shake-up of your psyche post break up — you could take a full magic mushroom trip. It is important to only do so if you feel mentally strong enough for it, however. It also helps if you have prior experience with psychedelics. 

Tripping to transcendence certainly beats getting a crazy post-split haircut or outlandish new wardrobe! 

The great thing about a magic mushroom trip is it is entirely your experience. After a break up, we can get caught in a loop of only thinking about ourselves in relation to our former partner — as opposed to thinking about ourselves as a complete person who existed before we met them — and continues to exist after them. The introspection you can achieve while tripping on psilocybin will give you clarity, and help you process what you have been through. 

It’s an extreme example, but this is why psilocybin is so effective as a tool for end-of-life care. It helps the user gain acceptance and assuage the anxiety of the unknown — hence why it’s being rolled out across countries like Canada as a groundbreaking therapeutic treatment. In many ways a break-up requires a similar form of acceptance — a letting go of what can’t be changed. 

Breaking-Up With Your Ego

Psilocybin is also a hero when it comes to grappling with the ego. The ego, it is true, often sustains the worst injuries in a break-up. Our ego is our self-image and understanding of ourselves, and if we feel like we have been rejected it hurts. In fact studies show that rejection actually fires up the same areas of the brain that physical pain does. Heartbreak is not just an emotional ouchie! 

So, when our ego suffers this feeling of rejection it makes us question who we are. We end up running round and round in circles of self doubt, which can manifest unhealthy psychological and behavioural patterns.

What psilocybin can do is loosen the clutches of the ego by temporarily quieting the DMN, (or Default Mode Network). This is the part of your brain that controls this sense of self and image, which, if it becomes overactive can cause excessive anxiety and negative thoughts. This quieting can give you the time and space to see past your hurt, and assess things clearly, to help you move on.  

Connect To A Universe Full Of Love

At high doses psilocybin can give you the most amazing gift of all — ego death (or dissolution). This is when you are completely freed from the constructed self. It is comparative to the idea of spiritual enlightenment. By freeing yourself from the ego’s cage you can separate yourself from your heartbreak and see the bigger picture. A break-up becomes less painful when you realize you are connected a universe full of love.

At base it just helps you take things less personally. All relationships are different, and sometimes they just don’t work — it’s no one’s fault. A trip can help you see that. 

So, Happy Valentine’s folks! Especially to those healing their heartache. We are sending out all the warm and fuzzy vibes. 

However You Celebrate Is Up To You!

And if you want another kind of shroomy Valentine, you could put a spin on the traditional V-day chocolates by making our tasty, trippy magic truffle chocolates!

Or, take things up a level by checking out our sex on shrooms deep dive 🔥 . 

However, you celebrate (or not!) this February 14th is up to you!