Psychedelics & Parenthood
Trace Lee (Founder & Sterward, Moms on Mushrooms)
Mikaela de la Myco, PhD (Educator & Founder of mushWOMB & Mothers of the Mushroom)
Glauber Loures de Assis, PhD (Executive Director of the Psychedelic Parenthood Community)
Monday 28 September, 2026 7PM CEST (6PM BST, 1PM EDT, 10AM PDT)
Online via Zoom
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Psychedelics have long been used in communal and relational settings, yet mainstream conversation about them tends to isolate the individual experience from the wider circles it belongs to, including that of the family. Because psychedelics remain taboo, the questions parents face around pregnancy, disclosure and raising children while exploring these medicines themselves are taboo within a taboo, and rarely discussed in any depth.
This session moves through the questions that parents navigating psychedelic use are actually facing, and that most public conversation still avoids. What does it mean to use psychedelics during pregnancy, postpartum or while breastfeeding, and how does the research and risk profile differ across these stages? How do different cultures and lineages approach these choices? How do parents decide what to share with their children about their own experiences, and when? Across ceremonial traditions and contemporary communities alike, the age and context in which a young person might first encounter these medicines remains one of the field’s most sensitive and least discussed topics, and one where ceremonial and cultural framing can default to a fairly narrow, nuclear-family lens even as family structures themselves take many forms, including single parents, queer families and multi-generational households.
This session moves through the questions that parents navigating psychedelic use are actually facing, and that most public conversation still avoids. What does it mean to use psychedelics during pregnancy, postpartum or while breastfeeding, and how does the research and risk profile differ across these stages? How do different cultures and lineages approach these choices? How do parents decide what to share with their children about their own experiences, and when? Across ceremonial traditions and contemporary communities alike, the age and context in which a young person might first encounter these medicines remains one of the field’s most sensitive and least discussed topics, and one where ceremonial and cultural framing can default to a fairly narrow, nuclear-family lens even as family structures themselves take many forms, including single parents, queer families and multi-generational households.
Your Key Learnings and Takeaways
- How different cultural and ceremonial traditions approach children’s contact with psychedelics, and across a range of family structures
- What is currently known, and unknown, about psychedelic use during pregnancy, postpartum and breastfeeding
- What responsible use looks like in practical terms for parents navigating their own psychedelic exploration
- Practical approaches to talking with children about a parent’s own psychedelic experiences
- How psychedelic communities are building intergenerational structures of care
- Ways to navigate these questions without a settled cultural consensus to draw on
This conversation is designed for parents integrating psychedelic exploration into family life, practitioners and guides working with parents and families, and anyone thinking seriously about what psychedelic culture owes to the generations coming after it.
