48-year-old founded ‘Moms on Mushrooms’ to share the practice of microdosing for mental health Tracey Tee, 48, and her business partner spent nearly a decade building a successful brand and traveling across the country performing parent-focused comedy sets.
"And then Covid [and] the lockdowns happened," she says. "Within two weeks, we had to cancel nearly 100 shows for 2020, and lost everything. Almost a 10-year business just slipped through our fingers like sand. And the grief of that, especially what felt like an epic failure that just wasn’t our fault, was intense and then compounded with the lockdown."
Tee was juggling responsibilities like supporting her daughter with online school and navigating a new normal. She was also on "a spiritual exploration" for years before Covid-19 rocked her world and everyone else’s, which was largely due to medical issues she was experiencing.
When Tee was 41, she was prescribed a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a common form of antidepressant, to support her as she transitioned into menopause after undergoing a full hysterectomy. The sudden shift into menopause led to major changes to her physical and mental health, Tee says, and taking an SSRI helped but "no one ever said when to stop taking it."
But what she stumbled on during the pandemic led her to deeper spiritual exploration, she says. And eventually a new business venture.
"Some girlfriends invited me to a camping trip that summer [in 2020] to just camp out with some moms," Tee says. "And do some shrooms."
At the time, Tee had never tried recreational drugs, but was interested in plant-based medicine and had been studying psychedelics for years. She lives in Colorado where psilocybin mushrooms are legal to grow, use and share . Money Report
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I "just kind of always thought, ‘Well, I’m a mom. I can’t do that. Like, that’s not for me,’" Tee says. "And when I finally did do it, it was just the most confirming, life-affirming night."Prior to her first experience with psilocybin, Tee had decided she wanted to […]
48-year-old founded ‘Moms on Mushrooms’ to share the practice of microdosing for mental health
