Cody shares a teaching from the Grandmother Medicine about intergenerational traumas and masculine and feminine energies.  Then Cody sits down with Lauren Taus to talk about intergenerational trauma, death, healing through the body, bringing Laurens father to the medicine, and more! (Time Stamps Below) Lauren Taus graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University in 2004 with a BA in Religion before continuing on to NYU for her Masters in Social Work. Lauren is licensed as a clinical therapist in both New York and California with a specialty in addiction and trauma treatment.  As a clinician, Lauren integrates alternative modalities of treatment into her work. She trained with David Emerson under the supervision of Bessel van der Kolk at The Trauma Institute in Boston in trauma sensitive yoga, and she’s trained by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for MDMA assisted psychotherapy for complex PTSD 0:06 - Disclaimer 1:53 - Story from an Ayahuasca Ceremony  17:21 - Lauren Taus intro  18:20 - Lauren Taus interview, "you do not have to be good" 19:50 - Therapy, eating disorder, and how death can be an invitation to life 21:58 - Intergenerational Psychedelic Work 24:10 - Religion  26:43 - Returning to our own innate goodness and intuition  29:57 - Family Healing and bringing Lauren's dad to the medicine at age 75, and being more of who you really are 33:28 - Healing relationships and having more happiness and connection  34:30 - Generational Trauma 40:00 - Feeling and Healing through the body 45:44 - Gabor Mate and the Mother Wound 52:13 - Creating Consciously and dropping baggage to honor our ancestors 53:30 - creating hierarchies and intention 56:51 - drugs 1:07:20 - growth 1:11:48 - being in a body based practice to get into the body 1:16:25 - go deeper into your own heart! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.