By Maya Richard-Craven, Photo: Yarygin/Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Guardian, August 28, 2022
Enter a room and notice the scent of wood. Palo santo, a unique bark that stems from the tropical forest of Ecuador, burns brightly. A statue of a dark-skinned African woman sits in the center, sea shells dangling from her body. A facilitator begins the psychedelic mushroom ceremony with music and prayer.
Amanda De Luz, a vice-president of operations at an automotive company by day, is wearing a white shawl and loose-fitting dress. She’s here at a healing center in the heart of Los Angeles with about 10 other Black mothers and women of color, who regularly gather together to take psilocybin mushrooms.
While it may seem unconventional, the mothers believe taking mushrooms has helped them become better parents, deal with stress and anxiety and heal from racial trauma.
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