My Story

I am a passionate 54-year-old masculine woman who profoundly values the impact of psilocybin mushrooms. I have dedicated myself to sharing my knowledge and experience in dosing methodologies, journey preparation, psychedelic consultation, education, and support, with an emphasis on integration, addiction recovery, trauma healing, self-realization, mindfulness, consciousness expansion, shadow work, spiritual awakening, and mushroom cultivation. I guide individuals in personalized microdosing protocols and offer mezzo and macrodose mushroom journeys through customized support tailored to their needs. In addition to plant medicine guidance, I facilitate one-on-one integration sessions and integration groups to help people understand their lives and psychedelic insights better. It is a sincere joy to provide mentorship in mushroom cultivation and support for aspiring psychedelic guides, facilitators, and integration coaches on their journey.

My history is filled with turmoil and adversity as I grappled daily with the complexities of embracing being a masculine woman with unresolved trauma. In my attempt to cope, I engaged in behaviors that were detrimental to my well-being. I frequently found myself engulfed by intense feelings of anger, depression, anxiety, disillusionment, and fear. To manage these overwhelming emotions and unprocessed physical trauma, I turned to excessive consumption of sugar, alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine. Gratefully, I have experienced a profound personal reformation through the transformative experiences and profound insights gained from using psilocybin mushrooms. Integrating these experiences has been pivotal in my journey of personal evolution.

In January 2018, I was going through a life crisis after injuring both shoulders in a work-related accident two months before. It was during this time that I reconnected with psilocybin mushrooms. This initial experience allowed me to connect with parts of myself that had been closed off for decades, such as my inner child and psychic awareness. It felt important to allow myself this deep personal access, a wonderful break from daily alcohol and cannabis excess. So, I started a regular monthly regimen of macrodosing mushrooms, which, over two years, led me to transform my unhealthy relationship with myself and my relationships with alcohol and cannabis. It also helped me end my sugar and nicotine addictions, allowing me the excellent opportunity to reinvent myself from the heart. Mushrooms have transformed my life by granting me access to higher self-awareness and, ultimately, higher consciousness, allowing me to truly and deeply connect to my heart, compassion, and purpose. This connection paved the way for me to heal and process crippling lifelong depression, anxiety, CPTSD, gender confusion, physical, emotional, and sexual trauma, and multiple addictions. Mushrooms allowed me to accept fully, appreciate, and love myself as I am, incredibly masculine, yet still a woman. I lived most of my life with perceived inadequacies and failures, all of which I have had the opportunity to heal and transform. Gratefully and remarkably, mushrooms have reminded me of my purpose to help others understand and safely access the healing and expanding properties they offer.

Fast forward to today, I am amazed daily by my achievements over the last six years. I am grateful for my transformation through the use of psilocybin mushrooms and for having the courage to integrate the experiences they have provided. I am honored to my core to embrace the path of a psychedelic facilitator, researcher, educator, public speaker, mentor, community builder, writer, activist, & mycologist. In January 2020, I founded Michou Olivera Psychedelic Guidance & Integration after two years of consistent, life-transforming psilocybin mushroom usage and integration and profound inspiration to help others heal and transform their lives in similar ways. Additionally, I co-founded the Western Massachusetts Psychedelic Society and host the Compassionate Integration Zoom, a weekly online community-based psychedelic integration gathering. I also host MycoMonday, a monthly local gathering in Western Massachusetts focused on mycology education and support, integration, networking, and community building.