Taking Back My Mind

Taking Back My Mind details my journey overcoming severe clinical depression with the use of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms." My story begins two years ago in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where divorce, my dad's death, and several major health issues plunged me down the dark rabbit hole of depression. After ten months of intense suffering and falling victim to pharmaceutical drugs, I reached the brink of suicide. Then, on December 22, 2017, the mushrooms jolted me out of my deadly downward spiral, literally overnight, and sparked a magical and transformative journey that eventually led me back to Mexico, this time to the mountains of southern Oaxaca, to shoot a documentary, a concurrent side project, about my journey with the local indigenous Mazatec who continue to use these plant medicines for their own mental, emotional, and spiritual well being, as they have done for thousands of years. Taking Back My Mind is the story of my journey.