Before the Journey.
A guide to the days and weeks before you meet your guide.
The journey belongs to you and your guide. What comes before belongs to you alone. This is the quiet, reflective work of the weeks and days ahead: your intention, your readiness, your fear met in daylight, so that on the day your only task is to arrive and let go.
The quiet work
Before the Journey.
A guided high-dose journey is held by your guide. But how you meet it is shaped long before the day, in the weeks of quiet preparation only you can do. The same experience met with a clear intention and a settled nervous system is a different experience entirely from one met unprepared.
Most people are left to prepare alone, or not at all. They arrive with a date and a hope, and little language for what they are walking toward. This course is that language. It does not cover sourcing, dosing, or how to run the journey. It prepares the person: your why, your intention, your readiness, and your willingness to let go when the time comes.
The journey is a few hours. The preparation is the weeks before. Arrive knowing why you are here, and your only task on the day is to let go.
3 Phases. 11 reflective lessons.
A countdown to the threshold. Eight of the eleven lessons are your own inner preparation, and each one opens into a journal you can return to. Move at the pace the weeks allow. The intention you shape here is what you carry to your guide.
Four lessons to get honest about why you are going, what a hero dose actually is, whether this is yours to walk right now, and what you are carrying in. The groundwork the intention grows from.
Four lessons at the heart of the course. Find your intention, name what you want to turn toward, learn to hold it loosely, and meet your fear on the page before you meet it in the dark.
Three lessons to clear your outer life and soften your body, understand the guide relationship and the agreements to settle beforehand, and distil everything into the few words you carry over the threshold.
Before the Journey.
A guide to the days and weeks before you meet your guide.
Begin Preparing · Included with MembershipFrequently asked
How far in advance should I start this course?
Ideally two to four weeks before your journey, so the reflection has time to settle. It also works closer to the day. Start when you can. The point is to arrive at the door knowing why you are walking through it.
Does this course tell me how to take psilocybin, or where to get it?
No. This course prepares the person, not the substance. It does not cover sourcing, dosing, or how to run the journey. It assumes you already have a guide and a plan in place, and it prepares you inwardly for the experience you have chosen.
I already have a guide. Do I still need to prepare?
Yes, and that is exactly who this course is for. Your guide holds the day itself. The weeks and days before are yours, and they shape how you meet the experience. This course is the inner preparation only you can do.
What if I take medication or have a mental health history?
The course includes an honest readiness lesson covering commonly cited contraindications, including certain medications and personal or family history. It is not medical advice. Bring every medication and any relevant history to a qualified professional and to your guide well before the day.
Is this therapy?
No. This course is educational and reflective. It is not therapy, diagnosis, medical advice, or crisis support. If your preparation surfaces something difficult, please reach out to a qualified mental-health professional alongside this course.
A course by Olivia Fox, founder of My Inner Foundation. She writes about what she has lived, worked through herself, and sat with in others, translating real inner work into language that is precise, honest, and genuinely useful.
Written with care
A gentle note before you begin
My Inner Foundation courses are educational and reflective. They are not therapy, diagnosis, medical advice, or crisis support. This course does not provide sourcing or dosing guidance. Decisions about psilocybin, medication, and whether a journey is right for you belong with a qualified professional and your guide. If you are in crisis or need urgent mental-health support, please contact a qualified professional or local emergency services.