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Flip the Script with Vic is a sacred space for real conversations with real women 🩷 Hosted by Victoria Nielsen—intuitive healer, mama, and space-holder for the divine feminine—this podcast amplifies women’s voices through raw interviews, intimate solocasts, and unfiltered conversations on motherhood, mysticism, psychedelics, ancestral healing, spirituality, identity, and more.
What began as a personal exploration is now a communal prayer: a gathering place for cycle-breakers, mothers, mystics, creatives, witches, and wild ones redefining what it means to be a woman in today’s world.
Every episode is an invitation to remember that your voice matters. That your truth matters. Together, we walk in beauty, become the prayer, and flip the script.
Speaker A [00:00:00]:
Hello loves. Welcome to another episode of flip the script with Vic. It's your host, Victoria Nielsen. Before we jump into today's episode, I'm super excited to share with you two upcoming in person events over the next couple of months. If you are in the Atlanta area, I would love to invite you to Dirty south yoga fest. It's celebrating its 10th year. This year. I will be teaching on Sunday of the festival.
Speaker A [00:00:25]:
So August 25 at 10:00 a.m. an hour long Kundalini yoga class. It's going to be amazing. They also have so many other fantastic classes throughout the weekend, and early bird pricing is still available for the next ten days. So get yourself a ticket. You can come for the day, you can come the whole weekend. And then in November, I am hosting a micro retreat with my amazing mentor and psilocybin friend, mushroom Mamacita Bijuu, as well as another amazing facilitator and friend, Kirsten. So they are bringing their beautiful micro retreat experience here to Atlanta to share how to microdose and anything you ever wanted to know about psilocybin.
Speaker A [00:01:10]:
So if you are psilocybin curious, then this event is perfect for you. You will learn more about dosages and all of that kind of stuff, but I will also be leading you through a sound bath and some somatic work so that you can experience firsthand in a really safe and health container what this beautiful plant medicine, this beautiful plant ally can do for you. So that's going to be November 3, which is also a Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. and the space where we're holding this is just divine. So it's going to be such a beautiful day together. I'm going to leave links in the show notes so that you can get tickets to both experiences because I would just love to squeeze you and hold space with you. And I, you know, microdosing and psilocybin in general I've talked a bit about on the podcast, but I feel like what it's really helped me make friends with is my mind.
Speaker A [00:02:13]:
So something that came up at the retreat in May that was a psilocybin retreat, was me battling my own mind and me trying to force control right of where my mind wanted to go during the journey and things like that. And I have a very powerful mind. As a Gemini rising in astrology, you know that Geminis are all about communication, but also about the power of the mind. And even though Gemini can get a really bad rap, I feel like you know, you get called two sided things like that. I personally think it's because Geminis have so many sides, and they really embrace their multidimensionality. And so at this retreat, I was asked the question, could I make friends with my mind? Could I begin seeing it as an asset instead of something that was a detriment? Because, you know, gosh, probably since college, I have told myself the story that I have too many thoughts, that my head is too full and I need to dumb it down. That's why I started smoking weed, honestly, was because I was telling myself that story, that it was. It was numbing.
Speaker A [00:03:21]:
It was allowing me to, you know, actually operate at a calm and normal level without my mind racing. Eventually, that completely flipped because I was smoking so much, I was making myself paranoid, and it was making the racing mind far worse. But I now see that, a, that was a story that I was telling myself, but b, I was letting myself fall into the shadow side of the mind. Because everything has a shadow side, right? Everything has a light side and a dark side. And it's not that the shadow side is bad, but it is something that you have to watch out for, right? And there's no avoiding it because the earth needs balance. So there's always going to be a shadow side to things, but you have to just be aware of that so that you don't get caught in that loop, right. And so, you know, for much of my life, I was caught in the negative loop of the mind, of the racing thoughts, of the anxiety of the living in the future, because I wasn't able to turn my mind off and actually be present in my own body. And so working with psilocybin and other plant allies like cacao and even, you know, we these days, in a.
Speaker A [00:04:35]:
In a more intentional setting, has been really helpful for me to unwind these stories and to begin to see that actually the way that my mind can flit from topic to topic to topic is a really beautiful thing and that I can make connections that other people don't or maybe don't see right away. And what a beautiful gift. You know, on the Internet, women have been calling it neuro spicy. And I do say that I would identify myself as someone that's neurospicy or neurodivergent, where your brain doesn't always think linearly, and you're actually thinking very non linear. Linearly. Wow. That's hard to say. But you're making obscure connections that actually perhaps make more sense or make sense on a different level.
Speaker A [00:05:32]:
And can potentially get you where you want to go faster, right? Because you see that actually it's not from a to b to c to d. You can go from a to f to g to z, and that you're going to get yourself there probably faster and in a much more easeful way. And so once I started to see that actually my brain is such an asset because I can make these really powerful connections that perhaps other people can't, then I have also come to realize that I need certain tools to be able to use this to my benefit, right. I can very much go off still in the loop in a spiral if I don't allow myself to move this energy into the body, if I don't create that safety in the body so that I can be fully present with what's in front of me instead of running ten different scenarios in my head, right? And so the psilocybin has really helped me see that I make these really obscure connections that don't always make sense to other people, but that ultimately move myself and those around me forward in a really beautiful way. And I think there are more of us out there that are neuro spicy and neuro divergent in this way that really need to start looking at it as an asset. Honestly, you know how your. I can probably tell you that you're neurodivergent? If you were tested when you were a kid and told that you were gifted, you most likely have a neurodivergent brain. And you know what? It's no wonder a lot of these kids, myself included, ended up having anxiety because we weren't taught how to work with our brains and instead we work against them.
Speaker A [00:07:26]:
And it's not about dumbing ourselves down, perhaps, but we are putting way too much stimuli into our brains. So it's no wonder that we have ten tabs open at a time, because we are trying to live like everyone else, who are always getting sensory input from a million different things. And it's no wonder I'm making this connection as I'm talking out loud right now, that I'm. I can be really sensitive sometimes to sounds and sensations where with the kids, oh, my God, if there's too much noise happening, like overstimulated mom is a real thing. But now I'm kind of putting together that the reason I'm probably more overstimulated than some moms is because of my neurodivergence, is because I'm taking sensory inputs from a million different places anyway, and creating new pathways with them and creating new ways forward with them. So when you've got the tv blaring and the kids yelling and dinner cooking and, you know, the dog barking, like it's gonna short circuit the system, because the system is already working differently than everyone else's. So if this resonates with you, I hope you realize that your brain is not broken, that being neurodivergent is actually a really cool thing, and that you can help yourself and your neurodivergence with some of these spiritual practices, like microdosing and working with plant allies and the kundalini and the breath work that I talk about all the time and the other somatic practices, because we, more than anyone else in the population, need this work to come into our bodies, because we are so in our heads all of the time. We have the brain power, right? We have all of that energy.
Speaker A [00:09:14]:
But when we don't take the time to bring it down into the body and to actually alchemize and move it, it's no wonder we feel anxious. It's no wonder we feel the constant cycle of the brain. It's no wonder, right, that we feel all of these things. So microdosing is a beautiful way to support yourself, because, first of all, you're able to better see perhaps the cycles or the loops from a place of neutrality, but then you're also moving them through the body, and then you are creating new habits and new pathways. And so I've seen it happen in real time where I was able to realize something was happening for my greatest good, instead of saying, oh, my God, this is, you know, this is shit. This is, you know, this is so bad. No, it's not. It's coming from a neutral place.
Speaker A [00:10:13]:
Then you see the opportunity in what's happening, just like, you know, the. The opportunity with my brain power, right, that it's not a bad thing. And so I don't even know where I'm going with this at this point, but I feel like the power of my mind has been something that I'm really enjoying and that I am really using plant allies to maximize in a really beautiful way. And I really think that I. Yeah, I'm able to lean into that as, like, a strength, right? And that, you know, maybe the. The linear thinking in the organization just, like, isn't my jam. And that's okay. And that's okay if it's not your jam either, right? Like, that's just not the way that your brain works.
Speaker A [00:11:04]:
And there is only so much that we can do in our healing work. And even in working with plant allies and other somatic practices, because our essence and who we are is our own unique frequency. And the more that we can realize that these things are our superpower, hopefully we will be less likely to want to change them and less likely to want to alter them, because that's not what this healing journey is about. Yes, we want to change detrimental habits and behaviors, but we, we don't want to change who we are. We actually want to uncover who we are underneath all of the societal bullshit and shame and what have you. And so I'm really leaning into my differences these past couple of weeks and seeing them as, yeah, really cool and unique things and reframing a lot of the way that I talk to myself and I talk to my brain, because now I'm not fighting myself anymore. You know, now it's not an uphill battle because I'm using that energy in a really beautiful way and letting it be okay. Right.
Speaker A [00:12:21]:
So I have a million ideas all the time, and sometimes I get really caught up in like, well, when is this an idea that actually needs to move forward? And when is this just like a seed that needs to be planted? And I think I'm realizing that it's okay if I'm working on like, ten different things, maybe not ten, that's probably too much for my energy. But if I have five different creative projects happening because they fulfill a different part of my dimensionality and that actually, when I embrace the fact that I have all of these facets, that I have all of these sides to my personality, that's when I am my complete and full expression of myself. And that is when I feel free and abundant because I'm no longer denying a part of myself. And so loving on my mind feels like I'm finally not denying that part of myself that that is smart and takes pride in my brain and in the way that I think about things and the way that I look at things and the way that it is different than perhaps my peers or others. And, yeah, that I'm able to move through the world that way. So, yeah, that's what I got for you today. Just wanted to talk up our plant allies. Psilocybin microdosing, but also just embracing my brain.
Speaker A [00:13:42]:
Lately, my brain is actually a really fun place to be. And I have realized that more over the last 30 days of this microdosing journey that, like, I am enjoying being inward and being with my thoughts and that I can create whole worlds in my mind. It's why I love to read books honestly, is because I am a very visual person, and so how can I use that to create the world that I want, the vision for the future that I want, right? Instead of looking at it as a bad thing that my brain is always working. What a beautiful thing that it is, right? So check out the show notes for tickets to dirty south yoga Fest here in August and then that micro retreat in November. Please like rate, subscribe, review all those good things. Sharing this podcast means the world to me, so that even more amazing women who are on a spiritual path and a spiritual journey can be with us and perhaps expand and shift their perspective about something that they didn't know so much about. I love you guys. Thanks for being here with me.
Speaker A [00:14:56]:
I'll see you next week. Be good to one another. Bye.