Julie Cyvonne (she/her)

Julie Cyvonne joined Momma on August 31, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about Becoming a Psychedelic Facilitator & Guide

About Julie

Julie is a former attorney turned high-performance psychedelic coach and retreat leader. She helps high-achieving women who look successful on paper but feel exhausted, capped, or disconnected from the life they’re building get their spark back. Her work centers on the intentional, integrated use of psychedelics, primarily psilocybin and LSD, at both micro and macro levels. She brings a grounded, science-backed perspective  into a space a lot of women wouldn't picture themselves in. She makes this (oftentimes intimidating, scary, & overwhelming) field approachable, giving those who are curious and/or open the perfect door to walk through.

*the UNBREAKABLE program is a great entry point into microdosing - a complete protocol delivered to you entirely via text with actionable, quick, daily steps

Socials / Links for Guest Connection

• Website - https://www.juliecyvonne.com/ 

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliecyvonne

• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@juliecyvonne

References / Things Mentioned During the Stream

• Book Recommendation: How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan 

• Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age  

• Show Recommendation: Best Medicine 

• Microdosing Institute 

• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) 

• Favorite Poem: One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII By Pablo Neruda 

Episode Summary

Burned-out overachievers, the psychedelic-curious and the openly skeptical will all find something in this one, thanks to a former attorney who left law to guide people through microdosing and full-dose experiences.

Julie Cyvonne did everything success told her to do. She became a lawyer, passed multiple bars and felt miserable the entire time. In this episode of Even Tacos Fall Apart, she tells me how she left law and became a psychedelic coach and retreat leader for high-achieving women who look like they have it together and feel tapped out.

Her dad died when she was little and her brother is on the spectrum, so she felt pressure to act like an adult early. Law ended up on a list of things she was good at, and it never matched her values. Grading on a curve meant her wins came at someone else’s expense, and her core belief is that nobody wins unless everybody wins. Then 2020 happened. She took the California bar in February, and in March the firm she planned to join lost its West Coast office to the shutdown. She got certified as a coach, spent a year with one foot in law and one foot out, then went all in on coaching.

Psychedelics showed up through a company in San Diego making microdosing capsules. Julie read Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, paired microdosing with coaching tools for 30 days and says her anxiety and depression improved markedly after everything else had failed. She shared what she was doing, people asked her to teach them, and she became a facilitator. She pieced her training together from groups like MAPS and the Microdosing Institute, and she points out that Oregon and Colorado now have standardized programs.

Julie explains microdosing (a subperceptual amount, so you can still drive, parent and make dinner) versus macrodosing (a full dose with a guide in the room). She walks through the brain science of how psychedelics shift blood flow away from the amygdala and back to the prefrontal cortex, which is why moms in her programs say they respond instead of react. A facilitator handles dosage, protocol and safety, and has to stay neutral, since psychedelics make people highly suggestible.

She also gets specific about safety. Julie explains set and setting, why prep calls and “flight instructions” matter, and why she says no client of hers has ever had a bad trip. She screens out anyone with a personal or close family history of schizophrenia or bipolar I, and she looks for people willing to take radical responsibility for their lives. Her red flags for retreats and facilitators: no prep conversation before you show up and no integration after.

Integration is the heart of the episode. Insight without action gets you nowhere (her therapy example about a breakup that ends in a trip to Mexico is gold), and she says the heavy lifting starts once the trip is over.

We also tear into the myths. LSD does not scramble your brain, nobody jumped off a building thinking they could fly, and the egg in the frying pan commercial was propaganda. Julie works with Wall Street traders, ER docs, OR nurses, lawyers and moms, so the tie-dye commune stereotype is out. She covers how legality varies by state too.

She closes with a take on mental health labels. Say “I experience anxiety” instead of “I am anxious,” because whatever follows “I am” becomes your identity. Her dusty fridge theory goes with it: nobody is broken, we all just collect dust.