The Opposite of Hiding

How Plant Medicine Transformed My Life

De: Shayla Malek

Narrado por: Shayla Malek

"I know I’ve told myself before that I want to heal, and I’m going to do better, and somehow I always ended up self-sabotaging. This time feels different. I feel lighter in my heart since I started doing the plant medicine. Each of those lanterns the ayahuasca laid as a trail for me to follow out of my pit of depression is still burning brightly inside my chest. They are making me glow from the inside in a swirling array of fluorescent, fractalizing patterns, repeating and repeating in on themselves."

In her debut memoir The Opposite Of Hiding: How Plant Medicine Transformed My Life, Shayla Malek takes you on a captivating firsthand account of her journey from her early years of growing up with a father who was a Holocaust survivor, through to her discovery of the healing potential of psychedelics. Her words paint vivid pictures of not just how she healed her inter-generational trauma and then the PTSD of her father’s suicide, but how she found love, joy, and peace, and was able to bring her true self out of hiding.

Have you ever been told that your pain didn’t matter because, compared to others, you haven’t suffered enough? Maybe you relate to feeling depressed, anxious, or dissociated, and are desperate for ways to change? Are you curious about what a plant-medicine assisted journey looks like? Or maybe you just want to read a story of hope and healing. No matter what, The Opposite Of Hiding is for you.

©2022, 2023 Michelle Malek (P)2023 Michelle Malek

Such an amazing story of life, survival, healing and finding oneself.

Thank you Shayla for sharing YOUR story and journey to discovering and healing yourself. Bearing your life’s story and how you found yourself amidst all of the challenges you faced throughout your life, resonated deeply with me on so many levels. My parents like yours were immigrants, struggling to do right by their family, while not dealing with their own depression and trauma. I am learning now how to unwind and unpack all of the generational trauma. Healing and discovering who my true being is. Your book leant me good insight into more work I need to do on those patterns that no longer serve me. Like you Co-counseling (Co Co) saved my life and gave me tools to process all of the heavy things that bubble up. Now it’s time to use those skills to let go of the patterns that no longer serve me and grow!

A Helpful Example of Dealing With Real Life

Shayla does an amazing job of sharing the emotional roller coaster of life in this book. She does a great job of highlighting how it feels to change fundamental beliefs and the way that plant medicine helped her through that process.