“What I experienced with ayahuasca was not an escape from grief, but a direct engagement with it… It was a fundamentally different process than the one I had relied on throughout my career—not control or suppression, but forgiveness, surrender and understanding.”
By: Kemmi Sadler, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
Life has an interesting way of opening your eyes—and your mind. Over the course of my law enforcement career, I built my identity around evidence, discipline and control. And to my surprise, it was that mindset that ultimately led me to reconsider everything I thought I knew about psychedelics.
My story begins with Amel. She was in her sixties and working for the U.S. Embassy in Iraq on her second career when I arrived in 2006 as a bright-eyed young agent with the Diplomatic Security Service. In early 2007, her husband was kidnapped. Determined to save him, she went to deliver the ransom, and was taken herself. Neither of them survived.
For the next 18 years, I lived with the belief that I should have been able to protect her—or at least stop her from going.
That guilt had a way of surfacing at unexpected moments. I could feel how deeply grief
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