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Stroud author launches magic mushroom memoir

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Stroud poet and author Laura Connochie has launched her third book, a spiritual memoir called “What the Mushrooms Told Me”, at a private event in Woodruff’s café in Stroud.

This unique book details a series of magic mushroom trips (or “journeys”) started in 2019, when she went to Jamaica for a week-long psilocybin retreat in the hope of curing her worsening migraines, which she’d been suffering from since her early twenties. 

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Tom Sears and Laura Connochie

An experienced copyeditor, Connochie began writing down her journeys as part of her integration process, while also wanting to keep a record of the otherworldly visions and experiences.

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However, as the trip notes accumulated, friends started asking to read them and then the mushrooms themselves told her she should publish her journeys in a book. The end result is a deeply personal account that takes you through her childhood and other personal struggles, while also revealing universal insights that can help everyone find more inner peace and happiness. The book’s striking cover was designed by Stroud-based artist and illustrator Tom Sears, who was also at the launch event.

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Speaking about the publication of her first prose book, Connochie said: “Writing WTMTM wasn’t easy: I was trying to capture these indescribable mushroom experiences, while also attempting to demystify the process for myself. Offering up these journeys publicly in the form of my third book has been scary and a huge exercise in vulnerability, but the mushrooms gave me a rare gift when they shared their wisdom and now I want to pass it on to other people.”

What the Mushrooms Told Me is available now on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. Connochie has also previously published two poetry collections on Amazon, No Money in Poetry and Bread-and-Butter Beings.

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