Meet Heather Lee

We recently connected with Heather Lee and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Heather, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I am deeply proud of my resilience. In fact, it’s my favorite human quality—and I’m especially in awe of the resilience of women. Our lives are filled with emotional, mental, and physical challenges, and yet we continue to rise. The way we respond, adapt, grow, and move forward is a reflection of a profound inner strength and wisdom that women hold in abundance.

When I reflect on the path I’ve walked—my parents’ divorce when I was just three, being raised by a hardworking single mother, navigating my own divorce and financial hardship while raising two small children, over a decade as a single mom, and overcoming breast cancer—I see how each challenge shaped me. These experiences called me into a deeper, more attuned relationship with myself. They taught me to dig deep and live from a place of trust, faith, optimism, and empowerment.

Resilience became the foundation of my entrepreneurial spirit and my ability to manifest what I envisioned. It’s not just about bouncing back—it’s about stepping forward, believing in yourself, and choosing to make things happen rather than waiting for them to happen.

I wear my resilience like a badge of honor. It is a quality earned—worthy of reverence.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

As a therapist with over thirty years of clinical experience, it’s incredibly exciting to now be among the first Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapists in the nation. I founded Medicine Women Retreats and co-founded Wellness and Wisdom Journeys—two of the first psychedelic wellness retreat companies devoted exclusively to serving women over fifty.

This is such a rich and meaningful niche. I often describe my work as guiding women into the “Age of the Sage”—supporting them on plant medicine journeys that awaken inner wisdom and tap into the larger wave of the Great Women’s Wisdom Awakening. I’ve been honored to pioneer psychedelic wellness experiences for older women and for women facing cancer, two populations often underrepresented in this space.

My work has been featured in a CBS special on the psychedelic renaissance with Lisa Ling, as well as in a documentary by Reason TV highlighting a free psilocybin retreat I facilitated for women with cancer.

I’m currently completing a book—a soulful celebration of the deep wisdom and profound healing that this sacred plant medicine can catalyze in women. At 62, I feel more alive, purposeful, and passionately aligned with my calling than ever. I’m excited to continue manifesting in flow, in service to women seeking mystical, magical, and truly transformational experiences.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

The Three Most Important Qualities for Life and Success

Belief · Faith · Trust
Whatever word you choose—belief, faith, trust—the bottom line is this: you must absolutely believe, to your core, that you can achieve and manifest what you desire. This unwavering inner knowing is the foundation of all success. It’s closely tied to optimism—because you simply can’t create a meaningful life if your internal dialogue is rooted in doubt, fear, or pessimism.

This is the heart of the quantum truth of manifesting: you have to envision what you want and feel it so deeply, so vividly, that it’s as if it has already happened—you’re just catching up to it. One of my favorite mantras is: “See it. Feel it. Be one with it.”
Another I keep posted everywhere: “Invite. Allow. Receive.” These mantras keep me anchored in the energetic flow of creation.

Take Bold and Joyful Action
Don’t wait for opportunities to knock—build the door and invite them in. Take initiative. Be brave. Let joy fuel your momentum. Bold action, rooted in intention and joy, activates possibility.

Case in point: I had a dream of visiting Tasmania, a bucket list destination. Rather than just hoping it might happen, I took inspired action. I researched local universities, found a psychology professor interested in psychedelics, connected with him on LinkedIn, and sent a warm message expressing my interest in visiting and possibly speaking to his class. He replied the next day—not only with an invitation, but with offers of accommodations and introductions to others in the field. That’s the power of joyful, aligned action. Make the choice to take the chance.

Soak It In · Soak It Up
Be present to the magic. Don’t rush past the beauty of what you’re living and creating. Celebrate the small wins. Give thanks even for the things that haven’t happened yet—they’re still part of your unfolding story. Let gratitude flow not just for milestones, but for the quiet, spacious in-between moments.

Gratitude and awe are magnetic—they call more goodness into your life. So pause. Breathe it in. Soak it up.

How would you describe your ideal client?

I often say that I work in service of the mushrooms. After more than thirty years as a therapist, I don’t say that lightly. The healing, transformation, and reconnection to inner wisdom that I witness in women during psilocybin journeys is nothing short of profound. It humbles me every time.

So many of the women I work with come to me feeling as though they’ve lost touch with a vital part of themselves—their intuition, their inner knowing, their deep feminine wisdom. In the safe, skillfully held container of a psilocybin journey, something beautiful happens: they remember. They reconnect with that ancient, wise presence within that has always been there, quietly waiting to guide and support them.

There’s something deeply synchronistic—almost magical—about how women find their way to this work, and to me. It’s no coincidence they’re called magic mushrooms. There is magic in this medicine, magic in the natural world, and magic within each of us—we just have to remember it.

Perhaps it’s no accident that we’re in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance right now. I believe the world is calling for more women’s wisdom. And I believe this medicine is one of the ways we’re answering that call.

If you feel the stirrings of that call within you, I invite you to reach out. Join the awakening. Step into the sacred remembering of who you are.

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