I’m a mom who micro-doses on magic mushrooms to be ‘present’

Tracey Tee went more than four decades without trying psychedelics — then, she discovered microdosing ‘shrooms worked like magic.

At 44, the Colorado mom went on a camping excursion with fellow parents and found “relief” in “magic mushrooms,” which now allow her to be “present” at home.

“It was, like, the most beautiful, confirming, joyful experience I’d really ever had,” Tee told ABC News.

“I guess, relief might be one word that everyone could, like, universally understand,” she continued. “Like, your mood might change to a place where you feel more stable and more in a place of stasis.”

Psychedelic mushrooms, which contain the hallucinogenic and psychoactive compound psilocybin, have been touted in recent years as potentially holding the key to treating eating disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and even long COVID symptoms.

While the fungi are still illegal in many states across the country, places such as Colorado have decriminalized magic mushrooms.

Tee’s — both literal and figurative — trip inspired her to microdose or to take a fraction of a typical dose for mood improvement.

The mom has even launched a private, moms-only forum dubbed “Moms on Mushrooms” to promote the safe use of psychedelic drugs and destigmatize the use of them as parents.

“I get really frustrated when people say to me, ‘Oh, well, like, mushrooms are, you know, ‘mommy’s new little helper,’” Tee said.

“That is not what microdosing is. Microdosing is mommy is present and aware and showing up, maybe for the first time ever.”

However, there’s still “a lot of fear” surrounding the use of psychedelics, Tee said.

“What I’ve really come to realize is that it’s the intention and the why in understanding why you do it,” she added.

While microdosing seems to be the groovy new trend amid emerging research that the former party drugs could improve mental health, it has yielded conflicting results, as some benefits of psychedelics have been labeled as placebo.

Studies have shown ‘shrooms to actually increase anxiety in some users and raise the risk of severe health complications. According to the Washington Post, repeated stimulation of serotonin receptors from the psychoactive drug could lead to an overgrowth of heart valve tissue and the development of valvular heart disease.

“If you lift weights every day, you’re going to continue to build muscle mass, but if you stop for a month, you’re going to lose it pretty quickly,” psychopharmacologist Kelan Thomas told the outlet.

“It’s about that constant stimulation; if you microdose continuously, the risk continues to elevate.”