Tara Mackey: From 14 Psychiatric Medications to Plant-Based Healing, Natural Enhancement & Reclaiming Female Sovereignty
Tara Mackey: From 14 Psychiatric Medications to Plant-Based Healing, Natural Enhancement & Reclaiming Female Sovereignty  
Podcast: SuperLife with Darin Olien
Published On: Fri Nov 08 2024
Description: What happens when the system that's supposed to heal you nearly destroys you? In this raw, wide-ranging, and deeply personal conversation, Darin sits down with Tara Mackey to unpack her journey from being prescribed 14 psychiatric medications by her early 20s including: lithium at age 12, to walking away from the pharmaceutical model and rebuilding her health through botanicals, habit transformation, and radical self-trust. From fertility labs and birth trauma to plant-based hormone support and natural enhancement protocols, this episode challenges the industrial medical complex while offering grounded, accessible alternatives. This isn't anti-medicine. It's pro-choice. It's pro-awareness. It's pro-sovereignty. What You'll Learn Tara's early childhood trauma and being placed on lithium at age 12 The side-effect cascade that led to 14 prescriptions Working inside the fertility and medical system, and why she left Why many doctors receive little nutrition training The culture of overprescribing psychiatric medication Birth sovereignty, home birth experiences & the imprint of early life The hormonal implications of birth control and fertility decline Phytoestrogens: misunderstood or misnamed? Transdermal botanical applications vs oral supplementation The science behind natural breast enhancement Why habits, not hacks, are the foundation of health The W.I.L.D. Method: Willingness, Intuition, Love, Discipline Microplastics, EMFs, fertility collapse & modern hormone disruption How to break from the system without becoming its victim Chapters 00:00:00 – Welcome to SuperLife 00:01:57 – Tara's origin story & challenging upbringing 00:04:58 – Lithium at 12: the beginning of psychiatric medication 00:06:28 – ADHD diagnosis & stimulant stacking 00:07:03 – Side-effect cascade: fibromyalgia, anti-anxiety meds & birth control 00:08:15 – Septic kidney infection & body shutdown 00:09:13 – Coming off 14 medications & walking away from medicine 00:10:34 – The broken education model in conventional medicine 00:13:33 – Birth trauma & medicalized childbirth 00:17:09 – Home birth sovereignty & trusting the body 00:21:28 – Birth imprinting & early-life cellular memory 00:26:48 – Leaving the fertility lab system 00:30:07 – The "plague of the mind" & simple solutions 00:31:24 – Suicide attempt, wake-up call & natural healing 00:32:38 – Fentanyl, Vioxx & pharmaceutical dangers 00:34:44 – Hormonal annihilation: fertility & sperm decline 00:39:06 – Phytoestrogens explained & estrogen balance 00:41:37 – Gut health, soy myths & cancer prevention research 00:43:26 – Botanical breast enhancement science 00:46:14 – Real-world results & avoiding surgical risks 00:50:20 – Hormone disruption, EMFs & fertility decline 00:55:35 – Fatal conveniences & breaking unhealthy habits 00:59:46 – The W.I.L.D. Method: Willingness, Intuition, Love, Discipline 01:01:08 – Habit replacement & self-sovereignty About Tara Mackey Tara Mackey is an author, speaker, and founder of Genetix Organic, an FDA-registered, clinically tested botanical skincare and natural enhancement company. After overcoming years of pharmaceutical dependency and chronic illness, she dedicated her life to creating plant-based alternatives that support women's health and hormonal balance without invasive procedures. Key Takeaway You are not broken. You may be overmedicated. Overstimulated. Undernourished. Disempowered. But your body is intelligent. Your intuition is real. And alternatives exist. Healing begins the moment you decide to take your power back.