Nestled in between those events, Rodgers revealed that he went on an “ayahuasca journey” this summer, traveling to Peru to ingest the plant-based psychedelic.
In a recent appearance on the “Aubrey Marcus Podcast”, Rodgers compared his experience with the drug to “feeling 100 different on my body, of love and forgiveness for myself, and gratitude for this life.”
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He offered a few more details of his trip when talking to NBC Sports’ Peter King:
Rodgers explained that he used the substance as a vehicle to discover himself and what makes him tick. For the four-time MVP winner, the trip was a successful one, allowing him to come to grips with some of the strife in his personal life — mainly in regards to relationships with others and himself.
Poetic stuff from Rodgers, truly. The 38-year-old acknowledged that he still had a lot of work to do to reconcile relationships with those he had backed away from years ago. However, he feels he has the tools to make sense of the wave of emotions that crash into each other amid the day-to-day churn the NFL schedule.
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Rodgers also noted that the experience, in conjunction with therapy and meditation, helped him fall back in love with football all over again. Rodgers never didn’t love the game. But he wasn’t certain if he was “in love” with football.
Now, he knows.
