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About Dr Lauren Macdonald
Dr Lauren Macdonald (@drlaurenmacdonald) is an Alternative & Holistic Health Service creator on Instagram, also filed under Fitness & Health and Science. The account has 7,334 followers and 1,413 published posts. Recent posts average 83 likes and 7 comments, an engagement rate of 1.32%.
Dr Lauren Macdonald belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Dr Lauren Macdonald follows 4,529 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.6 times the size of the list followed. Dr Lauren Macdonald is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Dr Lauren Macdonald under 3 categories, led by Alternative & Holistic Health Service and followed by Fitness & Health and Science.
The Instagram bio for Dr Lauren Macdonald runs to 13 words across 6 lines. The bio mentions @thereconnectionretreats, @essence.medicine and @holistichealingproject. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Dr Lauren Macdonald dates from October 2026.
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1,413 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Dr Lauren Macdonald, 6 are carousels, 3 are single images and 1 is a video. That mix leans toward carousels. Dr Lauren Macdonald has built a substantial archive of 1,413 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 5.2 followers for each post published. Dr Lauren Macdonald also keeps 10 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 189 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include experience, work, these, women and retreat. The captions tag #donate4elliot, #glioblastoma, #returningtowholeness, #movedancefeel and #cancersupport.
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This unique retreat is built on that belief: that beauty, intention, connection and compassion matter. That being held can be transformative. That coming home to yourself is possible.
Every detail of Returning to Wholeness is intentional. The rituals, the ceremony, the creativity, the time spent in natural surroundings, the spaces to gather and the spaces to be alone.
And at the heart of it is an exceptionally experienced facilitation team: a medical doctor specialising in oncology, a psychiatrist, a dance artist, and a sound and voice practitioner, each bringing their own expertise and experience in psychedelic retreats. Different, complementary modalities and skills, held within a shared commitment to care, creating a rich and considered ecosystem of support.
Together, they create something participants return to again and again in their reflections: a feeling of being cared for, gently held and deeply connected.
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#ReturningToWholeness #MoveDanceFeel #CancerSupport #DanceForWellbeing
The way we can arrive carrying so damn much and still find room to laugh. To move. To hold each other. To be honest, tender, brave all at the same time
I love facilitating retreats, especially with women and sacred allies 🤍🍄 It’s hard to put into words how sacred this work is.
I’m sooo grateful for the women I get to do this with. Deeply wise, endlessly caring, and incredibly funny. ( Because laughter is medicine toooooo )🤍
You can find more about the retreats here: thereconnection.life
send it to a woman you’d love to share this space with. 🤍
This week, 12 women living with or beyond cancer met in De Hoorneboeg, Netherlands for a first-of-its-kind, fully-funded psilocybin retreat. As you read this, Dr Lauren Macdonald, Emily Jenkins and the rest of the brilliant Returning To Wholeness team are guiding these women through the last of four days of movement practices, reflection and community building, culminating in a psilocybin ceremony followed by a period of integration.
We're so excited to be supporting this retreat, not just because of the benefits we hope it will provide the participants, but also because of what we might be able to learn. Clinical trials have shown that psilocybin-assisted therapy can have long-term benefits for patients with cancer, and Returning To Wholeness is an opportunity to see that science put into real-world practice.
If you'd like to learn more about the psilocybin and cancer, Lauren joined us on the Drug Science Podcast to talk about her work and personal experience. You can find the episode at the link in our bio, or go to
This six-month hybrid training, combining live online learning with a one-week immersive experience in Peru, has attracted an extraordinary group of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, therapists, space holders, and shamanic practitioners who have answered the call to explore the meeting place between science and spirit.
Dr Lauren MacDonald and I are deeply honoured and incredibly grateful for the calibre, integrity, and open-heartedness of the people joining us on this journey. It truly feels as though the right souls have found one another.
We already have a waiting list for next year’s training, so if this speaks to you and you feel called to be part of the 2027 cohort, we would love to hear from you.
Please join the waiting list, and we’ll be in touch as soon as applications open.
Thank you to everyone who has trusted us with this vision. We cannot wait to begin this journey together in just two weeks. What an extraordinary adventure lies ahead.
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The past couple of days have been a little surreal… My brother and I had the idea of launching a GoFundMe for our little brother and with the help of an amazing launch team of around 80 friends and family we all shared, posted and donated at the same time in the hope we might create some momentum and reach people beyond our immediate networks. And the response has been INCREDIBLE!! Somehow within 24 hours over £125,000 has been raised!
Thank you so much to every single person who has donated, shared the fundraiser, sent a message, or held Elliot and our family in your thoughts and prayers. Elliot is utterly overwhelmed (as are we) by the generosity, kindness and love that has been flowing his way from all over the world.
As he heads off to get his mask fitted for radiotherapy this week his heart is full and some hope has been restored. There is still so much uncertainty ahead and we know that none of this changes the reality of what Elliot is facing but thanks to this fundraiser we’re now able to explore innovative treatments that wouldn’t have been possible a few days ago.
It’s also been the most amazing reminder of how kind people can be. They say it takes a village and over the past few days it has felt as though a whole community of love and care has wrapped its arms around Elliot and his little family. So much of the support has come from people who have never even met him, yet every donation, every share and every message has helped. All of those small acts of kindness have added up and we’re now very close to reaching our fundraising target.
We’ve also received messages from people with glioblastoma who are still alive 5+ years after being told there was little more that could be done. And while we know every story is different those stories have reminded us that statistics do not tell the whole picture and it’s worth throwing everything we can at this disease and holding onto some much needed hope.
✨🙏🏽✨ #Donate4Elliot #Glioblastoma
I’m reaching out for your help and support.
Tragically my youngest brother, Elliot, was recently diagnosed with a glioblastoma: the most malignant and treatment-resistant form of brain cancer, with an average five year survival of around 5%.
It feels incredibly cruel for my family to be back here again after I was given similarly devastating survival statistics ten years ago, at almost exactly the same age Elliot is now.
This last month has been another huge reminder just how quickly cancer strips everything back and reveals what truly matters in life. At the same time, the best of humanity often emerges in the most difficult times and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported Elliot and my family over the past few weeks.
Despite the bleak statistics for glioblastoma, there’s still some hope 🙏🏽. Alongside the standard NHS treatment of neurosurgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, there are some promising innovative treatments including immunotherapy and personalised vaccines that could help improve Elliot’s chance of survival.
Unfortunately these treatments aren’t available on the NHS so we have launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs. If you’re able to, please consider donating (or share the link in my bio with someone who might be able to). This will help give Elliot the best possible chance of outliving the statistics - just as immunotherapy helped me do ten years ago when I was going through my own stage IV cancer journey. 🙏🏽
Thank you so much for your kindness, generosity and support. Every little bit helps! Let’s do this!!
Much love,
Lauren ♥️
#Donate4Elliot #glioblastoma
This one was particularly special as it was women joining to retreat again, women we already knew and had built relationships with, a concept we called The Deepening.
The Deepening, is just that - a deepening experience that builds upon the first. It was deeper in so many ways, new practices were shared, there was a deepening bought through familiarity with us and the core elements of the retreat. The shares were deeper, the bonds were deeper, and new deeper layers were pealed off.
But it was also lighter, fun, and more joyous. So, alongside the deep work, the vulnerable sharing and the hugs and the tears, it really felt like a holiday with great friends.
There is a bond and a thread that weaves through these kind of retreat and healing experiences. We had our integration call today and I felt this thread so strongly. It reminds me that community really is everything. And strengthens my want to build a commune in the sun somewhere!
Forever in awe of women and all we go through. Forever in awe of this work.
The Deepening will be happening again in September 2027. If you’ve journey with us before, get in touch if you want to return 👯♀️
Do exactly what they say on the tin.
Two retreats for women - combining ritual, ceremony, TRE, embodied movement, somatics, voice work, sound healing and a whole heap of love 💕
I have just returned from two weeks in Portugal facilitating on these women’s retreats. In this work we provide space for joy, for pain, for grief, for love, for laughter and tears and everything in between. We provide space for the full spectrum of the human experience of being a women - which, is no mean feat.
I simply want to thank all the women that walk this path with me. Who are brave enough to enter into this space and heal and deal with what life has given them. It’s an honour and a privilege to do this work.
Thank you, thank you, thank you 💜🍄💥💫
#womensretreat #ritual #ceremony #thereconnection #thedeepening
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Dr Lauren Macdonald's engagement
Dr Lauren Macdonald's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.32%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 76 followers. An average post collects 83 likes and 7 comments, close to 12 likes for each comment.
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Who is Dr Lauren Macdonald?
Dr Lauren Macdonald (@drlaurenmacdonald) is an Alternative & Holistic Health Service creator on Instagram, also filed under Fitness & Health and Science. Dr Lauren Macdonald is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Dr Lauren Macdonald runs to 13 words across 6 lines.
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Dr Lauren Macdonald has 7,334 followers on Instagram (7.3K). Dr Lauren Macdonald follows 4,529 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.6 times the size of the list followed. Dr Lauren Macdonald has built a substantial archive of 1,413 posts.
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Dr Lauren Macdonald's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.32%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 76 followers. An average post collects 83 likes and 7 comments, close to 12 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Dr Lauren Macdonald under 3 categories, led by Alternative & Holistic Health Service and followed by Fitness & Health and Science. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Dr Lauren Macdonald, 6 are carousels, 3 are single images and 1 is a video. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Dr Lauren Macdonald repeatedly use the words experience, work, these, women and retreat. Dr Lauren Macdonald's captions carry hashtags such as #donate4elliot, #glioblastoma and #returningtowholeness. Dr Lauren Macdonald writes those captions mainly in English. Dr Lauren Macdonald keeps 10 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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