Psychedelics for Mental Health

Psychedelics help reintegrate fragmentation into wholeness. This is the path of eating disorder recovery.

Plant medicine enhances connectivity between brain regions typically disconnected in our normal waking state 🧠

This increased connectivity can lead to a profound sense of unity and interconnectedness 👁️

Since an ED brings about isolation and disconnection, experiencing the energetic frequency of connection can be healing, validating, and reality-shifting 🤯

When the boundaries between self and the external world are blurred, new perspectives arise.

An ED is a trauma response which means that it is a survival response to an overwhelming event that the nervous system couldn’t process ✋

And as such, the body had to disconnect and disassociate from the traumatic event in order to survive and get through the terrifying experience.

If the experience cannot be processed, whatever had to disconnect remains fragmented, leaving one to feel disconnected on many levels and just not quite oneself 🫥

Trauma is a fragmenting experience and an ED represents that same fragmentation through the disconnection from the body itself.

However, this fragmentation that we see in EDs is waiting to be restored to wholeness 🙏

And plant medicines remind us that connected wholeness is possible 🐛🦋

As the brain connects in new ways, the parts of ourselves that we had to disconnect from for years re-emerge as a way to be reintegrated back to wholeness 🌊

By coming into direct contact with these fragmented aspects of ourselves in a safe container with the help of plant medicine, we can call back the forgotten, hidden, ignored, shunned, shamed, painful and hurt parts.

When this process is done with self-compassion, is repeated and reinforced over time, and held in clear support with a co-regulating other, we can walk the path back home towards greater inner harmony, connection and wholeness - with all of our parts with us, acknowledged, welcomed and integrated 💝