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What matters more in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: the medicine itself or the therapy that happens alongside it? At the Horizons Psychedelic Conference in New York City, I started thinking about one of the big questions facing the psychedelic therapy field: Which therapeutic approaches work best with psychedelics? During my own MDMA-assisted therapy for childhood trauma-induced PTSD, I spent a significant amount of time actively talking with my therapist and guide. Those conversations were an incredibly important part of my healing. While some approaches emphasize going inward and letting the medicine lead, my experience showed me the value of having skilled practitioners actively involved in the process. I believe the medicine can open the door, but sometimes the conversations help you walk through it. What do you think? How important is the therapist's role in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy? #PsychedelicTherapy #MDMATherapy #PsychedelicAssistedTherapy #PTSD #TraumaHealing #TheJourneySage
What Makes Psychedelic Therapy Work? The Medicine or the Therapist?
The psychedelic medicine therapy session shows you what needs healing. The relief comes from doing the integration work after. Try the free TRACE process at thejourneysage.com/trytrace.
Still Waiting to Feel Better After Psychedelic Therapy?
Have you ever known something wasn't true about yourself, but still believed it deep down? For most of my life, I believed there was something fundamentally mean and awful about me. I believed it in my bones! The strange thing was that my life kept proving otherwise. It wasn't until an MDMA-assisted therapy experience that I began to understand where that belief came from, and why decades of evidence hadn't changed it. In this video, I share a deeply personal story from my childhood and explore the neuroscience of schemas, emotional learning, and memory reconsolidation. We'll talk about how our brains create beliefs during childhood, why those beliefs can survive long after we've outgrown them, and how psychedelic-assisted therapy may help us revisit old experiences with an entirely different understanding. Because sometimes healing isn't about changing what happened. It's about changing what we learned to believe about ourselves when it happened. **A question for you:** What's one belief about yourself that you've never quite been able to shake? Welcome to Healing the Moment. This video shares my personal experience and an accessible interpretation of emerging research. It is not medical advice, and psychedelic-assisted therapy is not appropriate or legally available for everyone. #PsychedelicTherapy #MDMATherapy #ChildhoodTrauma #MemoryReconsolidation #TraumaHealing
Why You Still Believe Things About Yourself That Aren't True | MDMA Therapy
October 20, 2026
Sometimes music or TV in the background is not just a habit. It may be the nervous system remembering the moment you learned to cope with loneliness. Heal the Moment Monday. #Shorts #HealTheMoment #TraumaHealing #LonelinessHealing #NervousSystemHealing
Why You Always Need Background Noise
Psychedelic Integration: What are you feeding your brain? #traumahealing
If you’re healing PTSD or cPTSD and still getting triggered, that doesn’t automatically mean you’re doing something wrong. After psychedelic-assisted therapy helped me heal my PTSD, I began looking at triggers differently. Instead of using them to measure whether I was succeeding or failing, I started treating them as information. They showed me where my past was still affecting my present and gave me somewhere to start getting curious. #PTSD #CPTSD #TraumaHealing #PsychedelicTherapy
Still Getting Triggered While Healing PTSD? That’s Not Failure
Sometimes the feeling that something awful is about to happen is not intuition. It may be the nervous system remembering the moment you learned the world was not safe. Heal the Moment Monday. #Shorts #HealTheMoment #TraumaHealing #Hypervigilance #NervousSystemHealing
When You Always Expect Something Bad to Happen
Instead of spending years trying to figure out what’s underneath a reaction, psychedelics can sometimes put the unresolved trauma right in front of you. But you still have to get curious about why it’s there, understand the belief that formed around it, and do the work of changing what that memory means now. #PsychedelicTherapy
Psychedelics Can Heal Trauma Faster. But Not Easier.
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