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Psychedelics | Inner Child | Trauma-Informed Work
When the Medicine Breaks You Open
The hidden risks of psychedelic healing
“You’re not broken. You’re having a biological response to your past.”
— Steve Elfrink
The Glorious Promise — and the Silence After
I just finished an incredible webinar with trauma-informed therapist and researcher Steve Elfrink.
He seamlessly weaved together lived experience, scientific rigour, and the raw truth of being human in the aftermath of trauma.
To be human is to have experienced harm on some level, and many had heard about psychedelic's glorious promise of a healing horizon.
Psychedelics are no longer confined to the underground.
They’re entering clinical trials, mainstream headlines, and private healing spaces. People are seeking them not only for expansion, but for relief — from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and the ache of disconnection.
We’re flooded with media stories of transformation, ego death, and cosmic renewal.
But.
Few talk about what happens when the healing doesn’t feel like healing at all — when it…
