Insights from the Journey
Research, reflections, and the deeper why behind our work with psilocybin, breathwork, and body-oriented practices
What to Do With the Open Window After a Psychedelic Journey
One researcher's experiment with PSYCH-K® — and what the neuroscience of psilocybin suggests about why it worked
This post follows directly from the Tuesday integration post. It opens with a personal story: a difficult post-ceremony period in which an old pattern — fear-driven exhaustion and brain fog linked to burnout — escalated into a ten-day cycle of coffee, disrupted sleep, and more fog. A chance meeting with PSYCH-K® trainer Evelien Janson leads to a session that shifts the underlying belief driving the pattern. The post then connects this experience to the neuroscience of the post-ceremony window — psilocybin-induced neuroplasticity — and introduces a hypothesis: that body-based approaches working directly on subconscious belief structures (PSYCH-K®, EMDR, somatic therapy, parts work) may be particularly effective during this window precisely because the brain is temporarily more malleable.
Why Burned-Out Professionals Are Turning to Psychedelics
When the System Needs More Than Rest — Psilocybin, Breathwork, and Burnout Recovery
Burnout doesn't resolve with rest alone because it has reorganised the body's regulatory systems — the autonomic nervous system, the stress response, the brain's capacity for resilience and meaning. This post explores what the research now shows about three approaches that work at the level where burnout actually lives: psilocybin (drawing on two recent randomised controlled trials in clinical populations), slow breathwork and vagal regulation, and body-oriented awareness practice. Part two of two.
Burnout Is Not a Willpower Problem. It's a Biology Problem
What burnout actually does to the body — and why high-performing professionals are the last to see it coming
Burnout is not a mindset problem. It is a physiological state with measurable changes in the autonomic nervous system, the stress hormone system, and the brain's ability to generate meaning. This post traces the stages of burnout — from drive to collapse — explains the biology in plain language, describes the comorbidities that cluster around it, and makes the case that what recovery requires is not insight alone, but recalibration at the level of the body. Part one of two.
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