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Understanding How Psilocybin Works: A Comprehensive Guide
Psilocybin works holistically, reshaping brain function and promoting healing by addressing underlying mental health mechanisms. This offers a promising approach to long-term mental health and resilience.
Psilocybin Therapy: A Comprehensive Historical and Modern Perspective with Benefits, Risks, and Adverse Effects
Psilocybin therapy offers substantial therapeutic potential for conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction, and it is steadily gaining scientific support as an effective treatment.
Should I Try Psychedelics?
Steve Elfrink answers the question “Should I try Psychedelics?” by navigating the benefits and risks of psychedelics and emphasizing informed decision-making and preparation.
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Psilocybin for Lucid Dream Therapy: Unlocking the Subconscious Mind for Trauma and Personal Growth
Psilocybin’s potential to enhance lucid dreaming represents an exciting and underexplored frontier in mental health and personal development. By combining the insight-provoking effects of psilocybin with the unique possibilities of lucid dreaming, this therapy offers a new way to address trauma, foster creativity, and achieve personal growth.
Psilocybin Therapy for Chronic Pain: An Emerging Frontier in Pain Management
Psilocybin’s potential to address chronic pain from multiple angles—neurological, psychological, and emotional—marks it as a groundbreaking addition to pain management. While traditional treatments often target symptoms, psilocybin works on the root systems within the brain, promoting a new, more holistic way of living with pain. As research continues to explore this innovative approach, psilocybin therapy could redefine what’s possible for millions of people suffering from chronic pain, offering relief where conventional treatments have fallen short.
Psilocybin Therapy for Eating Disorders: Exploring Studies, Mechanisms, and Patient Experiences
Psilocybin therapy offers a groundbreaking approach for individuals battling eating disorders, addressing both the psychological and neurological roots of these complex conditions. Through neuroplasticity, emotional breakthroughs, and reframing self-perception, psilocybin provides a pathway to healing that is distinct from conventional treatments.
Psilocybin Therapy for Enhancing Creativity and Problem-Solving in High-Performance Professions
Psilocybin is often viewed as a therapeutic tool, but its potential to enhance creativity, cognitive flexibility, and collaborative problem-solving suggests a revolutionary application beyond traditional mental health. For professionals in high-stakes fields, psilocybin therapy or microdosing could provide new pathways to innovation, helping them tackle challenges and create solutions previously out of reach.
Psilocybin Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Exploring Healing Potential, Study Data, and Patient Experiences
Psilocybin therapy represents a new frontier in TBI treatment, addressing both the neurological and psychological impacts of brain injury. By promoting neuroplasticity, reducing inflammation, and fostering emotional resilience, psilocybin allows TBI survivors to break free from the limitations of their injuries, offering hope for a fuller, more connected life.
Psilocybin Therapy in Oregon: A Guide to Measure 109 and Finding Qualified Providers
With the passage of Measure 109, Oregon has paved the way for transformative mental health care through psilocybin therapy. For those seeking healing beyond conventional treatment, psilocybin offers a unique opportunity to explore new pathways of mental and emotional resilience. By choosing a trusted provider like OmTerra, you can embark on this journey with confidence, supported by experienced facilitators and holistic care that honors your individual needs.
Cultural Barriers to Psilocybin Therapy: Navigating Social and Religious Objections
As psilocybin therapy continues to gain acceptance, it’s essential to navigate cultural and religious barriers with respect and awareness. By acknowledging the history, beliefs, and concerns of diverse communities, therapists and advocates can create an inclusive environment that honors psilocybin’s rich cultural roots while making its healing potential accessible.
Psilocybin Therapy for End-of-Life Anxiety: Preparing for a Peaceful Transition
Psilocybin therapy offers a unique, compassionate approach to addressing end-of-life anxiety, helping patients find peace, acceptance, and even joy as they navigate their final chapter. By fostering spiritual insights and reducing fear responses, psilocybin has the potential to transform the end-of-life experience, providing patients with comfort and a sense of interconnectedness.
Psilocybin’s Potential for Treating Addiction: A Look at Substance-Specific Efficacy
Psilocybin therapy represents a powerful tool in the battle against addiction, offering benefits that extend beyond what conventional treatments can achieve alone. By facilitating deep emotional insights and breaking repetitive thought patterns, psilocybin allows individuals to reshape their relationship with addictive substances, moving toward a place of healing and self-empowerment.
The Microdosing Dilemma: Does Small-Scale Psilocybin Offer Real Therapeutic Value?
The popularity of microdosing shows no signs of slowing down, with countless individuals convinced of its benefits for creativity, focus, and mental well-being.
Psilocybin Therapy for Grief and Loss: A Path to Healing Beyond Conventional Therapy
Psilocybin therapy offers a powerful approach to addressing grief, providing individuals with an opportunity to process, accept, and ultimately heal from loss in a way that is transformative and profound.
Visions and Imagery During Psilocybin Experiences: A Comprehensive Guide
Explore the transformative visual experiences that psilocybin can unlock, from intricate patterns and nature imagery to encounters with symbolic beings. This article delves into the types of visions people report on psilocybin, why they happen, and how they contribute to healing, drawing on indigenous wisdom, scientific studies, and personal anecdotes to provide a rich understanding of this powerful journey into the mind.
Resources
The Story of You
A short video about YOU. Complied from downloads from my psychedelic journeys.
The MAPS Psychedelic Integration Workbook
A guide to help process, understand, and incorporate psychedelic insights into your daily life.
HAF Client Guide to Psilocybin Therapy in Oregon
The Oregon Psilocybin Services Client Guide is an
introduction to Oregon’s state-regulated
psilocybin services program. It has been compiled
by the Healing Advocacy Fund (HAF) in
partnership with members of our Safety
Committee, a group of wide ranging subject
matter experts that advise our organization, and
additional experts and stakeholders.
OmTerra Art by Steve Elfrink
Two of Steve Elfrink's passions are psychedelic therapy and the creation of art. OmTerra.art is a collection of images created by Steve utilizing a combo of photography, Photoshop and AI. Many of the AI images were created with the augmentation of low-dose ketamine. Enjoy!!!
Webinar: Dosing, Potency and Safety in OR’s Psilocybin Program
The Healing Advocacy Fund hosted a webinar led by Bob Jesse on “Dosing, Potency, and Safety in Oregon’s Psilocybin Program.” You’ll hear from Dr. Nicholas Cozzi, a scientist and educator with background and training in pharmacology, chemistry, toxicology, and neuroscience, Steve Elfrink, HAF Safety Committee member, licensed facilitator, and recipient of largest psilocybin dose in a published clinical trial, and the founders of two licensed service centers and licensed facilitators, Dee Lafferty, from Inner Guidance Services, and Ryan Reid of Drop Thesis service center and advisor to Bendable Therapy.
Steve shares about an LSD experience that saved his life
Listen to Steve telling the life saving tale of his high-dose LSD experience.
Interview with Steve Elfrink on JPR
Listen to an interview with Steve discussing psilocybin on Jefferson Public Radio.
Cannabis-assisted psychotherapy for complex dissociative post traumatic stress disorder
A case report Study on the PSIP model for structural dissociation.
A brief introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy
Founding developer , Richard Schwartz, gives an overview of the Internal Family Systems model.
Abstract of the PSIP model
A very in-depth, and informative dive into the PSIP model co-authored by Steve Elfrink.
Podcast on The Entheogenic Revolution with Martin Ball, PhD.
Is there another way to do psychedelic therapy that doesn't follow the standard model that's being developed by research institutions like MAPS? Steve Elfrink is here from OmTerra with a positive answer.