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Practical guides and explainers to support your healing journey, between sessions.
Feeling stressed is common: Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report found 40% of employees worldwide felt a lot of stress the previous day in 2025. This guide offers five gentle steps, naming, moving, orienting, a slow exhale, and one small task, with an honest evidence label for each, plus when to seek help.
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Emotional triggers after trauma are information, not defects. Standard trauma therapy helps 49-70% of people meaningfully, yet 60-72% still meet PTSD criteria afterward, so feeling stuck is common rather than a personal failure. Five sequential steps, noticing without shutting down, psycho-spiritual inquiry, expressive movement, kriyas, and slow integration, offer a body-inclusive path alongside professional care.
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Sitting still doesn’t work for everyone. In a 2025 survey of 886 US adults, 31.4% reported a challenging, difficult or distressing meditation experience (Van Dam et al., Clinical Psychological Science). This guide offers five gentler ways to practice calm, with an honest evidence label on each one and clear cues for when to stop.
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Before booking a plant medicine retreat, know that Oregon, the first regulated US psilocybin market, legally requires a preparation session but makes integration optional, and its facilitators need only a high school diploma rather than any clinical credential. That makes “what to expect” less useful than “what to ask before you book.” Work through seven questions covering screening, facilitator training, preparation, session day, group structure, integration, and what happens if things get hard.
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Psychedelic therapy for trauma uses substances like psilocybin alongside trained support, in three parts: preparation, the session, and integration. Nearly 39% of people don’t respond to standard PTSD treatment, which is why the research is moving fast. Becca’s own work stays with cannabis and psilocybin, always optional, inside the Emotional Liberation® method.
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Brain differences in PTSD are real but small: hippocampal volume shows an effect size of just d = -0.17 across nearly 1,900 people, and no scan can diagnose an individual. Contrary to the popular story, PTSD is more often linked to lower daily cortisol, not higher. Psychedelic neuroplasticity findings come largely from mice, and the most striking human connectivity study involved only seven participants.
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A cannabis ceremony is a facilitated gathering built on intention, a held container and a clear ending, with cannabis participation optional. There is no clinical research showing it works as a treatment: what exists is psychedelic research on set and setting, plus one qualitative ethnography of a Catalan community. The documented risks are real, including a 22-30% rate of cannabis use disorder and observed associations with psychotic disorder at daily and high-potency consumption.
Read guideA vetted library of studies on plant medicine, trauma, and emotional healing: the evidence base behind Becca’s approach.
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