Kristy Crabtree

I was frustrated in my own healing journey and I felt like I was hitting walls and I couldn't understand. I'm a seeker. I would like to know truth. I want to know the answers. Why was I never satisfied? And it was when I introduced psychedelic psychotherapy into my own life that I realized, oh, I have repressed memories from very early childhood.

And it was in the resolution of healing those traumatic memories that I was able to really get in touch with my true nature, my higher self, and my life really started to take off in a different direction.

Christy Crabtree is a licensed professional counselor. She's a truth seeker and the founder of Inner Light Counseling.

Absolutely. I would say...

Thanks for having me, Rudy.

Yeah, absolutely. So I am a conventional psychotherapist, and I found in my own healing journey that psychotherapy wasn't enough. It wasn't enough for me, and oftentimes it wasn't enough for my clients. And ketamines recently become legal, so that is a modality that we have access to legally that we can use. But in other parts of the United States, psilocybin or the magic mushroom is also legal.

What I found is that these medicines, when taken with the intention to heal... are able to break through these barriers, illuminate patterns of behavior that we have so that we become aware of them. Because so often they are deeply rooted in our subconscious to the point where we've just normalized them. And we don't even realize that we have these destructive patterns that hold us back.

And when you're able to really shine light on these patterns and release the trauma, which is actually held in our physical bodies. Mm-hmm.

Absolutely. it expands the brain in different ways and different psychedelics impact the brain in different ways. More on a less scientific level, what I've kind of come to realize is that the brain is almost a filter for consciousness. It's almost like the consciousness isn't manufactured from the brain as a product of the brain, but the brain filters down consciousness that's much more broad.

And so when you start using psychedelics, there's different neurotransmitters that are impacted. If we're talking about something legal like ketamine, it works on the NDMA and the glutamate receptor sites. And so what that does is it impacts your ability to be able to learn and to make new novel connections. We have a ton of NDMA

really given to us when we're little and that's how we learn so much we're just sponges when we're children and so when those are activated those receptors we're able to learn more and that can stay active in the brain for up to two weeks so we're able to implement these new more novel ways of being into our lives that maybe we had barriers to before. But we can't just go to the novel.

We have to literally go into the depths of the darkness, the things that we're afraid to look at and say, okay, how can I look at these things? And it's so neat because in traditional psychotherapy, we can start to look at some of those traumas And people get really activated in their nervous systems and they feel that physical activation and they get afraid.

And they're kind of like, OK, that's enough. I didn't know it was going to be so hard. But when you are on a psychedelic medicine taken as a sacrament.

for healing you're suspended in this feeling of love and the fear really tends to diminish some of these drugs like mdma actually completely repress the amygdala which is your fear response so you feel enveloped in love while you examine some of these patterns and they're so easy to look at and because you've been able to look at these hard things without all the fear you can you

I have trauma. Surprise, surprise, right? So I was frustrated in my own healing journey, and I felt like I was hitting walls, and I couldn't understand. You know what? I'm a seeker. I would like to know truth. I want to know the answers. Why was I never satisfied?

And it was when I introduced psychedelic psychotherapy into my own life that I realized, oh, I have repressed memories from very early childhood. And I touched on some of those memories and eventually integrated them and healed them. But I didn't even know that they were there.

And it was in the resolution of healing those traumatic memories that I was able to really get in touch with my true nature, my higher self, and my life really started to take off in a different direction.

You know, for me, there was an opportunity there as a psychotherapist already to train with companies like MAPS and things like that, which is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, to implement ketamine into my practice. But I felt like one-on-one wasn't enough. So I really wanted to bring that into a space of healing retreats. Yeah.

To be able to help people in the context of community so we can talk about things that might be hard or shameful and really bring light to it and normalize those experiences and even get feedback from other people relating to those experiences, really reducing the shame. So bringing it to that retreat space felt really important to me because there needs to be a space for community. Yeah.

There are. And I think the powers that be don't want people to know. They don't want people to know the power in these psychedelic medicines because they make a lot more money giving us these pharmaceuticals, these SSRIs that we take on a daily basis. And MDMA, a powerful, powerful medicine, was just shut down by the FDA because they said that the clinical trials weren't done appropriately.

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