Psychedelic Recovery Services - Holistic Restabilization from Cannabis, Mushrooms, etc.

This is not a service that provides or uses any illegal or psychedelic drugs. However, more and more young people are accessing psychedelics without understanding the reality of their power—and their potential to seriously destabilize.

While many plants and mushrooms can promote personal insight and healing, they can also magnify serious internal imbalances. There’s a reason many of these substances were traditionally used only under the guidance of skilled healers or shamans, and carefully within ceremony. Today, many young people are being catapulted into psychosis without proper guidance on how to restabilize.

It is not uncommon for “negative” states or spiritual “crisis” to arise during deep transformation. In many cases, this resembles a physical healing crisis that can occur during cleansing. Managed well, crisis can be a key part of our evolution—moving us toward greater well-being, clarity, purpose, and peace. Managed poorly, it can overwhelm our capacity to process experience and harm our sense of stability and happiness, leaving us confused, scared, and lost.

As a trained herbalist and holistic therapist, Chad Cornell has supported many people over the past 20 years in full-time practice. He believes holistic healing—and herbalism and mind body therapies like Jyoti in particular—is uniquely positioned to help those struggling in the wake of the modern psychedelic renaissance.

True herbalism has never separated plants or physical healing from mental, emotional, and spiritual health. There is much more at play than chemicals interacting with organs. Healing is a process: it arises from the right diet and lifestyle, and from a deep, balanced sense of self in relationship with nature and other human beings.

Although marijuana and many other psychoactive plants offer genuine benefits, there are also real—and under-discussed—pitfalls. For centuries, “teacher plants” such as so-called magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, San Pedro, and peyote have been used in sacred ways across cultures. What is often missing in our modern world is the context and guidance required to screen, protect, and properly support people.

Psychedelics can instigate a profound and sometimes sudden awakening, surface delusions, and demand integration of shadow material from the subconscious. Today, powerful substances can be ordered online and taken alone at home with no guidance. Increasingly, they’re also treated as “products,” and even the strongest plants, mushrooms, and brews are offered casually in “weekend retreats.” Participants may be left to fend for themselves after having their worldview and sense of self deeply altered in a single evening. Even marijuana—despite its benefits—can destabilize those prone to psychosis, especially given the potency of modern strains. People can be opened to intense, archetypal experiences that require skilled guidance from someone who better understands the new mental terrain they are in.  This is something not commonly found in regular clinical and treatment settings. 

In addition, with PIP (Psychedelic-Induced Psychosis), many people in what we commonly call “delusion” or “psychosis” are reluctant to seek help in a standard psych ward. While that is often necessary as an emergency response, there are powerful holistic adjunctive approaches that can greatly support stabilization.

The use of psychedelics, breath-work, yogic practices, and the quest for personal transformation are all accelerating in our time. The reasons are many, but as a culture we must deepen our understanding of the sensitivity of this process and humbly reintegrate the timeless wisdom that must accompany such powerful practices and medicines.

While we are not in a position to publicly condone the use of illegal “drugs” or “teacher medicines,” it’s clear that more people are seeking and using them—often in a desperate effort to heal body and soul in an era of confusion and disconnection. Our work now is to maximize the potential of the psychedelic approach while minimizing the trauma and casualties of this modern cultural pattern.

If you would like to book a short info session via Zoom or in person, please contact Chad Cornell at [email protected] or by phone at The Hollow Reed School of Healing Arts.