What is it all about really?
And why are we sharing this with you?
We’re doing so because it has made such a difference in our own lives.
The conversation about recreational use of psychedelics, with terms like magic mushrooms, ecstasy and more, has become a common thread in many everyday conversations.
Yet there is a developing and new kind of conversation about the use of psychedelics gaining increasing credibility. Psychedelic assisted therapy (PAT) is the fastest growing new therapy possibilities on the planet. And as of 1 July, 2023, it is now legal, under certain circumstances in Australia. This is a very different story from the nightly news with its reports of drug raids and drug abuse victims. Or the very rapid growth in strong synthetic opoid use.
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) is different. It requires the use of certain psychedelics, mainly MDMA & psilocybin (magic mushrooms) with traditional therapy approaches. Approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), narrative and somatic therapies. 
The psychedelics assist regular therapy by allowing the habitual, habit forming part of the brain, known as the Default Mode Network, to switch off. Under PAT a client can safely access extraordinary realities that lie beyond the ordinary, everyday mind. This allows a client to become more receptive to insights and understandings their conscious mind would normally block from fear. This allows old habits such as PTSD, CPTSD & depression, and other ingrained negative patterns to be replaced with new, creative and empowered choices. Old, stuck emotions can also be cleared from the body at a very deep level.
PAT is particularly effective, some would say spectacularly effective, in helping clear past trauma. Unresolved past traumas have a huge impact on the quality of our relationships. As it has for both of us, Annette and Graeme.
For when we carry unresolved trauma, the past colours our perceptions and projections. It catches us in reactivity, overwhelm, fear and the constant need for distraction and avoidance. Keeping us in outdated beliefs of not being safe, not being able to trust and not being good enough. Even feeling like we’re victims and that the world is a dangerous place.
PAT invites us to come into new ways of being, of openness, expansion and transformation. With greater moments of empowerment, joy, peace, love, empathy, connection and happiness.
It’s a lot like the journey of tantra. Tantra invites us to deeply explore ourselves, our relationships and our wellbeing. To explore our approach to life, our beliefs, our feelings and our bodies. And what lies within them – our sexuality. To what lies beyond them via our sexuality – through blissful and magical experiences. Tantra also invites us to explore our shadows, anything that limits us in our full potential. Not only our potential for better orgasms, also our potential for more meaningful and enjoyable lives.
For us, tantra built on what we had already knew and used in breathwork and emotional intelligence. Which supported us to get more in touch with ourselves and move through areas that lay unresolved under the surface. Areas which had kept us stuck, unhappy and separate from each other. For which we are forever grateful.
The deepest areas that kept us stuck were those that related to our individual childhood traumas. This is where PAT came in, allowing us to clear the past in even more unimaginably wonderful ways. Leading us to a place in ourselves, our lives, our relationship and in our work that is clear, powerful and empowering. Allowing us to experience our life force (sexual) energy flowing through us ever more freely and pleasurably.
If you wish to know more about this process, please contact us
or visit https://psychedelicassistedtherapy.com.au
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