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The Myth of the Rewired Brain - A Personal Journey of Healing

By Steve Elfrink at Omterra

We’ve all heard it - psychedelics rewire the brain.

They boost BDNF, stimulate synaptogenesis, reopen critical periods…And healing just happens—or so the story goes.

But neuroplasticity is a double-edged sword…

It doesn’t guarantee beneficial growth—it simply creates the conditions for change. What actually gets wired depends entirely on the terrain underneath.

And for many of us, that terrain is trauma.

🔄 Neuroplasticity ≠ Healing

Psychedelics can increase brain flexibility—but if your nervous system is dysregulated or stuck in trauma loops, more plasticity can mean more chaos.

🧍‍♂️ Trauma Is Stored in the Body

Porges’ Polyvagal Theory explains why trauma isn’t just mental—it’s physiological. Locked in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, our bodies replay ancient survival responses that psychedelics alone can’t undo.

⚠️ The Risk of Psychedelic Iatrogenesis

When the Default Mode Network collapses under high-dose psychedelics, unprocessed trauma may flood the system. For trauma survivors, this can feel less like liberation—and more like fragmentation.

🧘‍♀️ The Real Work - Somatic Integration

For me, healing began when I stopped chasing transcendence and started listening to my body. Through PSIT (Psycholytic Somatic Integration Therapy), I engaged with the parts that never got to finish their survival responses.

🔦 Sometimes, You Need To Change The Course of Healing To Change Your Healing

“Psychedelics can unlock doors—but they don’t rebuild the house.”

True healing requires more than molecules. It takes relational safety, body-based integration, and the courage to reconnect with the parts of ourselves psychedelics may expose but cannot resolve.

If you’ve done the work and still feel broken, you’re not broken…

You’re healing—and maybe, it’s time to come home to your body.

📚 Research/References

• Ly et al. (2018), Cell Reports – Psychedelics and neural plasticity

• Porges (2011), The Polyvagal Theory – Foundations of trauma physiology

• Carhart-Harris et al. (2014), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience – The Entropic Brain

• Elfrink & Bergin (2024), Frontiers in Psychology – Psychedelic Iatrogenic Structural Dissociation (PISD)

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💬 We will leave you with this…

We live in a culture obsessed with quick fixes—reset buttons, miracle molecules, magic mushrooms. But real healing rarely moves at the speed of hype.

It moves at the speed of trust.
Of breath.
Of slowly, safely returning to the body we left behind.

🧠 Psychedelics can be powerful allies. But they’re not the path. You are.

And if you’ve walked that path only to find yourself back in the same pain, know this:

You’re not doing it wrong.
You’re not broken.
You’re at the beginning of something deeper.

💡 Sometimes, the most radical thing we can do is pause, turn inward, and finally listen to what’s been there all along—waiting to be felt, not fixed.

We’ll be here when you do.

Until next time…

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