The Inner Grove Blog
This journal brings together the voices of the Inner Grove Collective.
Here we share the ideas, research, and questions that drew us to this work,
along with the emerging insights shaping how it is practiced today.
Paper Spotlight: The 2016 Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Study on Meaning, Insight, and Long-Term Change
In 2016, researchers and Johns Hopkins University published a paper that quietly changed the landscape of psychedelic research.
The Odyssey, Memory, and Personal Narrative
What Christopher Nolan’s interpretation of the classic story can tell us about ourselves.
Why Stories Change the Brain: Narrative Integration After Inner Journeys
Even when we’re not aware of it, our brains are constantly making sense of our complicated, sometimes confusing experience through narrative.
Preparing for Wonder
When people hear that I facilitate legal psilocybin experiences in Colorado, the first question is often, “What’s it actually like?”
Trust, Let Go, Be Open
Anyone preparing for a psychedelic experience eventually hears a short phrase repeated by guides and facilitators.
When Biology Helps Us Change
Over the past few years, two very different areas of medicine have been receiving growing attention.
What Modern Psilocybin Research Reveals About Healing
Over the past two decades, modern psychedelic research has re-emerged in leading academic institutions.
Medicine Spotlight: Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca has become one of the most widely discussed traditional medicines in the global conversation about psychedelic healing.
Psychedelics and the Betterment of Well People
What role, if any, might psychedelics play in the lives of people who are already psychologically stable?
What Birdwatchers Can Teach Us About the Brain
A recent paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience explores what happens to the brain when someone develops deep expertise in a skill over time.
Magic Nights: Couples’ Edition
An inward journey designed to help partners see each other with fresh eyes, soften old patterns, and rediscover the “us” beneath the noise of daily life.
The Neuroscience of Insight: Why Big Realizations Happen in Altered States
Why clarity arrives all at once, why it feels so true, and what the brain is doing in the moment when you find yourself thinking, “Oh…now I see."
Psychedelics & Attachment Styles: Can Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Help Us Become More Secure?
Your attachment style—anxious, avoidant, disorganized, or secure—is not a personality trait. It’s a set of nervous-system strategies your younger self developed.
What Happens in the Brain When We Grieve
Why loss feels like overwhelm, numbness, confusion, or collapse—and why it can feel so hard to “move forward.”
MDMA-Assisted Therapy: What It Teaches Us about Fear, Trust, and Repair
MDMA is not a classic psychedelic. It doesn’t alter perception in the same way psilocybin does, and it doesn’t create distance the way ketamine does.
How Ceremony, Set, and Setting Shape the Brain’s Healing Response
Why intention changes everything—and why your history, beliefs, and inner landscape matter.
Emotional Alchemy: How Altered States Help Us Process What We Avoid
Altered states—whether created through psilocybin, ketamine, breathwork, or deep symbolic journeying—can create an unexpected opening.
Ketamine: Why It Works Differently—And Why It Helps People Move Through Being Stuck
Ketamine has been used safely in medical settings for more than 50 years, but in recent years it has quietly become a very promising tool…
The Power of Belonging: Why Community Expands the Healing Experience
In a world that glorifies self-sufficiency and independence, the truth is both simple and ancient: We heal more fully when we heal together.