What if real rest isn’t zoning out, but learning to feel safely still in your own body? Trish takes you inside her year-long journey with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, sharing what KAP actually looks like—from medical screening and at-home setup to music-guided sessions, dosing with lozenges, and why a simple request for lip balm became a breakthrough in receiving care.

We walk step by step through the first session nerves, blood pressure protocols, eye mask and playlist prep, and the gentle inner experience that led to two anchoring insights: "the most beautiful place in the world is inside of me" and "I can breathe here". You’ll hear how integration sessions transformed fleeting moments into durable change, pairing neuroplastic windows with practical rituals so self-compassion moved from concept to felt sense. Along the way, Trish unpacks the difference between therapeutic and recreational use, clarifies common misconceptions about ketamine, and frames the work through a polyvagal lens—contrasting shutdown with true slowdown and naming the blended state of safety and stillness that makes rest restorative.

This is an honest, grounded account designed for the KAP-curious, the clinically minded, and anyone navigating depression who wonders whether healing can stick. We talk best practices, chaperones, virtual care, dosing methods, and the very real variability in risk across different ketamine models. Most of all, we focus on what lasts: trust, integration, and nervous system learning that helps you choose rest without shame and return to center more easily.

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