THE MEDICINE
Plant medicine is an ancient path to healing. At The Coming Home Project, veterans and first responders walk it together, with others who know the path. Preparation comes first. Integration comes after. The ceremony is one part of the journey.
Psilocybin
Psilocybin comes from the earth. It has been used in ceremony for generations, long before it had a clinical name. We have watched it help warriors who had tried everything else. Men and women who cycled through medications and therapy for years and still carried the invisible wound alone. In a single session, many describe something shifting. A new relationship with the pain, and the first real step onto the path home.
Walking It Together
Psilocybin is one part of a longer journey. It can open a door, and what you do with it matters most. We share what researchers are learning in News + Research. We are not chasing quick fixes. We are walking warriors home, one at a time.
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca is a sacred plant medicine, brewed in the Amazon. Indigenous traditions have carried it forward, understanding healing long before the West began studying it. At a retreat, the ceremony comes after time to rest, reflect, and connect with the group. No one walks this path alone. Your cohort carries it together.
What Happens in Ceremony
Many who sit in ceremony describe encountering grief they had carried for decades. Some reconnect with fallen brothers and sisters. Others feel, for the first time in years, able to put down the invisible wound they’ve carried alone. The medicine can open the door, but it cannot walk the path for you. That is why preparation before, and integration after, matter as much as the ceremony itself. Every participant is medically and psychologically screened before the ceremony. This is the same care and rigor you relied on in service, now serving you on the way home.
Educational content only. Not medical advice or an endorsement of psychedelic use. Ayahuasca contains DMT, a Schedule I controlled substance under U.S. federal law; limited religious exemptions and protections may apply in specific circumstances. Results vary.
GROUNDED IN
COMMUNITY
By participating in a shared communal journey we come to understand that our struggles are not unique. We lighten the burden by sharing with others who walk the same path.
News + Research
Research, news, and stories from The Coming Home Project.