Most of us don’t need more insight—we need our nervous system to finally feel safe enough to complete what it’s been holding. Imagine a snow globe that’s been shaken all day: thoughts spinning, chest tight, breath shallow, body braced. When the shaking stops, the globe doesn’t “think” its way back to stillness—it settles because settling is its nature. Cannabis-assisted psychotherapy can support a similar return: not by forcing release, but by creating the conditions for the body to regulate, build, and discharge held survival energy in its own timing.

In the wild, when a zebra escapes a lion’s chase, it doesn’t carry the fear forever. Once safe with its herd at the watering hole, its body instinctively trembles and shakes — releasing stored survival energy. Humans share this same biology, yet many of us hold trauma for years. Cannabis-assisted psychotherapy can help reawaken this natural reset, allowing the nervous system to discharge held stress and return toward balance.

Samuel had a long, respectful relationship with cannabis. He knew it as something that could help him soften stress, settle his body, and return to the present moment. But he hadn’t yet experienced cannabis in a structured therapeutic setting — one designed not only to soothe, but to reveal what had been quietly held underneath the surface for years.