Kristy Crabtree
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The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
I was frustrated in my own healing journey and I felt like I was hitting walls and I couldn't understand. I'm a seeker. I would like to know truth. I want to know the answers. Why was I never satisfied? And it was when I introduced psychedelic psychotherapy into my own life that I realized, oh, I have repressed memories from very early childhood.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Absolutely. I would say, look at your patterns, your patterns that you keep finding yourself in, whether it's the wrong relationship or people taking advantage of you or stuck in this job are clues to find out what is that root cause? What is the trauma underneath it that perpetuates those patterns?
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
So they may feel dark, they may feel scary, but allow that darkness to guide you into the solutions or to the light. Because when you can really deconstruct those patterns, you know yourself so much more deeply.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Legacy means living a divinely inspired life and being authentic to serve humanity.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Thanks for having me, Rudy.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Yeah, absolutely. So I am a conventional psychotherapist, and I found in my own healing journey that psychotherapy wasn't enough. It wasn't enough for me, and oftentimes it wasn't enough for my clients. And ketamines recently become legal, so that is a modality that we have access to legally that we can use. But in other parts of the United States, psilocybin or the magic mushroom is also legal.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
What I found is that these medicines, when taken with the intention to heal... are able to break through these barriers, illuminate patterns of behavior that we have so that we become aware of them. Because so often they are deeply rooted in our subconscious to the point where we've just normalized them. And we don't even realize that we have these destructive patterns that hold us back.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
And it was in the resolution of healing those traumatic memories that I was able to really get in touch with my true nature, my higher self, and my life really started to take off in a different direction.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
And when you're able to really shine light on these patterns and release the trauma, which is actually held in our physical bodies. Mm-hmm.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Absolutely. it expands the brain in different ways and different psychedelics impact the brain in different ways. More on a less scientific level, what I've kind of come to realize is that the brain is almost a filter for consciousness. It's almost like the consciousness isn't manufactured from the brain as a product of the brain, but the brain filters down consciousness that's much more broad.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
And so when you start using psychedelics, there's different neurotransmitters that are impacted. If we're talking about something legal like ketamine, it works on the NDMA and the glutamate receptor sites. And so what that does is it impacts your ability to be able to learn and to make new novel connections. We have a ton of NDMA
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Christy Crabtree is a licensed professional counselor. She's a truth seeker and the founder of Inner Light Counseling.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
really given to us when we're little and that's how we learn so much we're just sponges when we're children and so when those are activated those receptors we're able to learn more and that can stay active in the brain for up to two weeks so we're able to implement these new more novel ways of being into our lives that maybe we had barriers to before. But we can't just go to the novel.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
We have to literally go into the depths of the darkness, the things that we're afraid to look at and say, okay, how can I look at these things? And it's so neat because in traditional psychotherapy, we can start to look at some of those traumas And people get really activated in their nervous systems and they feel that physical activation and they get afraid.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
And they're kind of like, OK, that's enough. I didn't know it was going to be so hard. But when you are on a psychedelic medicine taken as a sacrament.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
for healing you're suspended in this feeling of love and the fear really tends to diminish some of these drugs like mdma actually completely repress the amygdala which is your fear response so you feel enveloped in love while you examine some of these patterns and they're so easy to look at and because you've been able to look at these hard things without all the fear you can you
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
I have trauma. Surprise, surprise, right? So I was frustrated in my own healing journey, and I felt like I was hitting walls, and I couldn't understand. You know what? I'm a seeker. I would like to know truth. I want to know the answers. Why was I never satisfied?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
And it was when I introduced psychedelic psychotherapy into my own life that I realized, oh, I have repressed memories from very early childhood. And I touched on some of those memories and eventually integrated them and healed them. But I didn't even know that they were there.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
And it was in the resolution of healing those traumatic memories that I was able to really get in touch with my true nature, my higher self, and my life really started to take off in a different direction.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
You know, for me, there was an opportunity there as a psychotherapist already to train with companies like MAPS and things like that, which is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, to implement ketamine into my practice. But I felt like one-on-one wasn't enough. So I really wanted to bring that into a space of healing retreats. Yeah.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
To be able to help people in the context of community so we can talk about things that might be hard or shameful and really bring light to it and normalize those experiences and even get feedback from other people relating to those experiences, really reducing the shame. So bringing it to that retreat space felt really important to me because there needs to be a space for community. Yeah.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
There are. And I think the powers that be don't want people to know. They don't want people to know the power in these psychedelic medicines because they make a lot more money giving us these pharmaceuticals, these SSRIs that we take on a daily basis. And MDMA, a powerful, powerful medicine, was just shut down by the FDA because they said that the clinical trials weren't done appropriately.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Well, they designed the trials themselves.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Absolutely. I would say...
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Hell? I had to walk through hell. You know, for me, I didn't realize that I had repressed sexual abuse memories that were housed in my body. And there was always this desire in me. More, more, more. This insatiable quest. And I didn't know more what. But I knew I was hungry for something. And... I didn't know if it was more spirituality, more understanding, more knowledge, more connection.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
It turns out it was all those things because there was a huge part of my story that I had forgotten. And so it was my journey of remembering and in remembering that. not only remembering the abuse, but remembering my resiliency and remembering my tenacity and remembering the gifts of my spirit that were literally just on the other side of those memories.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Absolutely. I think sometimes, especially in this society, when we talk about America as a whole and the way that these industries work, we're taught, find the fast fix. Do the thing that's the path of least resistance.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
numb the feelings so that you can just get through today and perform today but the truth is that that's not the way the way out is in and when you look inward at the things that you're most afraid to look at when you can sit with the darkness you literally find the light and when you find the light you're more in alignment with your authenticity with who you are and that's how we kind of triumph i think these paradigms inside ourselves and outside of ourselves is by
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
aligning with our integrity with our authenticity and my vision is imagine a world where we were all able to find our truth and and play that music that serves humanity right how beautiful would that be and then when we're in our power and we tell these industries no enough right it ends and I feel like we're right on the cusp of that
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
My big vision is people knowing who they are, the truth of who they are. And the truth of who we are is so much bigger than our humanity. And when we connect in with psychedelics, we connect in with the ancientness of
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
of our origins as humanity, and we find our power spiritually, and when we find our spiritual power, we can stand in that, and we can stand in truth, and we can triumph over these paradigms, right? Nobody's getting along, everybody's so polarized, but that's how we move past these things.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
I would love to be remembered as a truth seeker, somebody who brought humanity back home to the truth of who they are and themselves.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Absolutely. So I think the best way to do that would be, I have a book coming out. It's called Sacred Revolution, where I outline the four steps into healing, deconstructing some of these old patterns to rebirth yourself as literally a fractal of creator and to tap into your creative potential. And we'll be hosting retreats in 2025. That's great.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
So there's some fun stuff in the episode because there are some really profound mystical experiences that can be had with psychedelics. It's all about healing trauma. And once you heal trauma, which is literally stored in the physical body and you pull more of your spiritual essence into your body, you have a mystical experience, which connects you into the divine and beings and all kinds of, uh,
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
interesting experiences that people have that guide our paths.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
Well, I had a really interesting experience that I shared on the episode about having this experience, not on psychedelics, but after consuming them. where literally I had this visit with Christ and he talked about how we are literally living revelations right now, only he's not coming back in the flesh.
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Kristy Crabtree on Rewiring the Brain and Reclaiming Your Self
He's coming back in each and every one of us, activating our latent DNA so that we become Christed and embody our own gifts. And that's how we heal the world. I was never religious growing up. And so I really kind of dismissed, honestly, him and his message. But I had this moment that I can't deny that was pretty incredible with that message. And I feel like it's happening. We're in that shift.