This post is part of Healing Insights from the Circle, a Veteran Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Group Journal from ReNew Wellness. These reflections are shared to honor the courage, vulnerability, and resilience of veterans healing together in community.
The theme of this evening was a shared, felt sense of peace.
One veteran said, “We are healing each other. I don’t know you, but you’re my brother.” That sentence captured the heart of the group: strangers becoming witnesses, witnesses becoming support, and support becoming part of the medicine.
The group reflected on how ketamine can open many emotional and mental windows. Sometimes those windows can feel overwhelming, but they may also reveal what is needed next.
Veterans discussed stepping away from social media, practicing patience, and unlearning survival patterns taught in war. These are not small things. They represent the slow work of returning from survival mode into choice, relationship, and self-trust.
The anchor metaphor returned: trauma as a heavy anchor slowly being lifted. Another veteran vulnerably shared feeling irreparable damage, and the group held that honesty gently.
Moments of joy, grief, hope, and mutual respect unfolded throughout the evening, reinforcing that healing can occur even when each person’s path looks different.