Today we’d like to introduce you to Jill Sitnick
Hi Jill, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I bring my unique perspective as a patient who healed childhood trauma-induced PTSD with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to demystify MDMA therapy. With a career that has spanned teaching high school students through working at Microsoft and Amazon, I have always been known as someone who can take complicated topics and make them accessible. By sharing the details of my treatment in my memoir Rescuing Jill: How MDMA with a Dash of Mushrooms Healed My Childhood Trauma-Induced PTSD, I provide readers with a raw and personal look into the transformative potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy. My companion workbook, Rescuing Jill Companion Workbook: Intention Setting Prompts for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy, further equips those wanting to prepare for their own psychedelic healing. Additionally, I educate audiences with my YouTube channel, The Journey Sage, by providing practical wisdom on intention setting, integration practices, and working with journey guides to demystify the use of psychedelics to treat PTSD. As a patient voice, my story and educational content provide clarity to a confusing process for people new to psychedelics for healing.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The biggest struggle is presenting something that people have been taught to fear, such as medicine. For decades, we have been media-fed propaganda about psychedelics without regard to the long history of research around mental health. The war on drugs stopped depression, anxiety, and PTSD research for decades, so, naturally, most people have no idea about the current clinical trial successes of these compounds.
I keep teaching and presenting research material to folks via LinkedIn and YouTube to chip away at the illusion that psychedelics are inherently dangerous.
As you know, we’re big fans of Journey Sage. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
I founded my coaching company, the Journey Sage, to be an educator about the healing journey of psychedelics for mental health. In our society, we tend to think that “magic pills” solve our health problems. Psychedelics work therapeutically if they are administered in a safe, therapeutic setting. That setting has to include pre and post-therapy/coaching sessions.
When I talk about my healing process with MDMA (street name = Molly), I educate people about the entire medical process. I am the only one I can find creating this content, and that makes sense. Airing your child abuse background isn’t fun, but the good I can do in the world by letting people know of this healing modality eclipses that.
I have recently completed the IPEC coaching program and will be finishing Thirdwave’s Psychedelic coaching program in 2025. I’ll then be ready to work with psychedelic-assisted coaching clients while referring folks who need more support to other providers.
I’m really proud of the content I provide for people, my books, and that I will be able to assist people, in a coaching capacity, as they work on their personal growth.
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
I live in West Chester, PA, and it is an absolutely delightful town. The borough is full of fun restaurants, the people are nice, and there is hiking so, so close. Other than the sometimes annoying traffic, it is a very cool place to live.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://thejourneysage.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejourneysage
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thejourneysage
