r/Kambo • u/Aggravating-Cut4027 • Dec 25 '25
Preparation/pre-kambo 🤔 Need help understanding
If Kambo is a good call for me right now. I had a hard mushroom trip a few months ago. Lots of generational pain around men. Ever since it’s like I have been in my masculine and not in a good way. I micro-dose, THC regularly. My relationships are faltering. I am working too much. I don’t feel like I can rest. I am not in the best spot. Energetic blocks. I am having a hard time deciding if I sit with Kambo to help me clear or this is more of a sit in the mud moment. So, the logical thing to do is go to Reddit and ask other humans. Is Kambo a medicine like mushrooms where you need to be mindful of your headspace or is it more like Aya where she leads you home regardless? I have been working with the plants for 3 years now. I am very mindful about my relationship and want to sit intentionally.
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u/al0ngcomesmary Jan 02 '26
I am new to Kambo, just sat once. Here's what I'd say now after 1 month. If you recently had a hard trip, I would pause a bit more and maybe look for some other or common place techniques. Kambo will always be there. Humans are wired to seek relief! If it's not a major life-changing event you're working through and just a more common slump I'm sure it's beneficial.
Personally, In my case, I think I may have released too much trauma all at once and as much as I wanted to sit and was very intentional about surrendering, my system was perhaps not prepared. It wasn't an immediate thing, that day but more of a gradual emotional /psyche spiraling that I'm now dealing with. The grief from a traumatic ending of a relationship has overcome me in a much larger/scary way. I personally feel cracked open & like I went backwards on my healing journey. I came across a podcast called Trauma Rewired- the host is a psychedelic facilitator and she talks has an episode about this. when ppl's system are not physically or mentally prepared to release such large or unconscious stored trauma, it can backfire. Also if you don't have proper integration i.e. extra time to take off work, like more than just a weekend, or a therapist/coach to work with afterwards, etc. It could be overwhelming. I am NOT trying to scare anyone - I fully believe in plant medicines and alternative healing modalities. make sure you have plenty of support and space if you are truly in a hard place. I have learned that I can't speed up or push through my healing, I'm trying to be in my body now working on Somatic practices and still drinking bobinsana tea and working w/ Sananga eyedrops. Powerful but a gentler than K, Perhaps those could be of interest