It’s not burnout - it’s growth fatigue. Here’s how to recover and why it happens in the first place.

Many years ago, I wrote an article called “Post Event and Ego Crash Symptoms”. I wrote it after witnessing many of the participants who had come to my events struggling once they returned home.

I did some research and talked to other teachers and guides who hold events, and this seemed to be a universal phenomenon. Not everyone would have a crash, but many people did, and it didn’t matter what type of event it was.

Of course, there are events that are exhausting in a negative way, but that is not what I am interested in here. I am talking about events where people go to receive a lot of positive information, energy, and connections, and then they go home to their regular lives.

Back when I wrote the first article, most people were going home to ordinary routines, and sometimes negative environments. However, these days most people, at least from my events, are going back to very nourishing, supportive, high-frequency lives.

So, what is the deal? I looked at the nature of the “crash” after my June 2025 event, and it appeared to be different. This time, there was a little bit of the ego crash, for sure, but mostly it was an overall “pleasant soreness, exhaustion”, very similar to what a person gets after a marathon or cramming for exams.

Looking at it from a mechanical point of view, it was completely understandable. The event itself was aimed at growing, stretching, and strengthening our Core Self, our Endobody, our Magical Body, and it gave our mental body a run for its money. In other words, it was incredibly packed with data for the mental body.

A week later, the symptoms are finally dissipating. The advice for this phenomenon is to rest, but not to stay in bed day after day. Our physical bodies are the champions in this situation. If we make ourselves get out of bed or off the chair and do physical activities that don’t rely on the mind, emotions, ego, or energy bodies, we recover much faster than if we simply retreat to bed and shut the door to the world.

Another aspect that some of the participants reported was that during the event, their energy fields, body, mind, ego, and emotional bodies were all wide open and receptive so when they found themselves traveling home or dealing with negative life situations, they were hit hard by the contrast. But no worries, they knew exactly what to do with that oopsy:

* They became aware of it

* Stop

* Process any sticky negativity

* Then did something else instead

By the way, these same steps are also useful for dealing with negative situations or thoughts that fill us with necrotic (destructive and deadly) energy. We will have a full lecture on this aspect of the light/dark paradigm soon, including how to address what we may have already absorbed.

P.S. Feeling like you got hit by a high-frequency truck after an event? That’s just your soul doing crunches. Come laugh (and learn) with us at DrivingToTheRez.com where Larry, myself and the Wisdom Keepers share our post-event experiences and what we did about them.

The discussion doesn’t stop here—listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.

We had an “before iboga” article and podcast episode where I shared what my experience has been with sacred plants, and where Larry made the announcement that he would be participating in an iboga ritual.

For that episode, go here and make sure to log behind the paywall for the Wisdom Keeper hour to hear our panelists' experiences with sacred plants, their viewpoints and research.

This week, we are covering not only Larry’s experience with the iboga sacred plant, but we have also interviewed two of our panelists as well as our friend Craig, all of whom participated in the ritual.

One of the things that became clear to me, was that the plant is not to be taken lightly. There are certain things the person needs to prepare before the ritual, including cutting out stimulants such as coffee. Also, certain supplements do not participate well with the experience.

Although the ritual can last just a few hours, the work with the plant can start weeks if not months before the ritual, and can last many days or weeks after it. There was information I received for three of the participants beforehand, during and after the ritual. These were sometimes to help me understand what was happening but mostly it was almost like the plant wanted me to deliver a message that they were not listening to.

I did not participate in the ritual myself.

Larry had a bit of a tough time during the ritual. He had certain concepts and issues that were tough for him to work with. In the end, he came out of it with a certainty that he was done with addictive behaviors.

From a third party perspective, I have seen that Larry is now less willing to put up with blocks and frustrating situations. One might say that he expresses his feelings more easily. Whether the feelings are joy or anger, they are expressed more readily at a physical and emotional level. It almost feels like a block between himself and his body has been removed. Like a mask is no longer there. He also wakes early and spends hours in the morning doing physical things on our property, getting a morning sweat going, a go and do it with much less check the on-line world interference. Online world has diminished greatly in importance, while the outside world has become more important. This is a good thing/bad thing for an individual whose work now involves much more online tasks, and much less outside tasks. I did notice that the amount of online time he spends watching random videos or on facebook clickbait is greatly reduced, choosing instead to spend that online time learning skills and being busy at work.

Larry shares his full experience in our podcast here, and on the Wisdom Keeper Hour we get to interview Craig, Ashley and Fred. You will be familiar with Ashley and Fred as our second hour panelists.

The discussion doesn’t stop here—listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.