This summer, The Siotha Project has intentionally taken our foot off the gas. Fewer big pushes, more time spent in the background — building relationships, listening to the veterans and organizations doing great work around us, and thinking hard about how we show up for this community going forward.

Servant leadership is baked into military culture already — looking out for the person next to you, putting the mission and the team above yourself. It's the same instinct that shows up when a veteran shows up to a ruck not because they have to, but because someone else needs the company.

The Siotha Project Partners with Mortal Yoga for Veteran Community Class. Army veteran instructor Reagan Johnson continues to lead the all-levels flow and restore class, open to veterans, families, and the community.

Across the country, there’s a growing recognition that mental health support doesn’t begin and end in a clinical setting. Organizations like SocialRx (formerly Art Pharmacy), founded in 2022, are helping lead this shift—addressing both the mental health and loneliness crises by connecting individuals to non-clinical, community-based experiences with real therapeutic value. Their model, known as social prescribing, creates pathways for people to engage in activities like the a

Plant-based therapies—including substances like psilocybin, MDMA-assisted therapy, and traditional plant medicines such as ayahuasca—are being explored in both research and carefully guided retreat settings for mental health and wellness. The goal is to create more pathways for healing that address the emotional, neurological, and spiritual dimensions of trauma.

As conversations around integrative mental health continue to grow, so does the language used to describe different therapeutic approaches. Terms like “psychedelic therapy,” “plant medicine,” and “ketamine treatment” are often used interchangeably, but they refer to distinct categories of substances and experiences.

A 2022 study from Johns Hopkins Medicine found that psilocybin-assisted treatment significantly reduced symptoms of major depressive disorder in adults, with effects that may last up to a year.