A diagnosis is not the end of the story.
The Eleeo Sanctuary for Neurological Healing is a faith-rooted community for people living with Parkinson’s and other neurological conditions and the caregivers who walk beside them.
The Sanctuary grew from our own family's experience and a conviction that has carried us from the beginning: God is the source of healing, the body was created with a remarkable capacity to heal, and we are called to participate in that process with faith, courage, discernment, and responsibility.
We believe healing is sacred, and we have built a place where people can pursue it through education, community, and the religious use of psilocybin as sacrament.
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WHO WE ARE
Why the Sanctuary exists.
Eleeo comes from a Greek word meaning to show mercy, extend compassion, and bring help to those who are suffering. The name was chosen years before Parkinson's entered our family and before we understood how deeply neurological conditions would shape our lives. Looking back, its meaning feels inseparable from the work we now believe we have been called to do.
We know what it is to live inside the uncertainty of a neurological diagnosis, to search for answers that do not feel complete, to pray for direction, and to keep moving forward when the path is unclear. Through that experience, we came to understand healing as something deeper than a change in symptoms. It can touch the body, mind, relationships, faith, purpose, and the ability to be fully present in your own life.
The Eleeo Sanctuary exists to walk alongside people and families who are pursuing that deeper kind of healing. Faith, education, lived experience, community, and sacramental practice come together here within a path that asks each of us to participate with humility, curiosity, and responsibility.
We do not claim to control healing or determine what it will look like for another person. We believe our responsibility is to faithfully steward what we have been given and to meet people in their suffering with mercy, knowledge, grace, faith, and hope.
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No one should have to carry all of that alone.
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WHAT WE BELIEVE
The convictions at the heart of the Sanctuary.
The Eleeo Sanctuary grew from what our own family has lived, what our faith has taught us, and what we have come to believe through years of searching, questioning, learning, praying, and paying attention.
These convictions shape how we understand healing, how we care for the people who enter this community, and how we approach the work we feel called to do.
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This is where our faith begins. We believe healing ultimately comes from God and that He can work through His creation in ways we may not expect or fully understand. We do not place our faith in a person, practice, protocol, or substance. We place our faith in Him.
Prayer, discernment, humility, and trust are not separate from the healing path. They are part of how we walk it.
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A neurological diagnosis can reach into nearly every part of life. It can affect the body, emotions, relationships, identity, faith, purpose, and the ability to feel fully present with the people you love.
Because of that, we have never understood healing as symptom change alone. We believe the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual parts of our lives matter, and each deserves care.
Our own experience has also taught us that healing asks something of us. It can require us to pay attention, care for our bodies, change the way we live, remain curious, ask difficult questions, and keep showing up even when progress is not simple or linear.
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We would never minimize the suffering that can accompany a neurological diagnosis. We know what it is to grieve, to feel uncertain, to search for answers, and to wonder why your family is walking through something you never would have chosen.
But we also believe suffering does not have to be wasted. There were years in our own story when we could not see what God was doing. Looking back, we can see places where He was sustaining us, preparing us, and shaping something we did not yet understand.
That belief does not make the hard seasons less real. It gives us reason to keep looking for what God may still be doing within them.
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Eleeo means to show mercy, extend compassion, and bring help to those who are suffering. For us, that is more than the meaning of a name. It is part of the calling behind this Sanctuary.
We believe people living with neurological conditions and the families who love them need more than information. They need people willing to walk beside them through the questions, fear, hope, change, and uncertainty that can become part of this life.
No one should have to carry all of that alone. This is the kind of community we feel called to build.
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OUR SACRAMENTAL PRACTICE
The sacrament is held within a life of faith.
The sacrament is central to the spiritual practice of the Eleeo Sanctuary. We believe psilocybin is part of God's creation and that, when approached with humility, discernment, and responsibility, it can hold meaningful spiritual purpose.
Our relationship with the sacrament grew slowly through lived experience, prayer, questioning, and a path we believe God was guiding long before we understood where it would lead. We did not come to it casually, and we do not hold it casually now.
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Our own experience taught us that healing was never about simply taking something. The life surrounding the sacrament matters. Members are asked to learn, prepare, reflect, care for their bodies, pay attention to how they are living, and take responsibility for the way they participate.
The Sanctuary’s sacramental practice includes the religious use of psilocybin as sacrament within a structured framework of education, preparation, health screening, integration, and community.
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The Eleeo Sanctuary is centered specifically on a structured microdosing practice rather than full-dose psychedelic retreats or ceremonies. That distinction is intentional.
Microdosing reflects the way the sacrament first became part of our own lives. It became part of a much larger path of healing that included how we lived, cared for our bodies, deepened our faith, and continued showing up for our family and the life in front of us.
That experience helped shape the practice we now feel called to steward. The Sanctuary was created for people already navigating the complexity of neurological conditions, and we wanted the sacramental practice to reflect that reality through a gentler, lower-intensity approach centered on steadiness, awareness, reflection, connection, and participation in everyday life.
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Because we believe the sacrament has purpose, we also believe participation carries responsibility.
Membership begins with conversation, discernment, screening, education, orientation, and preparation. We want members to understand what they are entering, how the practice is approached within the Sanctuary, and the care, intention, and responsibility that participation requires.
The Eleeo Sanctuary does not claim that the sacrament treats or cures neurological conditions. We share what we have lived, what we believe, and the practice we feel called to steward while creating a place where others can approach that practice thoughtfully and responsibly.
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Join the Waitlist
If you feel drawn to The Eleeo Sanctuary, we invite you to join the waitlist for our first membership cohort.
Share your name, email, and where you live, and if you would like, tell us what is drawing you here. When we are ready to begin welcoming our first members, we will be in touch with more information about membership and the next steps in the application process.
Joining the waitlist is not an application and does not commit you to membership. It simply gives us a way to stay connected as the Sanctuary prepares to open.
We look forward to connecting with you.
Have questions before you take the next step?
We want you to understand The Eleeo Sanctuary and feel informed about what membership involves. Join Courtney and Joe for a live virtual Q&A to learn more about the Sanctuary, eligibility, sacramental practice, the application process, and what to expect.