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"A compelling, radical exploration of psychedelics' healing potential."-Kirkus Reviews
• Explains how psychedelic experiences offer a way to reconnect with the body, reclaim pleasure, rekindle joy, and reawaken to love
• Explores how psychedelics can support our sexual healing and offers a range of psychedelic integration techniques and somatic exercises to help release trauma and foster insight
• Shares recent research on trauma and case studies from more than a decade of professional clinical work as well as lessons from the author's own healing journey from sexual trauma and PTSD
In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist and psychedelic integration expert Dee Dee Goldpaugh shows how the profound healing and restorative effects of psychedelics can help us heal our sexuality, reconnect with pleasure, find wholeness, and feel good again.
Sharing recent research on trauma and case studies from more than a decade of professional clinical work, Goldpaugh explores specific ways psychedelics can heal sexual trauma, enhance sexual pleasure, and deepen our interpersonal connections. Goldpaugh looks at MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, mescaline, 5-MeO-DMT, and other psychedelics and offers a range of integration techniques as well as somatic exercises to help foster insight and apply the lessons learned during psychedelic experiences to everyday life. Goldpaugh also examines the methodology behind psychedelic-assisted therapy and how readers can safely navigate risks and explore their own healing at home.
Revealing the transformative power of embracing pleasure for healing sexual trauma, this book provides an essential guide to psychedelic sexuality as a path to healing and love. Dee Dee Goldpaugh is a psychotherapist, educator, clinical consultant, and leading voice in the development of psychedelic integration psychotherapy, specifically with survivors of sexual trauma. Goldpaugh is a facilitator of ketamine-assisted retreats for both couples and individuals and has taught and published widely on psychedelics and sexuality, trauma, gender, and spirituality. A frequent presenter at international conferences and trainings, Goldpaugh lives in Woodstock, New York. INTRODUCTION
Things to Know before You Begin Reading
THIS BOOK IS THE CULMINATION of a personal healing journey of over twenty years from trauma to transcendence; from isolation to connection; from numbness to being in touch with true pleasure. Western psychotherapy, spiritual practice, and loving relationships all had a role to play in my healing from sexual and relational abuse in childhood and sexual assault as an adult. But nothing has ever been capable of helping me feel, express, move through, and ultimately reconnect to pleasure in the way psychedelic medicines have. I believe this level of healing should be accessible to everyone who wants it. This book is a deeply personal expression because it is a reflection of the most profound healing I've experienced that I hope to share with others. Likewise, these ideas are also drawn from over seventeen years of professional experience as a psychotherapist supporting the healing of my clients. My training background is in somatically oriented trauma therapies including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), sex therapy, and also in psychodynamic psychotherapy and relational therapies. I am also a ketamine-assisted psychotherapist and an expert in psychedelic integration psychotherapy, having developed and published specific techniques for sexual trauma survivors.
This book is born into a moment that is a turning point in the history of psychedelic medicines, and the messages contained within have no easy place in the corporate world of medicalized psychedelics which is becoming the dominant paradigm in the West. Readers interested in healing their sexuality, connecting more deeply to pleasure, experiencing more satisfaction in their lives, and who
• Explains how psychedelic experiences offer a way to reconnect with the body, reclaim pleasure, rekindle joy, and reawaken to love
• Explores how psychedelics can support our sexual healing and offers a range of psychedelic integration techniques and somatic exercises to help release trauma and foster insight
• Shares recent research on trauma and case studies from more than a decade of professional clinical work as well as lessons from the author's own healing journey from sexual trauma and PTSD
In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist and psychedelic integration expert Dee Dee Goldpaugh shows how the profound healing and restorative effects of psychedelics can help us heal our sexuality, reconnect with pleasure, find wholeness, and feel good again.
Sharing recent research on trauma and case studies from more than a decade of professional clinical work, Goldpaugh explores specific ways psychedelics can heal sexual trauma, enhance sexual pleasure, and deepen our interpersonal connections. Goldpaugh looks at MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, mescaline, 5-MeO-DMT, and other psychedelics and offers a range of integration techniques as well as somatic exercises to help foster insight and apply the lessons learned during psychedelic experiences to everyday life. Goldpaugh also examines the methodology behind psychedelic-assisted therapy and how readers can safely navigate risks and explore their own healing at home.
Revealing the transformative power of embracing pleasure for healing sexual trauma, this book provides an essential guide to psychedelic sexuality as a path to healing and love. Dee Dee Goldpaugh is a psychotherapist, educator, clinical consultant, and leading voice in the development of psychedelic integration psychotherapy, specifically with survivors of sexual trauma. Goldpaugh is a facilitator of ketamine-assisted retreats for both couples and individuals and has taught and published widely on psychedelics and sexuality, trauma, gender, and spirituality. A frequent presenter at international conferences and trainings, Goldpaugh lives in Woodstock, New York. INTRODUCTION
Things to Know before You Begin Reading
THIS BOOK IS THE CULMINATION of a personal healing journey of over twenty years from trauma to transcendence; from isolation to connection; from numbness to being in touch with true pleasure. Western psychotherapy, spiritual practice, and loving relationships all had a role to play in my healing from sexual and relational abuse in childhood and sexual assault as an adult. But nothing has ever been capable of helping me feel, express, move through, and ultimately reconnect to pleasure in the way psychedelic medicines have. I believe this level of healing should be accessible to everyone who wants it. This book is a deeply personal expression because it is a reflection of the most profound healing I've experienced that I hope to share with others. Likewise, these ideas are also drawn from over seventeen years of professional experience as a psychotherapist supporting the healing of my clients. My training background is in somatically oriented trauma therapies including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), sex therapy, and also in psychodynamic psychotherapy and relational therapies. I am also a ketamine-assisted psychotherapist and an expert in psychedelic integration psychotherapy, having developed and published specific techniques for sexual trauma survivors.
This book is born into a moment that is a turning point in the history of psychedelic medicines, and the messages contained within have no easy place in the corporate world of medicalized psychedelics which is becoming the dominant paradigm in the West. Readers interested in healing their sexuality, connecting more deeply to pleasure, experiencing more satisfaction in their lives, and who