Psychedelic Integration
Conceptualizing Your Psychedelic Experience
“I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever.”
Michael Sanders, Ayahuasca: An Executive’s Enlightenment
How Does Reflective Healing Approach Psychedelic Integration?
Psychedelic integration is the process of grounding an experience that you had on psychedelics that may be difficult for you to conceptualize or incorporate into your daily life.
Sometimes, the experiences you had during a psychedelic journey may have felt chaotic. Additionally, some experiences with psychedelics can be traumatic. Psychedelic integration helps you move through the trauma to understand what you were shown, why it was shown to you, and to expand and grow on what you saw. Or, you may have had a beautiful experience, but now you don’t know what to do with what happened.
The dark, the scary, the intense, the beautiful- all can be processed through psychedelic integration.
When you take psychedelic drugs without proper integration, you are missing out on half of the medicine. Unless you are in a community of those who have done a lot of professional psychedelic work much of the experience can get lost or feel inaccessible in the day-to-day. Without someone trained in helping you understand the symbolism in and of your experiences and integration, you can’t gain the same level of understanding and you might feel like you are losing the “power” of the medicine as time passes.
Through journaling, storytelling, and sharing what you experienced with a trained therapist who knows how to help you decode psychedelic experiences, you are able to incorporate your journey into your life in a way that will feel meaningful and invite change.
