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Tag: Psychedelic Integration
10 Additional Techniques to Compliment Your Psychotherapy
These techniques may not replace your current therapeutic method, they can complement and enhance it by supporting your emotional well-being, promoting self-control, and improving your physical health.
Microdosing: Myth, Magic, or a Molecular Mechanism?
Microdosing is hailed as an all-inclusive approach to your physical and psychological issues. But is it real?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy – Online?
Is the COVID pandemic presenting us with a new opportunity in the field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy? Can we collaborate with patients to offer virtual sessions safely and effectively? If so, what are the implications of this new way of providing treatment?
Interbeing as a Framework for Integrating Self-Transcendent Psychedelic Experiences
This article explores the concept of 'interbeing' from Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh as a framework for integrating psychedelic experiences. Join psychologist Tomas Frymann, MA as we explore how the interconnection that psychedelics make visible can offer us healing.
How to Enhance your Psychedelic Transformation
Many of us are seeking opportunities to break out of our old ways, to grow, change, and develop into our best selves. Psychedelics can be a powerful catalyst to this change. Yet these medicines are not a "magic pill", but rather take intention, practice, and effort to work with and reap the rewards. Learn from Barbara Sanders, LCSW about how to enhance your transformation through psychedelic integration.
Mental Health and COVID-19, Intersecting Wicked Problems
Wicked Problems have a tendency to fester or get more severe over time. With Covid-19 and Mental Health, we have two intersecting Wicked Problems. The real treatment we need to address our chronic mental health issues include structural change at the level of politics, culture, education, families and systems of care.
Crisis Management in Medicine: Why Psychedelic Medicine should play an enhanced role in the post-COVID era
The coronavirus crisis has led the medical and regulatory communities to fast-track medical treatments with a potential to help patients' physical symptoms. At the same time, mental health issues have proliferated among front-line workers and within the broader population.
Now That It’s Over: What to do After You’ve Taken Psychedelics
While there is a large focus today on substances and the experience of taking them, much of the healing potential these drugs offer comes through the integration of the experience afterwards. In this article, Brian Murphy, MEd, LCSW shares advice and insight into making the most of integration - whether your experience was over- or underwhelming - and generating the most healing for ourselves and our wider community.
Want to Trip? Why COVID is a real-life collective healing journey
These uncertain times have placed us all on a collective journey that can open us up to healing. Learn from Safa Boga about her patients' experiences.
How to Find the Best Psychedelic Integration Therapist for You
Finding the best fit therapist for you can be a daunting task, whether or not the work involves psychedelics. In this article, we share insights into finding the best therapist for you - navigating the degrees of health professionals, reflecting on your own needs, listing questions to ask when interviewing a therapist, and more.
Psychospiritual Integration of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
Non-ordinary states of consciousness hold psychological and spiritual contents that, when properly integrated, can offer tremendous life-affirming value. Aion Farvahar helps us explore these different states and the value they offer to seekers.
Even in the Heartbreaking Mess, There is Staggering Beauty
I share these words and this story with you because maybe, just maybe, today you needed to be told that you are bigger, better than you know. Maybe you needed someone to say, “I see you.” Maybe you needed to be reminded that your rough edges, your heartbreaking mess, holds within it staggering beauty. Please don’t hide, apologize, defer, shrink, or wait any longer. Shine (even if it feels scary and messy)… so that you can illuminate the world.
