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.
“If we don't integrate our psychedelic experiences, they simply remain in the subconscious ethers of our energy field. Integration means that we take the psychic material from our experiences, and we pull that wisdom into our lived experiences and daily life, creating change that actually results in growth and healing. If we don't do this, psychedelics will not help us to heal, they will simply remain peak, high, experiences.”
—Dori Lewis (owner)
Integrate in Community With Us
Join Our Monthly In-Person and Virtual Integration Circles
The period after a psychedelic journey can oftentimes feel lonely. Maybe the people in your life don’t understand your decision to take a psychedelic, you were left feeling confused about what you experienced, or you’re craving connection with people on a similar path.
If there’s one reality we are committed to honoring at RHC, it’s that healing happens in relationship and in community. That’s why group spaces to process together are so powerful.
If you are seeking support, accountability, or simply a safe place to share your experience in a skillfully-held environment, we’d love to invite you to our monthly psychedelic integration circles.
Whether you join us in-person or online, these circles are an opportunity to connect with like-minded community while gaining deeper clarity and the support to create meaningful change.
All are welcome at our integration circles, and you don’t have to be an existing client of Reflective Healing Center.