A soulful inquiry into healing

That Nagging Question

What is integration, really?

We hear the word tossed around often—especially in the realm of psychedelic therapy. But after one particularly intense therapeutic journey, two years into my own healing process and post psychedelic therapy facilitator training, I had to admit something:

I didn’t know what integration actually meant.

Had I seen it modeled? Was it the check-in phone call a week after the journey?
Was it the debriefing conversation as the medicine wore off and the world returned to form?
Was integration a mental process, a physical one—or both?
If I didn’t know what it meant, how was I supposed to do it?

And my biggest question—who helps people understand the language of the psyche?

So many questions. So few answers. And yet, so many people offering the medicine… without the guidance to hold what it unearths. I began to wonder:

Where’s the support for navigating the material after the medicine speaks?

Because that’s where the healing lives.
That’s the good stuff—the place where life reorganizes back to wholeness if we know how to listen.

And if we treat the realm within us as a separate world—a place we only visit every few months to feel whole again—then how can anything ever truly be integrated?

What I Discovered

So I sought mentorship. I had the hard conversations. I dove into study, into practice, into experience.

Here’s what I’ve come to understand:

Integration, for me, isn’t just a step after a journey. It’s the work.
The stitching of soul back into skin.
The romance of Psyche.
The art of making sense of what life has cracked open.

It’s the loving reassembly of our lost and broken parts—like kintsugi, the Japanese art of restoring pottery pieces with gold. Not hiding the fractures, but illuminating them. 

And then it’s the walking—moving through life as a whole being, deeply aware of who we are in relation to everyone and everything around us.

Integration Is...

Integration is the process of weaving insights, emotions, revelations, and wounds into our lived reality.

It’s when your inner world—psyche, soul, spirit—and your outer world—relationships, habits, work, identity—begin to speak the same language.

It’s not a one-time event.
It’s a practice.
A devotion.
A return to wholeness.

And for many of us, this practice is inseparable from rediscovering the feminine within:
The intuitive. The feeling. The wise. The cyclical. The chaotic. The deeply alive.

This is the part of us that has been denied, suppressed, dismissed—not just within, but in our collective culture.
We live in a world shaped by the overculture of patriarchy and perfectionism—where logic, action, and productivity are rewarded, and feeling, resting, being are often judged as weakness.

Psychedelic therapy cracks this imbalance open.
The medicine reveals just how disconnected we’ve become from the feminine—within ourselves, and in the world around us. It beckons us to remember.

To remember Gaia.
To remember the web of interconnection.
To remember the intelligence that lives in the body, not just the brain.

As Dr. Dan Siegel calls it: intra-connection—the knowing that everything is in relationship, including the parts of your own being.

Anima, Animism & the Call to Restore Balance

Carl Jung called the feminine part of the male psyche the anima.
I believe that all of us—regardless of gender—need to reclaim this archetypal feminine within.

Because what has been defiled is not just “womanhood,” but Nature Herself.

The word animism comes from the Latin anima—“soul” or “breath of life.”
It points to the truth ancient cultures knew: that Spirit moves through everything.
Trees. Rivers. Dreams. Emotions. You.

This wisdom—this reverence—is what dominant culture has nearly erased. But we are in the midst of remembering.

We are living in the time of the Second Psychedelic Renaissance. The Great Awakening.
A time to reclaim the Sacred Feminine, the Earth, and the truth of our own internal guidance systems and innate healing capability.

So I ask you:
What is your relationship to the Maiden, Mother, Crone? To Mama Gaia?
To the cycles of death and rebirth?
To the soul speaking through your body?

Remember her. Restore her. Reclaim her. 

My Definition of Integration

Integration is the sacred process of reclaiming all parts of Self, embodying truth, metabolizing experience, and aligning your life with the deeper intelligence that moves through you.

Why It Matters

We live in a culture of peak experiences and quick fixes.
But transformation without integration is like planting a seed and never watering it.

The visions fade.
The lessons blur.
The wisdom stays disembodied.

But when we integrate...

• The breakthrough becomes a way of being.
  
  
• The shadow becomes an ally.
  
  
• The dream becomes a direction.
  
  

We restore balance within, and that healing ripples outward.

When we do this work, we don’t just change our lives—we change the world.

How I Support Integration

Plant medicine told me it’s my job to “help people through the scary bits” so here are some shadowy terrains I’m familiar with:

• Psychedelic journeys
  
  
• Soul awakenings
  
  
• Grief portals
  
  
• Identity shifts
  
  
• Life initiations and changes of all kinds
  
  

My approach blends:

• Symbolic Sight — Interpreting the archetypal, mythic, and metaphorical layers of your experiences
  
  
• Somatic Healing — Bringing the body into the conversation so healing is embodied, not just intellectual
  
  
• Psyche Dialogue — Engaging with your inner images, dream symbols, and intuitive wisdom
  
  
• Practical Alchemy — Turning insight into action and sacred knowing into sustainable change
  
  

I don’t offer a formula. I offer a relationship—a sacred container of reflection, witness, and intuitive guidance for the terrain between what was and what wants to become.

Who I Work Best With

• If you’ve had a big experience and don’t know where to put it...
  
  
• If you’re seeking to live from a deeper, wiser place but keep hitting old patterns...
  
  
• If you want a guide who honors both the mystery and the mess...
  
  

We might be a good fit. Also, if this song resonates with you, we might want to walk together. 

Integration Is Not the End. It’s the Beginning.

It’s the place where you begin to live from soul rather than strategy.
Where your inner wisdom stops whispering and starts leading.
Where you stop asking “What should I do?” and start asking:
“What wants to be born through me?”

Many blessings on your integration and healing journey!