Integrating your experience
Integration is both how we bring integrity to our relationship with ourselves and also the external world. Integration is the embodiment of the lessons we learn in ceremony.
Integration
The importance of integrating your experiences has never been more obvious. How we do this is an enormous part of our healing and growth. Avoidance of this work can undo much of the teachings and lessons given to us by the plants. And so, we always advise that this process is taken as seriously as the preparation and ceremonial work. We have some excellent practitioners that we recommend:
Jennifer Scully LCPC, CCTP
Jen has an acronym soup of credentials, though the list of letters after her name mostly reflect how deeply she cares about this work. A trauma therapist licensed in several states, as well as a trauma coach and consultant with over 15 years of experience in the field.
Her work is grounded in science, but does not exclude spirit. She has found that the deepest healing happens when these worlds are allowed to meet. I work from a neurobiologically informed lens with a focus on memory reconsolidation, interoceptive awareness, and making meaning from pain. This approach is informed by trauma models that support the nervous system in revisiting and updating experiences that were once too overwhelming to process, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), and EMDR.
Jen loves working with other non-conformists, truth tellers, rebels, scapegoats, black sheep, and cycle breakers.
No stranger to plant medicine she has worked with us to integrate some very intense experiences. It’s through the lens of her own relationship with the medicine that she can offer preparation and integration support to others, with an emphasis on pacing, safety, and helping insight become something real and actionable in everyday life.
Aelxandra Artzoglou
Alexandra is a certified psychedelic integration and transformational life coach who helps seekers turn peak experiences (from ceremonies, retreats, spiritual and personal development awakenings) into a grounded, sustainable new normal.
She spent a decade immersed in retreats and ceremonies across the globe, seeking the tools, teachings and approaches that accelerate healing and answer one question: how do we make the most expanded, most authentic version of ourselves last?
Seven years in, she realized that perspective shifts, however profound, don't stick without long-term, relational, hands-on integration. That realization became her life's work.
She now draws on psychology, Compassionate Inquiry, somatic and trauma-informed approaches, and her own lived experience to work with people at every layer: past, future and present. Healing the patterns pulling them back, training the nervous system so that it normalizes presence and expansion, while actively building a future vision worth waking up for, and serving others through their calling.
Her hypothesis is that when we commit to the practices that work for long enough, until authenticity becomes a habit, guided by mentors who have walked the walk, we don’t know how good our lives can get.
Our potential is infinite.
It’s not work to be rushed or bypassed. When done with honesty, diligence and the right support, it solidifies our ceremonial work and brings lasting inner peace.
Why integrate
We always advise making space for integration work whilst also understanding that this work is done as we interact with the world, not in isolation from it. There are many anchors and tools we use to navigate the integration process and we share them with all our retreat and ceremonial guests.