After the Journey

IntegrationWhat just happened?

A guide to sitting with what the medicine uncovered -- and bringing it home.

The Thinking Mind Returns

Integration is the process that follows your psychedelic experience. After the medicine wears off and you return to your default operations, you lose the direct line to your subconscious. The shadow retreats. The walls rebuild. Your frontal lobe comes back online and begins trying to make sense of everything.

The Window of Opportunity

This process is ongoing and open-ended -- but the week immediately after your journey is when the most potent information about yourself is closest to the surface. Unwanted, neglected, abandoned parts of yourself can be noticed, traced, and slowly brought home. You have a choice: dig in and observe, or put the lid back on.

Reflection Guide

Questions worth sitting with

Use any of these questions as a guide to inquire honestly into your experience. Do what feels right for you: journal, draw, talk, sing, create -- whatever your preferred way of taking notice. There is no correct order and no required depth. Go where you're drawn.

Spend time with one question before moving to the next. Let the question breathe. Some will land immediately; others may surface weeks later.

  1. 01 What important themes came up for me during the journey? Circling thoughts, images, memories, feelings, people, places, times in your life.
  2. 02 What judgements or criticisms came up about myself, my partner, or others in the group? Do those tie into my own wounds -- or parts of myself I feel ashamed of?
  3. 03 Are there any parts of myself that showed up that I'd rather not think about?
  4. 04 How did I act? Was I fighting? Did I want to be close? Did I want to retreat? Did I have a hard time speaking or voicing my needs? Did I freeze, or want to blame?
  5. 05 What sensations have come up in my body? Pain, discomfort, tightness, pleasurable sensations, twitches, shaking.
  6. 06 What feelings were present during my journey -- and after? Bliss, fear, shame, anger, hurt.
  7. 07 What core wounds arose? How can I trace them throughout my life?
  8. 08 Were there any mystical, spiritual, or indescribable experiences in my journey? How do I feel about them?
  9. 09 How can I apply what I learned in my journey to my daily life?
  10. 10 What is my relationship to this medicine?
Finally

Share your insights with someone you trust. Hearing yourself speak your truths out loud will add another layer of insight. Integration doesn't happen alone -- it happens in relationship.

Email Nici to book your integration call

You don't have to make sense of it alone.

The integration call is where Steve and Nici sit with you in the places the medicine opened -- not to interpret, but to witness, and to help you find your own way back.

Email Nici to book your integration call