Plant Medicine Integration Coaching

Integration has a different meanings depending on who you ask, in my understanding and application, plant medicine integration is taking time and space after ceremonial and dieta work to unpack what happened in ceremonies/retreats/dietas--to understand the visions, thought forms, emotions, and belief patterns that were arising some time beforehand, during, and in the time after when you are usually in a more raw, vulnerable, and open space.

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 It is also a process of anchoring and applying the wisdom, teachings, or insights you were given by the plants and empowering yourself to continue to make the changes needed in your mind, your relationships, life, etc to maintain the energetic, mental, and emotional shifts that occur during or after ceremony.  I've often heard it said that plant medicine work is only 10% the time spent in the ceremony itself and 90% of how well one is able to apply what they were given in the years after, and I very much agree with the sentiment.  '

 

These plants create powerful shifts on all levels of our being and challenge us to continue shedding and identifying layers of un-serving patterns, destructive habitual tendencies and behaviors and shifting our mindset and relationships to ground these shifts into our daily lives.  They encourage us to deepen our level of self-awareness and create stability in our emotional and mental state from day to day.

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What arises in these spaces can be any range of scary, humiliating, confusing, expansive, mind-blowing, and any number of other descriptors.  It is common to feel alone in your process or that few people would understand when you try to talk about it, particularly with friends or family, to feel confused or stuck, or to have difficulty interpreting the visions you are given.  Many people have also shared with me that it can be difficult to seek support with plant experiences from Western healthcare professionals who do not have direct experience and reference for what commonly occurs during and after these spaces.

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I am not a licensed mental health professional, and these sessions are not considered mental health care.  My approach to integration is based in experience assisting many dozens of my clients through their integration process following ceremonies and dietas, a decade of navigating my own process, drawing on all of the tools I have learned over the last 15 years of exploring plant medicines and various healing modalities, and my own connection with the plants and spirit.