Integrating Psychedelics Jenny Weinar

“And now 40 years later, thousands of parts and thousands of people using this all over the world, we can safely say that Self is in everybody; it can’t be damaged, it knows how to heal, and it is just beneath the surface of these parts…and psychedelics seem to have a way to access that pretty quickly.”

Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Dick Schwartz.

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and has published five books, including No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren.

In this conversation we discuss:


How listening to his patients led Dick to develop the therapeutic model of Internal Family Systems
How IFS is fundamentally different than most other paradigms for understanding the psyche
The role of inner child parts in the IFS framework
The goals of IFS and how it differs from mindfulness
How parts work fits naturally with psychedelics
The problem with the concept of ego dissolution
The relationship of IFS to set, setting and psychedelic facilitators
My personal experience incorporating IFS with ketamine
Why parts work is helpful for people who seemingly don’t respond to the medicine
How the inner work of IFS extends to social justice and the world at large
Why it’s vital to follow up with parts even after healing has occurred
Dick’s vision for the future of IFS
...and more!

You can learn more about IFS and purchase books by Dick Schwartz on the IFS Institute ⁠website⁠.

You can connect with me on ⁠Instagram,⁠ through my ⁠website⁠ and very occasional⁠ newsletter⁠. In addition to providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Philadelphia, I offer Psychedelic Integration Therapy to residents of Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey.

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This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice. Please do your research about the legality and safety of any substance you are considering using and make the most informed choice possible for your unique situation and self.

“I do believe there is energy transferred along with music and the energy of the artist who wrote it; the intention that they put into the song carries through with it and you can hear those things and note how they make you feel.”

Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Allison Soeung.

Allison Soeung is a Licensed Sound Therapist and DJ based out of Northwest Arkansas. Allison has had a lifelong love affair with music. She played classical piano from age 6 to 18, when she traded in her piano for a set of DJ turntables, and has been performing music at diverse events from yoga festivals to nightclubs and music festivals ever since. She has always been a mystic at heart, and after the sudden and tragic death of her younger brother by suicide in 2015, she began devoting herself to a path of healing. After hearing about the potential of ketamine therapy in assisting with treatment-resistant depression (which her brother suffered from), Allison became passionate about curating sonic journeys to support the healing potential of this medicine. Today she enjoys curating ketamine therapy playlists that surprise and delight, facilitating sound bath meditations, and DJing at conscious dance events.

In this conversation we discuss:


Allison’s early interest in music and sound
The family tragedy that informed Allison’s understanding of mental illness
Allison’s introduction to Ketamine Assisted Therapy and profound first experience with the medicine
How Allison’s years of experience as a DJ and musician combined with her psychedelic experiences led her to the work she’s doing
The power of music in guiding a ketamine journey
Allison’s process of building playlists for ketamine journeys
How music can support and facilitate emotional processing
Exploring the urge to skip certain songs
Allison’s work as a sound therapist
How the vibrations from sound can help the transition back into the body after a journey
The intentional use of sound as an integration practice
…and more!

You can connect with Allison on her website and Instagram and listen to her playlists.

You can connect with me on Instagram, through my website and very occasional newsletter. In addition to providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Philadelphia, I offer Psychedelic Integration Therapy to residents of Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey.

You can also show this podcast some love by subscribing, leaving a positive review and sharing!

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice. Please do your research about the legality and safety of any substance you are considering using and make the most informed choice possible for your unique situation and self.

"I do believe we need all the healers and all the coaches and everybody who’s called to this path of service to really step it up…Are we really waiting for being on the edge of destruction, or are we all invested into this path of awakening humanity and healing and being able to create this transformed planet?"

Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Beth Weinstein.

As a spiritual business coach, Beth helps current and aspiring coaches, healers, Psychedelic Pioneers, and spiritual leaders align with your soul's path and grow your business so you can help more people, share your Unique Medicine, and have a thriving transformational business you love.

Using her experience growing multiple businesses (including three of her own), along with neuroscience-backed methodologies, spiritual teachings, and practical business action plans, Beth offers a multi-dimensional approach to help you move past limiting beliefs, overcome obstacles and grow your business in a successful, impactful way.

She guides you in a step-by-step process to grow your business using a balanced, co-creative approach combining practical business coaching and heart-centered marketing strategies together with spiritually based mindset training and manifesting work.

In this conversation we discuss:


How Beth got on the medicine path at a young age
Beth’s lifeline entrepreneurial mindset
How Beth’s longtime practices of meditation and mindfulness prepared her for medicine work
The destabilizing potential of a powerful ceremony
Why support is nonnegotiable for integrating psychedelic experiences
How Beth accidentally got her first client and grew her business as a psychedelic business coach
Soul as the guide on our personal and professional paths
When more medicine isn’t the answer
Considerations for anyone feeling called to transformational service
Knowing our limits when working within the psychedelic space
Where the true healing happens in the process of working with psychedelics
…and more!

You can connect with Beth on her website and Instagram, listen to her podcast and check out her annual summit, Psychedelics, Sacred Medicines, Purpose & Business here.

You can connect with me on Instagram, through my website and very occasional newsletter. In addition to providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Philadelphia, I offer Psychedelic Integration Therapy to residents of Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey.

You can also show this podcast some love by subscribing, leaving a positive review and sharing!

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice. Please do your research about the legality and safety of any substance you are considering using and make the most informed choice possible for your unique situation and self.

“In traditional, more formal therapy, most of us are taught in school, ‘It’s a slippery slope to sexual abuse, don’t touch your clients’…In psychedelic therapy, there’s an understanding: touch can be beneficial…Deciding to not use an intervention based on your fear of litigation is not ethical.”

Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Sabrina Santa Clara.

Sabrina’s early career began as a massage therapist, embodiment educator and yoga instructor focused on the interchange of soma, psyche and spirit. She received her Master’s in Dance/Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy from Naropa University and has been a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist for over 15 years. Sabrina is currently the owner of the Center for Embodied Spirituality and the creator of Psychotherapeutic Touch™, a comprehensive certification training and criteria standard for the ethical and skilled use of touch in therapy. She has also designed the Self Psychedelic Integration Certification program which weaves together IFS, Psychedelic Harm Reduction Integration and other forms of expanded states of consciousness, creative and expressive arts and neoshamanistic ritual. As such, she provides training and consultation in Self Psychedelic Integration, Somatic Psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic Touch, Embodied Meditation and Internal Family Systems Therapy. Additionally, Sabrina is bilingual (Spanish), culturally mixed, and genderfluid. She is an artist, poet, and dancer who lives in the in-between spaces.

In this conversation we discuss:


Sabrina's path to psychedelic assisted therapy through dance therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS)
The danger of the "magic pill" view of psychedelics and the need to assess the potential for harm
How Sabrina assesses people's readiness for working with the medicines and prepares them for challenging experiences
Why traditional psychotherapy often falls short
Psychedelic integration as reconnection work
How Internal Family Systems supports work with psychedelics 
The issue of touch in therapy and Sabrina's framework of Psychotherapeutic Touch™
The importance of consensual touch in healing
Sabrina's vision for community healing
…and more!

You can connect with Sabrina on her website and Instagram.

You can connect with me on Instagram, through my website and very occasional newsletter. In addition to providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Philadelphia, I offer Psychedelic Integration Therapy to residents of Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey.

You can also show this podcast some love by subscribing, leaving a positive review and sharing!

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice. Please do your research about the legality and safety of any substance you are considering using and make the most informed choice possible for your unique situation and self.

“I really saw during those journeys that this was a way in which we can help heal the world, heal ourselves and our relationship with nature, with our communities and our environment.”

Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Aubrey Howard.

Aubrey is an Afro-Indigenous queer woman of color, Breathwork and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Facilitator based in Philadelphia. She is also a co-founder of Philadose and owns a small private practice here in Philadelphia, Spirit Medicine, providing Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Facilitation and Somatic Breathwork services to people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Aubrey previously served as a Breathwork & Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Facilitator at the SoundMind Institute.

In this conversation we discuss:


How Aubrey's various identities and religious upbringing impacted her growing up
Aubrey's longtime interest in the transpersonal realm, which opened her up to psychedelics later on
The synchronicity that brought Aubrey to her first ayahuasca ceremonies in Costa Rica
The inner healing intelligence that lives within all of us
How psychedelics helped Aubrey begin to heal her trauma and find her purpose
How psychedelic experiences can be destabilizing without integration
The power of breathwork as an integration practice
Non-traditional forms of psychedelic integration 
The inclusive, interdisciplinary psychedelic community Aubrey is creating
…and more!

You can find Aubrey on her personal Instagram and the Philadose Instagram account, as well on her website.

You can connect with me on Instagram, through my website and very occasional newsletter. In addition to providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Philadelphia, I offer Psychedelic Integration Therapy to residents of Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey.

You can also show this podcast some love by subscribing, leaving a positive review and sharing!

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice. Please do your research about the legality and safety of any substance you are considering using and make the most informed choice possible for your unique situation and self.

Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Daniel Shankin.

As a psychedelic integration coach, Daniel serves people with emerging spiritual visions as they find ways to weave their new-found truths into their lives in a way that is sustainable, harmonious, compassionate and wise. He has worked people from all walks of life and is grateful to have been able to work with a diverse clientele. His methods are fiercely practical while maintaining space for mystery and magic to emerge. He offers time tested and scientifically backed tools so clients can create a life for themselves that is aligned with their deeper values and manifests measurable results that matter.

As the founder and director of Tam Integration, he’s committed to offering radically accessible and inclusive support and education for people who are wanting to transform, heal, and grow. Tam’s integration circles and online conferences enjoy a world wide audience and much critical acclaim.

He and his wife live in a tiny town in New England where they forage for mushrooms and throw rocks into creeks with their toddler.

In this conversation we discuss:


How psychedelics catalyzed Daniel's own inner work
The importance of "beginner's mind" to the process of self inquiry
Why Daniel became a psychedelic integration coach rather than a therapist
The power of integration circles 
The difference between intentions and commitments, and the importance of both when working with psychedelics for personal growth
Learning to work with uncomfortable material
The value of building up in dosage over time
How psychedelics help people get to know themselves on a soul level
Daniel's training program for psychedelic integration coaches, **including a special offer for listeners of this podcast**
…and more!

You can find Daniel on Instagram and his website. If you're interested in becoming a psychedelic integration coach, make sure to listen through to the end of the episode for a special offer for Integrating Psychedelics listeners!

You can connect with me on Instagram, through my website and very occasional newsletter. You can also show this podcast some love by subscribing, leaving a positive review and sharing.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice. Please do your research about the legality and safety of any substance you are considering using and make the most informed choice possible for your unique situation and self.