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Embrace Pleasure

How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality

Published by Park Street Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

• Explains how psychedelic experiences offer a way to reconnect with the body, reclaim pleasure, rekindle joy, and reawaken to love

• Explores how psychedelics can support our sexual healing and offers a range of psychedelic integration techniques and somatic exercises to help release trauma and foster insight

• Shares recent research on trauma and case studies from more than a decade of professional clinical work as well as lessons from the author’s own healing journey from sexual trauma and PTSD

In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist and psychedelic integration expert Dee Dee Goldpaugh shows how the profound healing and restorative effects of psychedelics can help us heal our sexuality, reconnect with pleasure, find wholeness, and feel good again.

Sharing recent research on trauma and case studies from more than a decade of professional clinical work, the author explains how the psychedelic experience can allow us to become more embodied, reclaim pleasure, embrace spirituality, and reawaken to love. Goldpaugh explores specific ways psychedelics can heal sexual trauma, enhance sexual pleasure, deepen our interpersonal connections, and increase relationship satisfaction. The author looks at MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, mescaline, 5-MeO-DMT, and other psychedelics and offers a range of integration techniques as well as somatic exercises to help release trauma, foster insight, and apply the lessons learned during psychedelic experiences to everyday life. Goldpaugh also examines the clinical framework and methodology behind psychedelic-assisted therapy and how readers can safely navigate risks and explore their own healing at home.

Revealing the transformative power of pleasure for healing sexual trauma, this book provides a guide to psychedelic sexuality as a path to healing and love.

About The Author

Dee Dee Goldpaugh is a psychotherapist, educator, clinical supervisor, consultant, and leading voice in the development of psychedelic integration psychotherapy, specifically with survivors of sexual trauma. A facilitator of ketamine-assisted retreats for both couples and individuals, Goldpaugh has taught and published widely on psychedelics and sexuality, trauma, gender, and spirituality. A member of the Women, Gender-Diversity, and Sexual Minorities working group at the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, the author lives in Woodstock, New York.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Park Street Press (July 8, 2025)
  • Length: 352 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798888500590

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