Embrace Pleasure

A guide to psychedelics as a path to love and healing

“A compelling, radical exploration of psychedelics’ healing potential.”—Kirkus Reviews

Embrace Pleasure explains how psychedelic experiences offer a way to reconnect with the body, reclaim pleasure, rekindle joy, and reawaken to love. It 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.

In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist and psychedelic integration expert Dee Dee Goldpaugh 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.

Goldpaugh explores specific ways psychedelics can heal sexual trauma, enhance sexual pleasure, and deepen our interpersonal connections. The book looks at MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, mescaline, 5-MeO-DMT, and other psychedelics, offering a range of integration techniques and somatic exercises to help foster insight and apply the lessons learned during psychedelic experiences to everyday life.

The author also examines the methodology behind psychedelic-assisted therapy and provides guidance on how readers can safely navigate risks and explore their own healing at home.

Revealing the transformative power of embracing pleasure for healing sexual trauma, Embrace Pleasure provides an essential guide to psychedelic sexuality as a path to healing and love.