Embrace Pleasure

How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality

De: Dee Dee Goldpaugh

Narrado por: Aura Paige

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

• 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, Goldpaugh explores specific ways psychedelics can heal sexual trauma, enhance sexual pleasure, and deepen our interpersonal connections. Goldpaugh 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 foster insight and apply the lessons learned during psychedelic experiences to everyday life. Goldpaugh also examines the methodology behind psychedelic-assisted therapy and how readers can safely navigate risks and explore their own healing at home.

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

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“There is a powerful alchemy in the combination of sexuality and psychedelics that offers extraordinary possibilities for pleasure, healing, and actualization. Goldpaugh is both a trailblazer and a trustworthy guide in this respect, and Embrace Pleasure immediately establishes itself as an essential work for all seeking insight and transformation.”

“In a world where pleasure is pathologized, Embrace Pleasure is a breath of fresh air. This is the book the world needs to begin to heal its sexuality and move from trauma to joy. Reading it helped me understand my journey and has given me a clear path to support others in healing. Full of fascinating information, this is essential reading for anyone seeking deeper self-awareness and more pleasure in life.”

“Under the guidance of a master clinician and fellow traveler, Embrace Pleasure is a groundbreaking book that integrates sexuality, psychedelics, and profound personal growth. Suited for experienced practitioners, newbies, and curious observers, it provides an overview of the use of psychedelics that has until this point been woefully inattentive to the impact of individual and collective trauma on intimacy, connection, and pleasure. Goldpaugh takes direct aim at the personal, cultural, and professional narratives that have hindered expansive experiences of sexuality and healing. The personal stories of transformation are the heart of this book and include a wide variety of storytellers interviewed by Goldpaugh with moving skill and sensitivity. At a time of such great uncertainty and trauma, this book is urgently needed. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookseller!”

“Finally, a healing resource that combines the ancient power of sex with the wisdom and medicinal nourishment of psychedelics. Now more than ever, we need to embrace pleasure where we can find it, and this book is the warm hug we need to navigate tumultuous times—both inside and out. A must-read healing guide for weary hearts and hungry souls seeking to create meaningful sex and satisfying relationships.”

“There’s no better author for this much-needed book on healthy eroticism. It is helpful, practical, and long overdue. Goldpaugh reminds us that the war on drugs has always been a war on pleasure and that ‘being present with pleasure, sensation, and deep joy even for a moment is a radical act.’”

“Creative and erudite, Dee Dee Goldpaugh’s Embrace Pleasure offers a highly readable and entertaining narrative style that is also deeply informed by scientific research and anthropological perspectives. Once you’ve read it, your perspectives on sexual trauma, psychedelic therapy, and the healing power of pleasure will be transformed.”