Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality - psychedelic integration and somatic exercises for sexual trauma

Psychedelics are presented as a path to healing sexuality through reconnection with pleasure, wholeness, and love, especially for people recovering from sexual trauma. Dee Dee Goldpaugh draws on trauma research, case studies from more than a decade of clinical work, and personal healing from sexual trauma and PTSD. The book emphasizes psychedelic-assisted therapy methodology, while also offering at-home psychedelic integration techniques and somatic exercises focused on releasing trauma and building insight. Goldpaugh links sexual healing to broader issues of safety, risk navigation, and social context, and includes discussion of specific substances such as MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, mescaline, and 5-MeO-DMT. The book also includes ethical cautions that it is not medical advice and that highly trained clinical support may be needed for severe trauma.