Remembering
In the Realm of Wounding & Healing
1: Integrate both positive and challenging memories by using music, creating art, rituals, altars, painting and journaling.
1: Integrate both positive and challenging memories by using music, creating art, rituals, altars, painting and journaling.Books 📚
- Essential Art Therapy Exercises – by Leah Guzman: offers a range of creative art activities to help you better understand yourself, develop control over your emotions, and aid the healing process.
- Painting Memories – Expressing Emotions through Art – by Alisa Clark: (Kindle edition) uncovers the truth that memories, feelings, our present moment, and our dreams can be captured and set free on our canvas. Alisa shares to guide “creatives” who wish to capture memories, emotions, and experiences as they explore their own creative process.
Videos 🎦
- Art Therapy with Sana – YouTube Channel: this is a great topic for a youtube channel and this one looks like so much fun with guidance for doable creative exercises on themes like: painting hope, gratitude, anxiety into art, art therapy journal prompts, brain healing, trauma healing and more…
Websites 🌐
- 100 Art Therapy Exercises: simple, doable, tangible art therapy exercises with examples and directions
- Songwriter Soiree: songwriting resources and events for anyone wishing to express themselves or their story through song
Podcasts 🎧
- Art Therapy Is – Podcast Episode 4: Creating your own path with art therapist and seeker who delves into work with plant spirit medicine and integrating with art. Inspiring and non-linear journey through the world of expressive arts, plant medicine, and spirituality.
- Art Therapy Is Podcast: This show talks about all things Art Therapy, the entrepreneurial journey and everything in between.
- The Creative Process – Spirituality & Mindfulness Podcast: Spirituality & Mindfulness episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to spiritual leaders, mindfulness experts, great thinkers and authors, elders, artists, musicians and others discuss paths to faith, connection, and creativity.
2: Dive into books, articles, podcasts, and more to understand memory and the process of recollection.
Books 📚
- What My Bones Know – by Stephanie Foo: In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations.
- In An Unspoken Voice – by Peter Levine: How the body holds the key to recovering from complex trauma and experiences that overwhelm our nervous systems, from adverse childhood experiences to PTSD
- Trauma & Memory – by Peter Levine: Brain & body in search of a living past. A Practical Guide for understanding and working with traumatic memories.
- It Didn’t Start With You – by Mark Wolynn: A compelling understanding of inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools for relieving its suffering.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Books – from IFS Institute: all of the books offered by IFS Institute are highly recommended gateways into various “parts” of Internal Family Systems – start here for sure. Combining “remembering” with “parts work” can be a powerful practice.
- What Happened to You? – by Bruce Perry with Oprah Winfrey: Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.
- The Myth of Normal – by Gabor Mate: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.
Websites & Courses 📝
- Trauma & Memory Courses/Videos: From the Embody Lab – Courses and Videos with Peter Levine on the topic of working with trauma and memory. Check back for updated course offerings.
Podcasts 🎧
- Somatic Healing Meditations Podcast: Every episode contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.
- The Psychedelic Medicine Podcast with Dr. Lynn Marie Morski: Covering the full range of psychedelic therapies, including psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, LSD, ayahuasca, ibogaine, and more, this podcast serves as an auditory encyclopedia of information for anyone interested in learning about the safe, therapeutic uses of these medicines.
- The Starseed Podcast – Past Lives & Galactic Memories: Each episode is a spiritual awakening — an invitation to remember who you truly are and the incredible places your soul has called home. Seems like “Remembering” on psychedelics would and should cross paths with past life regression hypnosis accounts.
3: If traumatic memories resurface, seek support from a therapist, counselor, or support group to help you process and take steps toward your healing.
When traumatic memories resurfaces in a psychedelic journey, it is important to process it with someone you can trust and possibly with a trained professional. Please don’t ignore these memories. We could all use some help sometimes figuring things out that arise in the psychedelic field. True integration, moving forward, and/or healing is about taking real steps to process, confront, integrate or make sense of the memories. Thank you for having the courage to seek help and support.
Trauma Informed & Somatic Therapy Search Engines or Networks
Trauma Informed & Somatic Therapy Search Engines or Networks 
- The Embody Lab Therapist Search Engine: includes therapists with searchable specialties from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia with both live and online services.
- International Therapist Directory: worldwide, searchable by location or keyword / specialty
- CPTSD Foundation: resources and “help me find a therapist” links here. They recommend using the following terms when searching in your area for professional counseling or therapy related to trauma: “Trauma-Informed” , “CPTSD, Complex PTSD, C-PTSD, or Complex Trauma”, “Trauma Recovery”
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SEARCH ONLINE: “Trauma-Informed therapy near me” and see what might be available in your region.
- RAINN Guide on “How to Find a Trauma-Informed Therapist”: this is a great guide with links to various networks and search resources targeted at this type of therapy or counseling.
Books 📚
- What My Bones Know – by Stephanie Foo: In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations.
- In An Unspoken Voice – by Peter Levine: How the body holds the key to recovering from complex trauma and experiences that overwhelm our nervous systems, from adverse childhood experiences to PTSD
- Trauma & Memory – by Peter Levine: Brain & body in search of a living past. A Practical Guide for understanding and working with traumatic memories.
- It Didn’t Start With You – by Mark Wolynn: A compelling understanding of inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools for relieving its suffering.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Books – from IFS Institute: all of the books offered by IFS Institute are highly recommended gateways into various “parts” of Internal Family Systems – start here for sure. Combining “remembering” with “parts work” can be a powerful practice.
- What Happened to You? – by Bruce Perry with Oprah Winfrey: Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.
- The Myth of Normal – by Gabor Mate: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.
Websites & Courses 📝
- Trauma & Memory Courses/Videos: From the Embody Lab – Courses and Videos with Peter Levine on the topic of working with trauma and memory. Check back for updated course offerings.