Acceptance
In the Realm of Wounding & Healing
1: Find a supportive space with a trusted friend, group, counselor, or integration specialist where you can share your story and feel heard.
1: Find a supportive space with a trusted friend, group, counselor, or integration specialist where you can share your story and feel heard. Suggestion: It can be helpful to utilize some of the resources below to get an idea of what a constructive sharing of your story could look or feel like. What is the healing goal of sharing the story? The resources below can help clarify the answer and point you in the right direction before you approach those trusted friends to request a space to tell your story. Creating that safe container can be so important. ❤️
Suggestion: It can be helpful to utilize some of the resources below to get an idea of what a constructive sharing of your story could look or feel like. What is the healing goal of sharing the story? The resources below can help clarify the answer and point you in the right direction before you approach those trusted friends to request a space to tell your story. Creating that safe container can be so important. ❤️ Books 
- Narrative Healing – Awaken the Power of Your Story – by Lisa Weinert: based on the premise that we hold our stories in our bodies. The extent that we learn how to release them affects how we perceive and approach our lives – but what if we don’t have the tools to understand our narrative outside of what’s been told to us?
- The Narrative Therapy Workbook – by Janet Hill: Deconstruct Your Story, Challenge Unhealthy Beliefs, and Reclaim Your Life. The stories you tell yourself and the ones others tell you influence the way you see yourself and the world. Using this workbook, you’ll learn to examine those stories and rewrite them to reflect the life you want to live.
Websites & Articles
- The Healing Power of Telling Your Trauma Story: 6 ways sharing your story can loosen its grip. Really good advice and structure in this article about set and setting for sharing your story.
- Lastest Articles from IFS Institute: check out what’s new on the IFS Institute Blog
Counseling Resources
- Trauma-Informed Therapy Resources: Just a great resource from the Mental Health Resource website to connect you with the right trauma-informed therapy or counselor either in person or online.
- Narrative Exposure Therapy Resources: from Tree of Life Counseling & Consulting. Great information + actual resources for how, where, with whom to be able to safely tell your story.
2: Check out local psychedelic integration circles in person or online for support and community building.
Websites / Resources / Support Groups 🌐
- Integration Circle Online: there are online meetings and access to integration support here as well as multiple pathways to various organizations that work in psychedelic integration.
- New Old Ways – Kindred Circle: Psychedelic Integration Circle for People of the Global Majority. Training & integration support for BIPOC folks. Every 3rd Sunday virtual meeting. This is an awesome site with needed pathways.
- Tam Integration Circles: various types of online integration gathering spaces: men’s, women’s, open circle, art circle and more…
- Portland Psychedelic Society: a large and diverse psychedelic society with in-person events in Oregon.
- Portland Integration Providers Network: a good list of high-quality integration counselors based in Oregon but offering services online as well.
- SEARCH ONLINE: “Psychedelic Integration near me” to possibly find nearby in-person groups or communities engaged in integration events.
3: Express your journey of acceptance through art, movement, or music. Explore art therapy for ideas and inspiration.
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.
Websites & Resources 🌐
- EcstaticDance.org: Find an ecstatic or conscious dance community anywhere in the world – really! What a great way to get your body moving in a conscious and communal way.
- ConsciousDancer.com: many many resources, articles, videos, events, and more for conscious dancers all over the world!
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…
4: Listen to guided meditations on the process of letting go.
Videos 🎦
- Guided Meditation – Unburden Yourself on YouTube: This is a deep and calming guided mindfulness meditation to heal your soul and release difficult thoughts about the past.
- Unblending from Exiles – Healing Trauma in IFS Therapy on YouTube: a very helpful video. Understanding “parts”, understanding “exiles”, and well as “unblending” and unburdening.
- IFS + Unburdening on YouTube: Dr. Anderson outlines three core elements necessary for healing trauma: sharing (witnessing), a corrective experience, and release. He explores why trauma work must include separation (“being with” rather than “being in”), how unburdening occurs energetically and neurologically, and why safety and boundaries are foundational before accessing wounded parts.
Audio or Podcasts
- Tara Brach Guided Meditation – Letting Go, Letting Be: invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
- Detachment – Let Them, Let it Guided Meditation
- A Zen Mind Guided Meditations Podcast
- A Zen Mind Global: specifically go to “Healing and Release” on the Practices page for guided meditations on this topic.
Apps 📲
- Insight Timer APP: well-maintained long-running meditation app. Search for “Letting go” or “Unburdening” or “release“.
5: Transform your story by setting burdens free. See yourself as strong, capable, and deserving of the freedom you seek. See our resources on narrative therapy.
Books 📚
- Narrative Healing – Awaken the Power of Your Story – by Lisa Weinert: based on the premise that we hold our stories in our bodies. The extent that we learn how to release them affects how we perceive and approach our lives – but what if we don’t have the tools to understand our narrative outside of what’s been told to us?
- The Narrative Therapy Workbook – by Janet Hill: Deconstruct Your Story, Challenge Unhealthy Beliefs, and Reclaim Your Life. The stories you tell yourself and the ones others tell you influence the way you see yourself and the world. Using this workbook, you’ll learn to examine those stories and rewrite them to reflect the life you want to live.
Websites & Courses 📝
- Writing Reflections & Guided Practices: resources, prompts, tips and techniques for reflective writing for healing.
- Narrative Therapy Worksheets: download 5 worksheets for FREE. Also tips, techniques, explanation and more on narrative therapy practice.
Podcasts 🎧
- BANTR – Narrative Therapy Podcast: from Bay Area Narrative Therapy Resource. Yup, all things narrative therapy!