Reclaiming My Body Through Coffee, Drugs, Dance, and Psychoanalysis
PublicationOctober 6, 2026
PublisherRootstock Publishing
FormatSoftcover · eBook · Audio
Radical Return fuses personal storytelling with professional insight to explore the transformative potential of psychedelics. A memoir-in-essays tracing Natalie's lived experience healing from sexual violence, ancestral trauma, medical trauma, and institutional betrayal.
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A truth-teller who weaves love, grief, curiosity, and humor into her visceral story of becoming — a fierce, feminist joyride of a book. I raced through Radical Return with my heart in my throat.
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guide clients toward a fuller relationship with their inner lives, believing that lasting healing emerges through presence, embodiment, and the courage to listen to what has been held in silence. My trainings matter less to me as titles and more as containers that have shaped how I listen, think, and stay with complexity.
Providing individuals and couples with a setting that invites depth, creativity, and emotional honesty.
From writers, clinicians, and women who read it first.
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A truth-teller who weaves love, grief, curiosity, and humor into her visceral story of becoming, Natalie Cohen has written a fierce, feminist joyride of a book, charting the healing power of psychedelic medicine, the subtle intimacy between psychoanalyst and patient, the elation of reclaiming the body through movement and dance. Raw, courageous, and deeply embodied, this is one survivor's journey from silence to liberation. I raced through Radical Return with my heart in my throat.
A rare insider's guide to two typically sequestered and enigmatic realms — psychoanalysis and psychedelics — showing, with striking persuasiveness, how powerful they can be as healing allies. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, the book opens a portal between dreaming and dance, sexual violation and bodily integrity. It is, ultimately, a love letter to feminine power in its many guises and transmutations amid abuses both insidious and overt. Accompanying Cohen on her intimate, revelatory journey, one cannot turn away without feeling an upsurge of fury, pain, and ethical resolve to confront patriarchy, misogyny, and their intersectional forces, while simultaneously cheering the heroic dimensions of one woman's quest to heal and reclaim her mind, body, and the sheer joy of being alive.
Rich, beautiful, and elegant… Natalie's emotions are raw, her words pierce into your soul.