Coming in 2026
Welcome Home: Reclaiming My Body Through Coffee, Drugs, Dance, and Psychoanalysis fuses personal storytelling with professional insight to explore the transformative potential of psychedelics. Written by Dr. Natalie Cohen—a clinical psychologist, trauma expert, and pioneer in psychedelic-assisted therapy—the memoir-in-essays traces her lived experience healing from sexual violence, ancestral trauma, and institutional betrayal. Each chapter is anchored in a psychedelic journey (ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca), followed by creative integration practices including somatic movement, dreamwork, and psychoanalytic reflection. Think Michael Pollan meeting Alison Bechdel to create an ecstatic dance of becoming.
Woven with lyricism and a refreshing sense of humor, Welcome Home contributes a nuanced and deeply feminist voice to the current psychedelic conversation. Dr. Cohen’s story disrupts the dominant medicalized model, centering a woman’s body as both subject and site of transformation, offering a radical blueprint for healing that reclaims the voice and makes space for grief, pleasure, tenderness, and resistance. A necessary book for our times, Welcome Home is an offering for anyone seeking not just to heal, but to come home to themselves.