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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. 

Part memoir, part cultural critique, Welcome Home reimagines what psychedelic integration can look like when rooted not just in science, but in the deep, messy terrain of the body. Each journey gives rise to a dance, a drawing, a piece of writing, a ritual. Dr. Cohen doesn’t just integrate, she moves, weeps, laughs, and remembers. She strides across New York City and carves meaning into her body, commissioning a black panther tattoo with cascading peonies across her entire back, an act of dignity and fierce protection. The panther guards the place where silence once lived, and the good girl on the couch grows claws, stops apologizing, and dances her way through the wreckage.

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.