[Opgelost] Importancy psychedelic integration

Integration is where a psilocybin experience turns into real-life change. In the Triptherapie approach, we treat integration as a process with a few key moments: right after the session, about a week later (often the sweet spot), and if needed adeeper follow-up work such as a structured integration day.

Here are my core recommendations:

1. Protect the “afterglow” (first 24–48 hours)
   Keep your schedule light, avoid intense social input, and give your nervous system time to settle. This is when the experience is still “alive” in your body and memory. Write things down the same day or the morning after: emotions, images, phrases, insights. This all without judging or analyzing too much yet.

2. Do a simple meaning-making step (within 3 days)
   Ask: What was the central theme? Then translate it into one sentence like:
   “I’m learning to be kinder to myself,” or “I need clearer boundaries.”
   This keeps the message coherent instead of turning into 50 loose insights.

3. Turn insight into one concrete behavioral change (within 7 days)
   Integration fails most often when insights stay abstract. Pick one action you can actually do this week. Examples: one honest conversation, one boundary, one daily grounding practice, one appointment you’ve been postponing. Small actions anchor big realizations.

4. Include body-based integration (not only talking/thinking)
   Psilocybin can unlock emotions that live in the body. Gentle movement, breathwork, yoga, walking, or somatic release practices often integrate more than “thinking it through.” This is also why we sometimes use modalities like IFS/psychodrama in integration work: it helps you relate to inner parts and emotions, not just describe them.

5. Plan an integration conversation about 1 week later
   A lot of people only really understand what happened after a few days. That’s why a telephone integration talk about a week after is often ideal in practice. This ensures enough time for things to land, but not so much that old patterns fully take over again.

6. If it was intense or trauma-related: consider structured integration support
   When the session brings up trauma, deep grief, or major life decisions, it can help to do a more guided format. We also offer deeper group-style integration using psychodrama/IFS, and there’s even an option for a structured psychedelica integration day with a low dose of psychedelics where a very low dose can support the integration work in a clear, therapeutic way.