GODDESS AT YOUR SERVICE

Hi I’m Rachel 

I am based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I work with people 1:1, and I run a monthly Psychedelic Integration Group in Edinburgh.

There are many scientific studies underway into the therapeutic use of psychedelics. A critical review of 77 psychedelic studies reported, among other benefits, increases in:

• Psychological wellbeing, happiness and life satisfaction
• Personal development
• Mood and positive emotions
• Insights (often psycho-spiritual, but also in relation to problem solving)
• Relationships, feelings of relatedness and pro-social attitudes
• Empathy and emotional processing
• Decision making and clarity
• Problem solving, creativity and cognitive flexibility
• Openness and trust
• Spiritual insights and purpose in life
• Personal meaning
• Changes in life-values and orientation
• Mindfulness-related capabilities (such as decrease inner reactivity & judgmental processing)
• Optimism

That all sounds brilliant, and is eminently possible, but I want to also say that psychedelics are not a magic pill. In most of these studies the subjects were working with someone in preparation for the experience, they were supported during the experience, and then they did follow up integration work afterwards. Whilst people often say that their psychedelic experience was one of the most amazing and important experiences of their life, without integration, it can just fade into a lovely memory. Wise ones say that it’s 20% the experience and 80% the work you do to make the changes. You have to do this work for yourself, but you don’t have to do it alone.

People who’ve repeatedly used plant medicines as a strategy to feel better without doing the follow up work to evolve, can tell you that they sometimes just got their ass kicked and the medicine asked them “what are you doing back here, I gave you your guidance, come back again once you’ve acted on it and I’ll give you your next lesson!” 

So this is where I come in. 

• The preparation work I do is to help you to learn how to operate in the psychedelic environment and to give you awareness of what might come up.  This primes you at the pump to have a meaningful experience, focused on the areas you wish to transform.
• The support during your experience is to ensure that you don’t have a “bad trip”. Scottish comedian Billy Connolly once said “there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes”  This is also my experience with psychedelics, if you are well equipped and know the terrain, you can have a wonderful experience and keep yourself safe, no matter what the elements throw at you. 
• The integration afterwards, this is where the rubber meets the road. Embedding what you learned into your life in a grounded way so that your life changes. 

What might you be looking to evolve?

Creativity – maybe everything in your life is great, but you’d like to be more creative, not play small anymore, create something really amazing and you’d like to turbo boost your creativity.

Feeling stuck in life – you just can’t get out of the rut, stuck in the habits, you want to make change but you keep self sabotaging and just don’t feel good enough.

Feeling anxious and unhappy – you feel like you are different and can’t connect, like there is something wrong with you. You’d love to have a partner, more friends, and an active social life.

You really want something so desperately, but it is always just out of reach –  bad luck always seems to get you just when you are making progress, could be money, could be love. You pick the same types of people to get involved with over and over and you know they are not good for you.

You want to understand who you really are, and to comfortably and authentically be that person in connection with others. You feel  lonely now and you are afraid you will be alone forever if you don’t  sort this out.

Coaching is a process that is completely focused on you. It is based on the pretext that you are the expert in your own life, you have the answers inside of you for how to live your life to its full capacity. My job is to work with you to dig into what you want, uncover and integrate the parts of you that block this, and empower you to create new neural networks that enable you to live the life you want to live. 

During coaching  I will be asking questions that are curious questions, and this is to allow you to explore yourself.  I don’t know the answers to these questions and there are no “right” answers for me. The right answers are the insights that come up from within you during your own investigation into yourself.  I am enabling you to focus and explore. This exploration generates the kind of insights and learning that lasts and can create change in your life, because it comes from the authentic expression inside of you. It’s the same place that plant medicines reach inside you.

This is not like normal talking therapy. I use various tools and exercises to help you to get in touch with your “body-mind” the wisdom inside your body. We work with the felt sense inside your body, you may have heard of this called Somatic Embodiment  work. We are meeting subconscious and unconscious parts of you so that we can integrate them into the whole.

My specialist knowledge is with the Scottish native plant medicine that grows all around us, the mushrooms. I can also work with you before and after your experience with other plant medicines, if for example you are travelling to do a ceremony in another part of the world.

In my experience a powerful way to work with plant medicine is a three part approach. It makes a huge difference to how impactful the experience is, and how lasting the results are.

1. The preparation before.
2. Your Ceremony. 
3. Integration of what you learned afterwards, to make lasting change in your life.

I offer a package to do this work as an 7 week programme because I have deep respect for plant medicines, and I believe that this method works in a way that is safe, loving and has lasting effects. This package is ideal for people who have only done a little, or no “therapy” type work before. If you already have some work under your belt, this programme is still very beneficial and can take you to places inside yourself that you may not have been able to reach with talk therapy.

If you already clear in your direction, we can design a way to work together that suits your particular needs.

1. The preparation before. We meet weekly for 4 online video call sessions. These can be either weekly or fortnightly. The sessions each last 90 mins. We build up a relationship of trust between us which is extremely important for you to feel safe enough to choose to let go and surrender during your ceremony so that you can have a significant experience. We gain a deeper awareness of subconscious and unconscious patterns and beliefs and what to focus on in your ceremony. I find that being in your own home allows you to feel safe and comfortable, and you can rest afterwards without having to deal with transport.

We start, with your desires, who you want to be, and how you want your life to be. We use this as our north star, to guide us. Then we start uncovering what’s stopping you, what’s blocking you, the layers, the conditioning, the anxieties, the unprocessed trauma that happened when you were a child, your limiting beliefs. We meet these parts of you, and bring them into loving awareness so that you can make a new relationship with them, and start to work together towards your goals. So you can stop using neural pathways that are no longer useful, and choose new ones. In this way, your life transforms.

This work involves getting “out of your head”, and exploring the territory of emotions and sensations in your body, the same place you will be exploring in your ceremony. In this way you build familiarity and confidence in dealing with feelings and emotions that you may well have been suppressing. We do this in a gentle, loving and supportive way using coaching exercises, IFS work (Internal Family Systems) and NVC (Non Violent Communication).

We create bespoke homework for you between sessions to embed the new neural pathways that are made during the sessions, it could a recorded meditation or guided breathwork or an activity to increase awareness of your patterns, or something else. This enables you to integrate what you have learned into your day to day life and make lasting change. Following each session I send you a written summary of the session along with an outline of the homework we decided on. With this 4 sessions preparation under your belt, you will feel ready for your ceremony and to receive the learning and wisdom you need. 

2. The ceremony. To be discussed 1:1

3. Integration afterwards. We meet for a further 3 online sessions using the same coaching methodology. This work makes sense of what you have learned and translates it into action in your day to day life. There is a window of brain neuroplasticity after the ceremony in which to make change. It is extremely useful to have coaching at this point to embed the new neural networks, solidify the changes you want to make, and start thriving in your life.

My current rates are £60 per hour. My coaching sessions last 90 mins.

TO WORK WITH ME

If this sounds like what you are looking for then please email me and we can arrange to have a free chat online. 

I mean it, send me an email to Goddessatyourservice@gmail.com. I love these chats, they are one of my favourite things, reach out and get in touch. 

I look forward to meeting you.