Awakening Through Pleasure

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour , Sam welcomes Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW, a psychotherapist, educator, and leading voice in the intersection of psychedelics, sexuality, and healing. With over seventeen years of clinical experience, Dee Dee serves as Clinical Director of Chrysalis Integrative Psychotherapy , Women & Gender Diversity Advisor for the Chacruna Institute , and part of the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy team at Woodstock Therapy Center . Their groundbreaking forthcoming book, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality , redefines what it means to heal sexual trauma and reclaim embodied joy. In this deeply compassionate conversation, Dee Dee shares their own journey of recovery and awakening and how personal experience with trauma inspired a re-examination of the medical model of psychedelic healing. They reveal how true healing goes beyond symptom relief, inviting us to reconnect with pleasure as a spiritual and therapeutic force . Through case studies and insights from their extensive clinical work, Dee Dee illuminates how psychedelics such as MDMA , psilocybin , ayahuasca , and 5-MeO-DMT can help people release shame, rediscover the body as sacred, and open to deeper love and connection. Together, Sam and Dee Dee explore how redefining sexual trauma and embracing embodied pleasure can transform not just individuals but also our collective relationship to intimacy, spirituality, and power. This episode offers a brave and hopeful vision, that pleasure itself is medicine and that through awareness, integration, and compassion, we can come home to the wholeness that was never truly lost. Tune in and share your own experiences with psychedelics, sexual trauma, and healing on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page . amzn.to/3KnZJXY deedeegoldpaugh.com Advertising Inquiries: Privacy & Opt-Out:

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Awakening Through Pleasure is an episode from The Conscious Consultant Hour by Sam Liebowitz.

This episode is 58:15 long.

This episode was published on Dec 4, 2025.

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