The Integrated Self

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I'm a somatic therapist for adults working through trauma, anxiety, grief, depression, existential crises, spiritual emergencies and integration, life transitions, and growth.

11/08/2025

Forgiveness is the weapon of the Warriors of Love.

Forgiveness doesn't analyze people, actions, or events.

It's not personal.

It's a transpersonal love, it's THE Love at the heart of all life, moving through you and your experience of all things.

You can't turn it on, do, or perform it, because it's always on, it's always here.

You can only make yourself available to it, by feeling your experience without sending your energy into blame or shame.

Stay with your experience, stay with your heart's feelings and your body's sensations, and Forgiveness can come to and through you.

Not to let anyone out of accountability and responsibility, but to let Love support all our ability to take accountability and respond responsibly to the needs of life. Love helps, now and forever.

11/06/2025

Blessings from the portal of my birth time to you in this new time.

*Go out to let life in.
*Life is hard, and it's life-giving to feel that.

11/03/2025

Imagine conflict as a way to bring you and the other person(s) closer, or closer to a mutually beneficial way of coexisting. Nonviolent Communication teaches a very simple, 4-step process of engaging in conflict in a healthy and connective way.

I just released two podcast episodes about it.
Part 1 explains the technique, short and sweet.
Part 2 goes deeper into the philosophy and even the spirituality I find at the heart of NVC. This is the longest episode I've recorded, I had a lot to say about it and I'm very excited by the concept, so here's a tiny teaser: Needs are the natural expression and movement of the essence of Life. This episode also explodes how focusing blame and resentment on another disempowers ourselves.

Take your power back! Honor your feelings and needs. Express them in "I" statements. đź’™

My podcast is called The Integrated Self, link is in my bio.

10/23/2025

Selfishness is one of the holiest things we can do. But the trick is that most of us aren't in touch with our true selves. We're identified with our wounds, and the limiting beliefs that result from them, and we're usually seeking short-term ways to cover those wounds up and avoid them.

When we allow our wounds to breathe in the open air, by looking at them and feeling them, then they are able to heal. They heal through the naturally healing power of awareness itself, and through the intuitive guidance that arises in the space of awareness, guiding us to what we're needing from ourselves and the universe. When we look into, contemplate, and feel our wounds, we don't need to cover them up and spend most of our life energy trying to escape from them.

When our identity can include our wounds as only small singular aspects of our self, then our story can include their healing process, and our identity can expand to include our gifts and our completely unique and original authenticity as much more fundamental aspects of who we are.

When we are in touch with these true expressions of ourselves, we will find our nature is to be a part of our world, and to contribute to the well-being of the worlds of which we are a part.

When we are in touch with our true self, not just our wounds and our strategies of avoiding them, selfishness is holy.

And even if we only sense a sliver of potential of that true self, the process of bringing healing to our wounds and doing what we need to do to realize and embody that true self more and more in our daily lives is also holy, holy, holy.

10/14/2025

when the journey is the point, there is no failure, only challenges and lessons along the way.

10/07/2025

Your greatest healing can only be found within your greatest challenges. Take a deep breath, and meet the medicine within your life.

10/02/2025

Alignment over avoidance.

I'm very excited to announce a new 8-week group I will be hosting in Colorado in the coming season—Being Present: Embody...
08/15/2025

I'm very excited to announce a new 8-week group I will be hosting in Colorado in the coming season—Being Present: Embodying the Fullness of Life. This group is for anyone who would like a safe, trauma-informed container to connect with others interested in growth, learn and practice generative and healing ways of working with life challenges and suffering, and access more of your potential to be fully who you are.

The practice of being present, or what's called "Contact" in Gestalt Therapy, is perhaps the most fundamental ingredient in living a life of meaning, richness, and fulfillment. It also enables an organic healing and transformational force to flow in and through us, helping us progress in our personal and collective paths. If you'd like to hear more on that topic right now, I recorded a whole podcast episode on it called The Essence of Healing (link in bio).

The group Being Present will include guided meditations that work on different aspects of ourselves, experiential exercises to explore different qualities and capacities of being an individual and being in community, time for sharing and discussing what's alive for every group member, and working directly with what's most personally relevant as a group.

I hope you'll join us! Link in my bio for more info (or scan the QR code in the flyer), and message me if you'd like to join!

I'm not saying real problems aren't real problems. I am saying, when you're sliding on ice, turn into the skid. Your lif...
05/17/2025

I'm not saying real problems aren't real problems. I am saying, when you're sliding on ice, turn into the skid. Your life and your feelings are the ice.

Timing and flow. While I was going to get an item in my home, I was thinking to myself: when timing aligns with flow, ma...
05/06/2025

Timing and flow.

While I was going to get an item in my home, I was thinking to myself: when timing aligns with flow, magic happens.

As I bent down to pick up the item, I looked up to find myself at the exact position from where I could see the Crescent Moon shining brightly through a small window in the blackest night sky.

I took this photo, immediately after which a cloud covered the moon, and remained there for some time. Had I come here to get the item a moment later, I would not have seen the moon.

When timing aligns with flow, and when we're open to perceive and receive and allow it, magic happens.


I've released a few new podcast episodes, short poetic invitations into simple Being (episode 6) and your immediate body (episode 7). Check 'em out, they're fun and free ways for me to share my authenticity, with the prayer they help connect you with yours :)

Link in bio.

Psychedelic means "Spirit Revealing." I wrote this poem yesterday after my final session of a psychedelic training I com...
04/18/2025

Psychedelic means "Spirit Revealing." I wrote this poem yesterday after my final session of a psychedelic training I completed with Innate Path, working with psycholytic (low-dose) ketamine and cannabis to assist the body's natural process of healing, growing, and partnering with Life. I've understood conceptually and somewhat experientially why psychedelic medicines have become so popular at this time, but this training helped me personally experience why and how helpful these medicines can be---if used with respect, acknowledgment of their sacred power, and while skillfully and intentionally following and supporting the body's inherent desire and movement to release stuck trauma and pain to allow More Life to flow through. This can happen without medicine, of course; medicines can just help lower our conscious and unconscious defenses to let it happen with less inhibition.

There isn't one final, complete, fully "healed" state. Life is an eternal process. All we can do is the next right thing. With or without medicine, it's possible to feel the fundamental okayness of Life, the Buddha Nature or Basic Goodness of it all, the Sat-Chit-Ananda ("Truth-Consciousness-Bliss") of ultimate reality, in every moment. And it's possible to notice and feel how we, in our bodies and with our histories, resist this ground of Being, in just about every single moment. When we soften to and allow the natural blessings of Life to reach us, oh, what glory. The flow of everloving light. And it always looks and feels slightly different, because every moment, every circumstance, every arising need and desire, requires something new of Life, and Life will not let us down, even in death.

This Life is not separate from you. It is you.


I'm excited to start offering psychedelic medicine-assisted sessions sometime later this year. If you'd like to know when that's happening, comment a psychedelic emoji (you can't do it wrong) and I'll let you know.

In gratitude, humility, and openness to the blessings,
Dan

I started a podcast! It's a simple project, quick hit inspiration on a path of healing, growth, and be(come)ing more ful...
04/13/2025

I started a podcast! It's a simple project, quick hit inspiration on a path of healing, growth, and be(come)ing more fully human and authentic. Kind of like voice messages direct to your phone when you subscribe. Link in bio!

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104 North Harrison Avenue
Lafayette, CO
80026

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+17204329231

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https://www.integratedselfcounseling.org/

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