Episode 11: A Year of Becoming — Integrating the Journey From Root to Rise

Root & Rising Podcast with Dr. Cheri

As the year comes to a close, Dr. Cheri guides listeners through a reflective, integrative journey of healing, growth, and self-discovery. In this expanded 45-minute episode, she revisits the core themes of the past 10 episodes—Rooting, Rebounding, Rising, and reclaiming intuition, joy, and wholeness—helping you see your growth, release what no longer serves you, and step fully into your becoming.

The episode includes a gentle, 10-minute hypnotherapy segment designed to help you:

• Release old patterns and emotional heaviness

• Anchor into your body, mind, and spirit

• Reconnect with your inner wisdom and joy

• Step into the new year with clarity, confidence, and wholeness

Journal Prompt:

Take 10–15 minutes to reflect on these questions:

1. Which part of me grew the most this year?

2. Which part of me is still waiting to become?

3. What old beliefs or patterns am I ready to release before the new year?

4. What gifts, wisdom, or strengths am I carrying forward?

Reflective Exercise:

1. Find a quiet space and place a hand on your heart.

2. Take five deep breaths, inhaling love and exhaling tension.

3. Visualize the year behind you as a gentle river flowing away, taking with it what no longer serves you.

4. Imagine the new year ahead as a golden path, illuminated with opportunities for growth, joy, and alignment.

5. End with the affirmation:

“I release, I receive, I rise.”

This episode is for you if you’re ready to:

• Reflect on a year of inner growth

• Integrate lessons of mind, body, and spirit

• Reclaim joy, purpose, and authentic connection

• Enter the new year grounded, empowered, and aligned

A soul-nourishing finale to a year of deep inner work—listen, breathe, journal, and rise.

🌿 Rooted & Rising Podcast — Episode #10

Purposeful Contemplation — The Sacred Pause in Psychedelic Healing

with Dr. Cheri & Ellice Boone

What if the most powerful part of your psychedelic journey isn’t the experience itself… but the pause that comes afterward?

In this episode, Dr. Cheri and Ellice explore Purposeful Contemplation — the sacred, intentional stillness that turns psychedelic insight into lasting transformation. Through the Holistic Integral Therapy (HIT) framework, they reveal how slowing down, listening inward, and creating daily contemplative rituals can help your healing take root and truly evolve.

Whether you’re working with ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, or deep therapeutic practices, this episode will help you understand the integration window, support neuroplasticity, and anchor your awakening into everyday life.

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✨ What You’ll Learn

✔ Why contemplation is the key to meaningful integration

✔ How the HIT model (Root–Rebound–Rise) supports psychedelic healing

✔ What happens in the brain and body after a medicine journey

✔ How stillness deepens wisdom, embodiment, and emotional regulation

✔ Daily rituals to cultivate a contemplative, soul-led life

✔ Personal healing insights from Dr. Cheri’s own journey

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🧘 Guided Meditation: The Stillness That Reveals

Ellice leads a gentle heart-centered practice that invites you into a quiet inner space.

You’ll explore the question:

“What within me wants to be seen right now?”

Perfect for post-journey integration or anytime you need grounding.

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📝 Journal Prompts for Integration

Use these to deepen your reflection after the episode:

1. Where in my life am I being invited to pause and listen more deeply?

2. What wisdom emerges when I stop trying to figure it out and simply feel?

3. How can I create a daily ritual of contemplation to support my growth?

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🔔 Subscribe for More

If you’re on a path of healing, expansion, and embodied spirituality, subscribe and join our community of seekers learning to root and rise together.

Stay rooted… and keep rising. 🌿💛

In this episode, Dr. Cheri and Ellice explore the healing potential of psychedelic medicines—focusing on mushrooms and ketamine. Together, they break down the latest science of how these medicines affect the brain, why they can be powerful tools for trauma healing, and the importance of safe integration practices.

You’ll also hear personal stories and client experiences that bring the research to life, offering both inspiration and guidance for anyone curious about these modalities.

✨ What you’ll experience in this episode:

-How mushrooms and ketamine support trauma healing and neuroplasticity

-The science of how these medicines work in the brain

-Personal reflections and client journeys of healing and growth

-Integration practices to help ground psychedelic experiences into everyday life

-Where these medicines are currently legal and accessible

Rooted & Rising is about more than just knowledge—it’s about giving you tools and practices to heal, grow, and reconnect with your truest self.

📌 Don’t forget to subscribe for more episodes, share your reflections in the comments, and email your questions to be featured in a future episode.

“Until next time—stay rooted… and keep rising.”