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The Signs of Life: Psychologist, Social Worker, Psychedelic Therapy, Research, a prescriber

The Signs of Life is the private practice of Counsellor, Social Worker, Alana Roy. She works primarily with Psychedelic preparation and integration, Children and Families, Youth, Couples and the Deaf, Blind and Deafblind communities.

08/11/2025

There is a rare kind of magic that happens when friendship becomes a sacred mirror when we are seen not only for who we have been, but for who we are becoming.

True friendship doesn’t compete with your wildness; it celebrates it. It reminds you of your strength when you forget, and holds space when the world feels too heavy.

Friendship is medicine : a quiet, steady drumbeat that keeps us walking toward truth, laughter, and belonging.

Wild women don’t tame each other; they rise together; howling with truth, dancing with courage, and holding each other through the fire of transformation and the mystery of life.

04/11/2025

🌹 Workshop on Grief and Loss
Reflections from the Deafblind Conference

Today’s session on grief and loss touched me deeply. Amid stories of resilience, love, and community, I was reminded how powerful small gestures can be.

One of the most moving moments was receiving a “Life’s Little Emergency Kit” a small red bag filled with symbolic items:
🪙 A coin so you are never broke
💗 A heart in case you lose heart
🌟 A star to wish upon
🌹 And a rose to remind you that somebody loves you

Each item held meaning a tactile and emotional reminder that healing often begins with connection, creativity, and compassion.

In the face of grief, we don’t always need big solutions; sometimes, it’s these small, intentional acts of care that help us carry the load.

To everyone navigating loss: may you find your own “emergency kit” made of love, courage, and the people who remind you you’re not alone.

01/11/2025

Presenting at the Deafblind WA Workshop on Grief & Loss

It was an honour to present at the Deafblind WA Workshop on Grief and Loss, a profound gathering exploring how we hold space for grief, transition, and healing within the Deafblind community.

The workshop brought together participants, carers, and professionals to reflect on how loss is experienced through diverse sensory worlds and how love, connection, and meaning can still grow in the midst of change.

In my presentation, I shared perspectives on trauma-informed care, relational attunement, and compassionate communication, highlighting how grief is not something to fix, but something to accompany with presence and respect.

What moved me most were the stories of resilience and community, reminding us that grief is a shared human experience, and that empathy—when expressed through accessible communication—is a universal language.

Thank you to Deafblind WA for your leadership, inclusivity, and commitment to ensuring that conversations around grief and loss are accessible, heartfelt, and healing.

healing.

01/11/2025

A Historic Step Forward for Our Veterans

On behalf of Dr. Lani Roy and the SOL/ Anam Cara Centre community we welcome the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) landmark decision to fund psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy using M**A for Australian veterans living with PTSD.
This is more than a policy announcement; it represents hope, validation, and a national commitment to exploring every avenue that supports those who have served our country.

Dr. Lani Roy’s family members have served in both combat and specialist police settings, and we understand firsthand the invisible wounds that so many carry long after their service ends. We also recognise the courage it takes to seek help, and the ongoing trauma that often persists when treatments are not tailored to meet the unique needs of veterans.

We extend our gratitude to the DVA for taking this courageous and innovative step forward in mental health care.

🔗 Learn more: Department of Veterans’ Affairs – Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

https://www.dva.gov.au/what-we-help-with/your-mental-wellbeing/psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy-pap-using-mdma-or-psilocybin

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29/10/2025

Here’s to the nights that turned into mornings with the friends who turned into family!

Celebrating the rare gems 💎 🌵

27/10/2025

Exploring Predictive Processing through Art + Connection ✨

What if your brain isn’t just seeing the world — it’s predicting it?

At our recent Anam Cara CPACT intensive, we explored predictive processing: the idea that our minds continuously build models of reality. Psychedelics, creativity, and relationship can disrupt these mental patterns, opening space for new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.

Through art, movement, and paired reflection, students explored how beliefs shape perception. We painted what it feels like when our inner “predictions” are disrupted; shifting in directions and ways we didn’t plan, see, or control.

When our assumptions fall away, curiosity returns. In those moments of shared creation, neuroscience meets mystery and healing begins when we see the world, and each other, anew.

26/10/2025

The Paradox of Dieta

There’s always an ache at the end
a deep anticipation marking the threshold between worlds. Counting the days until the dieta releases its hold, until the return of salt, sweetness, and the familiar.

As soon as the salt enters my system and the excitement to return home emerges, so too does my longing to stay in the jungle.

Coming home, I meet the irony of the dieta paradox: to step away from modern life, yet also to belong within it.

I’m inspired by one of my favourite authors, John O’Donohue, who wrote:

“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
“All human creativity issues from the urgency of longing.”

Longing and belonging are thresholds moving through us; shaping how we listen, lead, and love.

Longing, I’ve learned, isn’t absence.
It’s aliveness itself; the fertile ground where meaning, creativity, and purpose take root.

I often reflect on Lao Tzu’s words:

“The Tao that can be named is not the true and eternal Tao.”

There is something very special in the dieta paradox; a quality that arises in the threshold between longing and belonging.
It resists definition, yet shapes how i connect, perceive, and integrate experiences in the wildness of the forest and under the bright city lights.

22/10/2025

From molecule to meaning, from medicine to metaphor 🍄🧠💚

Some words captured from my process in nonsensical order with

Eight years into this work; no beginning, no end. Just the continuous unfolding of understanding what it means to connect: to the land, to ourselves, to the ancient wisdom that pulses through Celtic spirituality and Indigenous traditions worldwide.

Green, pink, trying to find a white red. The colors don’t always make sense until you stop trying to make them circular, until you introduce some green and just FEEL.

This is the ocean we’re learning to SWIM not sure what to do with it, not sure how it will come out, but we love pink and purple. The jungle holds harshness and ruggedness, yes, but also medicine. The land teaches us.

I’m suspending judgment of my process. Because the beauty of the metaphor isn’t just a metaphor—it’s how we connect, how we teach, how we heal.

The work hasn’t come easy, but it’s been rewarding. Brighter is better. Greens, blues, pinks merge into something that can’t be captured in clinical language alone. This is the space between science and soul, where real transformation lives.

To everyone on their own journey with psychedelic medicine: your experience matters. Your metaphors matter. Your eight years, eight months, or eight sessions; all of it matters.

Art captures what words can’t. May we all find the courage to suspend judgment and trust the process.

Thank you for your support 💖

16/10/2025

Jumping for joy at the CPACT intensive!

“Play is the highest form of research.” — Albert Einstein

14/10/2025

.space is one of Anam Cara Centre for Psychedelics and Contemplative Therapies elective teachers.

Join his Pranayama breath work online series by donation in November to explore his medicines and enquire more about our electives.

Pranayama means expansion of life force.
Every breath shapes your energy, emotions, and awareness.

When you breathe consciously, you stop reacting and start responding from presence.

🌬️ This November, join me for PRANAYAMA ~ the breath of life! Immersion
A month of guided breath work to reconnect, reset, and remember your true rhythm.

✨ By donation — join live via Zoom or follow along at your own pace with recordings.
Message me to come on board; let’s breathe together and rise from the inside out.

https://facebook.com/events/s/pranayama-the-breath-of-life/807161438400404/

13/10/2025

🌿✨ Dr. Lani Roy & Melissa Warner will be presenting at the EGA Conference and you’re invited to join the celebration of community, plants, and psychedelic wisdom! 🌱

📍 Garden States: Regeneration
📅 28 November – 1 December 2025
🔗 www.gardenstates.or

🌊 SWIMming Deep, FLOATing Home

Tools for Psychedelic Self-Discovery, Clinical Practice, and Embodied Leadership

How can psychedelic therapy be both scientifically robust and deeply relational? How do we honour the body, mind, transpersonal, and socio-political context of each journeyer?

This immersive workshop introduces SWIM — a whole-person framework integrating Somatic, Wisdom, Interdependence, and Metacognition across preparation, journey, and integration. Developed through clinical practice, lived experience, and evidence-informed approaches, SWIM offers a trauma-informed and spiritually sensitive way to navigate altered states.

✨ Explore learning lenses from Agency and Neuroception to Multiplicity, Meaning, Connection, and Transcendence.
🌱 Learn how to address common challenges like spiritual bypassing, somatic overwhelm, and epistemic overconfidence.
🌀 Engage in experiential practices, live demos, and case studies drawn from clinical, ceremonial, and community contexts.

By the end, you’ll leave with adaptable tools and a deeper understanding of how to meet psychedelic experiences; whether calm, turbulent, or vast with compassion, skill, and clarity.

🎟️ Tickets on sale now and join us and the wider psychedelic community in this regenerative gathering!
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👉 www.gardenstates.org

11/10/2025

Pacha Tinkuay & the Way of Dieta an elective with Anam Cara Centre

In the world of master plant dieta, Pacha Tinkuay speaks to the sacred meeting point between worlds Hanan Pacha (the upper world of spirit), Kay Pacha (the living world), and Ukhu Pacha (the inner and ancestral realms). Together, they map a path of transformation, reminding us that healing is a cyclical dance between the seen and unseen, the personal and transpersonal realms.

To walk the dieta path is to enter into a living relationship with the plants as teachers and allies. Through solitude, silence, and deep listening, we open a profound conversation between body, psyche, and spirit, allowing nature’s intelligence to reshape us.

Visiting Romy and Bruns at the Piompiriri Centre with Anam Cara students embodies the essence of Pacha Tinkuay in Peru, Pulcalpa is a meeting place where ancient lineages and contemporary seekers gather in relationship; a meeting and bridging of worlds.

If you feel the call to explore this path: the living bridge of Pacha Tinkuay turning altered states into embodied, relational, and ecological change;

Join us in May 2026 as a stand alone elective or as part of our larger Certififcate of Psychedelics and Contemplative Therapies

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📩 Enquiries: Dr Lani Roy drlaniroy@anamcaracentre.com.au

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