Two books. One path.
Exploring healing, embodiment, and presence.
Integration Alchemy and The Mother Ache explore a shared question:
How do we come home to ourselves?
One begins with transformative experience and asks how insight becomes embodied in the life we are actually living.
The other enters through the mother-daughter relationship,
exploring the return to self-trust, belonging, and a deeper connection with ourselves.
Both return us to the body, to presence, and to the possibility of living with greater wholeness.
The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within
Published May 12, 2026 by Sentient Publications
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
The Mother Ache is a guide to healing the mother wound as a relational and embodied rite of passage. Rather than offering quick solutions or idealized reconciliation, it explores how our earliest maternal relationships shape identity, self-trust, emotional life, and our capacity to feel at home within ourselves.
Using the ancient metaphor of basket weaving, the book offers a grounded framework for healing that honors repetition, tension, repair, and time. Through feminine archetypes, reflection, inquiry, and embodied awareness, it illuminates patterns held not only in memory, but in the body and our relationships.
At its heart, The Mother Ache is an invitation to restore inner authority and self-trust, listening to the intelligence of the body and allowing healing to unfold at a pace the nervous system can hold.
“You do not need a perfect mother to feel whole. Healing begins with the willingness to meet what aches, stay present with what arises, and learn to weave safety, truth, and love through your own hands.” —Deva Arani
Praise For The Mother Ache
“Arani offers a tender guide for the wild terrain of longing, loss, and love. Her words convey just how she shows up in person: as an exquisite guide for the soul.” — Allie Olsen, Pattern Maker and Basket Weaver
“The Mother Ache is a tender and courageous book for any woman who has longed for the mothering she did not fully receive. This book is a gentle and valuable companion for anyone walking this path.” — Nina Nanda Lynch, Rinzai Zen Priest
“The most important moment in this beautiful book happens at the very beginning, when the ‘wound’ is understood as ‘ache.’ We learn not to heal the ache itself, but our relationship to it.” — Sharanya Naik, Facilitator and Practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork™
“Blending personal narrative with trauma-informed insight, The Mother Ache offers a grounded and deeply embodied pathway for healing early relational wounds.” — Melissa Whippo, LCSW, Founder, The Deva Collective
“With warmth and embodied wisdom, Deva Arani invites readers into a gentle and powerful process of healing the mother wound. The Mother Ache feels like being accompanied by a wise friend.”
— Molly Kate Brown, PMHNP, author of Learning To Walk In India
Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life
Published February 24, 2026 by Sentient Publications
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Integration Alchemy explores the essential work that follows transformation. Rooted in the integration of sacred plant medicine and other transformative experiences, the book draws from South American and Eastern wisdom traditions, somatic practice, meditation, and contemporary psychology to offer a grounded path for weaving insight into everyday life.
Rather than focusing on the peak experience itself, Integration Alchemy turns toward what comes after: how we embody what has been revealed through the body, our relationships, and the way we live.
Your life is the ceremony. This book is an invitation to live it more fully.
Praise for Integration Alchemy
“Psychedelic experiences open doors, but integration is what allows us to truly live in the new rooms. In Integration Alchemy, Deva Arani offers a heartfelt and sophisticated roadmap for this essential part of the journey.”
— Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Founder and President, MAPS
“With humility, precision, and warmth, Deva Arani invites us into the living work of integration, where the insights of ceremony become pathways of embodied change. It is a trustworthy companion for anyone walking the tender bridge between revelation and real life.”
— Matt Licata, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author
“A thoughtful and much-needed reflection on the psychedelic renaissance. Deva Arani offers seekers meaningful ways to engage traditional remedies in support of healing and wholeness.”
— Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, PsyD, LPCC, LMFT, author of Psyche and the Sacred
These books emerged from different chapters of my life, but they grew from the same enduring questions: How do we integrate what life reveals to us? How do we return to the wisdom of the body? And how do we live with greater presence, self-trust, and wholeness?
Integration Alchemy grew from decades of meditation, sacred plant medicine, and my own journey of integration. The Mother Ache turned toward an earlier and more intimate terrain: the mother-daughter relationship and the longing to come home to myself by alchemizing the ache within me.
Both books are reflections of my own journey home to myself. I offer them in reciprocity for the generosity of the teachers, wisdom keepers, and traditions that have supported and shaped my path, with the hope that they might accompany others in their own journeys of healing and self-knowing.