AUTHOR BIO (LONG)

Sergio Nikita Lialin is an author and preparation, guidance, and integration specialist working at the intersection of psychedelic science, indigenous-informed frameworks, and contemporary healing modalities. Drawing on work in NLP, IFS, somatic practice, and plant medicine integration, he guides individuals through the terrain that clinical treatment alone does not address—the preparation before the experience, the experience itself, and the integration that follows. 

His book, Healing the Modern Soul, is a 374-page synthesis of spiritual awakening, breathwork, indigenous wisdom, and the emerging science of psychedelic healing. It arrives at a moment of cultural shift, as policy accelerates access to medicines that have been held within traditional contexts for generations, and offers both philosophical grounding and practical pathways for navigating that change. Lialin works with individuals and groups navigating the intersection of ancient practice and modern science. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available for interviews, speaking engagements, and media appearances.

AUTHOR BIO (SHORT)

Sergio Nikita Lialin is an author and preparation, guidance, and integration specialist working at the intersection of NLP, IFS, somatic healing, and plant medicine integration. He works with individuals navigating the terrain between clinical treatment and meaningful transformation.

BOOK DESCRIPTION (LONG)

Healing the Modern Soul is a 374-page work written for a moment of cultural transition—when science is rapidly advancing psychedelic therapies, and millions are approaching these experiences without adequate preparation, guidance, or integration support. The book explores spiritual awakening, breathwork, indigenous wisdom, and the convergence of psychedelic science with living tradition. It is not a book about substances. It is a map back to the self—grounded in the understanding that healing is not the correction of a broken person, but the remembering of a whole one. “You were never broken. You are remembering who you are.” 

Available at Amazon: Healing the Modern Soul

BOOK DESCRIPTION (SHORT)

A 374-page integration of spiritual awakening, breathwork, indigenous wisdom, and psychedelic science, Healing the Modern Soul provides both philosophical grounding and practical pathways for those seeking lasting transformation.

Available at Amazon: Healing the Modern Soul

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INTERVIEW TOPICS

1. Healing Is Remembering
Why healing is not about fixing what is broken, but remembering what has always been whole.

2. The Difference Between Healing and Self-Improvement
What happens when we stop trying to become someone new and begin returning to who we already are.

3. Ancient Wisdom and Modern Psychology
How indigenous traditions, Internal Family Systems, somatic work, and modern neuroscience are converging toward similar understandings of healing.

4. Trauma, Consciousness, and the Body
Why lasting transformation requires more than insight, and how the body participates in the healing process.

5. The Psychology of Awakening
What spiritual awakening actually looks like in lived experience and why psychology has an important role to play in understanding it.

6. Psychedelics as One Doorway Among Many
What these medicines can reveal, where they are often misunderstood, and why integration matters more than the experience itself.

7. Meaning, Purpose, and the Modern Crisis of Disconnection
What lies beneath the epidemics of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and addiction—and why healing is often a search for meaning.

8. Internal Family Systems and the Inner Landscape
How our inner parts, protectors, wounds, and deeper Self shape our experience of life and transformation.

9. NLP, Language, and Personal Reality
How language, belief systems, and unconscious patterns influence identity, behavior, and healing.

10. The Future of Human Healing
Where psychology, spirituality, consciousness studies, and ancient wisdom may be heading as a unified conversation.

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

• You often say, "Healing is not about fixing what is broken." What do you mean by that?

• What is the difference between healing and self-improvement?

• How did your years in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica change your understanding of transformation?

• You work with NLP, Internal Family Systems, somatic practices, and ceremonial traditions. How do those approaches fit together?

• What does spiritual awakening actually look like in everyday life?

• Why do so many people feel disconnected, anxious, or lost despite unprecedented access to information and resources?

• What role does the body play in healing that traditional talk therapy often overlooks?

• Psychedelics are receiving tremendous attention right now. What do you think people are getting right—and wrong—about them?

• What is the most important thing you've learned from supporting people through profound personal transformation?

• If someone feels broken, where would you invite them to begin?

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FEATURED PRESS RELEASES

Federal Psychedelic Push Accelerates—But Integration Infrastructure Remains Missing

As federal policy accelerates psychedelic therapies, preparation and integration systems are not scaling alongside access

Press Release distributed via PR Newswire: Read full release  May 2026  

Also carried by Health Newswire and Government Wire

Longbridge.com June 2026

The increase in federal funding for psychedelic therapies is creating a concern over the lack of adequate preparation and integration services. This issue is raising worries about patient outcomes and long-term care. Sergio Lialin, a practitioner and author of Healing the Modern Soul, expressed these concerns

Briefglance.com  June 2026

At the forefront of this caution is Sergio Lialin, a Northern California-based practitioner and author of Healing the Modern Soul. He argues that the focus on drug approval and availability overlooks the most crucial elements of the healing process: the work done before and after the psychedelic experience itself.

USA News July 2026
Healing the Modern Soul Explores Modern Life's Search for Meaning
A reflective look at modern disconnection and how philosophy and self-awareness can help people reconnect with purpose.

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PRAISE / ENDORSEMENTS

“… you will be gently guided into an altered state journey through his evocative and poetic writing.  A door opens to where you can feel the vibratory intelligence of what his written words are expressing on the  page you are reading. It is a deeper experience than just reading, Youwill feel learning. You will feel your mind opening, your heart opening, your soul being fed. Reading Sergio's book, I recognize that he wrote the book I wanted to write."

-Dr. Tom Pinkson, author of Psychedelic Shaman: Wisdom Warrior Path to Transformation

“… To write such a book, one must have walked the talk—venturing into challenging trenches and emerging wiser, riding the highest clouds of the Great Mystery while remaining humble. This is Sergio. Follow his words. They will guide you there. You will find your inner hope—and the strength to step forward into the world you dare to create…”

-Francoise Bourzat, author of Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth

“… Sergio Lialin’s Healing the Modern Soul is not a book, not a manual, not a “how-to-get-there.” It is a gentle, fragrant tempest of sharing and contemplation—an encyclopedia of the many branches of the path of awakening. Choose where you may wish to land, and drift into the wisdom and practice of that way of being…”

Phil Wolfson, MD, author ofThe Ketamine Papers: Science. Therapy, and Transformation

“…a beautiful and extraordinarily useful modern-day practical guide to working with psychedelics in a good way. This book should be in everyone’s tool kit as they journey along the remarkable path of transformation.  Thank you Sergio for an excellent contribution to the field.”

Dr. Dan Engle, author of A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy

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PRESS CONTACT:

Sergio Nikita Lialin

Email  HealingtheModernSoul@gmail.com

Website: HealingtheModernSoul.com

Phone (415) 531-2742

Coaching: ReVisionCoaching.org

Available for interviews with same-day response. Phone preferred for urgent inquiries.