Lucid Cafe

This episode explores the African psychedelic plant medicine known as Iboga. My guest, Levi Barker is an Iboga provider at the Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica. He shares the following about this powerful medicine:

• The Iboga experience
• How an Iboga ceremony unfolds at the Iboga Wellness Center
• How a broken wrist led to Levi’s 10 year struggle with opiate addiction...
• And how he used Iboga unsupervised to get through the withdrawal experience
• How Iboga works and how it’s different from other psychedelic plant medicines, like Ayahuasca
• How Iboga is not just for treating addiction
• Levi’s path to becoming an Iboga provider
• How to prepare for an Iboga ceremony

To contact Levi or for more information about the Iboga Wellness Center, please visit https://ibogawellness.com/

To contact Lucid Cafe host, Wendy Halley, please visit https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Mitch Pauley can pinpoint the moment he realized he needed support. In this episode Mitch talks about how his personal healing journey was sparked after his wife, Rae Carter, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Rae was a guest on Lucid Cafe last season in the powerful episode titled, “I Didn’t Need to Lose My Boob.”  

Now, we hear from Mitch, who candidly shares:

• The positive and challenging aspects of being a caregiver
• The moment he realized he needed help of his own
• The progression of his healing journey exploring: 
  • Talk therapy 
  • Having a gratitude practice 
  • Spirituality 
  • Shamanic Healing 
  • His challenging relationship with his father 
  • His trauma history 
  • Striving for forgiveness 
  • Vulnerability and shame 
• The importance of finding a therapist you feel comfortable with
• The impact his personal healing has had on his role as a special educator

To learn more about Lucid Cafe’s host, Wendy Halley, please visit her website 

In this episode, career coach Mayda Poc takes us on a journey of her life and work. She teaches us that the crisis is sometimes the only message we get to propel us into the next stage of our personal evolution.

Tune in to learn about:

• Mayda’s practice coaching overachievers and the dissatisfaction many of them end up feeling
• The challenge of figuring out what you want
• The importance of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’
• How Mayda’s relationship with money has changed
• The scarcity mentality 
• The culture of investment banking
• Mayda’s early life in Syria living under a dictatorship
• The impact of the 2008 financial crisis
• Resilience
• How Mayda dealt with receiving the news that she had advanced Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Stress and her very shamanic approach to her cancer diagnosis
• How she addressed the cancer cells in her body
• The role that personal power played in her healing
• The role of trust 
• Career transition
• The importance of asking for help 

To contact or learn more about Mayda, please visit her website https://www.maydapoccoaching.com/

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In the final episode of Lucid Cafe’s first season…

Wendy's guest Kim Fuller wants to take the stigma away from reading hands. In this episode Kim talks about how your hands reveal rich, affirming information about you that’s surprisingly accurate. 

Kim shares:

• How hand analysis is not prophetic, but more of a unique portrait of a person 
• And reveals life purpose and life lessons
• How this practice is based on reproducible data
• How helpful it is to learn your communication style
• How your fingerprints disclose your Life School
• Examples of interesting readings she's done
• How hand prints can change over time and reveal important information about you
• Why people might seek out a hand analysis reading (e.g., life transitions, stuck in a pattern, curiosity….)

To contact Kim Fuller, please visit her website www.haelenhands.com

Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley will be back in September 2019 with Season 2! 

In the meantime, check out the irreverent and frequently inappropriate satirical advice podcast Wendy cohosts with her friend Claire: Inside the Box with Claire and Wendy

Visit Wendy's website: Lucid Path Wellness

Kimberly Pierce has been practicing as a Physician’s Assistant at a rural Vermont clinic for the last 37 years and has become a passionate advocate for understanding the impact of trauma on health. In this episode, Kim discusses:

• The groundbreaking results of the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) health study 
• How stress causes sometimes devastating physiological changes in the body
• How the solution to childhood trauma is community
• The impact of incorporating the ACE screening tool into her patient visits 
• The influence of trauma on epigenetic expression
• The devastating impact of inter-generational, cultural and racial trauma
• How important it is for children to have at least one person take a genuine interest in them
• The role of shame 
• There’s hope because healing can happen
• How her documentary, “The Faces of ACE’s” came to be

To contact Kim Pierce, send an email to [email protected]

For information about Brene Brown’s work on shame and vulnerability https://brenebrown.com

For information about the Energy Genesis healing chamber: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/energy-medicine

In this episode author Lori Morrison talks about her new book The Shaman’s Guide To Power Animals and gives us a taste of her introduction to the shamanic path.

• Lori shares how she channeled the essence of over 200 mammals, insects, birds and fish in order to receive their messages and to understand how they can be of service to us 
• She talks about what surprised her about this process and the animal that had the most profound effect on her 
• She also discusses the importance of discovering your “theme animal” - the animal spirit who was present at the time of your birth and offers support and important teachings throughout your life
• You’ll learn how to work with animal spirits and how to use her book to help you manage life’s challenges
• We discuss the cross-cultural meanings of certain animals 
• Lori also talks about her life-altering and powerful introduction to the shamanic path back in 2010 as captured in her memoir The Disintegration of My Ordinary Reality.

To learn more about Lori Morrison and her work, please visit www.lorimorrison.com

To connect with Lucid Cafe host, Wendy Halley, please visit www.lucidpathwellness.com

This episode of Lucid Cafe is sponsored by: Slaying the Mouse: A True Story of Healing in the Spiritual Realms audiobook.
When 19-year-old Jason mysteriously slips into a deep coma, family members and doctors are baffled. Seeking answers, the family contacts author and shamanic healer Wendy Halley. Using the ancient practice of Shamanic Trance, Wendy begins a 9-month odyssey into the ‘dreamtime’ world, where she and Jason will connect in a healing journey that transcends geography, distance, and the conscious world.
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Rae Carter has been through a lot in a short period of time. Here are some of the highlights Rae covers during our conversation about her powerful healing journey: 

• The challenges of conventional medicine 
• How pursuing alternative healing modalities helped address her issues holistically
• What it means to "let go"
• The pain of publicly asking for donations to cover treatment
• The mental/emotional side of going through a cancer diagnosis 
• The importance of a supportive medical team
• Nutrition
• Environmental influences on health
• How a geneticist in California helped Rae get to the root of her cancer
• Symptoms tell a story
• The importance of intuition
• The Maggie Card

For information about the Maggie Card 

https://maggiesbrightside.org

For information about the Energy Genesis 

https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/energy-medicine

Connect with Rae Carter on Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/RaeCarterEmpowr/

Connect with Lucid Cafe host, Wendy Halley 

https://www.lucidpathwellness.com

Teri O’Connor had no interest in athletics as a kid and for most of her adult life, but after inadvertently coming down with what she refers to as “adult onset athleticism” she went on to create a yoga empire (my words, not hers!) in southern New Jersey. 

Teri talks about how yoga helped her become more focused and aware of her body, and how she’s grown as a result of having a regular practice. 

And she shares the wisdom she’s learned along the way including:

• the importance of being authentic
• how we store our “shoulds” in our shoulders 
• how yoga can help manage external distractions like cell phones
• using yoga as an ergonomic treatment  

Connect with Teri on Facebook, Instagram (@NJBeachYoga) or her website NJ Beach Yoga 

Visit Lucid Café host, Wendy Halley’s website

I’ve had the great fortune to study with a handful of shamanic teachers, but there’s something special about Hank Wesselman. I like that he’s a scholar who had the courage to share his own visionary experiences in a very public way with his first three books, now referred to as the Spiritwalker Trilogy. And because of his courage, thousands of people around the world have benefited and grown – and have made the indigenous mind worldview a part of their lives. 

In this episode we cover a lot of ground, including:

• The transformative nature of having a personal shamanic practice
• Hank’s relationship with his friend and mentor, the Hawaiian elder Hale Makua and the process of writing the Bowl of Light
• Fans of Hank’s Spiritwalker Trilogy will be thrilled to learn that the communications with his descendent from 5000 years in the future have resumed and it seems another book is in the works. 
• Hank slips into new territory by giving some sound relationship advice. He describes the wonderful morning practice that he and his equally powerful wife, Jill Kuykendall, use to deepen their connection
• He talks about the damage Christianity has done to ancient cultures and languages
• And the contemporary practice of shamanism in the Western world
• And he tells the story of White Buffalo Woman as shared by the famous medicine man, Black Elk

Learn more about Hank Wesselman, PhD at sharedwisdom.com
Connect with Hank on Facebook 

Contact Lucid Cafe host, Wendy Halley

In this episode you get to follow me down the rabbit hole after a series of visionary experiences turned my world inside out. 

We begin with a little Shamanism 101 and then, because every practitioner is different, I talk about how my shamanic experiences have changed my perception of the nature of reality and my approach to shamanic healing – specifically, how shamanic healing can address unhealthy patterns playing out in your unconscious mind. 

We discuss the benefits of being in relationship with animal and nature spirits.

Marie asks me about the menu of services offered at my wellness center and we talk about the importance of meeting clients where they’re at. 

I talk about the incredible growth and healing that can happen as a result of becoming your own shaman. 

I also share how challenging it was for me to reconcile having a foot in 2 worlds – the rational world of the mental health clinician and the dreamtime world of the shamanic practitioner.

If you’re curious about the services offered at my wellness center:

Shamanism - in person and long-distance healing sessions
Energy Genesis - light and sound healing sessions

Or in becoming your own shaman: The Magical Path workbook

Contact Lucid Cafe host, Wendy Halley: Lucid Path Wellness