Medicine With The Medals

What happens when trauma, medical wounding, and decades of psychedelic exploration converge into a life of healing and service?

In this deeply reflective episode of My Psychedelic Story, licensed clinical social worker Alan Romano shares his remarkable personal and professional journey from fear-based LSD use in the 90s to intentional entheogenic medicine work, addiction recovery, and psychedelic integration therapy.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why early psychedelic use under fear and prohibition can fragment identity, not heal it

• How MDMA unexpectedly revealed vulnerability and emotional connection

• The interplay of opioid dependence, Suboxone treatment, and long-term healing work

• What intentional entheogenic medicine (Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, ketamine) revealed about dependency, authenticity, and relational healing

• How integration goes beyond ceremony to relational, nervous system, and identity transformation

Episode Highlights:

• 00:00 – Alan introduces his professional and personal background, including PTSD specialization and early psychedelic experiences under prohibition fears.

• 02:30 – How fear-based set and setting shaped early LSD experiences and identity fragmentation.

• 05:45 – The MDMA experience that facilitated vulnerability, acceptance, and emotional connection.

• 08:20 – Childhood exposure to Camp Lejeune toxins, Restless Leg Syndrome, and ensuing opioid dependence from medically prescribed OxyContin.

• 11:15 – The transformative motorcycle accident and extended intentional LSD self-work.

• 14:02 – Mexico entheogenic retreat: Cambo for opioid withdrawal, Ibogaine flood dose, and profound release of physical and psychological suffering.

• 17:48 – Ayahuasca, Yopo integration, emotional revitalization, and the relational pull of community healing.

• 20:40 – Ketamine medicine work and professional integration training leading to clinical service roles.

Meet the Guest:

Alan Romano is a licensed clinical social worker and Academy-assisted psychotherapist who blends traditional trauma therapy with somatic and psychedelic-informed modalities. His lived experience spans personal addiction recovery, entheogenic medicine work (Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, Kambo, ketamine), and somatic integration pathways rooted in emotional and nervous system healing.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Set, Setting, and Informed Consent: foundational principles that distinguish intentional entheogenic work from recreational use.

• Somatic Integration: body-based healing to process trauma beyond cognition.

• Kambo Medicine: intense emotional and nervous system confrontation used to support opioid withdrawal and emotional purging.

• Ibogaine Treatment: medicine that stops physical withdrawal and facilitates deep psychological introspection.

• Ayahuasca+Yopo Ceremony: visionary work that reconnects emotion and relational depth.

• Ketamine Integration: clinical tool that supports emotional closure and neural regulation.

Closing Insight:

As Alan eloquently reflects, plant medicines are not a cure but a relational mirror that reveals our conditioned neural landscapes and invites transformational work:

“Healing is not about eliminating pain, it’s about altering our relationship to it.” His experience shows that true integration requires context, consent, nervous system regulation, and a community of support.

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What happens when consciousness expands so far that your identity has to rebuild itself from the ground up?

In this deeply personal episode of My Psychedelic Story, Stephanie shares how a powerful Golden Teacher mushroom experience reshaped her understanding of autism, ADHD, mental health systems, and reality itself. From corporate work and hospitalization to homelessness and service, her journey explores what it means to live in an ongoing psychedelic awareness while learning how to integrate it into everyday life.

What You’ll Learn:

• How a high dose psilocybin experience can dissolve identity and expand perception into source awareness

• The connection between neurodivergence, pattern recognition, and spiritual consciousness

• Why integration after psychedelics is essential for navigating relationships and institutions

• How mental health systems and legal structures shape identity and behavior

• The importance of boundaries when navigating unity consciousness and expanded states
  

Episode Highlights:

• 03:12 – The Golden Teacher mushroom journey that expanded awareness beyond personal identity

• 05:40 – When spiritual awakening exposes unhealthy relationship patterns

• 08:21 – Mental health hospitalization, jail, and seeing institutional systems from a new lens

• 11:07 – Early childhood awareness and questioning reality at four years old

• 14:36 – A nuclear war vision and choosing to tether love in the face of fear

• 17:52 – Autism, ADHD, and understanding nervous system regulation after psychedelics

• 19:10 – From the edge of homelessness to working in a shelter and redefining purpose

Meet the Guest:

Stephanie is a certified coach and aspiring life coach currently working in a homeless shelter. Her journey bridges neurodivergence, psilocybin experiences, institutional systems, and consciousness exploration. She shares her story as someone learning how to integrate expanded awareness into grounded service and responsible living.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Golden Teacher psilocybin mushrooms

• Integration after psychedelic experiences

• Nervous system regulation through awareness

• Sacred geometry and pattern recognition

• Quantum perception and multiverse exploration

• Conscious boundary development within unity awareness
  

Closing Insight:“Unity is beautiful, but the edges of who we are matter. Separation creates the diversity that makes life navigable.”

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What does it really mean to say yes to psychedelic healing?

In this powerful episode of My Psychedelic Story, therapist Micah Stover explores trauma-informed psychedelic therapy, somatic healing, and the ethical responsibility behind working with psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA, and cannabis. She shares why preparation and integration matter more than the peak experience, how consent must be conscious and informed, and why depth psychology and archetypal awareness are essential to lasting transformation.

This conversation matters for anyone exploring plant medicine, psychedelic integration, or trauma recovery. It offers a grounded framework for approaching expanded states of consciousness with reverence, discernment, and nervous system safety.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why psychedelic therapy requires preparation that focuses on surrender, not control

• How somatic healing and nervous system regulation support trauma integration

• What informed consent really means in psychedelic work

• The difference between a psychedelic experience and true integration

• How Jungian depth psychology and archetypes help make sense of symbolic, non-linear journeys
  

Episode Highlights:

• 03:12 – How Micah’s personal trauma shaped her path into somatic and psychedelic therapy

• 06:48 – Why “research is me-search” in the world of trauma healing

• 09:27 – The role of preparation and why surrender is more important than expectation

• 12:03 – “This is metaphysical heart surgery” and what that means for therapists and clients

• 15:41 – Why informed consent is often misunderstood in psychedelic spaces

• 18:22 – How art, poetry, and symbol become the language of medicine

• 20:15 – Bridging Western clinical models with indigenous healing traditions

Meet the Guest:

Micah Stover is a trauma-informed therapist specializing in somatic healing and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Trained in psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA, and cannabis work, she integrates Jungian depth psychology, archetypal frameworks, and intergenerational trauma awareness to guide clients through preparation, experience, and integration.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Somatic healing and nervous system regulation

• Trauma-informed psychedelic preparation and integration

• Depth psychology and Jungian archetypes

• Consent-centered therapeutic frameworks

• Symbol and metaphor as integration tools

• Healing Psychedelics methodology
  

Closing Insight

Psychedelics can open the door to profound healing, but the real transformation happens in how we prepare, how we surrender, and how we integrate.

If you are exploring psychedelic healing, trauma recovery, or conscious transformation, this episode offers clarity and grounded guidance for the path ahead.

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What happens when food as medicine becomes a doorway to ayahuasca ministry?

In this episode of My Psychedelic Story (12:37), Lauren Pounds shares her evolution from off-grid organic farming and gut health research to founding Seraphaya Spiritual Center, a trauma-informed ayahuasca church.

Her journey bridges plant-based nutrition, addiction recovery, psychedelic integration, and conscious leadership. This conversation explores how physical healing, nervous system regulation, and spiritual insight converge into embodied service.

What You’ll Learn:

• How gut health and plant-based nutrition can influence mental clarity and emotional regulation

• Why integration matters more than the ceremony itself in psychedelic healing

• What a trauma-informed ayahuasca container actually looks like

• How to responsibly bridge psychotherapy and plant medicine work

• Why embodiment and shadow integration are essential for ethical psychedelic facilitation
  

Episode Highlights:

• 01:05 – From off-grid farming to understanding food as medicine

• 02:40 – Discovering the gut-brain connection and mental health awareness

• 04:10 – Addiction recovery and researching ayahuasca as a healing modality

• 06:02 – First experience with ayahuasca at SoulQuest and long-term integration

• 08:15 – Founding Seraphia Spiritual Center after SoulQuest closed

• 09:40 – Designing a trauma-informed week-long ayahuasca retreat model

• 11:05 – Why mainstream conversations about plant medicine improve safety
  

Meet the Guest:

Lauren Pounds is the founder of Seraphaya Spiritual Center, a church serving ayahuasca as sacrament, and Yoga Plants Thoughts, an integration-based yoga coaching practice. With a background in plant-based nutrition, addiction recovery, and trauma-informed facilitation, Lauren bridges spiritual ceremony with psychological safety and embodied leadership.

Tools, Frameworks, and Approaches Mentioned:

• Food as Medicine and Gut-Brain Research

• Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Facilitation

• Week-Long Immersive Ayahuasca Retreat Model

• Yoga-Based Integration Practices

• Nervous System Regulation in Ceremony

• Shadow Work and Embodied Leadership
  

Closing Insight:

Lauren’s story reflects a modern evolution in the Plant Medicine Path: healing is not about escape. It is about integration. It is about safety. It is about embodying the work you facilitate.

If conversations about psychedelic spirituality, trauma-informed healing, and conscious leadership matter to you, subscribe for future insights and share this episode with someone exploring their own integration journey.

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What does it mean to walk between worlds as both healer and student?

In this powerful episode of My Psychedelic Story, Pat Miller, a massage therapist and sound healer, shares her decades-long journey through shamanic apprenticeship, energetic medicine, and the sacred art of guiding others through transformation.

From her early experiences in Andean cosmology to her deep work with ayahuasca and non-medicine shamanic practice, Pat reflects on how true healing begins with self-awareness and the courage to face the unseen.

What You’ll Learn:

• How the Andean medicine wheel can guide deep personal transformation and energetic release.

• The difference between shamanic journeying, ayahuasca work, and the integrative healing process.

• Why shadow work is central to emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

• What it truly means to serve as a curandero, pampa masayoc, or medicine guide—and how humility shapes that role.

• How energetic healing can complement and expand beyond the limits of modern psychology and medicine.
  

Episode Highlights:

• 00:00 – Pat’s journey into healing: massage, sound work, and the shamanic path

• 02:12 – Discovering the Andean cosmology and apprenticeship in the medicine wheel

• 04:10 – Lessons from serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, and condor, the energies of the four directions

• 06:18 – Integrating shamanic wisdom into everyday life and self-awareness

• 07:45 – Understanding shadow work, fear, and energetic transformation

• 09:00 – Becoming a guide: service, humility, and walking between worlds

Meet the Guest:

Pat Miller is a massage therapist, sound healer, and shamanic practitioner with nearly two decades of experience in Andean traditions and energy medicine. Her work bridges body-based healing with deep spiritual practice, helping others integrate physical, emotional, and energetic transformation through guided ceremony, sound, and intuitive awareness.
Tools, Frameworks, or Practices Mentioned

• Andean Medicine Wheel

• Ayahuasca and Curandero lineages

• Energetic Shadow Work

• Mesa Building and Ritual Practice

• Sound Healing and Drum Journeywork

Closing Insight

“Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken, it’s about remembering what’s whole.”

Pat reminds us that medicine work isn’t about escaping the human experience but expanding our ability to hold it with compassion. The true healer, she says, is both student and guide, one who walks beside others, shining light into the places we’ve forgotten to look.

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What happens when the medicine that saves your life also rewrites your understanding of it?

In this episode of My Psychedelic Story, Dr. Maria Clara Restrepo, a medical doctor and psychiatry nurse practitioner, shares her extraordinary journey through near-death, cancer, and the healing power of psychedelics. Diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer, Maria found herself at the threshold between life and death, only to rediscover healing through ayahuasca, psilocybin, and reconnection with the body’s innate intelligence.

What You’ll Learn:

• How psychedelics like ayahuasca and psilocybin catalyzed profound healing after years of medical treatment.

• Why integration is not just reflection, but an act of embodied intelligence.

• The connection between trauma, physical illness, and spiritual disconnection.

• How near-death and psychedelic experiences mirror one another in teaching surrender and peace.

• The role of neuroplasticity, community, and self-trust in sustainable healing.
  

Episode Highlights:

• 00:00 – Maria Clara’s medical background and the cancer diagnosis that changed everything.

• 02:45 – Life on the edge: surviving multiple surgeries and near-death experiences.

• 05:10 – Returning to Colombia and discovering ayahuasca as an unexpected healer.

• 07:40 – The ceremony that changed everything—and how her cancer vanished.

• 10:15 – Breaking free from opioid dependency through psilocybin therapy.

• 12:30 – The neuroscience of healing: how psychedelics rewire the brain through neuroplasticity.

• 14:40 – Redefining surrender, healing, and purpose through the body’s innate intelligence.

Meet the Guest:

Dr. Maria Clara Restrepo is a Colombian medical doctor and psychiatry nurse practitioner who integrates Western medicine with ancestral plant medicine wisdom. Her work bridges palliative care, trauma healing, and psychedelic therapy, with a mission to help others reconnect to the source of healing within.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Ayahuasca and psilocybin-assisted therapy for chronic illness and trauma recovery.

• Somatic awareness and “energetic intelligence” as core healing mechanisms.

• Neuroplasticity as the scientific foundation for emotional transformation.

• Integration practices including silence, prayer, breathwork, and conscious movement.
  

Closing Insight:

“Healing is not about becoming light, it’s about becoming whole.”

Maria’s story is a reminder that the body is not an obstacle to healing, it is the instrument of it. When science meets spirit, medicine becomes memory, and life becomes sacred again.

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What if the secret to healing isn’t just physical, but deeply spiritual?

In this deeply reflective episode of Medicine With The Medals, Anthony Palacin shares his extraordinary journey of recovery, spiritual awakening, and rediscovery of purpose after years of battling chronic pain and inner conflict.

His story unfolds through the lens of plant medicine, breathwork, and emotional healing, revealing how surrender, faith, and self-awareness can transform even the darkest moments into pathways of light.

What You’ll Learn:

• How unresolved pain and emotional repression manifest as physical illness

• The role of plant medicine and breathwork in rewiring the nervous system

• What it means to surrender control and allow true healing to happen

• How self-compassion and vulnerability become keys to inner freedom

• Why Anthony believes that “healing isn’t becoming someone new, it’s remembering who you are”

Episode Highlights:

• 00:00 – Anthony’s early life and the roots of pain and disconnection

• 04:27 – The turning point: discovering the spiritual nature of suffering

• 09:52 – Breathwork and plant medicine as pathways to deep release

• 14:18 – The power of community and connection in the healing process

• 18:40 – Facing fear and surrendering to self-forgiveness

• 24:55 – Reintegrating spiritual lessons into everyday life

• 28:10 – Anthony’s reflections on purpose, balance, and divine guidance

Meet the Guest:

Anthony Palacin is a transformation guide and holistic healing practitioner who blends spirituality, mindfulness, and somatic practices to help others heal from trauma and reclaim their inner truth. His work focuses on bridging the physical, emotional, and energetic aspects of healing through presence and awareness.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Breathwork for emotional release and nervous system regulation

• Somatic embodiment practices for trauma healing

• Plant medicine as a tool for spiritual integration

Closing Insight:

“Healing is not about fixing what’s wrong, it’s about remembering that nothing essential was ever broken.”

Anthony’s journey is a powerful reminder that healing doesn’t happen in a straight line. It’s a spiral of remembering, forgiving, and returning to love.

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What happens when chronic illness becomes a teacher instead of a life sentence?

In this powerful episode of Medicine With The Medals, herbalist and functional medicine advocate Teri Olson shares her story of transformation, from battling multiple autoimmune conditions and cancer to reclaiming health, identity, and purpose through holistic medicine, psychedelics, and integration.

Her journey reminds us that healing isn’t linear. It’s an ongoing relationship between the body, the mind, and the earth itself.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Teri reversed years of chronic illness through functional medicine and holistic living

• The role of psychedelic therapy and integration in emotional and spiritual recovery

• What “ego dissolution” really means, and how it can reset your relationship with self

• How to rebuild trust in your body and relationships through love, patience, and self-empathy

• Why regenerative farming and earth-based medicine are key to long-term wellness
  

Episode Highlights:

• 00:00 – Teri’s early life in medicine and the shock of a life-altering diagnosis

• 03:45 – When conventional medicine fails: discovering functional healing

• 06:30 – The breaking point: depression, surrender, and the call to plant medicine

• 09:15 – Facing fear and finding self-love through psilocybin

• 12:20 – Understanding integration: the process of becoming whole again

• 15:00 – Healing partnerships through MDMA-assisted therapy

• 17:40 – Reclaiming femininity and redefining identity

• 19:55 – Building Ether & Herb Farm: reconnecting healing with the land

Meet the Guest:Teri Olson is a clinical herbalist, regenerative farmer, and functional medicine practitioner. After surviving more than a decade of chronic illness, she founded Ether & Herb Farm, where she helps others reconnect to nature’s intelligence through plant-based medicine, sustainable agriculture, and self-empowered healing practices.Tools, Frameworks, and Concepts Mentioned:

• Functional Medicine & Peptide Therapy

• Psychedelic Integration Practices

• MDMA-Assisted Couples Therapy

• Regenerative Farming & Herbalism

• Somatic Healing and Embodied Awareness

Closing Insight:

“The medicine just kicks open the door. The rest of it, the integration, the becoming, that’s all you.”

Healing, Teri reminds us, is not about fixing what’s broken but remembering what’s still alive within us.

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What if your deepest pain was the key to your greatest healing?

In this transformative episode of Medicine With The Medals, grief coach and psychedelic guide Alix Kirshner shares how loss, addiction, and illness became the catalysts for her awakening,  and how she now helps others move through soul transitions with courage, compassion, and ceremony.

What You’ll Learn:

• How grief can emerge from any major life transition, not just death.

• Why resisting pain deepens suffering, and how to move through it instead.

• The role of psychedelics like psilocybin, ketamine, and cannabis in emotional healing and spiritual awakening.

• What “soul transition coaching” means and how it helps people honor endings and new beginnings.

• The neuroscience of healing, how psychedelics create neuroplasticity that supports lasting emotional transformation.
  

Episode Highlights:

• 02:18 – Alix’s journey from personal tragedy to purpose as a psychedelic guide.

• 06:43 – How grief shows up in everyday transitions, even joyful ones.

• 09:21 – The spiritual and physical connection between suppressed emotions and illness.

• 13:08 – Alix’s first psilocybin experience during chemotherapy, and the moment that changed everything.

• 16:52 – What it means to develop a loving relationship with yourself through shadow work.

• 18:35 – Inside the practice of psychedelic integration and self-compassion.

• 20:40 – The lesson every healing journey leads to: trusting the medicine within.

Meet the Guest:

Alix Kirshner is a certified psychedelic guide, grief and soul transition coach, and founder of Higher Healing, where she supports clients through transformational experiences with psilocybin, ketamine, and cannabis. Her work bridges spiritual growth, trauma integration, and neuroscience-backed healing.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Psychedelic integration and somatic embodiment

• The “As Above, So Below” healing principle

• Neuroplasticity and emotional reprogramming

• Self-love and self-forgiveness practices
  

Closing Insight:

“The medicine is just a tool, the real healing is remembering that the medicine already lives within you.”

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What happens when modern medicine runs out of answers?

In this transformative episode of Medicine With The Medals, Emily “Lovey” Johnson shares how her journey through chronic illness, surgeries, and pharmaceuticals led her to rediscover healing through Kambo and plant medicine.

From pain and prescription dependency to purpose and self-awareness, Lovey’s story shows what can happen when you reconnect with nature, intuition, and the body’s innate intelligence.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Emily found lasting relief from chronic pain and depression through Kambo medicine

• The science, ceremony, and safety behind the Kambo experience

• Why trauma lives in the body, and how plant medicine helps release it

• The role of faith and spirituality in holistic healing

• How veterans and practitioners are bridging science, service, and ceremony through the Grunt Style Foundation and Tribal Detox
  

Episode Highlights:

• 00:00 – Facing medical burnout and the turning point toward natural healing

• 02:14 – Discovering Kambo and the life-changing first session

• 04:06 – Breaking free from pharmaceuticals and emotional weight

• 06:10 – Understanding trauma stored in the body and finding spiritual clarity

• 08:32 – Inside the Kambo ceremony: process, safety, and sensations

• 10:44 – Lessons learned and guidance for those exploring plant medicine
  

Meet the Guest:

Emily “Lovey” Johnson is a certified Kambo practitioner, holistic educator, and teacher with Tribal Detox. She works with both civilians and veterans to bring safe, heart-centered access to natural medicine. Through her platform Loving Kambo, she advocates for trauma-informed healing, spiritual integration, and faith-based connection to nature’s medicines.

Tools, Frameworks, and Modalities Mentioned:

• Kambo Medicine – A frog secretion used in Amazonian cleansing rituals

• Stamets Stack Protocol – Microdosing approach combining psilocybin, lion’s mane, and niacin

• Tribal Detox – Practitioner training in Kambo safety and ceremony

• Grunt Style Foundation – Veteran organization promoting alternative healing modalities
  

Closing Insight:

“Don’t be afraid to step out of the box, you don’t know until you know.”

Lovey’s story reminds us that healing isn’t rebellion, it’s remembrance. The medicine doesn’t just cleanse the body; it clears the path back to spirit, courage, and community.

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