Benjamin Forest, a retired military officer turned psychedelic coach and author, shares how 25 years of military service left him emotionally shut down, and how psychedelics helped him rediscover his capacity to feel and love authentically.

Five months after his intensive at Enfold, Benjamin reflects on his journey from military life through psychedelic healing. After a mental breakdown ended his military career, followed by psychiatric hospitalization and years of unsuccessful treatments, a transformative psilocybin experience opened his heart and changed everything. Having explored various medicines since then, he came to Enfold purely out of curiosity about 5-MeO-DMT. What he discovered was unexpected: intense physical release, nervous system recalibration, and the revelation that his romantic love had been coming from a wounded, defensive place.

This conversation explores how a lifetime of masculine conditioning created "emotional constipation", and how learning to love vulnerably became the real integration work.

In This Episode:

1. How military service and masculine conditioning taught him to lock down all emotions

2. The mental breakdown and psychiatric hospitalization that catalyzed his healing journey

3. How the heart medicine ceremony revealed what he actually needed to work on

4. The intense physical purging and energetic release during his ceremonies

5. The 48-hour deep rest that followed as his nervous system finally downregulated

6. The new practice of responding to hurt with vulnerability instead of retaliation

🔍 For anyone who's built their life around strength and control, Benjamin's story shows how true courage lies in learning to feel, express hurt honestly, and love without armour.

🗣️ "One of the biggest practices of integrating around this lesson of love is learning how to react to hurt. If I can react to hurt from a place of love... life just got a whole lot easier and a lot more honest." — Benjamin

📚 Get Benjamin's Book: Benjamin's new book Trip of a Lifetime: The Psychedelic Path to Healing, Loving, and Living features his Enfold experience in Chapter 10. This self-help guide walks readers through preparation, navigation, and integration of psychedelic experiences in an accessible, practical format. Available September 2025 at benjaminforest.com

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey? Learn more about our programs at: ⁠https://enfold.org

Jaclyn, a small business owner from British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, shares how childhood trauma was still affecting her adult life and relationships, and how the Enfold process helped her reclaim safety, trust, and her authentic voice.

Nearly a year after her experience at Enfold, Jaclyn describes what led her to seek this medicine: fractured sleep, reactivated nervous system triggers, and a deep distrust of masculine energy that was impacting both her professional and personal life. Despite years of traditional therapeutic work, she knew she was still "circling around core wounds" and felt called to something deeper. What unfolds is a story of transformation — from the moment she felt the medicine calling, to the moments at Enfold that helped her reclaim her voice.

This conversation touches the heart of what it means to heal not just personal trauma, but generational patterns that live in our bodies.

In This Episode:

1. Why years of traditional therapy still left Jaclyn feeling stuck around core wounds

2. The pivotal conversation that led to her immediate "yes" to this experience

3. How the group dynamic and witnessing others' healing became part of her own transformation

4. The full release ceremony where she "birthed herself back to herself"

5. That unforgettable integration moment in the ice bath and what it unlocked

6. How her relationship with masculine energy completely shifted after the experience

🔍 For anyone who has done "the work" but still feels something calling them deeper, Jaclyn's story illuminates how some healing requires going beyond the mind to access what the body holds.

🗣️ "Your joy is on the other side of what you may have been avoiding... It's not a trip. It's a soul reckoning." — Jaclyn

A leadership coach and facilitator from Montreal, MJ returns to the podcast for a deep conversation about trust, ego, surrender, and what it means to stay in the work even when the path is unclear.

In this second conversation with MJ, she reflects on the two journeys she’s had with Enfold — and the powerful before-and-after that shaped both. From her solo cross-country pilgrimage to the spiritual breakthroughs and ego whiplash that followed, MJ shares with rare honesty what it means to navigate an expanded state and still meet the demands of everyday life.

This is a conversation about letting go, staying with the unknown, and learning to hold paradox with grace.

In This Episode:

1. The deep knowing that brought MJ back a second time

2. Her encounter with “the resistance” — and how it shaped her ceremony

3. The moment she realized, “I don’t need to know anything”

4. Why integration was more challenging the second time — and more beautiful

📍MJ’s path reflects the sacred tension many in our community hold: reaching for the infinite while still walking the human path. If you’ve ever felt undone by the very healing you asked for, or unsure how to keep going — this one may offer a mirror.

🕊️ “I think I died. I was my soul. And that’s a big f***ing deal.” — MJ

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs. Ready to embark on your own transformational journey?

Learn more about our programs at: ⁠https://enfold.org

Tiffany had built a successful career in commercial real estate and was living in beautiful Vancouver with her partner of 14 years. But beneath the surface, something wasn’t sitting right.

She was looping in painful relationship dynamics, waking in the middle of the night, and feeling stuck in stories that kept her in a cycle of suffering. When a last-minute spot opened at Enfold, she said yes — not knowing it would be the start of a complete nervous system reset.

In this episode, Tiffany shares the full arc of her experience: from the fears she held about group work, to the deep emotional release during ceremony, and the six weeks of physical and energetic reactivations that followed. Her story is one of courage, embodiment, and learning how to trust herself again — not through the mind, but through the body.

Whether you’re navigating anxiety, wrestling with relational patterns, or longing for a felt connection to yourself, Tiffany’s experience is a vivid reminder: you are not too much, and you’re not alone.

In This Episode:

1. Releasing old stories and reclaiming presence

2. The sacred unraveling of her full release ceremony

3. Learning to trust her nervous system as a guide

4. Learning to lead with love, and the rest will follow

📍Tiffany’s story reflects the truth for many in our community: high-functioning, sensitive women living from their minds — ready to come home to their bodies. If you’re in that space, this one’s for you.

🕊️ “It was like oxygen I didn’t know I needed — just to be fully seen.” — Tiffany

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs. Ready to embark on your own transformational journey?

Learn more about our programs at: ⁠https://enfold.org

What happens when both people in a partnership choose healing — not just for themselves, but for each other?

Jen and Ryan are married entrepreneurs raising two young boys and running a busy business in the Okanagan. On the outside, life looked good. But underneath, they were both navigating burnout, disconnection, unspoken stories, and years of overwhelm. First Jen came to Enfold, then months later, Ryan followed. What unfolded between — and after — is one of the most intimate, transformative couple journeys we’ve ever witnessed.

This conversation is about choosing change even when it’s hard, and about what becomes possible when both people in a partnership feel safe enough to be fully seen.

Whether you're in a relationship or walking your own path, Jen and Ryan’s story is a deeply human reminder: the work we do inside ourselves shapes how we show up for everything we love.

In This Episode:

1. What healing looked like — separately, then together

2. Parenting while navigating personal transformation

3. The return of fun, safety, and shared practices

4. Releasing old identities, and how that changed everything

📍Jen & Ryan’s story reflects so many in our community: couples in long-term love, quietly craving more ease, more depth, and more truth. If you’re in it, this episode may offer you a mirror.

🕊️ “We see each other more as humans who just want to be loved.” — Jen

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey? Learn more about our programs at: ⁠https://enfold.org

If you’re a parent, a creative, or someone navigating unexpected terrain in midlife — this one might land close to home. James is a 44-year-old architect, father of two, and artist living in Brooklyn, New York.

In this conversation, James opens up about the challenges that led him to seek deeper support — including the slow onset of a neurological condition, waves of anxiety and depression, and a quiet longing for more presence in his life. What unfolds is a story of courage, surrender, and the return to joy. His journey touches on meditation, fatherhood, art, and the experience he had with us at Enfold — an experience that helped bring him back into contact with a part of himself he thought was lost.

Whether you're someone who has “tried everything” or you simply feel far from your own sense of aliveness, James’ story is a reminder: healing is possible. And you don’t have to do it alone.

In This Episode:

1. The moment James knew something had to change

2. His relationship with fear, faith, and finding a new kind of freedom

3. Why creativity and presence became his compass

4. A glimpse into his experience with the medicine, and the integration that followed

📍James’ story mirrors the lives of many in our community: midlife professionals with big hearts and quiet struggles, seeking a deeper connection to themselves and their path. If that sounds like you, this episode may offer a resonant thread.

🕊️ “I felt a huge sense of relief... and hope in my life again.” — James

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey? Learn more about our programs at: ⁠https://enfold.org

What happens when your world feels like Groundhog Day?

In this episode, Devin — a husband, leader, and high-functioning achiever — shares his journey from emotional numbness, alcohol patterns, and resistance to clarity, connection, and self-trust.

After witnessing his wife’s transformation through Enfold, Devin knew there was something powerful waiting for him too. But fear, avoidance, and identity in work kept him circling the edges. Three years later, everything aligned and Devin knew it was the right timing.

What followed was a homecoming through medicine, an unexpected bond with a group of men walking similar paths, and a newfound capacity to sit with whatever life brings and observe it — instead of being consumed by it.

Devin’s story is for anyone who feels stuck and spiritually restless — quietly wondering if there’s more to life than just making it through.

In This Episode, We Explore:

1. Why Devin resisted the call to healing — and what finally opened him to the journey

2. How workaholism and alcohol masked deeper wounds

3. What made the all-men’s cohort feel safe, relatable, and profoundly healing

4. The power of group healing for men navigating shame, addiction, and identity

5. What shifted in Devin’s sense of purpose, presence, and connection

6. How the Enfold experience continues to unfold months later — through brotherhood, integration, and inner peace

💬 Favorite Quote:

“You can't control the waves — only ride them. I'm becoming quite the surfer.”

🌿 Feeling the call?

If you’ve tried everything — therapy, sobriety, psychedelics — and still feel stuck, you’re not alone.

Enfold offers a safe, sacred, and scientifically grounded space to awaken the truth already within.

📞 Book a free discovery call: https://enfold.org/contact/

✨ Learn more about our Awakening to Life Intensive: https://enfold.org/awakening

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey? Learn more about our programs at: ⁠https://enfold.org

What happens when the outside world can’t fix what’s aching inside?

In this episode, Pam — a midlife professional with a “wonderful life” — shares her awakening journey from high-functioning discomfort to embodied presence.

After years of success, productivity, and emotional self-reliance, Pam began to sense something was off. It wasn’t burnout. It wasn’t crisis. It was a quiet but persistent dis-ease. A cousin’s powerful transformation with 5-MeO-DMT sparked her curiosity, and a series of heart-opening medicines slowly helped her loosen the grip of control and allow herself to feel.

What followed was a deep unraveling of old patterns, a discovery of inner safety, and a shift from external validation to internal regulation.

Pam’s story is an invitation for anyone who’s spent their life doing it all “right” — and still feels like something’s missing.

In This Episode, We Explore:

1. Pam’s journey from heart openers to psychedelics — and why she needed to start slow

2. How perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-functioning masked her deeper wounds

3. What happened when she experienced “being” for the first time in her life

4. The moment she realized her nervous system had been outsourcing safety for decades

5. Why slow, supported healing allowed her to meet herself with compassion

6. How the Enfold experience helped her come home to the truth already within

💬 Favorite Quote:

“I had always been praised for being a doer, a thinker, a performer. But it turns out... being isn’t lazy. It’s sacred.”

🌿 Feeling the call?

If you've been successful on the outside but disconnected on the inside — you're not alone.

Enfold offers a safe, sacred, and scientifically grounded space to reconnect with your truth.

📞 Book a free discovery call: https://enfold.org/contact/

✨ Learn more about our Awakening to Life Intensive: https://enfold.org/awakening

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey? Learn more about our programs at: https://enfold.org

In this powerful conversation, past Awakening to Life guest Alanna shares her journey from psychedelic neuroscience researcher to spiritual seeker — and the transformation that unfolded when she finally followed the quiet call within.

Alanna had studied the mechanisms of psilocybin in the lab. But it wasn’t research that brought her to Enfold — it was intuition. After years of being “functional but not fulfilled,” a perfectly timed conversation and a sense of inner readiness aligned. What followed was a full-body release, a reconnection to self, and a knowing that “this will benefit me for the rest of my life.”

This episode is for anyone trying to think their way into healing — and ready to feel instead.

In This Episode, We Explore:

1. Why Alanna — a trained psychedelic scientist — chose to experience 5-MeO-DMT

2. The tension between logic and intuition, and how she learned to trust the latter

3. Her perspective on neurogenesis, trauma, and psychedelic healing

4. What it felt like to let go of years of suppressed emotion

5. How the integration journey continues to unfold months later

6. Why even researchers need to be held, guided, and reminded they are safe

💬 Favorite Quote:

“It feels like I got rid of so much I’d been holding — and it’s benefited every aspect of my life.”

🌿 Feeling the call?

If you’ve tried everything — therapy, coaching, even psychedelics — and still feel like something’s missing, you’re not alone. Enfold offers a sacred space to awaken to the truth of who you are.

📞 Book a free discovery call: https://enfold.org/contact/

✨ Learn more about Awakening to Life: https://enfold.org/awakening

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey?

Learn more about our programs at: https://enfold.org

What happens when you stop postponing your healing?

In this powerful conversation, past Awakening to Life guest Jen shares the deeply personal journey that brought her to Enfold — and the life-altering transformation that followed. As a mother, business owner, and caregiver to loved ones in decline, Jen had every reason to wait. But a simple piece of advice changed everything: “You might not want to wait.”

Jen opens up about the grief she was carrying, the fear of wanting more, and the internal voice that kept whispering “I don’t have time.” What she discovered through the Enfold process wasn’t just safety — but a reconnection to her feminine essence, a radical softening, and a knowing that everything she was seeking was already within her.

This episode is for anyone who feels like they’re holding it all together on the outside… but secretly wondering, “What about me?”

🪞 In This Episode, We Explore:

1. What held Jen back from saying yes to her healing

2. Navigating anticipatory grief and the pressure to “hold it all”

3. The moment she realized she didn’t want to be afraid anymore

4. Letting go of masculine conditioning and stepping into the feminine

5. Integration insights: How the experience continues to ripple through her life

6. Why the time is never going to feel perfect — and why now is enough

💬 Favorite Quote:

“I don’t wanna be so f***ing afraid anymore.”

🧘‍♀️ Feeling the call?

If you’re craving more out of life — more presence, more peace, more truth — explore whether Enfold is the right next step on your journey.

📞 Book a free discovery call: https://enfold.org/contact/

🌿 Learn more about Awakening to Life: https://enfold.org/awakening

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Enfold offers safe and sacred transformational experiences combining psychedelic medicines, breathwork, coaching, and somatic modalities, with a grounding in Buddhist philosophy. We come together as a community to support one another on the path of transformation with events, circles, and ongoing programs.

Ready to embark on your own transformational journey?

Learn more about our programs at: https://enfold.org