What does it mean to work with plant medicines as actual medicine - not spiritual bypassing, not escape, but deep healing work? In this episode, I sit down with medicine woman Haley Lamberth to talk about Iboga, Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, and Kambo - powerful medicines used for addiction recovery, trauma healing, and profound transformation.
Haley shares how her path as an endurance athlete prepared her for the physical and spiritual ordeal of ceremony, why she's drawn to medicines that \"hit like a truck,\" and what it looks like to hold space with reverence for lineage, earth, and ancestors. We explore the masculine and feminine qualities of different medicines - Ibogaine's unbending sternness versus Ayahuasca's nurturing presence - and why honoring both energies matters in healing work.
This conversation gets real about the discomfort of transformation, the importance of sustainability in medicine work, and how childhood connections to rocks and trees can become a lifelong path of communion with the sacred. Drawing from her mixed heritage including Ojibwa roots, Haley speaks about why honoring the earth isn't just practice for her - it's obvious, foundational.
If you've ever been curious about plant medicine or wondered how the divine feminine and masculine show up in ceremony, this episode is for you.
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