My Personal Healing Story

Prior to discovering plant medicine, shamanism, and detox therapy my life was compromised by unhealthy habits and patterns due to unhealed childhood trauma.  

At 25 years old I’d already hit rock bottom. I was severely depressed, without hope, and had constant thoughts of suicide. The intensity of these thoughts and emotions felt too much to bear. I used substances like food, tobacco, and alcohol to numb them. As a result, I was overweight, lethargic, and heavily addicted to smoking. 

Looking back I can see that my circumstances were largely the result of unresolved trauma and emotion.  The first 11 months of my life were spent isolated in a hospital incubator fighting a lung infection. Within hours of arriving home from the hospital, the room I was sleeping in caught fire, and my face and hand were badly burned. I underwent seven surgical procedures to fix my hand and three to heal my face. I also had my face dressed with bandages every day for three years to heal the skin. 

Growing up in wartime Lebanon was not without difficulty either.  Shelling and tank fire was an almost nightly occurrence. Even though we lived some distance from the conflict, my mother still insisted we sleep in an underground basement every night to keep us safe. [Read more]