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Can your darkest chapter become the very thing that leads you to your life's purpose?

In Part 2 of Kelly's story, we pick up after her recovery from opioid addiction through Ibogaine and follow the path that eventually led to Tribal Detox, Kambo, Bufo, and the work she does today.

This conversation explores what happens after healing begins. Recovery isn't the end of the journey. It's often where the real journey starts.

Kelly shares what it was like rebuilding her life, rediscovering herself, falling in love, helping build Tribal Detox from the ground up, and eventually finding her calling as a Bufo facilitator.

We also dive into how years of serving hundreds of people challenged many of the assumptions surrounding Bufo and ultimately led us to develop a more therapeutic, integration-focused approach to working with the medicine.

In this episode we discuss:

• Life after Ibogaine and addiction recovery
• Returning home and rebuilding a new identity
• Discovering mushrooms and the wider world of plant medicines
• Meeting Jason and the beginning of their relationship
• Building Tribal Detox from the ground up
• Living in Austin while growing a Kambo practice
• Starting the Tribal Detox Kambo Practitioner School
• Building a life around purpose instead of chasing success
• Life on the road during the pandemic
• How Bufo unexpectedly entered Kelly's life
• Training as a Bufo facilitator
• The challenges and responsibility of serving Bufo
• Why not everyone benefits from a full "blast off" experience
• The evolution of a therapeutic approach to Bufo
• Why integration matters just as much as the ceremony itself

This episode is about trusting your path, even when it looks nothing like the one you originally planned.

Sometimes the greatest transformations don't happen because life goes according to plan.

They happen because life completely falls apart and gives you the opportunity to rebuild it with greater purpose.

Mentioned in this episode

• Kambo
• Bufo (5-MeO-DMT)
• Ibogaine
• Psilocybin mushrooms
• Integration
• Tribal Detox
• Church of the Amphibian Arts

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