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What happens when you've tried everything... and nothing works?

In this powerful episode, we sit down with medicine woman and facilitator Sterling Zayas to explore one of the most remarkable healing journeys we've heard.

From severe childhood health complications and multiple blood transfusions to a full hysterectomy in her early twenties, years of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and psychiatric medications, Sterling reached a point where she and her family had exhausted every conventional option.

Then something unexpected happened.

Plant medicine entered her life.

What followed wasn't simply symptom relief. It was a complete transformation of how she understood herself, healing, spirituality, and her purpose in this world.

Sterling shares her deeply personal experiences with psilocybin, MDMA, Kambo, and Bufo, along with the lessons each medicine revealed and how they ultimately led her to become a facilitator herself.

This is a conversation about courage, surrender, faith, and discovering that healing often begins where certainty ends.

In this episode we discuss:

• Sterling's lifelong struggle with chronic illness and mental health
• Living through anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts
• Undergoing a full hysterectomy in her early twenties
• Her experience with psychiatric medications and why they ultimately failed her
• The difficult process of coming off antidepressants and benzodiazepines
• Why her parents chose to experience plant medicine before encouraging her to participate
• Sterling's first psilocybin ceremony and the experience that changed her life
• Spiritual awakening, healing, and finding purpose
• The importance of integration after transformational experiences
• Working with MDMA and psilocybin for trauma and emotional healing
• Discovering Kambo and learning to trust the body's innate ability to heal
• Training with Tribal Detox to become a Kambo practitioner
• Her journey into Bufo and what the medicine taught her about God, love, and consciousness
• What it truly means to walk the path of a medicine woman
• Why healing is ultimately a choice to meet the greatest version of yourself

This episode is a reminder that healing isn't reserved for a lucky few.

Sometimes the greatest transformation begins the moment we decide we're no longer willing to stay where we are.

Mentioned in this episode

• Psilocybin
• MDMA
• Kambo
• Bufo (5-MeO-DMT)
• Integration
• Plant medicine
• Spiritual awakening
• Trauma healing
• Mental health
• Tribal Detox

Connect with Sterling Zayas

🌐 Website: https://www.theheavenlypriestess.com

📱 Instagram: @theheavenlypriestess

If Sterling's story resonated with you and you'd like to learn more about her work, you can connect with her through her website or Instagram.

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