Miriam Zerio Miriam Zerio

Ayahuasca: The Medicine That Gives You What You Need

That's what the medicine does.

It doesn't give you the answers you're looking for. It shows you how to find your own answers. And often, finding your own answers means stepping straight into the shadows you've been avoiding your whole life.

THE SHADOWS ARE WHERE THE MEDICINE LIVES

When people come to plant medicine, they're often looking for something: healing, answers, clarity, peace, connection, enlightenment. And the medicine will give you all of that—but not in the way you expect.

Mother Ayahuasca doesn't hand you a neat package of answers. She shows you the door to the basement you've been avoiding. She says, "Go down there. Look around. Get comfortable in the uncomfortable. See what you've been hiding from yourself."

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Miriam Zerio Miriam Zerio

When the Wound Returns: Understanding the Spiral of Healing

There it is again. That feeling I thought I was over.

The sadness, the rage and anger, the confusion, the doubt. I thought I moved through those. I thought I figured that out. Why is it showing itself again?

I don't want to feel that, so I change the topic in my head. I focus on something else, something happening today. Coffee sounds nice, what's for breakfast…

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