I started on my journey towards the healing arts over a decade ago as a process to begin my own healing. I had suffered from depression for decades and western medicine modalities just weren't working for me. I found that cognitive behavioral therapy and medication simply put a temporary band aid on; and eventually the band aid would fall off and the wound would be aggravated again, and sometimes even infected. I had to get to the bottom of what was causing this emotional wound if it was ever going to stop recurring.

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So as I sat awake unable to sleep, I binge watched a show on the Amazon (The River on ABC if any of you remember it), and my soul just knew I had to go to the Peruvian Amazon. And I booked a trip right then. And so my journey began. ​