Hi, I’m danieL.
Greetings and welcome! I’m Dan. I believe in the power of healing because I have firsthand walked the path from sickness and despair to health and wellbeing. I want to see a world where everyone is happy and well, where we all live in balance and harmony with nature and each other, and where all beings can prosper. Read more about my healing journey below and please reach out if you are moved. Thank you again for being here. Blessings—be well, be safe, be happy.
As a child, I was very sensitive and shy, and my development was hindered by stress and inherited trauma. The identity I formed during my developmental years was broken. I suffered severe anxiety and panic attacks, miserable self-esteem and self-hatred, and intense anger. If you saw the prequel Star Wars movies, I was Anakin as he was turning to the dark side—cruel, tormented, and deeply ashamed of myself.
I also bought hook, line, and sinker into my culture’s value system, deciding early that a career as a stockbroker on Wall Street would be the wisest path for happiness. But during my first year of college as an Economics major, I ate psilocybin mushrooms. Six months later I was a devout yogi, living like a Buddhist monk as I navigated my early stage of spiritual awakening.
Through my undergraduate and graduate years, my health began deteriorating despite my dedicated yogic path. This path, in bringing to light my immense amount of inner psychic/emotional gunk, may have accelerated my path of total breakdown. My gut health was zilch—I couldn’t process anything, but yet I was so psychologically damaged that I couldn’t stop overeating—especially sweets—and way overdoing coffee (which my stomach really couldn’t handle).
My teeth started breaking and my gut and digestive tract likely suffered from IBS, Chron’s Disease, Colitis, candida, parasites, and other autoimmune conditions running rampant today. Every day my body was rife with inflammation and despair. I couldn’t rise from bed without wincing in pain. I was exhausted, foggy-headed, and irritable, insufferable to be around. I was 25 years old, but my body was failing. I was on a path of disease but I couldn’t stop the addictive consumption habits.
And then things got bad. While living alone as a remote working freelance writer, and trying every restrictive diet to heal whatever was wrong with me, I lost control. I started a radical free-eating diet of trusting my cravings. I binge ate myself to a serious groin hernia—I literally ate so much that my guts were popping out of my body.
At this point, even after years of wanting to commit suicide through the suffering, I was still a serious yogi and I had expanded my knowledge to many other paths of healing and spirituality, such as Sanskrit mantra, Joe Dispenza’s path of manifestation, and shamanism. Through my idealist naivete, I thought I could spiritually heal my hernia without surgery. I believed the hernia was a symptom of an underlying spiritual misalignment (I wasn’t wrong about that), and that I could resolve it through the power of healing and manifestation (that’s where I was wrong).
I began a global healing journey as a digital nomad, traveling to Southeast Asia, Europe, and South America over the course of two years. On this trip, I was initiated into the path of Ayahuasca and Kambo. Through my six-year spiritual journey with these (and other) medicines, my body, mind, and spirit were restored. I have healed the underlying despair and broken sense of self. It is truly a miracle that I am even alive at all, let alone healthy, well, and on a path of growth. I owe my life to these high shamanic medicines. I bow deeply to their altar.
Indeed, today I enjoy a status quo sense of calm and ease, comfort in the world and with others, positive self-esteem, motivation for creativity and work, excitement for the future, and overall a sense of balance and happiness. I have learned that healing is a choice: If I want to be well, I must choose habits and paths of healing to support my body, mind, and soul.
If I can heal and thrive, you can too. Please schedule a free consult call with me if you feel called.