The Recovery Concierge

I was honoured to be a guest on the Conversations with Iris podcast.

We talked about shame. Not the surface level kind, but the intergenerational kind that quietly convinces you that you're inherently flawed before you even have language to question it.

We talked about why relapse isn't failure, it's a reoccurrence. And why the body holds onto trauma long after the mind thinks it's moved on.

But the thing that landed hardest?

Guilt is when you've done something wrong.
Shame is when you believe you are wrong.

You were never wrong. You were just human without the right tools.

🎧 Listen to Conversations with Iris, Episode 95 at the link:
https://loom.ly/UhUej5U

Ep. 95- Jeanne Foot, Founder and CEO of The Recovery Concierge Podcast Episode · Conversations With Iris Podcast · May 15 · 38m

Most people hear "ayahuasca" and think one of two things.

A shortcut to healing. Or a red flag 🚩

It's neither.

In this episode of Naturally High, I sit down with Daniela Tilbrook, author of Not My Shame, for one of the most honest conversations I've had about plant medicine, trauma, and what healing looks like when you stop running from yourself.

Because here's what Daniela's experience revealed:

Ayahuasca isn't about escaping.
It's about remembering.
Who you were before the shame took hold. Before the trauma rewired everything. Before you learned to make yourself small just to survive.

We also get into forgiveness, and the uncomfortable truth that compassion can emerge even toward the people who caused the most harm. Not for them. For you.

This isn't a conversation about silver bullets. It's about the real, unglamorous work of integration that follows any breakthrough.

🎧 Listen to Daniela Tilbrook on Ayahuasca & Remembering Who You Are here:

Apple: https://loom.ly/wjAJQBs
Amazon: https://loom.ly/bumLFZ0
Spotify: https://loom.ly/x9IwJPg

📕 Not My Shame: https://loom.ly/1lRG02A

At 14, doctors told Nick Prefontaine he would never walk, talk, or eat on his own again.

He ran out of the hospital.
Not metaphorically. Literally ran.

But this episode of Naturally High isn't really about the physical recovery. It's about what has to happen in your mind before your body or your life can follow.

Because here's what Nick's story actually teaches: the evidence doesn't have to exist yet. The belief has to come first.
Most of us are waiting for proof before we commit to the vision. Nick built the vision before he had any proof at all. And that gap between what the doctors said and what he decided to believe is where everything changed.

Whether you're recovering from a traumatic accident, a lost decade, or a version of yourself you're trying to leave behind, this conversation is going to hit differently.

Your limitations are not the final word.

🎧 Listen to From Trauma to Triumph: Rewriting Your Story with Nick Prefontaine here:

Apple: https://loom.ly/wjAJQBs
Amazon: https://loom.ly/bumLFZ0
Spotify: https://loom.ly/x9IwJPg