The Hardest Addiction to Quit

When people talk about addiction, the conversation almost always turns to substances. Alcohol, heroin, cocaine, nicotine — the things that clearly hijack the body and…

On Choosing an Ibogaine Provider by Anders Beatty

I’m formally trained as an integrative counsellor and transpersonal coach. That training matters. It gives structure and language to complex psychological processes. But if I’m honest, my real education has…

Addiction as a Shadow Initiation

Addiction does not need to be erased to find healing—it needs to be listened to. Underneath the compulsion is a call. A call to wholeness. A call to initiation. A call to remember what was always known in the…

Lighting the Right Fire in the Wrong Hearth: Addiction, Longing, and the Search for Belonging

  Human beings have always gathered around fire. Long before words, the hearth was our centre — warmth against the cold, a circle of belonging,…

What Successful Integration Really Looks Like Post-Ibogaine

Integration is not a moment but a movement—a sustained, relational unfolding of everything glimpsed in the depths of the iboga experience. It cannot be reduced…