If you’re navigating the complexities of Ayahuasca healing and you find yourself moving too fast on your path — pushing, improving, “doing the work,” yet still feeling that quiet internal pressure — this episode goes right to the heart of why.
Because that pressure isn’t random.
It’s the signature of a part of you that’s been left behind.

In this episode, we explore the core mistake almost everyone makes in deep healing: outrunning the very part of themselves that holds the truth, the timing, and the healing they seek. Through the story of a master diamond thief who searched everywhere for a diamond that was never lost — only hidden where he’d never think to look — we examine how most of us do the same in our spiritual and ayahuasca journeys.

What if the diamond you’re searching for was never missing… just placed in the one part of you you’ve been avoiding?
The slowest-moving part.
The tender part.

We go into the three phases of the Ayahuasca journey — Healing, Integration, and Transformation — and why they move in spirals, not straight lines. In this episode, we focus on the healing phase, the cocoon where you stop outrunning yourself and meet the parts of you that carry your real identity, your timing, your inner child, and the emotional truth that never disappears.

You’ll learn:

• Why most people run their healing at the same speed as their trauma, and why nothing lands when you’re ahead of your body
• The difference between fast energy (sympathetic activation) and slow energy (parasympathetic connection)
• How overwhelm drops you into dorsal freeze, and why this matters for your integration
• Why your slowest-moving parts are not the wound — they’re the doorway to your wholeness
• How Ayahuasca slows you down on purpose, so you can meet what you’ve been refusing to feel
• Why the “diamond” of your journey is hidden inside the part of you that refuses to move until you’re ready

We explore the four pillars of the healing phase — Surrender, Listen, Open, Warrior — and how SLOW becomes not just an acronym, but a nervous-system truth. Fast is fear. Fast is survival. Slow is where your soul lives. Slow is where the real medicine works.

This is an episode for anyone who has felt:

• “I’m behind in my own life.”
• “I’m ahead of myself, out of sync with my body.”
• “I’m doing everything right… so why am I still not landing?”
• “I’m exhausted from chasing clarity, purpose, or healing.”

If you’ve been searching for your wholeness, your purpose, your voice, your gifts — there is a real chance you left them behind with the part of you that moves the slowest.
And just like the diamond buyer who hid the gem in the thief’s own pocket, close to his own heart…
you may have been searching everywhere except the one place that holds everything you’re trying to find.

This episode invites you into the pace where real ayahuasca integration finally occurs.
The pace where healing becomes embodied.
The pace where transformation emerges naturally.
The pace where the diamond reveals itself.

Slow down — the treasure is closer than you think.

CONNECT WITH DAVID:

If you feel called to go deeper, I offer three journeys:

1. The Integration Circle
A six-month container for people walking the Ayahuasca path — real healing, real mirrors, real integration.

2. The Celebration Circle
Six months of learning to inhabit your life instead of chasing it.
Celebration isn’t the reward, it’s the rehearsal. It changes everything.

3. Sacred Impact
A six-month journey for transformational leaders who need their service, gifts, and vision brought into form, structure, and integrity.

Learn more or book a consult at davidvox.com.

Follow & connect:
🌿 Ayahuasca Integration Resources: ayahuascaintegration.org
📸 Instagram: @davidvox
📘 Facebook: Ayahuasca Integration Alliance
📺 YouTube: @Ayahuasca-Integration

Ayahuasca healing can transform your life in unexpected ways. In this episode, we explore the profound journey beyond trauma—that moment when healing shifts from repair to remembering the innate gifts you've always carried. With over a decade and more than a hundred ayahuasca ceremonies behind me, I share how this medicine revealed the hidden strengths and abilities within me, gifts I never knew existed.

Whether you're seeking deep ayahuasca healing, authentic integration guidance, or insight into what unfolds when you commit to the medicine long-term, this episode offers a heartfelt narrative and practical wisdom. Discover how ayahuasca can help you release trauma, recognize patterns, and embrace your true self through an ongoing integration journey.

Tune in if you're preparing for your first ceremony, navigating post-ceremony integration, or supporting others in their transformational process. This episode is a vital resource for anyone dedicated to embracing the full depth of ayahuasca's healing potential.

Connect & Learn More
For ayahuasca integration resources, visit 🌿 ayahuascaintegration.org — the home of the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance and the Ayahuasca Integration Podcast.
For my personal work and all current programs, go to 💫 davidvox.com

Follow and connect:
📺 YouTube: @Ayahuasca-Integration
📘 Facebook: Ayahuasca Integration Alliance
📸 Instagram: @davidvox

The Three Journeys You Can Join:

1. The Integration Circle
A monthly circle for people walking this path with ayahuasca.
Your first circle is free. Come, feel the field, and stay if it resonates.

2. The Celebration Circle
A 6-month journey of remembering your gifts, reconnecting to what is whole, and rebuilding your inner alignment through daily celebration and sacred practice.

3. Sacred Impact
A deeper leadership journey for those called to serve.
This is where you develop the inner architecture, the energetic foundations, and the outward expression of your true work in the world.

You can explore all journeys and apply at davidvox.com

What actually happens when people start treating ChatGPT like a guide in their Ayahuasca integration?
This episode goes straight into the rising trend of using AI for plant medicine integration, trauma healing, spiritual awakening, and inner work — and the real risks it creates for your path.

More and more people are turning to AI to interpret ceremonies, analyze relationships, decode spiritual openings, and give them answers about their shadows. For many, ChatGPT has become a “digital shaman” — always available, always responsive, always ready with a polished line.

And that’s precisely why it’s dangerous.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why AI feels like a guide for people who’ve never sat with Ayahuasca
• The difference between a living intelligence and a linguistic engine
• How ChatGPT mirrors your language but cannot feel your consciousness
• How AI stabilizes illusions, strengthens ego, and feeds bias
• Why real Ayahuasca integration is somatic, relational, ancestral, and communal
• Why AI cannot co-regulate your nervous system or hold emotional truth
• The illusion of progress AI creates — without any embodiment
• How AI derails intuition and replaces real human connection with artificial feedback

I also share the story of my own year-long experiment with AI during a deep integration period — how it pulled me into loops of analysis, disconnected me from my intuition, and eventually showed me exactly why this work can never be outsourced.

Ayahuasca is alive.
AI is engineered.
One expands your soul.
The other rearranges your sentences.

If you’re walking a plant medicine path, doing shadow work, navigating spiritual awakening, or holding space for others, this episode gives you a grounded map of where AI fits — and where it becomes a real risk for your healing.

Connect & Learn More

I’m David — a professional coach for transformative leaders, shaped by years of work with Ayahuasca into the field of deep integration.
For inquiries about 1-1 work, visit davidvox.com.

To explore more on Ayahuasca integration, visit 🌿 ayahuascaintegration.org — home of the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance and the Ayahuasca Integration Podcast.

Follow and connect:
📺 YouTube: @Ayahuasca-Integration
📘 Facebook: Ayahuasca Integration Alliance
📸 Instagram: @davidvox

Twice a year, we host a 6-month Sacred Integration Facilitator Training, guided by a medicine carrier, a psychologist, and myself.
Created for those walking this path deeply — facilitators, space-holders, and practitioners who want to master Ayahuasca integration with depth, safety, and respect for tradition.

Learn more and apply at ayahuascaintegration.org or davidvox.com