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About Me

My name is Jeremy, and I am an IFS-informed life coach with a background in personal growth and healing. My journey to becoming a life coach was not an easy one, and it involved many ups and downs, twists and turns, and moments of deep despair and profound healing.

My childhood was marked by dysfunction, neglect, and sexual abuse. I grew up in a home where my needs for love, safety, and connection were rarely met, and where I had to fend for myself and learn to survive in a hostile and chaotic environment. The abuse that I suffered at the hands of an older man when I was just eleven years old left me traumatized and ashamed, and I spent many years trying to cope with the aftermath of that experience.

In my adult life, I struggled with various addictions, including alcohol, drugs, and pornography. These addictions provided temporary relief from the pain and discomfort that I felt, but they also caused me great suffering and led me down a path of self-destruction and despair.

In 2004, I got married to my wife of nine months, but soon after, I had a breakdown and left her. I thought that my only way out was to start over and leave everything behind, but that plan was short-lived, and I came back to my wife and started doing inner work. However, I had no idea what that inner work would entail, and I struggled to find a path forward that would lead me to greater healing and self-awareness.

Over the years, I dabbled in therapy and found some relief, but it wasn't enough. I needed something more profound and transformative to help me heal the deep wounds that I had been carrying for so long. In 2017, my life was once again filled with despair as my marriage was struggling due to the addictions that were running my life. I hit what many call in the 12-step world rock bottom. My life was completely overtaken by many parts that were all trying to do their best but coming up short.

It was at this point that I started exploring different modalities of healing and personal growth. I started doing 12-step work and found relief through the community, which held space for me to share stories about my life and the things that led me into those rooms. Along with 12-step work, I was deeply invested in therapy and spent over 150 hours with two different therapists over the last six years.

Along with 12-step groups and therapy, I decided to dabble in meditation, which brought great relief and changes in my mood. As I developed my meditative practice, my spiritual practice grew in many ways, and I started listening to different spiritual teachers talk about the positive effects of psychedelics. I began to listen intently to what psychedelics had to offer and knew that this was the next best thing for me to radically grow as a human being.

Since then, I've taken part in about half a dozen psychedelic experiences using different types of medicines such as psilocybin (magic mushrooms), MDMA (ecstasy), and ketamine. These medicines have been a catalyst to assist me in healing in many different aspects of my life, along with the therapeutic modality of IFS, which I started using back in 2021.

IFS, or Internal Family Systems, is a powerful and transformative modality of healing and personal growth that has helped me to understand and work with the different parts of myself that have been wounded and traumatized. Through IFS, I have learned to connect with my authentic Self, which is the core of my being and the source of my deepest wisdom, compassion, and love.