Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast.

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium and here we explore life, death, consciousness,

and what it all means. Today I have my friend Janice Gork here and she is going to talk to us about her own journey through

ayahuasca and I'm super excited to hear her story because we've talked a little bit here and there

on the playground of all places but she's here today to to kind of take us through her personal

story of her ayahuasca journey. So welcome, Janice.

I'm so happy to be here. Thank you. So can you start by telling us why you decided to do something like

this? Yes. And I would actually say, well, not it decided me, but I think Mother Ayahuasca, as I didn't know that's what she was called before the medicine is referred to as Mother Ayahuasca.

Probably about 10 years ago, I was listening to Maria Manunos on Sirius Radio doing an interview with someone who I did not know.

I kind of came in a couple minutes in.

And she, this woman was just talking about her experience with this medicine and plant medicine,

I waska specifically. And I just, I remember, ayahuasca specifically.

And I just, I remember, I was like folding laundry on my bed, and I just stopped and sat down and I was captivated.

I just, there was something in me that was like, what is she talking about?

And this is, I need to do this.

And that's kind of what I've learned.

I didn't know it at the time

10 years ago. And it just stayed with me and stayed with me. And I would hear Hannah Montana,

or I mean, my life service of all people, you know, doing an interview when she had done it. So it was like

just kept coming up. And then last summer I spent every night in my bed or on my, in my son room,

just watching YouTube videos of people's experiences with their own journey with ayahuasca.

And I just started seeing this common theme of kind of just coming back to yourself and self-love and just like an opening, an

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