This is a Soulfire production. You're listening to the Simply Be podcast episode number

171. Well, hello and welcome back to the show, my beautiful friends. I am so excited, so excited

for this episode. I've been counting down the minutes to this episode, in fact.

But before we get into what we're going to talk about today with who we're going to talk about it with,

I just want to say that this is the final episode of the month of April here on the podcast.

If you're new to the show, welcome.

I'm your host Jessica's Weig. If you're not new to the show, welcome. I'm your host, Jessica's

Weig. If you're not new to the show, then you know each and every month here on the Simply

B podcast, we choose a different theme, a focus, an intention that we orient all of the episodes

around. And this month, the month of April, has all been about coming home to yourself.

And this was very much inspired by me getting away from myself, from not being at home with

myself actually for such a significant period of time that I reached

full on physiological depletion, burnout and depression and found myself in a really tough spot

at the beginning of 2022. And so I took some time away. I retreated quite literally here in this beautiful home I'm

living in in Nashville in the middle of the woods. I took a couple months off of creating content. I was

off of Instagram for about six weeks and really focused on my healing and had a pretty transformational

journey.

And I felt very, what's the word I'm looking for?

Conflicted about coming on my platform and talking about what I had experienced so openly in relationship, particularly to the treatment that I used to heal my depression,

which is a medicine called ketamine, which is a psychedelic, administered substance that allows

you to heal on various levels, which we'll talk about in today's episode. But the reason why I

felt conflicted about sharing this so openly on my platform was not because I

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