THE True Healing Experience with Dana Herrera

What if healing isn't about fixing what's broken—but remembering who you were before survival became your identity? In this conversation, Dana Herrera sits down with anesthesiologist and ketamine-assisted therapy pioneer Dr. James Leathem to explore the space where neuroscience, trauma, and lived experience meet. Together, they challenge the belief that healing is about avoiding pain and instead a...

For years, Ashley Black followed a path that looked successful from the outside. But beneath the surface was a very different reality—chronic pain, a devastating health crisis, and a near-death experience that changed the direction of her life forever. What began as a personal search for healing became a decades-long pursuit of understanding the human body, consciousness, and the connection betwee...

What happens when the life you've always known no longer makes sense? In this deeply thought-provoking conversation, Dana Herrera sits down with Ahaumna AhMaYAh, a miracle worker whose healing journey challenged everything she thought she knew about reality, consciousness, and what it means to fully inhabit a human body. After years of neurological collapse, seizures, and a condition that left her...

Most people don't transform because they learn something new. They transform because the identity they've spent years building finally stops working. In this episode, Dana Herrera sits down with Juan Galan to explore what happens when life strips away the masks we've used to survive. Together they discuss grief, trauma, spirituality, identity, and the uncomfortable process of letting old versions...

What if healing has less to do with fixing the body and more to do with understanding the person living inside it? In this conversation, Dr. Felipe Deliyore shares how growing up alongside his father in ICU waiting rooms shaped the way he sees medicine, suffering, and human connection. From witnessing people on the worst days of their lives to working through the emotional toll of the pandemic, Fe...

They looked like they had it all together. A long marriage, a family, a life that worked on the outside. But underneath it, both Dana and Ryan were living from patterns they didn’t understand—childhood wounds, control, people-pleasing, and a quiet disconnection from themselves. What eventually broke their marriage wasn’t one moment. It was years of unhealed experiences playing out in real time. Th...

Dr. Patrick Porter’s path into neuroscience didn’t begin in a lab. It began with a childhood shaped by a father who chose meditation over alcohol, and a life-altering moment in a hospital where healing defied explanation. From early exposure to mindset and visualization to a near-death experience that challenged everything he thought he knew about the body, his journey is rooted in one central ten...

Christine Butler didn’t start with a plan for healing. She started in survival. Becoming a mother at 18 forced her into an identity she thought she had to perform—structured, controlled, “what a mom should look like.” But underneath that role, something was missing. The more she tried to become the version she thought was expected, the further she drifted from herself. The turning point came when...

On the outside, Aaron Bare had built a life that worked. A successful career, a family, and a reputation that checked all the boxes. But internally, something didn’t match. In this conversation, Aaron shares what it felt like to slowly lose himself while living a life that looked right to everyone else—and the quiet tension that builds when you know something needs to change. That change didn’t co...