Rewilding Humanity: Plant Medicine, Trauma Healing & Spiritual Awakening
Transformation. Plant medicine. Nervous system healing.
Rewilding Humanity is a podcast exploring plant medicine, trauma healing, nervous system repair, and spiritual awakening in a world unraveling.
If you’re navigating a spiritual awakening, trauma recovery, nervous system collapse, or the loss of everything you once knew—you’re in the right place.
Hosted by Krysta Francoeur, Rewilding Humanity weaves together real stories of breakdown and rebirth, with grounded conversations on:
- Nervous system repair & regulation
- Plant medicine integration, education & caution
- Trauma healing & empath survival
- Energetic sovereignty & boundary repair
- Phoenix Rising journeys after collapse
- Mysticism, creativity, and soul reclamation
Season 3 begins with Krysta’s own story of nervous system collapse and reawakening, expanding into conversations that bridge plant medicine wisdom, science, and lived experience.
These are the raw, real stories we need right now—meant to guide you back to your power, your truth, and your wild self.
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Rewilding Humanity: Plant Medicine, Trauma Healing & Spiritual Awakening
73 - The Wounded Healer’s Path: Addiction, Ancestral Trauma & the Rise After Rock Bottom — with Alyssa Stefanson
In this raw and powerful conversation, Alyssa Stefanson joins Krysta to share her incredible story of transformation — from addiction, abuse, and deep ancestral pain to sobriety, somatic healing, and spiritual awakening.
Together, they explore the archetype of the wounded healer, the shadow of the self-help industry, and how ancestral trauma shapes our nervous systems and relationships. Alyssa opens up about what it truly takes to rebuild after devastation, the role of microdosing and sweat lodges in her recovery, and why slow, consistent healing is the medicine our culture is missing.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Alyssa’s origin story: addiction and the long road to sobriety
- Becoming a mother and finding motivation to change
- The rock bottom moment that sparked a profound spiritual awakening
- What most people get wrong about recovery and the 12-step model
- Why trauma work without somatic healing isn’t enough
- Microdosing as a tool for embodiment—not escape
- The sacred role of sweat lodge ceremony and ancestral reverence
- Unpacking the “wounded healer” archetype (and its shadow)
- The problem with hustle culture and the self-help industry
- Choosing slow, devotional healing over performative growth
- What to do when you feel too broken to begin
This episode is a potent reminder that you’re never too far gone — and that your pain can become your greatest offering.
Guest Info:
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