There's a point on the healing path where you realize you can't do it alone - and that the women you walk beside become some of your greatest teachers. Not necessarily because the friendship is easy, but because it asks you to keep looking at yourself as you heal together. That's the friendship I have with a very special woman in my life, and this episode is an inside look at what it took for us to get here. Today I'm joined by Dr. Stephanie Burgos - Emergency Medicine physician, Medicine Woman, Breathwork Facilitator, multidimensional quantum healer, and somatic practitioner devoted to restoring harmony and safety within the body. Her training in the ER shaped a nervous system built for holding intensity with steadiness and discernment. Her initiations as a medicine woman and study of the shamanic arts refined her ability to listen deeply - not just to symptoms or stories, but to sensation, energy, and the intelligence moving beneath them. Her work lives at the intersection of science and spirit, bridging the seen and unseen so people can return to their bodies as sites of truth, intelligence, and self-trust. Stephanie and I met seven years ago at a Tony Robbins seminar, both chasing something outside ourselves and not yet knowing who we really were. Since then, we've walked parallel healing journeys - through plant medicine, through dark nights of the soul, through business partnership, spiritual facilitation, and the kind of triggers that only someone truly close to you can bring up. We are best friends, self-healing allies, business partners, and co-facilitators of Ayahuasca ceremonies in Costa Rica. One of the biggest themes we kept coming back to was this: the people closest to us are our most powerful mirrors. And the willingness to look at what those mirrors reveal, instead of running from it, is what transforms a friendship into something sacred. We also talk about: How we built trust through seven years of parallel healingThe sisterhood wound and what it takes to rewrite those patterns as adultsHow plant medicine opened our paths and what we've learned as facilitatorsNavigating conflict, triggers, and competition within deep friendshipThe codependent and control dynamics that show up in wounded feminine sisterhoodHow to attract the kind of friendship you're craving without grasping for itEpisode-Related Resources: Read the blog post for this episode!Lauren & Stephanie's Plant Medicine Retreat in Costa Rica: https://www.solwindlegacy.com/retreatLauren of Love Resources: Join the Magic App with dozens of courses, resources, and a private community! https://laurenoflove.com/appFreebies, courses, blog: laurenoflove.comIG: @laurenofloveGrab our free Manifestation Sheets!Join our weekly Magic Notes insiders list!Guest Resources: Stephanie's Instagram: @healthyerdocStephanie offers 1-1 Breath-work and Embodied Healing Sessions, message her on IG to book! They are life-changing!
