Endless WONDR

Ayahuasca, Integration & the Medicine of Becoming Human Again

Episode 25: Ayahuasca, Integration & the Medicine of Becoming Human Again In this episode of Endless WONDR, Kenna Brooke sits down with Heather Paulson — a retired functional and integrative oncology physician, plant medicine guide, yoga and meditation teacher, and bridge between modern medicine and ancestral wisdom. Together, they explore ayahuasca not simply as a psychedelic experience, but as a sacred medicine that works with the whole person: body, mind, nervous system, spirit, trauma, lineage, and soul. Heather shares how her years walking with oncology patients opened the way for her work with ceremony, plant medicine, integration, and the deeper healing that happens when we are invited back into relationship with our own innate capacity to heal. This conversation moves through the science and sacredness of ayahuasca, the importance of safe and ethical ceremony, the role of community, the wisdom of master plants, and why healing does not end when ceremony is complete — it continues in the choices, practices, and moments of remembrance that follow. ✨ In this episode they explore: -Heather’s path from integrative oncology into plant medicine work -Ayahuasca as a whole-person medicine -The connection between trauma, illness, healing, and the soul -Why integration is essential after ceremony -The importance of safety, lineage, community, and ethical facilitation -The physical effects of ayahuasca on the body and nervous system -Dieta, master plants, and the wider ecosystem of medicine -Re-humanization, sweetness, and the return to our true essence ✨ Connect with Heather Website: www.hampuyhouse.com Instagram: @hampuyhouse Heather’s Instagram: @drheatherpaulson ✨ Connect with Kenna Brooke on Instagram: @kennabrooke.wondr If this episode resonated with you, please follow the show, leave a rating and review, and share it with a friend or seeker of WONDR. Your support helps others find these conversations and remember the sacredness woven through their own becoming.

Threshold Moments - Trusting Life in the In-Between

Episode 24: Threshold Moments - Trusting Life in the In-Between In this opening episode of Season 2 of Endless WONDR, Kenna Brooke returns to the mic from inside a very real threshold moment — one shaped by endings, uncertainty, grief, surrender, and the invitation to trust life more deeply. After a longer-than-expected pause, Kenna shares what is currently unfolding in her life and reflects on the many in-between spaces of being human — the endings before beginnings, the deaths before rebirths, the compost before new life. This episode is an invitation to meet the unknown differently: to soften instead of collapse, to allow grief and emotion to move through the body, and to recognize threshold moments as portals of transformation rather than interruptions to the path. Kenna also shares the beginning vision for The Liminal Lounge, a membership and community space for those navigating transition, uncertainty, surrender, reinvention, and the sacred in-between. ✨ In this episode, Kenna explores: -Why so much of life is lived in threshold moments -Navigating endings, grief, uncertainty, and change -The difference between life happening “to you” and life happening “for you” -Trusting life when the next step has not yet appeared -How contraction can create space for deeper expansion -Working with the nervous system through breath, presence, emotion, and sound -Allowing the in-between to become compost for rebirth -The beginning vision for The Liminal Lounge ✨ Join The Liminal Lounge Kenna is beginning to gather a community for those standing in their own threshold moments — a space to be witnessed, supported, and held through transition, surrender, uncertainty, and becoming. If you feel called to join or learn more, connect with Kenna on Instagram at @kennabrooke.wondr and send a message with the words Liminal Lounge. ✨ Connect with Kenna Follow Kenna on Instagram: @kennabrooke.wondr New episodes of Endless WONDR air weekly on Fridays throughout Season 2 on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If this episode touched something in you, inspired you, opened a doorway, or helped you feel less alone in your own unfolding, please follow the show, leave a rating and review, and share it with a friend or seeker of WONDR. Your support helps others find Endless WONDR — especially those who may be standing at their own threshold, learning to soften into the unknown, deepen their trust in life, and remember the sacredness of their own becoming.

Season 2 Trailer for Endless WONDR

In this Season 2 trailer of Endless WONDR, Kenna Brooke invites listeners into the next chapter of her journey — one rooted in surrender, sovereignty, trust, and the mystery of the threshold. After a first season of remembering, becoming, and initiation, Season 2 begins in the space after the yes. This is where surrender becomes practice, trust becomes embodied, and life itself becomes the ceremony. Through her WANDR with WONDR journey, Kenna will share the unfolding of a nomadic season guided by presence, synchronicity, inner listening, and encounters that awaken WONDR along the way. Listeners new to the podcast are invited to begin with the Becoming WONDR series from Season 1 to hear the story, initiations, and journey that sparked Endless WONDR in Kenna’s heart. New episodes of Endless WONDR air weekly on Fridays beginning May 15th on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow the show to receive notifications when new episodes are released. If Endless WONDR resonates with you, please leave a rating and review to help others find the show, and share it with a friend or seeker of WONDR who may be standing in their own threshold.

Remembering Hurricane Helene – Composting Loss Into Aliveness and Connection with Heather Laine Talley

Episode 23: Remembering Hurricane Helene – Composting Loss Into Aliveness and Connection with Heather Laine Talley It has been one year since Hurricane Helene struck Western North Carolina. In this anniversary episode, Kenna Brooke returns to the story of her dear friend, Heather Laine Talley, who first joined Endless WONDR in Rising Waters – A Journey Through the Storm, the Surrender and the Strength Within. Together, we reflect on what has unfolded since that conversation — not only Heather’s personal journey, but also the grief, resilience, and creativity alive in the Asheville community. Heather shares how the storm became both devastation and initiation, composting loss into fertile soil for grief, creativity and deeper connection. This episode begins with a new conversation marking the one-year threshold, followed by a replay of the original episode to honor and remember the story in full. ✨ Key Takeaways from the New Conversation ✨ How grief shifts over time — from survival mode into deeper feeling ✨ The role of creative practice (writing, ritual, soup-making) in metabolizing loss ✨ Reclaiming aliveness through joy, play, and everyday ritual ✨ The freedom found in interdependence and community care ✨ The truth that recovery is uneven — privilege shapes who heals more quickly Resources Mentioned 📚 Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde 📚 Center for Conscious Living and Dying (Asheville, NC) 📚 Whether the Weather: An Evening of Stories on the Anniversary of Hurricane Helene | Sunday, September 28, 2025 | 6-830pm at Story Parlor | RSVP at weatheringhelene@gmail.com 📚 Support Ongoing Recovery in Western NC: Swannanoa Communities Together - http://SwannanoaCommunitiesTogether.org 💫 Guest Info - Heather Laine Talley is a writer, mother, auntie, strategist, and sacred space holder based in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work centers around storytelling, compassionate systems change, and deep presence. She is currently writing a book about mothering through climate collapse, shaped by her lived experience of surviving Hurricane Helene. Website: http://www.heatherlainetalley.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherlainetalley/ 💫 Connect with Kenna Brooke - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/ 💫 Support the Podcast If this episode moved you, please consider sharing it with a friend, leaving a review, or supporting the work of healing and remembrance through donation or presence. Your presence nourishes the current of WONDR we are weaving together.

A Sacred Pause – Rebirthing Myself at 50 from the Jungle’s Womb

Episode 22: A Sacred Pause – Rebirthing Myself at 50 from the Jungle’s Womb At 50, I find myself at a profound threshold — a midlife awakening that feels less like a crisis and more like a calling. Gaia has summoned me to the jungle’s womb, into deeper rhythms of nature, embodiment and soul. In this episode of Endless WONDR, I share what it means to prepare for a sacred pause: to release the old narratives of who I should be, and to step toward silence, stillness and renewal in Costa Rica. This is not yet the story of transformation fulfilled — it is the story of listening before leaping, of trusting intention and of midlife as a threshold of rebirth. It is about honoring the body as oracle, the soul as guide and the jungle as sacred womb for what is ready to emerge. ✨ Key Themes: ✨ Midlife awakening as a portal of rebirth ✨ Turning 50 with presence and gratitude ✨ Following the soul’s call to pause and listen ✨ The jungle as womb for rebirth and renewal ✨ Honoring Gaia, the body and the rhythms of nature ✨ Owls as sacred messengers affirming this threshold 🌿 Share the podcast with a Seeker of WONDR. Rate and Review and FOLLOW Endless WONDR, so you know when the sacred pause ends and episodes return. All episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/