My first experience with Moughenda was in a Journey in 2016, before I met him in the physical world at the village in 2017 for my Initiation. In that journey Moughenda was already teaching me about the reality of my being. He laughed at me and loved me in a way that I will never forget. It amazes me still that I have come such a long way from where I began with my treatment in 2015. Iboga and my teacher Moubengui saved my life. I still learn now from that first journey and all of the teachings that were shared with me from two years of training in Costa Rica.   Moughenda has been both a tough and loving teacher to me. For this I am eternally grateful. I have learned more from him than I can possibly summarize in this box. What I can say is that I continue to learn from all that I have experienced with my journeys both in the physical and spiritual worlds. i use this knowledge everyday to manage myself. I returned in 2021 to the village for my Provider Training. Immediately upon the first class Moughenda pushed me to confront and resolve attachments that were not serving me. He had me do several life reviews, difficult work as well. Because of this work I have the most beautiful relationship with my family that I have ever dreamed possible. We are healed. I am very grateful to be a participant of the Rights of Passage as well. I have become a fine adult due to this experience. I came to Iboga for treatment as I spent 30 years of my life bingeing alcohol, relationships and food. I was diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses. I led a very chaotic and self abusive life and I lived in a nightmare inside of my mind. I felt very lost and terrified when I came to do my first treatment. I did not know who I was. I did not even think I was real. My mind was in constant motion and I had been using alcohol to attempt to escape. I have been free from alcohol for almost eight years now. I have been free from marijuana and tobacco for several years as well. I wake up everyday grateful to longer create that suffering in myself. I live a peaceful simple life inside and outside because of my experiences with the medicine and the teaching of the Bwitit tradition. My most powerful experiences and teachings have been in the village with Moughenda. They have also been my most challenging. Without theses challenges faced, understood and integrated I would not be the person that I am today. My feet are on the ground and I am healthy, present and grateful to Iboga, Moughenda, the Bwiti, Creator.What I thought was impossible before the medicine in now real.