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Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#43 Suffering in Silence: Finding Hope with PTSD in First Responder CultureAs a First Responder, there really is no room for trauma, the job demands resilience at any cost. You are expected to keep it together and not show signs of weakness. The truth is, the body remembers what the mind tries to forget, forced silence becomes dangerous.
In this solo episode, I share my story as a former Paramedic, how one call became the tipping point that sent me into a spiral of PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I talk openly about the experienced isolation, in the face of ridicule and the lack of real support when you’re...
2026-02-0936 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#43 The Practice That Will Turn Your Manifestations Into RealityWithout realizing it, you are unconsciously programmed for fear. That same fear is blocking you, blocking you from abundance, love, and everything you want to experience in your life.
In this solo episode, I share my own experience navigating fear, along with the steps to actually create your manifestations in your life within 72 hours. This practice came to my awareness just last week, and once you begin implementing it, you’ll become the witness to your manifestations turning into your reality.
I also share a key statement that could change everything, from the love you’ve be...
2026-02-0136 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#42 The Courage to Love: Awakening Love As Your Inner Power - Part IIWhy are we so insecure? Why do we choose fear over love?
So many of us are afraid to open our hearts because of past hurts and the fear of vulnerability. Yet the truth is this: love is our natural state, and there is nothing to fear. You are love. And how beautiful would it be to share that love with others, without clinging to fear of loss, but instead trusting the powerful frequency love carries and allowing it to flow freely, no matter what happens.
There is a deep inner knowing that when we...
2026-01-2653 min
Sanity Sessions: Real TalkSesh 8.6-Healing or Just High?: Mushrooms, Myths & Mental Health-Part 2 w/ Tara PortelliIn Part 2 of Healing or Just High?, Dr. Dawn continues the conversation with Tara Portelli on psilocybin therapy and trauma recovery. Building on Part 1, this episode goes deeper into the real work—integration, accessibility, and what healing actually requires beyond the experience itself.This is an honest, respectful dialogue between two different perspectives, grounded in truth, clinical experience, and the shared goal of helping people heal withoutCheck out Tara's webiste here. Follow her on IG @iamtaraportelli shortcuts.Support the showSupport the showBuyMeaCoffeeFollow Dr. Dawn on...
2026-01-2523 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#41 The Courage to Love: Awakening Love As Your Inner Power - Pt IWhy are we so insecure? Why do we choose fear over love?
So many of us are afraid to open our hearts because of past hurts and the fear of vulnerability. Yet the truth is this: love is our natural state, and there is nothing to fear. You are love. And how beautiful would it be to share that love with others, without clinging to fear of loss, but instead trusting the powerful frequency love carries and allowing it to flow freely, no matter what happens.
There is a deep inner knowing that when we...
2026-01-2041 min
Sanity Sessions: Real TalkSesh 8.5-Healing or Just High?: Mushrooms, Myths & Mental Health Part 1-w/ Tara PortelliIn Part 1 of this conversation, Dr. Dawn sits down with Tara Portelli to talk about something that’s stirring a lot of conversation: psilocybin therapy as a treatment for trauma and mental health. Tara takes us on her journey from working as a paramedic to becoming a psilocybin therapist, and how one experience with the therapy changed the way she understood her own trauma.We dig into the science behind psilocybin, talk about what “integration” really means after these kinds of experiences, and get real about who this type of treatment might actually work for. We also touch...
2026-01-1828 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#40 How to access your dream life; Becoming the Version of You Who Can Receive It AllSo here we are in 2026, and you genuinely want to manifest your dream life. You’ve tried everything, yet nothing seems to be working. You feel ready… but somehow it just isn’t happening.
The truth is, there’s something you’re missing, something so profound when it comes to accessing the reality you desire, and almost no one is talking about it. It’s not as simple as staying positive or thinking about what you want. Trust me, I did that for years and it didn’t work.
In this solo episode, I’m sharing my secre...
2026-01-0719 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#39 Ditching Fluffy Love: The Truth About Real Self-Love With An OracleThis is your soul calling. What if the parts of yourself you keep pushing down are actually the doorway to your greatest magic? In this activating conversation, award-winning Oracle and visionary Charlotte Szivak invites you to reconnect with your inner medicine, awaken radical self-love, and learn how to listen to the quiet (and not-so-quiet) voice of your soul.
Together, we explore what happens when you truly step into your authentic self and embrace real self-love, not the fluffy kind, but the deep, honest love found in the acceptance and embrace of the shadows of the self. Charlotte...
2025-12-291h 11Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#38 The Inner Critic Reset: A Meditation to Reclaim Your Self WorthDo you find yourself caught in a spiral that keeps you stuck, disempowered, and disconnected from your true value and self-worth? This part of you that wants more, yet doesn’t fully believe it’s possible?
We are our own worst critics, and our self-judgments hold us back from seeing the incredible humans we truly are. We stay trapped in limiting beliefs about what’s possible for us and what we are capable of becoming. Many of us use words to tear ourselves down, when we should be using them to build ourselves up.
The subcon...
2025-12-2219 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#37 - Meeting the Parts You Hide; A Meditation for Self-Forgiveness and ExpansionDo you find yourself feeling guilt or shame, or beating yourself up over mistakes in an attempt to become perfect?
Perfection is an illusion. The truth is… our mistakes are some of our greatest teachers.
In this podcast, and over the next two weeks, I’m inviting you to take a journey into the deeper parts of yourself. The places that hold darkness. The parts of you that may not feel fully accepted. Using my guided meditations, I will gently guide you into a beautiful reconnection with yourself—one that feels safe and expansive, allowing you to...
2025-12-1726 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#36 - The Universe Is Supporting You: When the “Wrong” Move Leads You Exactly Where You Need to BeDo you want to change things in your life, but the unpredictability of what’s on the other side of that change has you spinning? What if the uncertainty, the not knowing, is actually where the magic of life lies? Staying comfortable creates a false sense of security, because at any given moment the world you know can shift, just like we witnessed during the pandemic. The real question is: are you going to live a muted version of your life for a false promise of happiness and prosperity?
In this solo episode, I share my own ex...
2025-12-0823 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#35 - You Want to Manifest Your Dreams?: The Secret Tool + a Guided Meditation to Embody Your VisionDo you ever notice how some people seem to effortlessly attract everything they want into their lives? The beautiful relationship, the thriving career? Meanwhile, you’re watching videos and reading every book on manifestation, trying to call in your heart’s desires… yet somehow you still feel so far away from your dream.
In this solo episode, I share the missing link to creating your dreams — the part they forgot to mention. They gave you “The Secret,” but left out a key ingredient in the recipe. It’s not as simple as focusing your mind on what you want and s...
2025-12-011h 04Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#34 - When Men Struggle in Silence: Navigating the Void, a Conversation with Carter WallsMen are often expected to be the providers and the foundation of a family, but the truth is, men are struggling now more than ever. Many are lost in a sea of uncertainty, battling a lack of self-worth, and moving through life with a quiet, heavy void.
In this conversation with Carter Wall, former sports performance trainer for professional athletes in the NHL and NFL, and now a personal development coach for men, he offers powerful insight into the struggles men are currently facing.
Through his own challenges—battling prostate cancer, facing financial ruin, and hi...
2025-11-241h 21Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#33 - Choosing Fear On Purpose: The Secret to Becoming You Highest SelfDoes fear hold you back from living the life you really want? Do you find yourself struggling to take a step forward because you’re afraid of failing, making the wrong choice, or facing absolute disaster?
We’re wired for fear, fight or flight is our jam. In this solo episode, I dive into practical steps to overcome the fears that keep you from living your biggest and best life. Through personal stories and experiences of taking big risks, I share how leaning into fear and trusting that things will work out, helped me build a business that...
2025-11-1729 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#32 - How Women Lose Themselves Trying to Do It All: Simple Shifts That Change EverythingWomen often hold themselves to incredibly high standards. Between being a daughter, sister, friend, and in many cases, a mother, the pressure to do it all and do it perfectly, can feel overwhelming. Every day becomes a balancing act of responsibilities and expectations.
But the truth is, that level of perfection is impossible to sustain. Somewhere in the constant giving and doing, a woman begins to lose herself.
What if she chose a different way?
What if she started putting herself first, filling her own cup, getting the rest she needs, saying no when...
2025-11-101h 03Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#31- What If the Dream Was Never Random? What If It Is Your Calling?Do you ever wake up with a vision — that burning idea that lights you up inside?
For a moment, it feels so real… until your mind chimes in:
“That would be impossible.”
“I could never do that.”
But here’s the truth: you absolutely can.
That spark you felt? It’s the same feeling kids have when they want to play — pure excitement, pure possibility. Somewhere along the way, as we started “adulting,” life got serious, and we were taught to bury that magic.
But you were never meant to lose it.
You were...
2025-11-0339 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#30 - Waking Up After Being Shattered: Rachel’s Journey from Coma to ConsciousnessWhen Rachel Gitlevich arrived on vacation on the West Coast of Mexico, she didn’t know it would change her life forever. Waking up in a hospital after being in a coma was like opening her eyes for the very first time. The world she once knew—marked by self-abandonment, self-judgment, and self-destruction—was now one of infinite gratitude, radical self-acceptance, and unwavering self-love.
Rachel’s story reveals the depths of inner strength she had to uncover when she couldn’t see her one-year-old son and lost her ability to walk, uncertain if she ever would again.
The...
2025-10-2751 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#29 - The Art of Letting Go - Why Trying to Control is Keeping You MiserableWe spend so much of our life force resisting — resisting who people are, trying to change them. Resisting when relationships don’t work out, and getting lost in months of heartbreak. We resist the situations life throws at us — the challenges — not realizing they’re actually invitations. Opportunities to make a different choice. To choose flow over friction. But instead, we get stuck in the vortex of a moment, letting it become the cloud that darkens our entire day.
When we begin to move with life, everything shifts. Challenges start to feel like redirections — signs, even. And in that shif...
2025-10-2036 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#28 - From Rock Bottom to Role Model: The Celebrity Agent Who Chose Recovery Over RichesJoin me in this empowering conversation with Darren Prince, a prominent celebrity and sports agent, who opens up about his battle with addiction — a struggle that began when a nurse offered him an opiate at a young age. What followed was years of darkness, resilience, and ultimately, redemption.
Today, he’s turned his pain into purpose, dedicating his life to helping others break free from the grip of addiction and reclaim their lives, where there are no boundaries too healing. This conversation dives deep into the human side of success, the hidden struggles behind fame, and t...
2025-10-1333 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#27 How I Turned My Judgment Into Love—and Watched a Miracle HappenAre there people in your life — a partner, a child — that you wish would act or behave differently? Can you see their potential, and does that have you caught in a loop of judgment, resentment, anger, and frustration? When we see through a lens of judgment, we actually deny our own ability to love ourselves and others.
In this solo episode, I get really personal about a situation that happened with my sister and how it became my own living “hell.” I was tormented watching her deny her own potential, and I felt helpless — even rotten inside — for the leve...
2025-10-0633 min
Elisa Unfiltered : Living Life Out Loud#222: Inside a Psilocybin Journey: Brain Science, Safety, and TransformationThis episode have themes of: Plant medicine, transformation, fear & resistance, ancient wisdom, indigenous wisdom, science, misconceptions of plant medicine, Brain science, mind/body transformation, Macrodosing vs. Microdosing, guides and facilitators, energy, spirituality vs. religion, letting go, emotional body, psychedelics, integration.This episode shares my personal journey and experiences with psilocybin. It is not medical advice, nor is it a recommendation that you use psilocybin or any other substance. Psilocybin remains a controlled substance in many places, and its effects can vary widely from person to person. If you are curious about this medicine, I encourage you to...
2025-10-011h 47Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#26 - When the Mask Cracks; “Pain is the Portal to Beauty”Her life looked like something others would call amazing: a top-tier education from an Ivy League business school, a successful career, a beautiful home, a loving family, and a supportive community. But it all began to unravel when she was forced to face a quiet, unsettling truth: beneath all the goodness of her life lived profound grief and loneliness.
For Alexis Leigh, it was time to unravel the pain of her childhood—growing up with a mother lost to addiction, who died suddenly and left scars buried deep within. That reckoning catapulted her into a dark yet tr...
2025-09-291h 12Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#25 Awakening to My Own Disillusionment; Married to Potential, Divorced from MyselfThis is a conversation about love, commitment, and the choices we make—decisions that either propel us into our most authentic selves or keep us stuck in the loop of “what ifs".
Beginning with a program we’re taught to follow in life—one that often comes at the cost of our own selves. Marriage, kids, a dog, the white picket fence. But it’s not always as romantic as we imagined. Sometimes, staying committed to vows keeps us in the wrong relationships far too long, stunting our growth and limiting our ability to access true inner peace and...
2025-09-2223 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#24 From a Small Village to a Global Visionary: The Rise of Nuttha GoutierWhen your belief runs so deep that it pulses through your veins, it becomes infectious—and suddenly, anything feels possible. Nuttha Goutier left her family at just 15 years old to chase a dream bigger than herself. Her journey was far from easy. Alone in a foreign country, she endured countless sleepless nights, aching to return home. But when her perspective began to shift, and she embraced the deeper meaning of her experience, she was led toward the unimaginable.
Traveling thousands of miles from a small village in Thailand, Nuttha arrived in North America with a message of lo...
2025-09-1550 min
Living Your LegacyTransforming Mental Health with PsilocybinTara Portelli is a transformational healer and the innovative founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum, a sanctuary specializing in the use of psilocybin therapy for profound mental and spiritual rejuvenation. In this episode Tara shares personal insights into her journey from a paramedic to a healing pioneer, and how her own struggles with mental health inspired her mission to change lives through alternative therapies.Throughout the discussion, Tara explains how her retreats offer profound psychological and spiritual transformations by combining psilocybin therapy with shadow work, sound healing, and indigenous sweat lodge ceremonies. These methodologies aim to...
2025-09-1118 min
MPOWERUThe Future of Psychedelic Therapy and Self-Trust with Tara PortelliIn this episode of MPOWERU, Sarah sits down with healer and retreat facilitator Tara Portelli for a deep conversation about transformation, surrender, and the sacred medicine of psilocybin.Tara shares how her own unraveling — leaving a marriage, transitioning out of her paramedic career, and moving through grief — led her into a path of indigenous wisdom, personalized retreats, and holding safe containers for profound healing.Together, Sarah and Tara explore:The power of psilocybin therapy in breaking patterns of fear, depression, and traumaWhy intention and integration matter more than “quick fixes”...
2025-09-1154 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#23 - The Gift Inside the Wreckage; Survival was Just the BeginningThis episode is about survival—and the unexpected redirection that sometimes comes from the universe.
After a near-death accident that left me wheelchair-bound and bedridden for months, my entire life was turned upside down in a split second, on a random Tuesday morning. There I was, a miracle—surviving physical trauma that few ever come back from.
Sometimes, the most difficult challenges end up transforming our lives in the most incredible ways. That car accident was a wake-up call from the universe. It showed me a truth about my life that I couldn’t unsee.
2025-09-0823 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#22 - Navigating the Human Journey: The Inner Work That HealsWhy do we need to do inner work? How do we stop attracting the same relationship patterns? How do you navigate dark times and intense emotions? By aligning with the truth in people’s pain and dissecting behaviours and recurring patterns of the human experience, Peter Kelly brings a depth of understanding to the human journey that very few have access to. His path to becoming a realized Adept in the Western world was not for the faint of heart. A 40-year initiation into this mastery was accompanied by immense inner battles he didn’t comprehend for years. Peter shar...
2025-09-012h 17Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#21 - The Space Between Chapters - When Life Feels MisalignedThere are times in our lives when we find ourselves in a place of dis-ease, questioning the things that once felt aligned but no longer bring us that same sense of fulfillment. In this solo episode, I explore the growth we experience within ourselves, and how our life circumstances must evolve to support that growth.
When we ignore this, we can end up fighting to hold onto something that’s no longer aligned—leading to months or even years of discontentment. Sometimes, we enter a chapter in between chapters, a space of stillness where we’re called to pau...
2025-08-2521 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#20 - When the Inner Voice Speaks Loudly - Miracles HappenSarah never asked for it. As a child, she was tormented by the things she could see. She tried to escape her truth, but that only led her down a dark path of addiction—one she never saw coming.
Then one day, everything came to a head. She finally began to listen to the inner voice that had been trying so desperately to reach her since she was young. What followed was something she never could’ve imagined: she tapped into abilities she didn’t even know were possible.
That awakening led her to an incred...
2025-08-181h 00Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#19 - Healing the Heroes: The Plant That’s Saving First Responders LivesThere’s an urgent call to action to help our First Responders, Military, and Veterans who are battling the invisible wounds of PTSD — and there is a solution. In this solo episode, I open up about the root causes of PTSD and how I discovered, first-hand, a path to healing after my own struggle as a former Paramedic. For the past seven years, I’ve been holding onto a powerful answer — one that not only transformed my life but has saved others.
I share real-life cases that shook me to my core, stories of those who were on the b...
2025-08-1129 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#18 - From Darkness to Dream Life: Only Two Doses of Psilocybin Released Her From Depression
Danielle shares her riveting story of being gripped by deep depression—unable to work and struggling to function in her daily life—until she discovered Psilocybin Therapy.
She began with micro-dosing and immediately felt a shift. Then, despite all her fears and hesitation, she took a leap of faith and attended a retreat. In this episode, Danielle opens up about the darkest moments of her depression, what finally pushed her to say “yes” to healing, and how her life has completely transformed in just a year and a half.
From feeling lost and defeated to becoming medication-free, Danielle’...
2025-08-0438 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#17 - The Path to Radical Self-Acceptance Starts HereWe’ve been conditioned to beat ourselves up, judge ourselves, and push ourselves to the limit. “If you're not doing, you're not succeeding” — a belief system so deeply ingrained in humanity that it has us enslaved.
In this constant doing, we've drifted far from our natural state. We've internalized a war with ourselves, shifting into a fear-based way of living.
But what if you could see things through a new lens?
What if you could recognize that you are already perfect as you are — and feel that deeply?
Imagine a world where you’re no...
2025-07-2838 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#16 - "Courage in the Crossfire: A Doctor’s Stand for Children’s Mental Health”It’s not every day that you meet someone brave enough to stand against the crowd. Dr. K, head of the ICU at Ottawa Hospital, took a powerful stand during the pandemic — one that prioritized the mental health of children, even when it went against popular opinion.
What followed was horrific: public shaming, intense criticism, and even threats directed at his own family. Yet, knowing in his heart that he was acting in alignment with his values — and for the greater good — he stood firm, supported by a strong and courageous community, even as his professional reputation hung in...
2025-07-211h 05Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#15 - "Code Silent: The Unspoken Battle of First Responder Mental Health”In this deeply personal solo episode, I open up about my own personal experience as a paramedic, while battling PTSD, anxiety, and depression. The painful reality of being met with silence, judgment, and isolation from the very community I served alongside.
I share the very call that sent me into a downward spiral of the unknown, in the face of an infectious disease exposure and then the mind-blowing events that happened after the call, which only intensified my risk.
This is a raw and honest look at the stigma surrounding mental health in emergency services — an...
2025-07-1438 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#14 - Former Police Officer Suffering With PTSD -Was Saved By Psilocybin And Still Thriving 4 Years LaterAfter battling with PTSD and contemplating his own life - Danny a former police officer of 23 years, shares how Psilocybin Therapy saved him. He saw the retreat as his “last hope”, and what happened for him was “miraculous”. When he returned home, his family noticed his positive shift right away and he no longer suffered with the debilitating symptoms of his PTSD.
Fast forward 4 years later and Danny has come back to interview with me and share that this wasn’t just a retreat, it was a life altering decision that has forever changed him.
When Danny d...
2025-07-1450 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#13 -"No Home, No Peace, No Safety ” - Pain Pushed him Inwards, Empowement Brought His RiseLance grew up struggling to fit in. Bullied and isolated, he found solace and self-worth in hockey—a sport that gave him identity, purpose, and an escape. At just 11 years old, he left his home and his mother to move across the country with his father, chasing his dream on the ice. But instead of finding safety and support, he was met with the harsh reality of living under the roof of a cruel stepmother.
Without a mother's nurturing presence and feeling emotionally unsafe, Lance’s anxiety took hold. As a teen, he turned to substances to numb...
2025-07-071h 47Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#12 - “When You Let Go Of Control - Life Starts To Flow Without Resistance"Have you ever heard the term “surrender to the flow”? Too often we try to control every little detail of our life, like we have the true control over the outcome, when the truth is, we don’t. Keeping yourself small, safe and within in all of the parameters you have created, is actually just fear disguised as security. Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of not being enough, but what if that control was actually just holding you back?
In this solo episode, I share through personal accounts of synchronicity and surrendering to life’...
2025-06-3030 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#11 - “ Awakened in a cell” - A journey of Self Loathing to Love In One Miraculous MomentIt is very rare that a homeless, addict ever recovers. The cumulative trauma too deep and the addiction too strong - like a freight train coming at you 100 miles an hour. Justin Wood, is an anomaly and after a 23 year battle with addiction, living on Hastings Street in Vancouver, Canada, known to be one of the worst streets for homelessness in North America, he found himself in a prison cell. While in his cell, something miraculous happened, something that you only see in the movies. He fully surrendered himself, saying one statement that caused an energy to surge through...
2025-06-231h 37Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#10 - Breaking Up With The Person You Love, “A Love Story About Living in Your Truth"In this solo episode I share the painful story when I had to break my own heart to leave my best friend and husband, as an act of self love. In many relationship endings, they can be dramatic and there is no other option, as a result of infidelity, betrayal or a cycle of fighting that is beyond repair.
In my case, I had been shrinking myself to fit this relationship and trying to keep our love alive. Until one day, someone walked into my life, that changed my lens, helping to magnify the truth of my...
2025-06-1623 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#9 - Wanting Love at What Cost? The Ultimate Deception and The Greatest WisdomIn this solo episode, I vulnerably share my personal experience with someone I was planning a future with and how it ended in the ultimate betrayal. The truth is, my emotions, my physical body and my inner being knew he was deceitful - but I ignored it all because at that time, I lacked self worth and truly just wanted to be loved. What I learned is how to deeply love myself instead and how to recognize where I was fully abandoning myself.
Life is always meeting you where you are at. If you have wounds that...
2025-06-0232 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#8 - A Personal Story; Rebuilding My Life From The Ground Up, Was Not an AccidentI share a personal story of deep grief and sadness when I had to leave my husband/best-friend and lost my rescue dog all in the same week. I had to learn to rebuilt what had burned down, from the ground up - starting with an empty house, an air mattress and a can of paint.
Those times in our life that we are taken to our knees, are not an accident, they are meant to force us to grow or choose a new direction. If you zoomed out of your life and you saw a...
2025-05-2624 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#7 - Finding Love Within; A 9 Year Battle with Addiction That Left Him Empty, Until it Gave Him EverythingMax Nijst Turned his life around after a long battle with his addictions. After losing his wife, his kids and everything he had ever known that represented LOVE in his life, he was forced to go within, in a battle that would land him in prison.
What he faced was the depths of himself and an unveiling of the love he had inside himself, that had been buried under the guilt, shame and self loathing. After powering through the trenches of his inner self, empowered - he stepped into a leadership role. He is now a well...
2025-05-191h 10Redefining Love with Tara Portelli#6 - The Date That Changed My Life; Seeing Your Own Patterns In The Partners You Attract In
In this solo episode, I fully open up about a guy I was dating and how he became the catalyst to some of my biggest realizations in how I show up in relation to others.
Through the details of my date, you will see how I came to realize a pattern I had in all my relationships for my entire life. Talk about a light bulb moment! When I finally realized and shifted this pattern, the quality of people I now attract into my life completely shifted.
When we can use connections for o...
2025-05-1220 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#5 - When Everything Feels Like its Falling Apart, There are no MistakesTara shares her personal journey through creating her dream retreat centre in the jungle; a vision she has wanted for years. Her experience was nothing short of challenging. From being without electricity, hot water, internet and completely isolated in the Mexican Jungle, she vulnerability shares how this villa was her actually her very own “Transformational Retreat” taking her to her knees at moments.
After overcoming multiple layered challenges, she grew in ways she didn’t even know were possible - highlighting that she had been sacrificing her own self in the very path of helping others...
2025-05-0523 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#4 - Chasing the High; An Entrepreneurs Rise From Addictions, Lawsuits and His EdgeMichael Dash shares his heroic journey from chasing the next dopamine hit, through his addictions as an over achieving, ego-driven, leader to landing at the bottom of a cliff. As the life he had worked so hard to build began to crumble around him, he was left in a puddle of shame, guilt and a drawn out legal battle that destroyed everything he knew as his “happiness”.
After surrendering and changing the trajectory of his life completely, Michael is in the midst of his awakening. Finding his own meaning behind spirituality, healing, love and what it mea...
2025-04-2856 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#3 - Not Just a Moment—A Movement: Life After Psilocybin, 1.5 Years TransformedWhat if one experience could shift everything… and still be unfolding 1.5 years later?
In this deeply honest and vulnerable conversation, Dawn and Dan return to share the profound impact of their 5-day couples psilocybin retreat — not just in the moment, but in the long-lasting ripple effects it's had on their lives, relationship, and sense of self.
Dan, initially hesitant and unsure if he even needed the experience, ended up having one of the most transformational journeys in the group — one that continues to shape how he shows up in the world today. Together, they open up abo...
2025-04-2141 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#2 - "Tired of Dating the Same Wound in a Different Body?" This Will Change How You See LoveIf you’ve ever felt stuck in the same painful relationship cycle—always attracting the wrong people, ignoring red flags, and wondering why it keeps happening—this episode will help you see things differently. I share a personal story that led me to a powerful truth: the people we attract are often mirrors for the parts of us that still need healing.
But here’s the hope—once you begin doing the inner work, everything changes. Your frequency shifts, and so does the kind of love you invite in. If you're ready to break the pattern and start attr...
2025-04-2123 minRedefining Love with Tara Portelli#1 - Broken, Addicted, Suicidal—Now a Pioneer in Psychedelic HealingKeegan spent years living in secret as a high-functioning addict, silently battling his demons while the world around him had no idea. When life brought him to the edge—facing suicidal thoughts and a fatal diagnosis—he was forced to confront everything he’d been avoiding. But from that rock bottom, something extraordinary happened.
This is a gripping, emotional, and deeply vulnerable conversation about what it means to truly heal. Today, he’s building a company designed to help others step out of the darkness and into their own healing journey.
If you're navigating addiction, mental h...
2025-04-071h 24Redefining Love with Tara PortelliWelcome to Redefining Love With Tara!Welcome!! You are not here by accident.
I want to share something....
We've been taught that happiness exists outside of us but the truth is that happiness is actually only obtained from within. This podcast is about finding that place inside of yourself that gives you everything you need It's a place inside of you so rich in inner peace that nothing can take it away from you.
Enjoy and if you love what you here, subscribe and leave a comment
Tara xo
2025-04-0702 min
RECLAIMED with Kyla GagnonEP 72: Psilocybin: The Journey of the Soul with Tara Portelli03:22 Reclaiming Authenticity: The Path to Self-Love
06:10 The Power of Psilocybin: A Transformative Experience
12:16 Creating Safe Spaces: Supporting Others on Their Journey
18:26 Living in Alignment: Trusting the Process
24:57 The Power of Psilocybin in Healing
28:52 Rewiring the Brain: New Pathways to Growth
32:02 Transformative Career Changes and Personal Growth
33:29 Women Reclaiming Their Power
38:21 Choosing Yourself: The Journey to Self-Love
41:12 Creating Healing Spaces: The Upcoming Retreat
46:24 Connecting with Nature: The Healing Power of Retreats
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2024-12-3151 min
Linda's Corner: Inspiration for a Better LifeHealing the Mind: Psilocybin Therapy for PTSD, Trauma, Mental Wellbeing and Connection [Tara Portelli]In this episode of Linda's Corner we explore the tremendous mental health benefits from psilocybin therapy. Tara Portelli is a Certified Natural Health Practitioner, Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Psychologist, psilocybin guide, and the founder of the Arcadia Healing Sanctum. You can reach Tara at her website https://www.arcadiahealing.ca/Some of the highlights Tara shares:Her background as a paramedic for 9 yearsSuffering from PTSDMeeting a mushroom healer and discovering a transformative healing toolResearch shows that psilocybin re-routes the neural pathways of the brainLike de-fragging a computer (rearranging the files on your hard disk for faster access)Ho...
2024-12-1727 min
Normalize The Conversation by Inspiring My GenerationFrom Paramedic Burnout to Transformative Psilocybin Retreats with Tara Portelli
In this episode, Tara delves into the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, highlighting when it’s not appropriate, her journey through multiple career changes, and how she empowers others to heal from trauma.
guest: Tara Portelli, certified natural health practitioner, certified clinical hypnotist and founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum
https://www.arcadiahealing.ca/
2024-12-0435 min
THE EXPLODING HUMAN with Bob NickmanTARA PORTELLI: PSILOCYBIN THERAPY FOR MENTAL HEALTH: EP. 245TARA PORTELLI talks about the transformational potential of psilocybin therapy (magic mushrooms)i for mental health. Tara is a Certified Natural Health Practitioner, Certified Clinical Hypnotist and studying Clinical Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. She founded Arcadia Healing Sanctum in 2019. Where she offers a safe space for those who are ready to do this deep transformational work, in a very private and uniquely tailored experience. She had the opportunity to work with many high-profile medical/mental health professionals, politicians, police, paramedics, and entrepreneurs, as a result of my effective treatment and positive reputation. We also discuss: The Powerful R...
2024-11-1754 min
Outer Limits Of Inner TruthThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara PortelliThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara Portelli Tara Portelli CNHP, CHN, CHt, PCP(Psilocybin Guide, Founder) As founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum, Tara Portelli has incredible success with her work in the field of Psilocybin Therapy in the retreat setting. She has had the opportunity to work with many high profile clients such as the Comptroller for many UK Ambassadors, a top Robotics Surgeon and numerous medical professionals including, doctors, surgeons, nurses, from all over the world. Her work has extended to first responders, war veterans and people who have limited success with conventional treatments. As founder of Arcadia...
2024-10-2426 min
Outer Limits Of Inner TruthThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara PortelliThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara Portelli Tara Portelli CNHP, CHN, CHt, PCP(Psilocybin Guide, Founder) As founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum, Tara Portelli has incredible success with her work in the field of Psilocybin Therapy in the retreat setting. She has had the opportunity to work with many high profile clients such as the Comptroller for many UK Ambassadors, a top Robotics Surgeon and numerous medical professionals including, doctors, surgeons, nurses, from all over the world. Her work has extended to first responders, war veterans and people who have limited success with conventional treatments. As founder of Arcadia...
2024-10-2426 minOuter Limits Of Inner TruthThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara PortelliThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara Portelli Tara Portelli CNHP, CHN, CHt, PCP(Psilocybin Guide, Founder) As founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum, Tara Portelli has incredible success with her work in the field of Psilocybin Therapy in the retreat setting. She has had the opportunity to work with many high profile clients such as the Comptroller for many UK Ambassadors, a top Robotics Surgeon and numerous medical professionals including, doctors, surgeons, nurses, from all over the world. Her work has extended to first responders, war veterans and people who have limited success with conventional treatments. As founder of Arcadia...
2024-10-2426 minOuter Limits Of Inner TruthThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara PortelliThe Healing Journey of Psilocybin with Tara Portelli Tara Portelli CNHP, CHN, CHt, PCP(Psilocybin Guide, Founder) As founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum, Tara Portelli has incredible success with her work in the field of Psilocybin Therapy in the retreat setting. She has had the opportunity to work with many high profile clients such as the Comptroller for many UK Ambassadors, a top Robotics Surgeon and numerous medical professionals including, doctors, surgeons, nurses, from all over the world. Her work has extended to first responders, war veterans and people who have limited success with conventional treatments. As founder of Arcadia...
2024-10-2426 min
Alive & Awake with AliciaEp# 22: From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Role of Psilocybin Therapy on Self-Discovery with Clinical Hypnotist Tara PortelliWhat if the life you built is the very thing holding you back?In this episode, I sit down with Tara Portelli to talk about her journey from paramedic to navigating burnout and eventually leaving it all behind to rediscover who she truly is. Tara opens up about her career's heavy toll on her health and how a life-changing moment made her question everything she thought she wanted.Tara shares how psilocybin therapy and holistic healing became key to her recovery. Through personal struggles, including leaving her marriage, she found her way...
2024-10-2138 min
Wise Divine Women Podcast: Menopause • Libido • Breast Care • Oh MY! The unfiltered truth for WomenWise Divine Women presents Tara Portelli Founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum Meditation - Energy Work - Psilocybin Therapy - Hypnotherapy- NutritionToday we spoke with Tara Portelli CNHP, CHN, CCHt, PCP. It was an incredible conversation on many topics of healing, women's health and the use of Psilocybins
Tara writes: Arcadia Healing Sanctum is founded on LOVE and HEALING. We pride ourselves on building wellness experiences that offer you Spiritual and Emotional healing. Our healers have each had their own personal experiences with mental, emotional suffering and have found solace and healing on a deep spiritual and emotional level; through the use of traditional healings from both ceremony, energy work, meditation and ancient plant medicines.
Their work is de...
2024-10-1839 min
The Fearless Happyness PodcastA Journey of Transformational Journey with Tara PortelliAs a former Paramedic for 9 years, Tara Portelli knows first-hand what suffering with PTSD, anxiety, and depression can do to one’s life. As the inner healer who wanted to save everyone, Tara often attracted toxic relationships and situations to her life, trying to save others while sacrificing herself. Until one night, while out on a call, Tara came face-to-face with a life-threatening situation that soon became her breaking point. Completely exhausted mentally and physically and realizing that she had nothing left to give, Tara found what li...
2024-10-1744 min
Fearless Happyness PodcastA Journey of Transformational Healing with Tara PortelliA Journey of Transformational Healing with Tara Portelli As a former Paramedic for 9 years, Tara Portelli knows first-hand what suffering with PTSD, anxiety, and depression can do to one's life. As the inner healer who wanted to save everyone, Tara often attracted toxic relationships and situations to her life, trying to save others while sacrificing herself. One night, while out on a call, Tara came face-to-face with a life-threatening situation that soon became her breaking point. Completely exhausted mentally and physically and realizing that she had nothing left to give, Tara found what little strength she had left to...
2024-10-1744 min
The MindFit MethodE159: THE PSILOCYBIN EFFECT: Cultivating a Relationship With Yourself w/ Tara PortelliWelcome to a journey of transformation and triumph with Tara Portelli, a former paramedic turned visionary healer who has turned personal pain into empowering wisdom. In today’s episode, we explore how Tara escaped the grips of PTSD, anxiety, and depression to discover a profound connection with self-love and compassion on the sandy shores of Mexico. Through her transformative Psilocybin therapy, Tara not only healed her own wounds but also found her greater purpose in life—helping others navigate their paths from self-sacrifice to self-discovery.
Join us as Tara shares her compelling story, from the...
2024-10-1550 min
The Health Fix PodcastEp 502: Behind the Scenes: How Psilocybin Supports Mental and Physical Health with Tara PortelliThe benefits of psychedelic therapy are being reported worldwide from personal accounts to research data, but is it safe and right for you? Curious what happens in psilocybin therapy retreats? Tara Portelli was mentally and physically unwell as a paramedic until she went on a healing journey where she discovered the benefits of psilocybin therapy to restore her health. Now she's a certified natural health practitioner, certified clinical hypnotist, author and founder of the Arcadia Healing Sanctum that holds retreats in Tulum, Mexico and British Columbia, Canada. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews T...
2024-09-1854 minThe Health Fix PodcastEp 502: Behind the Scenes: How Psilocybin Supports Mental and Physical Health with Tara PortelliThe benefits of psychedelic therapy are being reported worldwide from personal accounts to research data, but is it safe and right for you? Curious what happens in psilocybin therapy retreats? Tara Portelli was mentally and physically unwell as a paramedic until she went on a healing journey where she discovered the benefits of psilocybin therapy to restore her health. Now she's a certified natural health practitioner, certified clinical hypnotist, author and founder of the Arcadia Healing Sanctum that holds retreats in Tulum, Mexico and British Columbia, Canada. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews T...
2024-09-1854 min
Real Talk for an Unreal WorldEP 54 Tara Portelli - The Magic Within the MushroomsTara Portelli knows all about traumatic situations having experienced tragedy and death as an everyday occupational hazard within employment as a Paramedic. Carrying the weight of emotional energies from the loved ones who experienced loss throughout her time on the scene as a first responder, would later prove to be an asset in the most unlikely way.
After feeling the affects of having to show up each day to work, to support people on their worst day and loosing herself inside a marriage that did not serve her highest purpose, she decided to walk away from everything...
2024-08-211h 18
The Self Esteem and Confidence MindsetSelf Confidence and Healing with Tara PortelliToday I welcome Tara where we talk about self confidence, healing and much more.
You can find more from Tara here:
arcadiahealing.cataraportelli.com
2024-07-2624 min
University of AdversityFrom Trauma to Transformation: A Former Paramedic's Journey into the Healing Powers of Psychedelics with Tara PortelliTara Portelli is a former paramedic who has transitioned her focus to mental health and psychedelics. Drawing from her background in emergency services and experiences with medicinal mushrooms, Portelli is on a mission to support first responders and others in high-stress professions through proactive mental health strategies.In this episode, Tara Portelli shares her personal journey from the high-pressure world of emergency services to her current work in mental health and psychedelic advocacy. She candidly discusses the immense emotional toll that first responders often face, and the need for effective coping mechanisms to process trauma and difficult...
2024-05-271h 08Elisa Unfiltered : Living Life Out Loud#186: Change Your Brain & Life with Psilocybin with Tara PortelliThis episode has themes of: Neuroplasticity, Mind/Body Healing, Psilocybin, Guided Healing, Breakthrough Therapy, Mindset, Intuitive Awareness, Self-Awareness, Deep Healing & Mental Blocks.Join Your New Era Academy today through the link below.Elisaunfilteredcoaching.com/group-coaching Tara is the founder of Arcadia Healing Sanctum, an emotional wellness and whole-body healing centre, that specializes in bridging clinical and traditional modalities to heal in one setting. Tara is a former paramedic of 9 years who broke the mold of her own limiting beliefs, toxic relationships, and trauma bonds with psilocybin, otherwise known as Magic Mushrooms.L...
2024-05-151h 00
Kid Carson Show112 - Mushroom Healing with Tara PortelliReady to step into the world of magic mushrooms?
Tara Portelli is a beacon in the world of holistic wellness, renowned for her pioneering work in psychedelic integration therapy.
With a profound commitment to healing and a vast reservoir of knowledge, she guides individuals through the transformative potential of psychedelics, bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern mental health practices.
Tara’s unique approach, marked by compassion and evidence-based methodologies, empowers those seeking growth, healing, and self-discovery. Her voice in the space is not just informative but also deeply inspiring, as she continues to advocate for the thoughtful, therapeutic use...
2023-11-0352 minElisa Unfiltered : Living Life Out LoudPsilocybin, Transformational Healing & Finding Yourself with Tara PortelliThis episode has themes of: Toxic Relationships, Psilocybin, Micro-Dosing, PTSD, Trauma, Transformation Healing, Emotional healing, Perseverance, Self-Healing, Self-LoveOn today’s show I am speaking with my good friend Tara Portelli. Tara is a Certified Natural Health Practitioner, Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Primary Care Paramedic and Psilocybin guide. And her most recent accomplishment, she is now an author of the book:NUDE: Saying A beautiful goodbye to who you thought you where and stepping into who you truly are. Her book is the ultimate unravelling of the conditioned mind, from childh...
2023-02-011h 06Elisa Unfiltered : Living Life Out LoudNutrition, Health, Magic Mushrooms & Changing Your Life with the Nude Mushroom Tara PortelliToday, my guest is Tara Portelli. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology then trained and worked as a paramedic for 9 years. She suffered from PTSD and anxiety from her job. Following her intuition and heart, Tara switched her career to become a holistic nurtionist and fitness trainer and then went on a trip to Mexico that changed her life forever (which she tells us allllll about… its unreal what happens).Tara is an incredible inspiration and wonderful mental health advocate, and trust me… Your mind will be blasted with curiousity when you hear what s...
2020-07-2249 min
G's House SessionsG's House Sessions: October 2008Mary J. Blige - Let No Man Put AsunderJoey Negro - Love HangoverSOUL'd Out - Banana Split (SH Club Mix)Timmy Vegas & Barbara Tucker - Dutty Funk (We Can Do) [Audiowhores Remix]HouseBros & Britalics feat. Joy Malcolm - Love What You Feel (Fred Portelli Sunrise Mix)Groove Invaderz feat. Nicole Tyler - Keep Risin (Kidd Massive Vocal Remix)Todd Terry Allstars feat. Kenny Dope, DJ Sneak, Terry Hunter & Tara McDonald - Get Down (Mousse T Classic Club Mix)Micky More - Victory Dance (Jay-J's Shifted Up Mix)Ralf GUM feat. Beate S. Lech - Warrior (Ralf GUM & Crisp House Mix...
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