Testimonials from our Members
“Truth is One is a profoundly, joyously awakened space in which to release and transmute trauma in the most sacred way possible.”
– KDH
“If you are looking for a safe and welcoming space to have a plant medicine experience, then look no further! David and Alanna are the real deal! Their wonderful personalities and compassionate and kind energy put me right at ease before and during the ceremonies I have attended with them.
– Simon S
Their knowledge, attention to all the little details, and the personal attention they give each attendee during the ceremony is above and beyond anything I would have expected, but was extremely grateful for! The transformative power of the Sacred space they have cultivated is truly beautiful and you will be happy you made the choice to attend their circle!”
“When I first met Alanna, I was taking the lowest prescribed dose of Effexor. I had been reducing my dosage over the past couple of years and wanted to discontinue the drug. Over the course of the next three months, I continued reducing my daily dose.
– JB
During this time, Alanna introduced me to Kambo, a substance secreted by a frog in the Amazon. The substance has powerful purgative effects and acts to cleans, revitalize, and balance the body.
I received Kambo in three sessions while discontinuing Effexor to help cleanse and purge the drug and other toxins from my body. Kambo also helped with the emotional volatility, anxiety, and depression associated with discontinuation of Effexor (it is a very difficult medication to quit).”
“David and Alanna hold the safest and the most nonjudgmental space I have ever experienced. A true place for presence, healing, and self discovery.”
-SH
“My ceremony with Truth is One was truly special. I felt deeply safe, cared for and protected; which has not always been the case with other ceremonies and communities that I’ve participated in.
-Jenn
The facilitators are professional, operate with integrity and have a clear love for the work. They devoted themselves to the ceremony, providing a deep space for discovery, healing, growth and community.
It was a profound healing and learning experience. It’s led me to see clearly and take action to make several big changes in my life. I will definitely participate in more ceremonies with TIO. ”
“I was prescribed my first antidepressant while serving in the US Navy at the age of 21.
After an honorable discharge, I spent the next 20 years in and out of a mental healthcare system that was very good at treating my symptoms, but left me feeling emotionally numb and broken, and physically, with a debilitating chronic pain condition.
Having waded through years of addiction, self-medicating behavior, and stacks of self-help books, it was in 2021 that my search for freedom led me to the Truth is One Interfaith Church.
It’s now over one year and multiple ceremonies later – I am no longer on meds; I’m no longer under the grip of addictions like drinking and smoking; and best of all, I feel content with being me.
Through the skillful guidance of the Truth is One’s facilitators, and the intentional use of plant medicine, I have been reborn.”
– JS
“Before coming into the Truth is One Men’s Rights of Passage I was feeling lost, somewhat alone in my journey and honestly scared in certain ways for the direction that my path was going to progress in. Through the week long journey, alongside other men finding their way, I felt a sense of community and belonging, within this community and as a growing man in the world.
– KB
I see this passage as deeply profound work that I would recommend to any man looking to go deep and come home with a renewed sense of purpose in their life. Blessings on your way!“
“I feel so grateful that Alanna has been my ally in healing for the past several years.
-EZ
She is a force of positivity and healing. Her expertise and thirst for learning and sharing her wisdom has helped me change decades of negative patterns and live a life of greater awareness and freedom.
Change has not been easy; nevertheless, she continues to be a well of support, caring, and inspiration to persevere in my journey.”
“Pregnancy and birth threw me for a loop because of how physically challenging it was for my body. The deep fatigue and sleep deprivation, nausea, musculoskeletal pain, postpartum complications. The birth itself was traumatic and I think my brain and nervous system fell back into old grooves of chronic anxiety and stress.
– JW
This ceremony completely reset my system – mentally, physically, spiritually. My day-to-day life is no longer a struggle, I’m able to enjoy the simple things more, and I’m able to give my precious little boy and amazing partner my best self, which is the ultimate goal in my life. I am so deeply grateful to Truth is One for facilitating this type of work and I can’t thank you all enough, especially Alanna and Erin, for bringing this light back to my life and to our community.“
“Someone close to me suggested I try Kambo as a spiritual energy cleanse after a tough time I was going through. I have participated in a Kambo ceremony with Alanna five times now and the medicine has gone deeper and deeper both spiritually land physically.
– MK
I have been able to stop my allergy medication and sleep medication, as well as, control some unhealthy eating habits. Kambo has opened my awareness to aspects of myself that I was not willing to face and it has helped me face emotional blocks in my life in a more clear way.
It has been such a beautiful medicine for me and it will continue to be a part of my spiritual journey. I am forever grateful for Alanna.”
“I came to Truth as One to receive plant medicine after spiraling into the darkest depression in this current body triggered by finally confronting childhood and developmental trauma repressed through years of alcohol and drug abuse and burnout from excessive work and the caring of others.
– Rachel M
Plant medicine has assisted me in reconnecting to an inner lighthouse dulled long ago. I highly value the use of plant medicine as a tool for my improved mental health in conjunction with: committing to integration of the ceremonial messages and insights, therapy to better understand and manage my C-PTSD symptoms, adoption of mindfulness practices, connecting to nature, abstaining from alcohol, and in making new friends and being of service within a healing community.
I experience love for self and those around me again and relish the freedom of becoming more authentic daily. Much gratitude for the mission behind and the compassionate, beautiful, strong facilitators of Truth as One.”
“I have participated in Alanna’s ceremonies regularly for almost two years and I can unequivocally say that her medicine work has transformed me over and over again.
-GW
She is an impeccable space-holder, an otherworldly musician, and an exquisite, courageous healer with a formidable spiritual, psychological, and medical education.
I began my ceremonies with her as an insecure, self-hating addict and abuse survivor and now I’m blessed with self-confidence, self-love, forgiveness, and freedom from the compulsions that were once destroying my life.
“Truth IS one! Gone are the days of living in the illusion of conditioned patterns of thought that were full of anger, doubt, fear, anxiety, frustration and denial.
-Lawrence
That has all been replaced by an effortless feeling of Love and Gratitude for my life, for Life itself, EXACTLY AS IT IS!
Ceremony and Plant Medicine, the facilitators’ love and the powerful way they move energy helped me to remember What I Am, and in that remembering, EVERYTHING was healed!
Thank you all for this beautiful and life-changing work you so lovingly deliver. I feel Blessed to be able to BE, with you. Gracias, Gracias, Gracias!”
“After an intense period of work with Truth is One, I met my soulmate and future husband. Whether I’m partnered or not, I know from these medicines that I am—we all are—cradled in Love. I can fall back into that love at any time and I can transmit it to anyone, anywhere. That is medicine for the world.”
– Anonymous
“The experiences I’ve had with Truth is One are some of the most powerful plant medicine journeys of my life.
-CS
I have sat in ceremony previous to working with this group and it was a palpable difference. From start to finish, the ceremonial space, the music, the guidance and the quality of the medicines were all superb!
I came to this space looking for inner insight and healing to access a part of me I had left behind over the year and what I witnessed was this and beyond. I realize that every single person’s experience with the medicine is different, and each time we come to the medicine we are at a different vibration so it works with us where we are at the specific space/time. I have been peeling back the layers of myself (or who I thought I was) for the last 10 years or so and each of the times I’ve sat with Truth is One took me a little bit deeper. I was also introduced to Kambo frog medicine through Truth is One and it was very powerful for the physical healing I was seeking. I sit back in awe watching the medicine women work their magic in moving the energy in the room and monitoring each of us as if we were family.
I am so grateful to have found this community and I thank Spirit every single day for providing us these amazing tools to access parts of ourselves that we have avoided or forgotten because it was too painful to feel. Grandmother assists us through this process if we allow to her to work through us and with us. Thank you to the Truth is One team for all your work in spreading the light for NC. You truly are a beacon and I look forward to future ceremonies down the road! Aho!”
“I just came home after a two-day men’s work grandmother ceremony.
– Mikael
Before, I was disconnected from my wife and my baby daughter and I carried so much frustration on a day-to-day basis.
Now, I’m so in love with life and excited for more expansion.
I want to give my sincerest thank you to David who was a beacon of light in my darkest hours. He gently and lovingly guiding me back to wholeness with such precision and wisdom.
Thank you! I am also deeply grateful for connecting with the brothers who attended the ceremony, my new family in this sacred space that is Truth as One.
Much more can be said, yet this is to be experienced. Thank you, I love you.”
“I have been to Truth is One multiple times. Right after a difficult knee break, when I couldn’t walk properly, nor knew why it happened to me, or what life is for.
– Olena
I landed into the hands of personable and professional facilitators in a beautiful setting where plant medicine helped with physical recovery and mental clarity. I am forever grateful for your work and the Spirit guiding me to you.”
“I am in a deep debt of gratitude to you for allowing me to sit among you in the latest Ceremony. It was really life changing for me in ways that I still am discovering!
-LR
I am at another level of respect for what you do now and how you move the energy in such a way. I have attended many ceremonies with really great Medicine Men and Medicine Women from different traditions and what you are doing here is really reaching into a depth of me that I had never fathomed until last Friday.
Whatever you are doing, keep doing it!”
“Grandmother’s medicine has helped me really evaluate what is important in my life. I am eternally grateful for my experience. Since coming home, I have reorganized my whole home. reevaluated people in my life, deleted people off social media. I truly feel overall lighter and a lot more conscious of who has access to me. The medicine is helping me develop a sense of self worth which I did not have beforehand. I look forward to my next experience and can’t wait to see what the future holds. Thank you to Erin, Alanna, and this community.”
MM
“I have dealt with anxiety, depression, CPTSD, and hyper-vigilance for most of my life as a result of trauma. Through my work with Truth is One, I have been able to access my trauma in a way that I may have never been able to without plant medicine. The facilitators created an environment of nurturing and safety so the group could experience a healing journey through a traditional and spiritual ceremony. I am so grateful to Truth is One and look forward to continuing my healing journey through ceremony.“
RM
“To say that Truth as One has impacted my life, lifetimes before, and lifetimes to come would be a vast understatement.
The intention infused into every moment of ceremony and ceremony itself is a gift beyond measure and impossible to truly articulate; ineffable.
My life has been forever altered and I am eternally grateful.“
BTE
“I came to Truth is One a warm summer weekend in 2022, right after my 33rd birthday, with the intention to ring it in with a burst of new perspective and creative breakthroughs in my life. As a performer and singer-songwriter, I was in my 16th year of my self-titled project and knowing something had to change. I was keeping songs and art alive that I felt had long been needing to be put down, but didn’t know how to walk away from my current and life-long identity and body of work. It felt inextricably “me” and was afraid to know who I’d be without it. I knew I needed to step into a greater authenticity of expression and know what was underneath so many layers of life that had built up and I could no longer break through with just therapy or self-help books and writing prompts.
I had never been to a ceremony and didn’t know what was involved, but on the suggestion of a close friend, I jumped in with little preparation or knowledge of what was involved. I had a strong intuition I just needed to—and could—trust the process and the facilitators. I thought I was coming to TIO for a weekend to get some clarity. I not only gained clarity; the work done that weekend was the initiation into the whole next phase of my life. It was the beginning of the undoing of me, as I knew her. I spent a year coming back every month and a half, and another layer would be peeled back each time. I knew she was under there, but needed the expertise of the facilitators and magic of the natural medicines used, to unveil her.
After this initial year of the “undoing”, I have been integrating what I’ve learned and seen, constructing an entirely new foundation for myself with new patterns, habits, cycles and am grounded in the heart in a way I formerly never could be, because my mind was so loud. I have lost all that needed to fall away and gained the greatest gift I could have, which is authentic presence in my life—connection to Source, and contact with the fingerprint of who I actually am and am meant to be. I could not have seen her under all those layers had I not had the support, guidance and unique offerings of the incredible community that is Truth is One.
– TD
Even through the difficulties that have resulted from my upbringing in a fundamentalist religious environment, I have been able to embrace and trust this community, knowing all paths and individuals are respected deeply. I was afraid at first by how this community reminded me of “church” but quickly realized it is a place for people to fall apart in the most beautiful way possible, a place to be the most foundational and real thing you are, held with the utmost love and care. The facilitators are doulas of the spirit and soul, creating a spacious, safe and compassionate container for this sacred work.
I not only have been able to let go of and grieve my former body work and identity, but have been supported through the darkness and transition of its absence, which has now made way for a level of creative expression beyond my wildest dreams. It is still unfolding, and I hold this community and this sacred medicine dear to my heart with the utmost gratitude. I cannot praise enough the guidance, love, integrity and expertise of the facilitators of Truth is One and highly recommend you reach out to them if you are needing a change or breakthrough and are being called to the medicine and the work.”
“The medicine breathed fresh air into my life and revitalized my purpose with a rousing battle cry – to serve as a spiritual warrior. Words just cannot describe the profundity of this experience.”
JS