A fire alarm rang in Claire Weber's nervous system at age two and never turned off, until ibogaine finally silenced it, forty years later. This is a conversation about what happens when your first memory is the worst thing that ever happened to you, and what it takes to come back from that.

In this episode, Talia Eisenberg sits down with emotional release coach and hands-on healer Claire Weber to explore the territory of pre-verbal trauma. Claire shares how witnessing her mother's death just before her third birthday encoded a lifetime of shock, hyper vigilance, and the core belief that she was fundamentally alone. She traces her decades-long search for healing through 12-step recovery, neurofeedback and its role in repairing the brain's "mother circuit." Claire shares the distinction between pre-verbal trauma and pre-verbal shock, the daily practice of "re-mothering" her inner child, and a post-treatment car accident that confirmed her nervous system had fundamentally changed. Claire also shares her life vision to open a healing estate called Mothered, a place devoted to helping others rebuild the internal mother they never had.

Claire Weber is an emotional release coach and hands-on healer devoted to grief work, somatic healing, and nervous system repair. She works with clients to release trauma held in the body and is developing Mothered, a residential healing estate designed to help people encounter and rebuild their internal mother.

She can be found on Instagram at @bonjourclairefontaine.

Timestamps

• (00:00) Introduction to Claire's story and the landscape of pre-verbal trauma
• (03:00) Claire's first memory: witnessing her mother drown at age two
• (06:30) Childhood coping — food as a substitute for the lost mother
• (11:00) The turning point: 12-step recovery, grief rituals, and the long search for healing
• (15:00) Neurofeedback and repairing the "mother circuit" in the brain
• (20:00) Claire's ibogaine vision — reliving the drowning through a firefighter's eyes
• (39:00) The car accident that proved her nervous system had changed
• (43:00) Re-mothering, the dreamscape practice, and Claire's vision for Mothered

For Carolina Reese, resilience started as survival. In this episode of Ibogaine Uncovered, host Talia Eisenberg speaks with Reese about grief, caregiving, and what happened when years of holding everything together finally reached a breaking point.

Reese shares how childhood abuse, immigration, and early loss shaped a lifelong pattern of hypervigilance and responsibility. As an adult she cared for a husband dying of cancer, later supported a combat veteran partner with severe PTSD, and pushed through years of stress until her body began shutting down. She describes how her experience at Beond helped her release trauma stored in the body, reconnect with fragmented parts of herself, and shift from self abandoning caregiving toward healthier service and coaching.

Carolina Reese is a coach at Beond who supports clients preparing for and integrating ibogaine treatment. She first came to Beond as a guest in 2024 after years of caregiving and personal loss, including the death of her first husband and supporting a combat veteran with PTSD. Her work now focuses on helping others process grief, trauma, and major life transitions while maintaining boundaries and self care.

• (00:00) Introduction, grief and resilience
• (01:40) Childhood abuse, immigration, and learning hypervigilance
• (04:10) Caregiving and losing her first husband to cancer
• (06:30) Supporting a combat veteran with PTSD
• (09:40) Stress illness and hitting physical collapse
• (12:10) Discovering ibogaine and coming to Beond
• (15:00) Her ibogaine journey and reconnecting with lost parts of herself
• (20:00) Integration, boundaries, and shifting from caregiver to coach

Mike Stratton came to Beond looking for the ultimate optimization tool, and found something closer to a nervous system reorganization. In this episode of Ibogaine Uncovered, Talia Eisenberg speaks with Stratton about why ibogaine belongs in the high performance conversation.

They discuss burnout, decision fatigue, and the limits of stacks, peptides, and stimulants when the underlying operating system is dysregulated. Stratton describes early “hell ride” sessions that exposed decades of thought loops, then the later shift into presence, spiritual connection, and sustainable recovery. They discuss why a clinics structure matters, how routines and bodywork reduce overwhelm, why surrender is the key mindset for executives and athletes, and how Stratton’s company Merak Health approaches transformation through diagnostics plus ongoing coaching.

Mike Stratton is the co-founder of Merak Health, a precision health and telemedicine platform focused on comprehensive diagnostics, performance medicine, longevity care, and coaching. He has worked for over a decade at the intersection of high performance and health optimization, and has returned to Beond for ibogaine multiple times, framing it as an operating system reset rather than a performance enhancer.

Timestamps

• (00:00) Why ibogaine belongs in high performance
• (10:00) The burnout trap
• (16:00) Choosing a full reset
• (18:00) Decision fatigue off, nervous system on
• (25:00) “Hell rides,” thought loops, and learning presence
• (32:00) What Merak Health is and why coaching is the point
• (38:00) Testing, TBI cohorts, and the physiology questions worth measuring
• (46:00) Surrender mindset

Links

• Marek Health: Guided Optimization & Premier Telehealth
• Mike Stratton (@mstratton13) • Instagram photos and videos