Carson Conn

Identity Reconstruction & Integration Specialist

After spending more than 25 years caught in patterns of substance abuse, including 10 years in hard drug addiction, and moving through repeated cycles of temporary recovery, relapse, and deeper disconnection, the message eventually became impossible to ignore: I either had to transform my life at the root, or continue moving toward the inevitable consequences that long-term substance abuse creates.

In 2018, I entered what I now call conscious recovery. For me, this meant making a genuine decision to change for myself — not because I was trying to meet the expectations of others, not because I was going through the motions of recovery, and not because I was temporarily trying to escape the consequences of my behavior. It was the moment I recognized that real recovery had to become a chosen path of transformation.

Before that, many of the approaches I encountered seemed to focus primarily on symptom management — treating addiction as a substance or behavioral issue, rather than as the outward expression of deeper emotional, psychological, spiritual, relational, and identity-based survival mechanisms. Over time, I came to understand that these deeper layers were not secondary to addiction. They were central to it.

From that point forward, my focus shifted toward a multi-layered, holistic approach to transformation. Not simply changing behavior, but understanding and integrating the mind, body, emotional system, nervous system, identity structure, and deeper aspects of self.

This path led me to work with powerful ancestral and holistic healing modalities, including:

  • Ibogaine

  • Kambo

  • Ayahuasca

  • Bufo

These were not escapes, but tools for insight, awareness, physiological healing, emotional processing, and personal transformation.

But the medicine was never the whole path. The real work was integration. That meant facing the emotional wounds, survival patterns, distorted self-concepts, and internal dynamics that had been driving my behavior in the first place. It meant learning how to regulate my nervous system, rebuild my relationship with my body, process emotion without destruction, take full accountability for my life, and reconstruct my identity around who I was consciously choosing to become.

Since then, I have remained deeply committed to the path of transformation, integration, and true self-actualization. My work is grounded in radical self-honesty, deep self-inquiry, emotional integration, nervous system regulation, identity reconstruction, spiritual maturity, personal responsibility, and the willingness to face hard truths. Through this process, I have moved into a more grounded, aligned, stable, and self-directed way of living — one that feels clear, peaceful, energizing, and increasingly connected to purpose.

Along this path, I have:

  • Worked extensively with ancestral medicines and integration practices, including over 80 personal medicine experiences supported by years of committed integration and applied personal growth.

  • Trained and certified as a Kambo practitioner through the International Association for Kambo Practitioners in 2019.

  • Completed an Advanced Addiction Recovery & Psycho-Spiritual Integration Coach Training Program through Being True to You in 2023.

  • Facilitated more than 150 holistic medicine sessions, including Kambo and Iboga, while supporting clients through preparation and ongoing integration.

I have also spent the last 7+ years refining a practical, lived approach to transformational recovery through strength training, cold and heat exposure, bodywork, yoga, hiking, journaling, creative expression, disciplined nutrition, structured routines, intentional environments, emotional processing, detox practices, therapeutic work, spiritual inquiry, and continued integration. My own path has required thousands of hours of self-inquiry, study, contemplation, and applied practice across addiction recovery, trauma, emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, spirituality, identity, maturity, nutrition, survival mechanisms, purpose, epistemology, philosophy, entrepreneurship, consciousness, and the deeper nature of the self, consciousness and realty as a whole.

But more than anything, it has required lived accountability. I have had to understand how my past shaped the person I became. I have had to face the patterns that drove my addictive behavior. I have had to process grief, resentment, shame, fear, anger, rage, and emotional pain. I have had to learn how to forgive myself and others. I have had to rebuild my relationship with life, reality, my body, my emotions, and my own inner direction. And I have had to use relapse not as proof of failure, but as a catalyst for deeper understanding. And thankfully, I have been able to discover tools and modalities that have helped make all of this possible.

The Archimedean Path was born from this lived process. It exists to support people navigating addiction, recovery, and deep personal transformation — as well as the families and loved ones impacted by addiction — through a more conscious, integrated, and full spectrum-based approach to recovery.

My work is not about helping people simply stop destructive behavior. It is about applying the right leverage across multiple layers of the human system — body, mind, nervous system, identity, environment, behavior, and purpose — to create the conditions for lasting transformation.

With Gratitude