What do you actually do after a psychedelic experience ends… but the process doesn’t?

In this episode, I explore one of the most underrated tools for psychedelic integration: kanna — a legal, non-psychedelic, psychoactive plant that supports emotional regulation, mental clarity, and nervous system balance.

While psychedelics are known for their intensity, insight, and disruption, the reality is that most of the work happens after the experience in the messy, everyday moments. Integration can feel overwhelming, confusing, and hard to navigate.

This episode introduces kanna as a gentle, daily support tool that helps you stay with what’s already unfolding.

What you'll learn:

• What psychedelic integration really looks like beyond the peak experience
• Why integration can feel overwhelming
• What kanna is and how it works (SRI, PDE-4 inhibition, empathogenic effects)
• The difference between psychedelics vs. kanna
• How kanna supports nervous system regulation, mood, and mental clarity
• Why kanna is considered a sober-friendly alternative in social and recreational spaces
• The role of presence in integration — and why it matters more than insight
• How kanna can support identity rebuilding after psychedelic experiences
• Real-life ways to use kanna during integration

Show Links:

• A Guide to Kanna [download]
• Kanna Wellness - MODERN15 for 15%
• 1:1 Coaching with Lana - $500 off all April  [apply]
• Diaspora Diaries - Vlog series on YouTube

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• Psychedelically Informed Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)
• Focused Transformation Coaching (6 Week Program)
• Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

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• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠
• FREE Set Better Goals⁠
• FREE Integration Journal ⁠
• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠
• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠
• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

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What happens when a psychedelic experience doesn’t expand your sense of self, but instead collapses it?

In this episode, I explore the reality of post-psychedelic identity crisis, also known as ontological shock or existential confusion. This is a deeply disorienting phase where your old sense of self no longer fits, leaving you questioning who you are, what you want, and how to move forward.

Drawing from my own experience nearly a year after Iboga, I share what this process actually feels like, and how to navigate it with more clarity, stability, and self-trust.

This episode offers grounded, practical psychedelic integration support for anyone experiencing anxiety, confusion, loss of identity, or emotional overwhelm after a psychedelic journey.

What you'll learn:

• What a post-psychedelic identity crisis is
• Why psychedelics can trigger ontological shock and ego destabilization
• Common symptoms: anxiety, low self-trust, confusion, lack of direction
• How to ground yourself when your sense of self feels unstable
• Mastering the mind and anxiety
• The importance of emotional care and nervous system regulation
• Activating sobriety and prioritize clarity
• How to reconnect with yourself through everyday life
• Why curating your inputs (social media, content) matters, and how to do it
• Reframing identity crisis as personal expansion and transformation

Mentioned in this episode:

• Kanna Wellness: MODERN15 to get 15% off your first order (Canada only)
• 1:1 Psychedelically-Informed coaching: $500 OFF for March + April start dates
• Personalized Coaching Program
• Doing the Work w/ Iboga: Iboga Prep & Integration

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• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠
• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠
• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠
• FREE Set Better Goals⁠
• FREE Integration Journal
• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠
• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠
• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

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We often confuse power with control — being right, getting our way, influencing outcomes. But control isn’t power. It’s conditional, and it drains us.

In this episode, I explore a different definition: True power is the conscious exercise of choice. We talk about how trying to control people, outcomes, and timing actually gives our power away — and how choosing our perception, response, and energy brings it back.

This is especially relevant for anyone navigating growth or psychedelic integration. Insight alone doesn’t create change. Practicing choice does.

What You’ll Learn:

• The difference between control and conscious choice
• Why control burns energy
• How to shift from reaction to response
• Why space and pace are essential for integration
• How coaching helps you reclaim authorship of your energy

Explore Coaching with Lana:

• $500 OFF during March: Psychedelically Informed Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)
• Custom Coaching Program Application
• Focused Transformation Coaching (6 Week Program)
• Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

Stay Connected to Modern Psychedelics:

• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠
• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠
• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠
• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠
• FREE Set Better Goals⁠
• FREE Integration Journal ⁠
• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠
• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠
• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

Released on my 35th birthday, this episode is a cozy conversation between me and one of my closest friends about iboga integration. We discuss what life has been like in the nine months since I had a shocking Iboga experience. One that allowed me to access the source of deepest shame within myself, after six years of working with psychedelic medicine. Since then, I have been given the opportunity to transform my relationship with that shame.

This is a cozy story time style episode where I reflect on everything I have been learning, integrating, releasing and opening up to, after iboga at etereo. I definitely haven't "figured it all out", and I am in still in process. This is a glimpse into it the inner work that helped me befriend my shadowiest shadow.

Show Links:

ETÉREO: Center for Truth

@etereo__baja

Doing the Work w/ Iboga

Topics covered:

• What Iboga reveals about self-deception, truth, and identity
• The shock and grief phase of post-Iboga integration
• Why integration often feels harder before it feels lighter
• Slow healing vs. making healing your whole personality
• Anxiety, thought spirals, and learning not to act from them
• Releasing control, oversharing, and curated self-image
• Cultural shame, father wounds, and returning to the Balkans
• Creativity as integration (photography, fashion, expression)
• Entering a secure romantic relationship after years of singleness
• Anxious attachment, earned security, and emotional regulation
• Living long-distance as part of the medicine’s curriculum
• Why “life is the integration plan”
• Stepping away from facilitation and the savior role
• Choosing to enjoy life without abandoning depth or devotion

Beliefs aren’t real — and yet they shape our lives in very real ways.

In this opening episode of Season Six, Lana explores a paradox that sits at the very root of personal development, consciousness work, and psychedelic integration:
beliefs are not truth… yet they determine how we experience reality.

Lana breaks down what beliefs actually are (and what they aren’t), why we need them to function, and how outdated belief systems quietly run our lives long after they’ve stopped serving us.

This episode is an invitation to step out of unconscious patterning and into agency — to see your beliefs not as fixed truths, but as stories you are actively participating in, reinforcing, and therefore capable of updating.

As Lana explains, you may not be able to control everything that happens to you —but you can influence how you interpret it, the meaning you give it, and how you respond.
That’s the power of belief systems.

What You'll Learn:

• How beliefs differ from objective truth — yet why they still matter deeply
• How beliefs shape perception, energy, behavior, and results
• Why many of our core beliefs are inherited unconsciously in childhood
• How beliefs that once protected us often become the very things that limit us
• A real coaching story that illustrates how outdated beliefs create burnout and stagnation
• Why changing beliefs isn’t about “positive thinking,” but about alignment and agency

Explore Coaching with Lana:

• Psychedelically Informed Consciousness Coaching (6 Month Program)
• Focused Transformation Coaching (6 Week Program)
• Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

Stay Connected to Modern Psychedelics:

• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠
• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠
• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠
• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠
• FREE Set Better Goals⁠
• FREE Integration Journal ⁠
• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠
• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠
• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

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In this deeply inspiring instalment of The Journey series, Lana reconnects with her former coaching client Nadi Miri, a powerhouse architect, business owner, and newly minted PhD student whose transformation over the past year reveals what happens when we become the architects of our own inner world.

Through their conversation, Nadi reflects on how coaching helped her move from burnout, overextension, and people-pleasing into clarity, alignment, and authentic leadership. Together, they explore how Nadi redefined her relationship with money, boundaries, creativity, and self-worth—and how learning to say “no” became the foundation for saying a fuller “yes” to herself, her values, and her purpose.

Nadi’s story is one of courage, reflection, and self-reclamation: a reminder that transformation doesn’t come from fixing ourselves, but from consciously rebuilding our belief systems, mindset, and creative process to align with the truth of who we really are.

Topics Covered:

• How Nadi went from burnout and overwhelm to joy and creative flow
• Reconnecting with her true values after years of over-giving and people-pleasing
• The inner work of setting boundaries and saying “no” without guilt
• Reframing money from shame to energetic neutrality and self-worth
• Letting go of control and learning to trust her team as a conscious leader
• Returning to creativity and curiosity through her PhD journey
• How self-acceptance became the foundation for new possibilities

Explore Coaching with Lana:

• Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

• Psychedelically Informed Life Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)

• Focused Transformation Coaching - Mini Container (6 Week Program)

Stay Connected to Modern Psychedelics:

• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠

• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠

• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠

• FREE Set Better Goals⁠

• FREE Integration Journal ⁠

• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠

• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠

• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

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In this deeply personal and illuminating solo episode, Lana explores one of the most overlooked yet transformative aspects of healing and consciousness work—learning to receive. Drawing inspiration from her 5-MeO-DMT experience and her work as an Energy Leadership coach, she breaks down why receiving often feels so difficult, the cultural conditioning that drives over-giving and over-functioning, and how we can shift our energy to create balance, trust, and flow.

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Topics Covered:

• The energetics of receiving as an active surrender
• Breaking down the energy of the caregiver
• Recognizing when giving turns into over-giving
• Reconnecting to balance between giving and receiving
• Reprogramming the inner narratives that block receiving
• The four energetic blocks: limiting beliefs, interpretations, assumptions, and gremlins
• How to shift from catabolic to anabolic (low to high) consciousness
• Trusting life, love, and abundance as forms of receiving

Explore Coaching with Lana:

• ⁠Focused Transformation Coaching⁠ - 6 Week Micro-Program
• Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

• Psychedelically Informed Life Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)

Stay Connected to Modern Psychedelics:

• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠

• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠

• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠

• FREE Set Better Goals⁠

• FREE Integration Journal ⁠

• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠

• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠

• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

What is it like to spend a week in the deep jungle of Westen Africa, with nothing but a dirt floor, lots of Iboga, a skirt, and no necessities like water or a bed to rest in? In this intimate conversation, I welcome back my Iboga provider, and twice-initiated Bwiti practitioner Paije Alexandra West. With intention and care, Paije shares about her recent initiation into the Fang branch of the Bwiti tradition in Gabon. This is ultimately a conversation about what it means to walk the path of service with Iboga.

Paije shares carefully about her journey from working in ibogaine clinics to becoming a ceremonial iboga provider, and how initiation has shaped her life, her family, and her work with her retreat center, ⁠ETÈREO⁠ in Baja. She opens up about the realities of being a provider—the intensity, responsibility, and beauty of holding this medicine—and offers fresh insight into the role of women’s voices in the iboga space.

Show Links:

• ⁠Paije's Instagram⁠
• ⁠ETÈREO's Instagram⁠
• ETÈREO's website⁠

Explore Coaching with Lana:

• Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

• Psychedelically Informed Life Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)

Stay Connected to Modern Psychedelics:

• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠

• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠

• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠

• FREE Set Better Goals⁠

• FREE Integration Journal ⁠

• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠

• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠

• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

In this solo episode, we’re discussing a core insight from my own medicine path: the crucial energetic difference between healing and integration.

After years of ceremonies, coaching, and personal exploration, I realized that the constant search for healing was actually keeping me stuck in an identity of being “broken.” It wasn’t until very recently that I fully understood that wholeness doesn’t come from fixing, but from integrating who you already are.

This episode is an invitation to shift from a “healing orientation” rooted in victimhood and fixing, into an “integration orientation” rooted in authenticity, creativity, and self-acceptance.

Key Topics Covered:

• The trap of the “healing identity” and how it can keep us stuck

• My personal journey from Ayahuasca, to 5-MeO-DMT, to Iboga

• Why integration is about seeing, not seeking

• The difference between a healing orientation vs. an integration orientation 

• Self-acceptance as the foundation of wholeness

• How reclaiming forgotten parts of ourselves—like play, creativity, and joy—is part of integration

• Practical reflections for recognizing when you’re fixing vs. truly integrating

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• Psychedelically Informed Life Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)

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• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠

• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠

• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠
• FREE Set Better Goals⁠

• FREE Integration Journal ⁠

• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠

• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠

• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.

In this solo episode, I’m diving deep into a crucial topic that doesn’t get talked about enough: how to differentiate between fear and danger when working with psychedelics.

This episode was inspired by my coach training at iPEC and the powerful concept of Fearlessness—the idea that fear is a projection of the mind, not a present-moment truth.

Understanding the difference between fear and danger can literally be the difference between a transformative psychedelic experience and a traumatizing one. And the line between the two is not always clear—especially when psychological or energetic safety is involved.

Topics Covered:

• Why fear is natural (and even healthy) when approaching psychedelic work

• How danger shows up in the psychedelic space—from unsafe facilitators to inadequate screening

• Clear examples of fear vs. danger in ceremony settings

• Why mistaking one for the other could cost you transformation—or your safety

• How prep coaching can help you work with fear and protect yourself from danger

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Explore Coaching with Lana:

Iboga Integration & Prep Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (NEW-now enrolling)

Psychedelically Informed Life Coaching⁠⁠⁠ (6 Month Program)

Stay Connected to Modern Psychedelics:

• Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@modernpsychedelics⁠⁠⁠

• YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Modern Psychedelics YouTube⁠⁠⁠

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠www.modernpsychedelics.net⁠⁠⁠

• Substack: The Healthy Ego⁠⁠

Free Resources:

• FREE Iboga Preparation Guide⁠

• FREE Set Better Goals⁠

• FREE Integration Journal ⁠

• FREE Intention Setting Journal⁠

• FREE Psychedelic Ceremony Checklist⁠

• FREE Playlists for Psychedelic Journeys + Integration⁠

DISCLAIMER: Modern Psychedelics does not endorse or support the illegal consumption of any substances. This show is meant for entertainment purposes only. Modern Psychedelics does not sell or promote the sale of any illegal substances. The thoughts, views, and opinions on this show should not be taken as life advice, medicinal advice, or therapeutic guidance.