Modern Psychedelics

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Lana breaks down what beliefs actually are (and what they aren’t), why we need them to function, and how outdated belief systems quietly run our lives long after they’ve stopped serving us.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

Apply for 1:1 coaching with Lana
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.

Focused Transformation Coaching - A 6-week private coaching experience designed to help you move through one major block or transition in your life.
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.
Apply for 1:1 energy coaching with Lana

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.