Serving Plant Medicine in the Jungle: Isa's Inspiring Story of Growth, Healing, and Self Discovery

From COVID Nurse to Plant Medicine Facilitator: Isa Allen on Healing, Sisterhood, and Finding Your PathIsa shares her background as a registered nurse who worked as a COVID nurse in New York, then left the medical industry after the pandemic for a deep spiritual healing journey that led to coaching, women’s work, and five years as a psychedelic facilitator, including time living in South America and later in Austin.Isa recounts a teen mental health crisis, hospitalization, rebellion, and finding meaning through spirituality and astrology, then describes nursing school, frontline COVID experiences, and burnout before a pivotal move to Mexico, sweat lodge ceremonies, and eventually ayahuasca training in Peru, culminating in a documentary and a transition toward creating integrative work focused on optimizing human systems.Get In Touch with Isa:Instagram: Isa_modernmedicine00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro01:18 Isa’s Background03:02 Soup Circle Sisterhood06:29 Early Sensitivity and Childhood07:55 Teen Depression and Hospitalization11:43 Spirituality as Lifeline17:25 New York Artist Years21:08 Choosing Nursing Path24:59 COVID Frontlines Reality29:56 Mythology and Mexico Leap32:50 One Way Ticket to Oaxaca35:06 Restless in Mexico36:33 Temazcal Sweat Lodge40:09 Apprenticeship in Folk Medicine42:56 Peyote and Finding Voice48:36 Ayahuasca Call to Peru52:12 Jungle Training and Plant Dietas55:10 Dark Lessons and Leaving57:31 Austin Return and Integration01:02:54 New Mission and Closing