097 | 5-MeO-DMT Integration Update: Eight Ways Life Is Better & Heart-Centered Living (6 Months After Enfold)
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Six months ago, I had my most profound and impactful psychedelic experience yet. I smoked 5-MeO-DMT, left my body, somatically released stuck energy, and experienced the infinite love of the universe. This experience set me on an integration journey that has up-leveled my life in ways I couldn't have imagined. In this episode, I'm excited to share the details of my integration journey over these past six months. While there have been many ups and downs, the overall impact on my life and energy has been immensely positive.
Throughout this episode, I’m highlighting that this very powerful medicine isn't just about the psychedelic experience itself but also about the integration process that follows. 5-MeO-DMT "set me straight" by opening me to unconditional love and regulating my nervous system. The energy in my heart is flowing freely into my work and has even empowered my relationship with money. This is just the tip of the iceberg, as I am sharing eight tangible ways my life has changed as a result of my 5-Meo-DMT experience at Enfold Institute. Enjoy!
In this episode, I talk about:
Transformation with psychedelics isn’t about just the medicine
5-MeO-DMT “set me straight” and opened me to unconditional love
The ups and downs during these first six months of integration
Changes to my nervous system and sensitivity
The energy in my heart is flowing into my work
An empowered relationship with spending and receiving money
The activation of my “super awareness”
Changes to my health, wellness and lifestyle
Sneaky blocks I’m now aware of around romantic partnership
The awareness of death is helping me make the most out of life
Prioritizing beauty and my passions in life
My deepened understanding of God/Universe
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Things Mentioned In This Episode:
5-MeO-DMT Episode Series:
Episode 79: I Smoked 5-MeO-DMT at Enfold (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Episode 84: 5-MeO-DMT Deep Dive w/ Steve Rio from Enfold (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Episode 8: Introduction to 5-MeO-DMT w/ Steve Rio (Spotify | Apple)
Episode 94: When Psychedelics Make Things Worse w/ Jesse West from Enfold (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Other Episodes Mentioned:
Episode 95: The “Refinement” Stage of Psychedelic Integration (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Episode 91: How to Create Lasting Lifestyle Change During Integration (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Episode 87: My Psychedelic Healing Journey & Origin Story (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Episode 81: My Practical Tips for Psychedelic Integration (Spotify | Apple | YouTube)
Where to find Lana:
I was introduced to psychedelics in my early 20s within rave culture, and few years later I began to use plant medicine ceremonially.
Many circumstances aligned leaving me shattered, and I began the journey of putting myself back together. Plant medicine & psychedelics saved me from depression, anxiety, and a life of feeling unworthy. This is now my life’s work and I have devoted myself to sharing psychedelics and plant medicines with others because I have personally experienced how effectively they can catalyze growth, healing and connection.
This idea for Modern Psychedelics came to me during a journaling session in early 2020. I was learning so much about psychedelics at the time (while experiencing the benefits firsthand), and I had a deep desire to talk about these topics with people in the field. Upon launching the Instagram community, the page grew tremendously over a short period of time and continues to have high levels of engagement.
I am a 3x certified professional life coach, and I work with people who want to better their lives by deeply integrating insights from their psychedelic experiences. I believe that we don’t have to spend our entire lives healing, and that the purpose of life is to live in the present moment.
Podcast Transcipt
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Lana Pribic: [00:00:00] Hello, my friends. I'm just beaming and smiling right now. I'm in the studio and I'm about to record an episode that I have I guess in a way been working on for the past six months for you guys. I am giving you a big juicy detailed update about how my 5meo integration has been going over these first six months, I cannot believe that it has already been six months since I did 5meo at Enfold.
Along with Eboga, this has definitely been the most impactful psychedelic experience in terms of healing, transformation, and just creating real life. changes in my life, real lasting positive changes. I think of 5meo for me as the final destination of psychedelics. I was going to name this episode that 5meo has been the final destination for me.
And by that, I just mean that I would be completely [00:01:00] satisfied and happy if that was the last psychedelic experience of my life. Now, thankfully that's not the case, but I just mean that. I really don't think that it can go beyond 5meo. I could be wrong, but yeah, I really think of it as the final destination.
So I shared all about the experience itself in episode 79, where you get a full, vulnerable, juicy trip report from me. So if you haven't already, Listen to that episode. Yeah, I would suggest just pausing this and going to listen to episode 79 here of modern psychedelics First just because this is a follow up to that episode So I just want to say in regards to that episode thank you all so much for your reflection and for your sharing after listening to that episode and It just, it brought in a lot of new people into the modern psychedelics community.
If you're new here and if you found me because of my 5 MEO episodes, welcome. It's so nice to have you here. You are bringing just such a wonderful [00:02:00] energy to this corner of the internet and I appreciate you finding me. And I was just really nervous to share that episode. It was really vulnerable and I pretty much didn't.
Hold anything back at all, like I really let you guys in on all of the details and I just wasn't sure how that was going to land, it's always like scary putting yourself out there. in that way on the internet and Wow, this community has just received my sharing so Beautifully so so beautifully and I just want to say thank you.
Thank you so much for holding me as I share that and It just allows me to keep going and to keep sharing and to keep having an impact on people's lives from the sharing, because ultimately I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing this so that more people can find their ways to true healing and true transformation, because it is.
Absolutely possible. So like I said, if you haven't listened to the trip [00:03:00] report yet, go ahead and listen to 79 and then come back to this one. If you are new to 5mu DMT, if you're like, this sounds like alphabet soup, what even is that? It is a beautiful medicine. It's just unlike any other psychedelics.
It's a pure entheogen and it's truly the strongest psychedelic known to man. If you want to learn more about 5meo, I got you, don't worry. Episode 8 with Steve Rio is an amazing introduction and episode 84 is another episode with Steve Rio that is more recent and that's a bit of a deeper dive into the medicine.
So I have so much to share with you all today. So yeah, just get ready for a jam $packed and inspiring episode. I have a casual eight pages of notes here of what to share with you. And during my integration process, every time I had like some sort of insight that was Triggered by this hyper awareness that [00:04:00] 5meo created for me.
I kept a note in my phone on the notes app, and I would just jot down all these things, and it is so long, and that was actually what guided me in creating this episode for you guys. So there's lots and lots of detail, I'm not holding anything back, again, I am just putting it all out there.
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Okay, so let's get into the episode. Here's how the episode is going to go. I'm going to give you some like general notes and timelines of the last six months and the integration period. And then I'm also going to highlight eight ways that my life has tangibly changed and eight tangible differences that I have noticed in my life as a result of this experience. So let's dive on in.
My intention for this episode is to really highlight the importance of integration and to highlight how challenging it can be but also how fruitful it can be if you lean into it and if you commit to it and if you Really just use it as an opportunity to Bring whatever it is that you touch during your psychedelic experience into [00:06:00] the every day because I got to tell you guys I'm just like I'm the happiest most satisfied and most fulfilled that I've ever been and I really owe it to This work, so I hope that it is inspiring and motivating for you guys So it wouldn't be a modern psychedelics experience sharing episode if I didn't provide some disclaimers, of course So as always do not compare my journey to yours Everyone's journey is different and we all enter psychedelic experiences At different points in time at different parts in our journey and our evolution.
Remember that I am sharing as someone who has been doing this work for five years. And at the time that I did have this experience, I was pretty deep and far along in my transformational journey. So I just want to say that because when we compare like our point A to someone else's point K, I don't know why I just chose K, but you get the point [00:07:00] when we compare like our point A to someone else's point K, then.
We're just doing ourselves a disservice because we're not actually honoring where we are at So please as you're listening to my sharing just please keep this in mind Especially if you are gearing up for your own 5meo or your own psychedelic experience Just keep in mind that there's no need for a comparison and that whatever happens to you and wherever you're at is absolutely perfect Your journey is a success Absolutely sacred and absolutely special to you.
And there's no one's journey like yours. Another disclaimer that I want to make. It's actually really difficult to speak on this experience. In terms of just the medicine, I really can't separate the medicine, the 5 MeO from all of the other factors involved. I, really do feel that the powerful impact that this experience has had on me has as much to do with the medicine as it does with all of the [00:08:00] other factors involved particularly with the experience at Enfold.
So Enfold is the retreat center that I went to, to have this experience back in November 2023, and everything About that, all the details about that, I believe play a huge role in the process. So the facilitation, the structure of the program, the amazing prep and integration support before and after it all plays a role, including myself, like the way that I showed up, the commitment that I showed to the process, the dedication that I committed.
To the integration process and just being real with myself along the way and knowing when it was time to focus a little bit more and when it was time to take a step back from other things in life in order to honor the unfolding of this process. So those are my disclaimers. And as always, the show is not promoting any illegal activities of any [00:09:00] kind, so please check your local and your country's laws and all of that before engaging in any type of experience with psychedelics. Think. for yourself and be for yourself. Do not just listen to me.
Okay. So I want to begin by just outlining some general notes, some like high level general notes about these last six months, because I Let me tell you, it has been a windy, twisty, turbulent, at times, unexpected journey.
It has not been consistent. So to put it like very, very simply in the simplest terms that I can. I feel that 5MEO has set me straight. By that, I mean that this experience offered me a very powerful portal into everything that isn't in alignment with [00:10:00] my deepest truth. And my deepest truth is love. The energy of love, I'm gonna speak on a lot in this episode, but the energy of love, the love in my heart has been guiding me this entire time.
So 5MEO set me straight and realigned me, reattuned me to that energy in my heart, and is just showing me anything that is not in alignment with that. And I have just been like, A little like, I don't know. I have this image of a little worker elf working away in the cave, just chipping away.
I have been like that a little worker elf, just chipping away, addressing things little by little to bring myself into alignment with this truth that I have come to know that the highest truth, the greatest truth, the only truth is love. And that I have access to that through my own heart, just as you do, just as everyone does.
Does 5meo pointed out like every little nook and cranny that is not in alignment with love and integration is [00:11:00] addressing those things. Integration is a process of living in alignment with that every day. Integration has been really intense for me. I would say that this has been the most involved and challenging integration process for me as someone who has always sailed through integration for the most part,
for example, my iboga integration, which you guys would have followed along with if you listened to the episode, it was like pretty smooth, pretty beautiful, pretty gentle. I just accessed this new way of being. in connection with myself during Iboga and integration was really smooth. This has not been smooth.
So I have to say that I've definitely been humbled and my eyes have been open to just how challenging and turbulent integration can be. But overall, it has been a just beautiful opening to life, to living life fully from the heart And moving towards unconditional [00:12:00] love in every way.
It's been an ongoing process and it's active, meaning I am still in it. I imagine that I will be integrating this experience for the rest of my life and perhaps even beyond who knows. There have been a lot of ups and downs during integration. So here's just a little timeline. So It's the end of May 2024 right now.
I had this experience in mid November 2023. So those first three weeks, November going into December, they were bliss. They were beautiful. I was so sensitive. I was so open. I was experiencing reactivations and I was really just making a lot of space and time to take care of myself.
To ground the experience in. I was very regulated. I was grounded, and just really giving myself all that I could to nourish myself after such a energetic release. I [00:13:00] shared about this first month or so of integration in episode 79, so I won't get too deep into that. Come the end of December. It was New Year's.
My favorite holiday. I have an amazing friend group here in Toronto and there was just so many fun parties going on and I spent like November. And October preparing, November and most of December integrating. So by the time the end of December rolled around, I was like, I'm ready to get out there.
I'm ready to socialize. And I actually went out to different parties three nights in a row, which was a lot. It was a lot. I was definitely taking it very easy, but in the end I did destroy my body and deplete my energy. So I did get sick. Following that, I actually went back to the same old unhealthy habits I had before 5.
Up until now, I had been pretty good about managing my cannabis consumption, my sugar intake, and my TV. Come [00:14:00] January, I was just full on back in it, and I was like, fuck, great, okay, this was just another experience that didn't actually change anything for me. I I was really bummed when I realized that I was going back to some of these habits and ways of being that were not supportive to me.
The difference was that it just hit differently. I had an awareness that this was. Not working for me. And it was actually the episode that I recorded with Jesse . It's pretty recent. It really helped me see that my coping wasn't working anymore. And just hearing Jesse story helped me to see that this was the medicine.
This was the five MEO. It was not abnormal for someone after five to go back to those unhealthy habits. But since we have this increased awareness, what we do with that is part of the integration. So, I was going back to these habits, [00:15:00] but I was having this internal battle with myself about it.
I was just like, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? I couldn't do it mindlessly anymore. Like I would eat the whole chocolate bar and the whole time I was eating it, I would be thinking, Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Whereas before it would just be this thing that I did, cause I've always done it.
So that was the difference in January. I had this really beautiful birthday cottage celebration with a group of about 10 of us. And I had some intense reactivations. I talk about this at the end of episode 84 . But basically what this. Help me see was that I wasn't taking my 5meo integration seriously enough because I had the reactivations, two and a half, almost three months after the 5meo, I realized like, holy shit, how is it that I am able to experience 5meo months after on a completely different substance
so that kind of threw me back into the 5meo [00:16:00] experience. Like I was fully in it. It honestly felt like I smoked 5meo and I didn't. And
what that made me realize was You have a lot to work with still, and you're not prioritizing integration enough. This was around the time when I was like, okay there's a lot here. There's a lot here. And this can really be a turning point in my life. And I want to embrace that. And then in February, I traveled to Costa Rica.
I spent the month at Iboga wellness and service. And then when I got back, March and April were really tough. I feel like this is when it really hit me that. I just had a lot on my plate. I had a lot of work to do and there was a lot in my life to address that is not working for me. So March and April were the toughest months.
I spent them in integration, in solitude for the most part, in reflection, and just really looking at my life [00:17:00] and deciding where I want to go. In
these two months, I had no energy. I was absolutely exhausted. Everything felt so hard. And like I said, I was overwhelmed with all of the changes that I just knew I had to make. It wasn't like an if or when it was like uh, how do I actually do this? And.
It just felt like nothing was working anymore. Like the entire paradigm that I was operating within, particularly my coping mechanisms and the way that I spent my time unconsciously it just wasn't working anymore. And I was battling myself because I wasn't actually doing anything. Taking intentional actions to stop the pattern, but I was hyper aware of the pattern so this was this was a period of time where the awareness was really opening up and probably most of the Insights i'm sharing with you guys today are from that time period I was just exhausted and I felt like [00:18:00] Looking back, I was probably like recharging my batteries after such a huge energetic release with Five and then the partying and getting sick and then traveling to Costa Rica.
My body was just like, Zapped like, all I could do was prioritize my coaching clients and show up for them . That was my number one priority to make sure that I was good enough to do that. But other than that, it was it was Rocky what that time period reveal to me was that.
It's important to be mindful of how I'm rebuilding my energy and what are the building blocks, the foundations of this new energy that I am cultivating within myself as a result of the 5-MeO experience. So after just so much reflection, I was ready to start making the changes and start taking action. I really just went back to the basics, really good nourishment, really good sleep, and There was a lot of aches and pains in my body at this [00:19:00] time so bad I Realized that it was because I was not allowing the energy in my body to move I was not moving energy out of my body.
And of course being a coach I take on a lot of energy from other people. So for me, it's so important to move my energy I wasn't doing that. And of course that gets stuck and trapped and shows up as a aches and pains. So I actually created a little challenge for myself for the month of May to move my body every single morning.
I made it super simple because I haven't been exercising for a couple of years now. I made it really simple. I just I just told myself that every morning I will either go for a walk or do something on the yoga mat. So like a yoga Pilates class or some stretching, just it doesn't matter what I do, just some type of movement for the sake of movement.
And it's been going really well. It's May 30th today, and I think I have missed one or two days. So that's been going really well. And my body is feeling [00:20:00] better. Overall, May just felt a lot lighter. I'm definitely on the other side now, which feels amazing.
I did have to book a session with Steve to get some help during that March April period because I just, I actually really needed the help. I really needed the support and things did feel a lot better after my session with him. There's just so much power in being like witnessed by someone else and having someone just reflect to you that you are actually, Already doing a great job.
So that was really helpful. But yeah, back to May. I feel that my health has improved. My energy is back. My sleep is great. My stress is minimal. So yeah, I do feel that I'm on the other side of that. of that dip, that valley. So for me, integration, I'm realizing is all about refinement, refining myself, refining my lifestyle, refining how I spend my time to align with what I know is best for me and just releasing all of the things that [00:21:00] harm me or minimizing the harm that I am causing myself and just focusing on showing myself.
Love and care, because I can't do that for others unless I'm doing that for myself. So by refinement, I talk about this in episode 95 this refinement stage of integration. It's it's like fine tuning the dials of your life. Listen to episode 95 if you want to get a little bit more into that.
So like I said earlier, the medicine set me straight. It corrected me in a lot of ways and just cracked open so much more than I could have imagined was there. So beautiful it just, it came at a The most perfect time, like I feel that I was truly ready to receive this experience when I did. And I just have the sense that everything is happening in the most perfect divine timing right now.
Everything is just falling into place. So beautifully. . I'm really opening up [00:22:00] to a new depth. With life itself. This is a process that feels very sacred. And I'm just, I'm so grateful to be on this path and to be sharing it. So I'm going to get into the eight ways that my life has changed and like eight things that are different for me as a result of this experience.
But I do want to just quickly review my intentions before we get into it, because
I'm a little bit in disbelief about how directly my intentions have been addressed. And it wasn't necessarily, like right or wrong. After the experience or during the experience, but as this six months of integration has been unfolding. And as I'm reviewing these intentions, I set them and forgot them.
And I just reviewed them recently. I'm like, wow, every single one of these intentions has been directly addressed. [00:23:00] During this integration process. Yeah, it's just important to remember that sometimes we have an intention for medicine work and it won't get addressed right away in the session or in the ceremony.
The integration. is where that intention can be realized. So yeah, that's really cool. So I think I had five here. So one was released blocks around financial abundance and romantic love. Two was heal slash reset my nervous system from wartime trauma. Three was to help me find focus and clarity around my career.
Four was to show me love and five was to release anger towards my father. So let's get into it. Here are the eight ways that my life has changed for her, definitely the better, since 5meo. So number one, the most significant change, the change that I'm so grateful for is the nervous system healing.
So this is directly connected to my intention of releasing any suppressed subconscious trauma from the war. So this really was the main thing. [00:24:00] This was the main thing that drew me to 5 MEO. So I was born into a area that became a war zone, I think six months or so after I was born This is something that I haven't really addressed and connected to that.
And I mentioned this in the previous episode. My entire life, I have had a very high sensitivity to light and sound and people listening might be like, yeah, so what who cares? That's not a big deal. Actually it really is a big deal. I'm so sensitive to light, or I should say I was so sensitive to light and sound to the point where I'm constantly on edge because I'm trying to control my environment.
I'm trying to control the lighting. I'm trying to control the amount of noise. I'm always going places with sunglasses and earplugs because it's just over stimulating for me. And It dysregulated me to [00:25:00] the point where I would get thrown into a panic, have a meltdown get into frustration or anger. It would cause arguments with family members and in relationships to other people.
It's something that actually caused me a lot of stress and something that I never really understood how to address. It's something that I thought this is just a part of who I am, and this is how I have to live. And I don't know, I wanted to see if 5MEO could help me. With this and it really did like basically before I had been.
Living life as a victim to my environment all the time. So I'm like, so incredibly amazed that the sensitivity to light and sound has lessened tremendously. This is huge for me. If this was the only thing I got out of the five MEO experience, that would have been enough for me. I can recall.
Many instances over these [00:26:00] last six months that I was in an environment that at one point would have been so overwhelming for my nervous system. But now I'm able to just like witness and take in the stimulus and the input and allow it to come and go without necessarily attaching to it or reacting to it.
Like it's still annoying. I don't. like loud noises. Like I always say, I'll never get a dog cause I cannot stand the barking. I just, I can't stand it. Like I still get annoyed at sounds and lights, but I don't attach to it and I don't react to it. So there's like still a preference for the way things are, but when things aren't the way that I , prefer them to be.
There's not as much of a reaction and a dysregulation. It's pretty cool. So for example, like Monday mornings is garbage collection day and I sleep with my window open and like some Mondays the garbage trucks would come while I'm still sleeping. [00:27:00] And it was just the absolute worst thing for me to wake up to those loud noises.
And it would just ruin my day and just start my day off in the worst way. And now it's just like a, Oh, There's the garbage truck. That's annoying. I'm going to get up and close the window. And then I move on with my day. It's pretty amazing. I was also co facilitating a medicine session here in Toronto.
for a client. And it was on just off of Bloor street. So we were on a street that is quite traffic busy. It is one of the busiest streets in Toronto. And of course the client had noise canceling headphones and was not distracted by that. I had to be in that room for, I don't know, seven, eight hours throughout the session.
And I was so shocked that I could be in that room without having. a reaction to the traffic noise outside. I know this is very specific, but [00:28:00] I'm just, I'm so happy about this. So what I think happened was that the nervous system was in a state of dysregulation and it had so much suppressed energy inside of the body that It was like looking for any little thing to attach to and hold on to so that energy could be released.
And once that energy had been released, if you guys listen to my trip report about 5MU, I had major somatic releases, like literally was like having a like exorcism. seizure type of experience. I energetically released so much. So what I think happened is that because I already released the energy in my body, it's no longer inside of me wanting to come out.
So this is huge. I feel that I can finally move into the city. Now I lived in Vancouver a couple of years ago when I had to move because the traffic noise in the apartment [00:29:00] drove me nuts. I couldn't do it. I was high strung and stressed out. All day and basically just waiting for the next really loud car motor to drive by my street So I feel that now even though I will search for an apartment in a quieter residential area I feel that I am able to move into the city now, which has been a goal of mine for a while.
And yeah, I'm just curious to see how my nervous system will react to that. And yeah, just, I'm also very interested in learning more about vagal theory and the nervous system, because I feel that this has been a massive missing piece for me. And I definitely am interested in incorporating nervous system regulation work into my own work.
So that's number one. Let's move on to number two. This is also huge. My heart energy is just flowing. It is felt everywhere in all areas of my life, [00:30:00] especially my work right now. I'm very work motivated and focused at this time. And that heart energy is just flowing so strongly, so consistently, so beautifully.
This is directly related to my intention of releasing Blocks around financial abundance and in finding clarity and focus on my purpose with work. So on my healing journey with psychedelics. I have gone so deep into myself and dusted off and shaken off and purged so many pieces of myself that were not my truth.
So many pieces of trauma, so many lies, so many stories that were not true. I went so deep into myself to the point where all that was left was love, right? I got to scrape off all of the things that were not. love. And I think all of that medicine work and inner work that I've been doing has [00:31:00] allowed me and prepared me to receive 5meo in this way that I did, which was this massive heart opening, this massive understanding of love being the greatest truth and the only truth.
I think that this experience truly allowed me to get to that final layer, to The part that is left, the part that is always there, the part that is true, you know, perhaps that is my soul. Perhaps that is the piece of God that we all have within ourselves. But I got to the point where all that was left was love and love was the final destination and five MEO.
got me there. Actually I got myself there. Let's be a little bit more specific, but yeah, this medicine experience really allowed me to go there and to fully be one with it and experience it rather than have an [00:32:00] idea and an understanding of it. I always thought of God as love. I always thought of like this energy, this thing that connects us all that is true, that is everywhere, that is internal, that is infinite.
Like to me, that was always love. I never thought of God as like a being or a entity or a place for me. It was always the energy of love. And this experience confirmed that to be true for me. So yeah, the final layer has always been love.
I really just went so deep until I got to that ultimate truth, and that ultimate truth is love, it is a knowing, it's an intuition, it's unshakable, and there were just so many layers between me, like this human, Lana, and the love that has always been there and will always be there.
So how does this tie into my [00:33:00] work, right? Right now my business is experiencing a major blossoming. stage. It's very exciting. And I think this is because I have expanded my capacity to go deeper, to be sharper, to be clearer with myself and with my work. And this is impacting the Caliber, the quality, the essence, the energy of the podcast that I create, the messages that I put out there and the way that I show up for my one on one coaching clients.
Things are just moving very fast. Right now, there's so many opportunities for me right now that I have to pick and choose which ones I want to take this heart energy. This love energy that I have opened up to is just flowing. It's attracting a lot of these [00:34:00] amazing opportunities. And my job is to choose where I want to direct my focus and my energy towards.
I've. Worked a really long time to get to this point. So it feels pretty surreal to be here. Like more and more people are hiring me for coaching. I actually have just a few spots left before I'm fully booked. For like the spring into summer season, this has not happened. And I just, I don't think it's a coincidence.
I really contribute it to this heart energy that is flowing through me, flowing into my work and allowing me to work at a higher level than ever before. I'm really creating. From that place. I'm living from that place. And it's beautiful. I had this realization during integration that money is simply energy, which I did know before, but the missing piece was that money and everything else in life is energy.
wants [00:35:00] to flow freely. It wants to flow just like the energy in my heart is flowing. So as I'm like tuning into this love energy in my heart and how it is flowing, I'm like, wow. Okay. Like how can everything in my life flow in this way? Like That's the ultimate integration. Like That's the ultimate way and state of being , that's the top of the mountain for me.
So when I apply that to something like money. Okay, cool. That block around money is that. Money has not been flowing freely, like heart energy, like love energy in my life. So as long as I'm living from the heart, creating from the heart, I am open to life, including being open to money. So I'm really learning right now how to be open to it, noticing ways that I close myself off from receiving money and compensation for the work and the value that I provide.
And the other thing is, I'm not afraid to spend my money anymore. I have gotten so good with what's the word like budgeting, [00:36:00] like really keeping track of my finances and making sure that my money is flowing into the places that align with where I want to go. I'm noticing like where I'm overspending, where I want to spend more on, what I want to save for.
I've gotten really good at being clear and direct with my money. I'm not afraid to spend it anymore. I'm not grasping onto it because I trust as long as I stay in this energy of love, as long as I stay in this flow, as long as I allow my life to flow with this energy in my heart. I will continue to give and receive money into my life.
This is revolutionary for someone who has struggled with money. Their entire life and who has also struggled with receiving money and who has struggled with like stories around like what having Money means at the end of the day. It's incredibly important in this materialistic world that we live in to have the financial resources to support ourselves Because when we don't, that is where [00:37:00] all of our energy and all of our focus is going towards.
So it's not really like money is important because of the sake of the money. It's money is important so that I don't have to worry and I don't have to stress and I can focus on the things that I really want to focus on. Yeah, I'm just happy that this is finally being addressed.
Cause it's like, Like my relationship with my dad. It's one of those things that I've just not been wanting to look at. And I'm not like very motivated by money. When I think about my work and my career and the services that I would like to provide in exchange for money. I'm not like motivated by like, how much money can I make?
And like, how can I, get rich the fastest? I'm very deeply motivated by impact and by a purpose driven life. I'm deeply motivated by the impact that I create. That's the most important to me.. So for me, having this understanding that money is simply energy that flows in and out of your life. It just really [00:38:00] simplifies things and it helps me understand that , there's nothing that needs to stop me from receiving money and there's nothing that needs to stop me from spending my money.
So yeah, it's been really nice. Work wise, this heart energy is also showing up. I am In a just intense, I am in just such a flow with everything that I'm creating right now. I'm really like dreaming big. I'm not questioning myself. If I can make things happen. I'm just taking action to make them happen.
I'm finishing a another coach training right now. And after that, I'm just so excited I'm going to be building a Coaching course, you know for people who want to work with me, but aren't able to afford my one on one coaching package I want to build a course that is a diy course. So look out for that I'm, also launching a mastermind program at the end of this year and you guys I'm I have just, yeah, [00:39:00] quietly and diligently been working away at my dreams behind the scenes, little worker elf, one step at a time. One thing I haven't really been talking about, I've been very tight lipped about this. I'm starting a new company. I wasn't planning on it. The opportunity simply fell into my lap. It just fell into my lap. And I was like. Oh, this makes sense. I should take this opportunity. It's aligned.
It's good. I believe in this. I believe this is something that will be a beautiful offering and a service to humanity and something that is going to elevate everything that I'm already doing and be aligned with everything that I'm already doing. So it's a CPG product, which is so out of my comfort zone.
And I always said I would never have a CPG product. But instead of questioning it and making up excuses as to why I can't do it, I'm just doing it. I'm just doing it because like I said, it made a lot of sense. It was aligned and it was an amazing opportunity. So I took the opportunity and I'm not in my way about it.[00:40:00]
And I'm so excited to share what this is going to be with you guys very soon. But overall things just feel effortless when I am living from this heart energy. Things are just flowing. It's really showing up in my work. And I really do see that it's because I have been cracked open after 5meo to fully allow the love in my heart to flow freely without condition, without fear to just allow this to be my natural way of being and existing in life.
I'm definitely not perfect at it. Okay. I'm not perfect at it at all. I'm definitely not coming from this place all day every day all the time But it is something that I am working on integrating. It is something that I am working on making my default state of being So life for me right now is all about flowing with the energy of love in my heart allowing life money work to just flow in alignment with my heart.
And [00:41:00] I'm realizing that the thing that makes people truly powerful is living from the heart. That's true power. And that's because the people who are living from the heart, the people who love unconditionally, they're the most powerful because love is the energy that holds it all. Love is the most powerful energy.
Love is the most powerful truth. So when we are that, Not just when we're showing love, but when we are truly being love, like that's just the most powerful place. And when we are in that place of living in alignment with love, it is when we can have just the most beautiful impact
okay. I can't believe we're only at number three. I just have so much to share. Number three is that I have this super awareness that has been activated. Super awareness. I've always been very aware. I've always been very conscious, but now it's like super aware, super conscious. There's very little that I miss these days when it comes to self [00:42:00] reflection.
So for example, I'm seeing all of the ways that I don't love unconditionally, and in regards to that last point, I'm seeing all the ways that I don't show gratitude for myself or for this life, I'm seeing all of the ways that I'm harming myself, that I'm not showing my self love and it's all just really apparent.
It's all just right in front of my face. I can't not see it anymore. And like April, May was when this was really reaching a peak. That was when I was like really frustrated because In a way it's like it's easier if you don't see these things because then there's no work to do like you're not when you don't see that there is a misalignment then there's no work to do to come back into alignment even though you'll feel it in these subtle ways you won't know why that is but in a way it's also not easier because you're not actually truly living life at the highest level of alignment with love.
And with yourself.
So what does the super awareness actually look like? [00:43:00] I'm much more receptive to feedback in my life. So for example, if something isn't working, if something's draining me, if something's not supporting me, if something's harming me in any way, I can just see it a lot more easily. I can accept it. And then I can move on from that place.
Whereas before I think I was almost like blocking myself from seeing these things because I almost needed these things to cope with the dysregulation with you know, whatever Whatever reason I developed these coping strategies in the first place But I think since I've released that I don't really need the coping strategies anymore So the awareness is saying like why are you doing this?
Literally, why are you doing this to yourself? Why? So there's just like these things that I simply can't ignore anymore. And all of the ways that I'm not taking care of my energy. I'm not nourishing that heart energy. I'm not creating the conditions for that heart energy to flow and thrive.
I just, I can't ignore it [00:44:00] anymore, which leads me to my next point. So number four, the fourth. Change that I have seen in my life since five MEO is so many lifestyle changes. I did an episode on this a few episodes ago. I think it was 92. Don't quote me on that, but we'll link it in the show notes.
It's something like, it's called making lasting lifestyle changes during psychedelic integration. And I think I give five or 10 tips. During that but as a result of this hyper awareness the super awareness and me asking myself like literally Why am I doing things that are not good for harvesting not good for nourishing this energy of love?
Like literally why am I doing this some of the things that I have changed are My cannabis consumption so I noticed that cannabis when I overindulge, which I definitely was. Drains my energy when I overindulge, so I have really reduced my consumption particularly I'm not smoking as much and I'm not consuming during the week really.
I have finally found these water soluble THC drops, which I am [00:45:00] loving. So the smoking has reduced and I find that when I consume THC through inhalation. I think the Damage the toxicity of smoking and inhaling on my cells is really felt because I feel so much more drained and so much more tired The day after because you know when we inhale smoke we are causing damage to ourselves and that damage is felt through exhaustion Sluggishness grogginess all of that.
So I've reduced cannabis particularly inhalation Partying and substances. So you guys know I had quite a year and summer of partying last year. I think I was honestly celebrating my healing. Like after Iboga, I was just like, life is so great. I just want to celebrate. So I think I got a little carried away with it.
But it was all good because it was what I needed and it was fun. And I definitely don't regret it. However, I I am realizing that,
I am definitely feeling more [00:46:00] sensitive to substances themselves. So 5 MeO can make you much more sensitive to many psychedelic substances and other substances. So just naturally I'm consuming. A lot less of them. I'm definitely going out less, partying less, and that's simply a result of wanting to make space for this integration period and nurture my energy.
I'm just being a little bit more picky, a little bit more selective about when I go out. I don't think, I don't shame myself or blame myself or make myself wrong or anyone wrong for having partying as part of their lifestyle. Like it's definitely part of my lifestyle. I've, and it will continue to be, I've just really reduced the frequency of it and the way that I engage in it.
, I mentioned in episode 79 that I stopped nicotine. Like cold turkey at the retreat and you guys I have not touched it. I have not even craved it I'm, really happy about that movement, right? I talked a little bit about movement moving the energy So yeah, i've been adding a little more movement into my day, just really being gentle with it.
[00:47:00] Meditation. I'm dabbling with it. It's definitely not an everyday thing, more like a couple of times a week thing, but wanting to just bring it in more and start working with meditation . I'm definitely watching a lot less TV. I'm choosing to, spend my time doing other things like reading, stretching.
Sometimes it will definitely be scrolling though. I'm definitely the person. who doesn't stop working. Like Janelle, my friend Janelle from Wakeful Travel, you guys might know her called me the other night to chat and it was like 10 PM and she was like, what are you doing? And I was like, Oh, just in bed planning content.
I think I was scripting this episode. And she was like, yep, I get it. Classic, just always working. So I definitely work a lot because I enjoy it so much, but. I'm trying to rest a lot more and my diet is my diet is just always improving. I feel like I'm always working on my diet, but. The most noticeable and significant change is my sugar addiction.
I'm so so pleased to report that it [00:48:00] is Pretty under control right now at this moment I'm, not really consuming a lot of sugar and when I do it's like dark chocolate or dates with some nuts And I only will have two squares Of chocolate rather than eating the whole bar. So that's been Such a good change that i've been wanting to address for so long and honestly didn't think I could do it But just eating those healthy balanced meals every day not skipping meals learning about glucose spikes and glucose levels from glucose goddess Who's amazing?
I have been able to make a lot of progress on this and Sugar is just so much more dysregulating for me and it just impacts my energy. I'm also not consuming caffeine yet So yeah, it's been six, maybe closer to seven months of no caffeine and my energy has really been stabilized. And I have to say, I'm like sleeping a lot better as well.
So yeah, let's go to number five.
So hidden blocks, hidden blocks and stories are becoming more clear to [00:49:00] me. This is related to my intention around removing blocks around finances and love. So I had this realization during integration that the reason I'm blocking love, right? I am single. I have been single for five years.
I don't really date. I don't really like people. I'm like very, I don't know. It's just hard for me because I'm so busy and I am so career focused at the moment. And I'm just. I'm looking for someone who can really meet me and hold me where I'm at. So I don't know there's that, but then there's also the story that I'm telling myself, which came up for me during integration that I'm blocking love because I am afraid that if I fall in love, everything else in my life that is going well right now is going to crumble.
I have so much going on. I need to be fully on. I need to be fully activated. I need to be fully present. And if I'm not, then everything will crash. Everything will fall apart. [00:50:00] I won't be able to show up for my clients. I won't be able to create a new podcast every single week. I will let down my team.
I will let down my clients, right? It's like, I'm putting so much pressure on myself to operate at such a high caliber right now that I'm blocking love because I think if I fall in love, I will lose myself. I will get totally wrapped up in the experience of falling in love, and I'm going to disappear into the person because that's what's happened to me before.
And so I pushed love away. So this was, this was a major breakthrough for me. I didn't even realize that I was holding onto the story subconsciously. So I've been working on reframing that into this idea that the right love the real love, the right person will only lift everything up. That's the new story that I'm working with.
Another block around love that I have found is that I actually don't know [00:51:00] if I'm ready to hold a man of the caliber that I'm looking for. And I have to be ready for that. I have to be ready to hold him in the same way that I want him to hold me, like in all of my greatness and all of my power, but also in all of my darkness and in all of my flaws.
And when I ask myself, if I'm ready to hold someone in that way, if I'm ready to hold someone in the way that I want to be held, I'm actually not sure. So this is something that I'm currently working on.
I also got an insight around my core abandonment wound. I shared about this in episode 87, my full psychedelic healing journey, if you guys want to check that out. But yeah, I realized that this abandonment wound wasn't even created by a parent or another person. It was created by me. I abandoned myself because the world abandoned me.
and made me feel like I wasn't enough. So I was trying to like, live up to the standard that society and [00:52:00] the world was telling me I had to be at. And in trying to live up to that, I was abandoning who I truly am. And what I truly want to be and who I truly want to be. So I abandoned myself and lost myself in others and in the world.
And I talk a little bit more about this in episode 87, but this realization it helped me release a lot of anger and frustration that I felt towards people in my life for Quote unquote abandoning me and particularly my father, which leads me to my next point. So my relationship with my dad is actually improving.
I'm so So happy about this like our little family unit is starting to feel the way that I always wanted it to feel And it just it makes me so happy My relationship with my father is definitely the most challenging relationship If you've been following along, you know, i've been working on this for years.
It's the relationship. It's the thing that I just I never want to address, I never want to look at, but as soon as [00:53:00] I came back from the retreat and like, when I saw my dad at the airport, I was just crying. I was I was still in it, I was still in the experience, but I was crying so much, I was so tender.
I gave my dad a big hug and I told him that I just, I don't want to fight with him anymore. And I wish that this was the end of the story and that I could say, Say, yeah, we never fought again, but that's not the case. We've definitely had a couple, I think maybe two arguments between us in these six months, but what I am noticing, and this is definitely more recent, like this is more in the last two months, I would say definitely this past month.
It's been strong, but I am noticing this like deeper connection. to my dad and a deeper compassion for him. I have always had a really hard time finding compassion for him because I've just had so much anger towards him. And now that I've released that anchor, it's like, okay, there's space for [00:54:00] compassion.
There's space for wanting to understand him. During our last argument, we actually caught like really tender with each other and it was beautiful. I just felt. Finally seen by him and I think maybe he felt the same. So yeah, this has been just so beautiful. How many times can I say the word beautiful?
It's my favorite word. But yeah, I'm just, I'm also really feeling this change in my dynamic and relation to my parents. Like I'm, I feel since five MEO, like death is constantly knocking on my door. I just feel very. aware of the fleeting nature of life. I'm very aware that one day I'm going to die and my mom is going to die and my dad is going to die.
[00:55:00] And there's a lot of grief that will be experienced in the future. So I don't know, I have this awareness of death looming. And it just makes me want to make the most of the time that I have left here, especially the time that I have left with my parents. And I'm just so grateful for everything that they've done for me in my life and all the ways that they've supported me.
Okay. I'm getting really emotional, but yeah, I'm just like so grateful for them. And I guess this is also just like maturing and getting older, but I want to be able to give them even just a little bit of what they have given me. And, oh wow. Okay. Need a minute here. I just, I'm really enjoying spending time with them lately and learning [00:56:00] more about them and actually connecting with them.
It's just, it's very special. And this idea that like death is always looming. Because I died during my 5meo experience, right? Like my ego ceased to exist. I left my body. I died because I have this like awareness of death. Now, every moment in my life feels like I'm living and dying at the same time. So it's like every single moment.
I have this deep awareness that. This moment is fleeting. And as much as I'm living my life, I'm also one step closer to death every single day. And like carrying that with me just makes me approach life completely differently. Oh, okay. Got to wipe my [00:57:00] tears. So let's go to number seven. Number seven is prioritizing beauty in life and exploring my passions.
I mentioned in the first episode that one of the first things that I realized after my ceremony was that I want to give myself permission to experience the beauty in life and that the world never really allowed me to do that. And I'm allowing myself to do that. So I want to surround myself in love and beauty.
everywhere, making the most out of all of the beauty that is here on earth. I've really fallen more deeply in love with my passions and I'm really giving myself space to explore them. Funny enough, fashion is a big area for me right now, particularly in the realm of really finding and fine tuning and understanding my personal style and who I am and my point of Style and my point of view when I [00:58:00] get dressed in the morning and it's been really wonderful to go on this journey of self discovery So I share about this in episode 95 if you're interested, I think it was two episodes ago Yeah, two episodes ago so you can check that out if you're interested in more
Yeah, since starting this inner work. I kind of You Like abandoned and pushed away this part of life, like fashion and style and the way that you appear and the way that you present yourself and the way that you carry yourself. It just wasn't really important to me, but I do understand that there is a role that.
Fashion and the clothing that I wear in my life and how I experience life so I'm really wanting to lean into that and explore that and Evolve my life in this way and just feel good feel expressed through my style and I feel so fortunate to be So privileged, so blessed to be at a point in my journey of growth that like, this is what I'm [00:59:00] addressing, it's so much of the big stuff is out of the way.
And now, like I said, it's just about these little details, fine tuning and refinement. Like what I'm finding is that it's not superficial to be interested in fashion. It's egoic. Yes. It's absolutely egoic because it's about projecting a certain image, but it's fun. And there's like a challenging part of it, which is okay.
Putting aside that it is totally egoic. Well, I do have an ego. I do have a personality. I am a human who, even though at my truth and at my core, I am a part of this experience of life connected to everyone and everything around me. Like, Yes, that might be ultimate truth. And I'm also separate from others.
I'm also my own separate person. I'm also my own unique expression. I'm also on my own unique journey. So when I get dressed in the morning, [01:00:00] I want to ask myself who am I? Who am I? And how can I express who I am through how I present myself? It's kind of like treating yourself like a work of art and allowing yourself to be this work of art and like sculpting and shaping yourself on the outside, just as you would.
On the inside. I don't know. I'm loving it though. And I'm just like allowing it I'm fanning the flames and just letting my passion for this go wild letting myself indulge my ego while at the same time knowing that it's just for fun and ultimately like the truth is that I am love at my core And that's really what matters but I am here on earth.
So Why not have fun with it? Why not experience all the beauty in all the ways? Another passion of mine that I have had my entire adult life is cooking and healthy eating. I've really been diving deeper into this as well, partially because I want to take better care of my body and pay better attention to the nourishment that I feed [01:01:00] myself.
But it's also because cooking is so fun and so beautiful, and it brings me so much joy. I just, Adore the process of like chopping vegetables and cooking them and watching them transform and putting all these ingredients together and creating this dish and plating it and garnishing it and serving it as a meal to people that I love like nothing makes me happier than that.
If I wasn't doing what I'm doing right now, like my dream job would be probably to be a food and travel writer and or maybe like have a food and travel show and go around the world trying different cuisines and food. I just really enjoy food. It's such a beautiful way to experience life and pleasure and culture and beauty.
So yeah. I love that. Okay. The last point here is the eighth way that 5MEO has changed my life is I have a deepened understanding of infinite love or God or the universe or non [01:02:00] duality.
Okay. So we're about to get a little bit philosophical and depthy here, but this deepened understanding of the essence of love, the essence of God has changed me. I am not at all claiming that I understand it fully and that I understand it all because I don't think that it is possible to understand it all.
And the mystery, like the great mystery, right? It's a part of this human life, but I do have a deepened understanding of it. A another glimmer, another layer of this great mystery has revealed itself to me. . This is directly related to my intention of show me love the medicine at the end of the day, no matter what substance you're taking, no matter what you're doing.
The real medicine is to remember. That you are love, that is your true essence. So what I have learned through this is that love is the only truth. God in its purity is love. And again, replace the word God with universe or whatever. When [01:03:00] I talk about God, I am saying this bigger, higher, mysterious thing, force, energy that is responsible for all of this and that we are all a part of.
I am seeing more clearly that the universe is a neutral thing. The universe does not have a preference for like good or bad. In fact, the universe doesn't even have a concept of good or bad. Everything simply just is to the universe. And we can kind of approach life in this way when we're operating at these, this high level of consciousness, level seven energy, as I would call it in my coaching practice.
But the universe doesn't want one thing over the other. And this is the problem that I have with like manifestation schools of thought, like the universe wants this for you, or the universe wants that for you. I don't believe that. I don't think the universe wants anything. I believe that the universe or [01:04:00] God is simply experiencing all that is and all that will ever be through the creation of it all.
God is simply experiencing itself through everything. And in that way, we are God. a part of God. We are a sliver of it. But when we take all of it together, that is God. That is the universe. So on earth, we're experiencing , this dualistic expression of the ultimate truth. We're experiencing fragments of greater picture, the greater whole the place where it all comes together is love.
Love is the thing that holds it all. If we put all of it together, it is love. It is the place of non duality. It is the infinite, timeless, pure love consciousness. So what? So what? Like, why? Who cares? And I promise I'm not trying to be a spiritual teacher. In fact I, I barely bring spirituality into my podcasts because while I am [01:05:00] someone who Understands there is a greater purpose to this all.
I don't get too lost in it. I have more of a human being type of orientation rather than a spiritual being orientation So it's very rare for me to be speaking about these things But like so what like who why even? Does it matter to have a greater understanding of God or the universe, right?
I can't really say how this has impacted my life directly, other than being awestruck and humbled by this chance to be alive. And awestruck and humbled that I am me, and this person is that person, and that person is that person. I'm just awestruck by it all, by this whole, this whole thing.
I am Very aware of my own physical death that is coming. So life just feels more precious. And yeah, like of course that shapes how I spend my time, what I do, what [01:06:00] I'm putting my energy towards, it just. Yeah, it just simply gives another perspective. So obviously this is my understanding.
Obviously this is a belief, right? I do think love is the ultimate truth. But yeah, I'm just sharing my understanding and the ways that it has been empowering to me. Whether or not it's right, I don't think even really matters. What matters is that this is my perception and that this is my perspective and that this is now my orientation and it is allowing me to fully live my life.
So yeah, without getting like too into it, God is love and love is God. And. When we think about being in service, being in service to the greater power, to the greater love, like a life of service is living from the love in your heart. I think that's what service means to me. And.
Each person has their own unique [01:07:00] expression of this, their own unique expression of what service actually looks like, but it's always rooted to living from love. And what a magical journey it is to discover that. So I'm going to leave on a very high note there. Those are the eight ways that my life has changed after 5-MeO.
I know that was a lot, but I could honestly probably keep talking. There's just so many ways and so many things that have changed for me. I'm definitely still integrating. So who knows, maybe I'll do another integration update in six months. At this time, I have no psychedelic experiences planned.
None. For the first time in the five years that I've been doing medicine work, I have nothing planned. There's still so much work to do with What I got from this experience. And I definitely want to work with 5meo again. But I trust that I'm going to know when I'm ready, but I'm definitely feeling very called to keep [01:08:00] exploring it and learning from it.
I really hope that you enjoyed this episode. If you want to hear more content on 5, again, those episodes, 79 is my trip report. Episode 8 and 84 are interviews with Steve. 84 is really great. It's more recent and it's more of a conversation. It's very deep very much focused on the nuances of the medicine.
. I just have to say thank you again to Steve and Austin at Enfold for all of your loving support and guidance and the entire team there. Thank you for helping me to make truly the most out of this experience. I cannot recommend Enfold enough, like truly, I do not make recommendations lightly at all.
I only recommend retreat centers. Like that I can feel fully confident in sending people to. And like I said, Enfold is just a place that I feel absolutely in alignment, sharing with you guys and recommending you to go to, if you are ready to have your own 5MEO experience.
. If [01:09:00] for whatever reason, Enfold is not the place that you can experience 5MEO please take great care in choosing your facilitators and in making sure that they are able to fully support you To through and from this experience because it is a lot it's definitely not like any other experience And if you are working with 5meo and you want support from a skilled life coach who can help you with prep integration And the whole process get in touch with me.
I have Not many spots left right now But like I said, but you can get in touch with me if you would like to work with me My program is incredibly aligned with the teachings of this medicine, which is really cool Also with Enfold, they have a podcast of five MEO trip reports. It's so well named it's called still in it, which I think it's the perfect name.
So you can check that out. I'll link it in the show notes and their website is enfold. org. And as always, I absolutely love hearing from you. I love hearing your reflections and your sharing. [01:10:00] So my DMs are always open and I answer every single DM I get from listeners. Unless you're trying to sell me something , I usually don't answer those.
I'm sending you lots of love from my heart. Until next time. Thank you so much for listening. Take care.