From COVID Nurse to Plant Medicine Facilitator: Isa Allen on Healing, Sisterhood, and Finding Your Path

Isa 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.

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00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:18 Isa’s Background

03:02 Soup Circle Sisterhood

06:29 Early Sensitivity and Childhood

07:55 Teen Depression and Hospitalization

11:43 Spirituality as Lifeline

17:25 New York Artist Years

21:08 Choosing Nursing Path

24:59 COVID Frontlines Reality

29:56 Mythology and Mexico Leap

32:50 One Way Ticket to Oaxaca

35:06 Restless in Mexico

36:33 Temazcal Sweat Lodge

40:09 Apprenticeship in Folk Medicine

42:56 Peyote and Finding Voice

48:36 Ayahuasca Call to Peru

52:12 Jungle Training and Plant Dietas

55:10 Dark Lessons and Leaving

57:31 Austin Return and Integration

01:02:54 New Mission and Closing