Holistic Life Navigation
320 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago -This podcast explores holistic stress and trauma recovery. I am your host, Luis Mojica. My work, Holistic Life Navigation, was modeled after my own journey in healing myself from chronic illness and PTSD. I share this podcast with many brilliant minds who, like me, healed themselves through unique, unusual, and unorthodox ways.
For more information, please visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com.
Written, produced and recorded by Luis Mojica. Edited by Fredo Viola. Intro/outro song: "Witch Love" by Luis Mojica.
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[Ep. 99] Navigating Co-Regulating With Nature | Luis Mojica
June 19, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this episode, Luis explores how we can find safety in nature when human relationships don't feel safe. A byproduct of colonization is our tendency to view nature a resource we should dominate vs a relative we can relate to. Traumatized nervous systems can often find it difficult to r co-regulate with human beings -- but what about non-human beings? What other beings around might we regularly ignore that could offer us an opportunity for co-regulation? For more information about Luis's w...
[Ep. 98] Ungovernable: Connecting to the Freedom Inside of Me w/ Jaguar Mary X
June 12, 2022 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBJaguar Mary X is an artist who says "I believe that it is my role as an artist to activate and be part of a remembering of the transforming power of communal space. I agree with Nina’s Simone’s dictum that the mission of the artist is to 'respond to the times in which I find myself.'" In this episode we explore their journey of becoming ungovernable, how they are challenging themselves, and the institutions they navigate. Being ungovernable is akin to previous conversations we've had about...
[Ep. 98] Ungovernable: Connecting to the Freedom Inside of Me w/ Jaguar Mary X
June 12, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBJaguar Mary X is an artist who says "I believe that it is my role as an artist to activate and be part of a remembering of the transforming power of communal space. I agree with Nina’s Simone’s dictum that the mission of the artist is to 'respond to the times in which I find myself.'" In this episode we explore their journey of becoming ungovernable, how they are challenging themselves, and the institutions they navigate. Being ungovernable is akin to previous conversations we've had about...
[Ep. 97] Navigating How Manifesting Can Be a Form of Bypassing
June 05, 2022 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBIn this episode, Luis explores how manifesting can keep us from building the capacity to be with the present. When focusing on what may come in the future, we are focusing on what we want rather than what we have. Manifesting isn't bad. But how can we also find ways to attune to the calm, joy, or beauty that is happening around us? For more information about Luis's work, please visit: www.holisticlifenavigation.com
[Ep. 97] Navigating How Manifesting Can Be a Form of Bypassing | Luis Mojica
June 05, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this episode, Luis explores how manifesting can keep us from building the capacity to be with the present. When focusing on what may come in the future, we are focusing on what we want rather than what we have. Manifesting isn't bad. But how can we also find ways to attune to the calm, joy, or beauty that is happening around us? For more information about Luis's work, please visit: www.holisticlifenavigation.com You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlife...
[Ep. 96] Self Attunement: The Story of Madam CJ Walker w/ A'Lelia Bundles
May 22, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBThis episode is so deliciously wonderful. We had the honor to sit down and speak with A'Lelia Bundles, the great-great-granddaughter of Madam CJ Walker. This episode is all about resiliency and intergenerational wisdom. A'Lelia generously shares what she learned about her lineage as she was writing her great-great-grandmother's biography. We explore how a woman who was the very first person in her family born outside of slavery was able to navigate a society they didn't value her and go o...
[Ep. 95] Beans: How They Create Life & Heal Trauma (Debunking The Myths) w/ Karen Hurd
May 15, 2022 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MBOut of all the things we explore on this podcast, who would've thought beans would be the most controversial? So we had to invite Karen Hurd, the Queen of Beans, back to the show to help sift through some of these bean myths. In this episode, we cover the common concerns and fears people have about beans including: Why do beans give me gas? Don't beans have a lot of antinutrients? Don't phytates and lectins stunt growth? Should we avoid grains, nuts, and seeds in addition to beans? Lu...
[Ep. 94] Navigating Overcouplings: Why We Overrreact | Luis Mojica
May 08, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MB"You're not overreacting, you're overcoupled." In this episode, Luis explores how we can begin the work of recognizing when our bodies are being reminded of a past traumatic experience and how we can uncouple that from situations where there is no threat present. For more information about Luis's work, please visit: www.holisticlifenavigation.com You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can register for the webina...
[Ep. 93] Somatic Psychology: Liberating Yourself From Sitting In A Chair w/ Aiyisha Castillo
May 01, 2022 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MB"I'm not weird, I'm just from somewhere different." Today's episode is all about honoring our "weird" -- the call to break from the norm, standard, or "right way". Aiyisha Castillo is a Somatic Therapist, Intuitive Bodyworker and Yoga Teacher. She felt called to enter into the holistic field after returning from a 2 1/2 year trip to Africa. Her love for bodies and their innate wisdom is what guides her practice today. In this episode, Aiyisha shares with us why and how she has eschew...
[Ep. 92] Navigating How To Be Curious AND Have Boundaries | Luis Mojica
April 24, 2022 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBIn this episode, Luis explores how we can affirm our bodies' boundaries while also exploring from a place of curiosity vs. judgement, i.e. how to turn judgment into curiosity to heal trauma. Our brains work really hard to categorize things into "safe" and "threat" consistently. Not knowing is scary because it invites vulnerability. When we have a traumatized system, we sense threat in most places. Judgment takes us from our needs, from our felt sense and we go into our mind to figure it ...
[Ep. 91] Can Joy Exist With Pain? w/ Nisha Mody
April 17, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBNisha Mody is a 'healing hype girl"! What stands out about Nisha is her practice of noticing the joy along with pain. This practice of seeing joy as complex, nuanced, and juicy is so important. It is very easy to mistake this practice for bypassing but Nisha shares with us how this is critically different. Bypassing is when we ignore the event or the impact of the event on us. However, a practice of noticing the joy along with pain allows us to be aware of pain but not constantly attune or ...
[Ep. 90] Navigating Our Bodies As Our Ancestors | Luis Mojica
April 10, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MB"The first alter of our ancestors is the body." This quote from Amber McZeal beautifully illustrates the connection between relating to our bodies, the land, and our lineage. To move from colonization to decolonization, i.e. be in relationship with rather than dominance of, applies to our bodies just as it applies to land. When we're in relationship with our bodies, we're in relationship with the land and vice versa. In this episode, Luis explores how, through ancestral healing work and...
[Ep. 89] Building Capacity For Difference | Camille Leak
April 03, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBToday's episode is all about building capacity for difference: having the capacity to express our differences and having the capacity to receive the differences of others. Camille Leak is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Practitioner and the Community Manager for Holistic Life Navigation -- in these roles, she helps to facilitate uncomfortable conversations. She is also and a former student of my 6-week course. Her approach to navigating difference really stood out to me during the co...
[Ep. 88] Navigating: Do I Use My Energy To Change You Or Connect To Myself? | Luis Mojica
March 27, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBToday's episode navigates whether we use our energy to change others or connect to ourselves. Why do we so often devote our energy to changing, motivating, or even talking about others? Releasing the need to change others in order to find safety in them, allows us the energy and space to begin to find safety in ourselves through self-relationship and embodiment. For more information visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com. You can register for the free email series here: https://w...
[Ep. 87] The Sovereign Body: How Seeing Our Bodies As Independent Actually Help Us Connect To Them | Jeana & Friends
March 20, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 51 MBToday's episode is SO good. I welcome past students and current members of my membership to talk about the topic of the sovereign body. It's a strange idea at first: the body not being us. However, the more we practice it and notice it, the more obvious it becomes and the more helpful it becomes. Why? Because we're able to actually relate to it as its own being, instead of a thing that's supposed to work for us or that we own. Enjoy this episode with these gorgeous people who I can hone...
[Ep. 86] Navigating Freeze Response: How To Thaw & Move Out Of It | Luis Mojica
March 13, 2022 13:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBToday's episode navigates how to thaw and move out of a freeze response. In it, I attempt to release the stigma from freeze response as being unmotivated, lacking willpower, or lazy. Instead, we can actually honor the sophistication of the freeze response and understand that it needs help thawing. Somatic embodiment and self-relationship allow us to help the freeze response thaw so that the body can begin moving, feeling, and releasing. For more info visit: https://www.holisticlifenaviga...
[Ep. 85] Loving Your Neurodivergence: Thriving With ADHD | Megan Kierstead
March 06, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBToday's episode is all about honoring our nature. Not who we want to be or think we should be: but where we are in this moment and how we can nurture that to thrive. Megan Kierstead is a coach for people with ADHD & neurodivergent expressions. In this episode she shares some helpful tools for being functional with a unique nervous system. Specifically: your feeling of dysfunction are really caused from the friction of the world not being made for you. This world is so diverse and vast. Th...
[Ep. 85] Loving Your Neurodivergence: Thriving With ADHD | Megan Kierstead
March 06, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBToday's episode is all about honoring our nature. Not who we want to be or think we should be: but where we are in this moment and how we can nurture that to thrive. Megan Kierstead is a coach for people with ADHD & neurodivergent expressions. In this episode she shares some helpful tools for being functional with a unique nervous system. Specifically: your feeling of dysfunction are really caused from the friction of the world not being made for you. This world is so diverse and vast. Th...
[Ep 84] Navigating The Difference Between "Who Am I?" & "Where Am I?" | Luis Mojica
February 27, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBToday's episode navigates the difference between the questions Who Am I? & Where Am I? Releasing the need to "know" myself for the practice of being with whatever is in myself at that moment allows me to be relate to all parts of me. Notice the difference in your body as you listen. For more info visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com. You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can register for the webinar ...
[Ep. 83] Trust Yourself With Money | Brigitt Thompson (Author)
February 20, 2022 13:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBOn today's episode, I welcome back Brigitt Thompson. We speak about money through the lens of somatics & trauma. How we value it, what we have overcoupled with it, and pieces of wisdom & personal experiences from Brigitt's book Trust Yourself With Money. Take your time through this episode. Notice what comes up in your body to speak to you about your relationship to money and what you inherited through your family & culture. These values may not be yours. For more information, visit Brig...
[Ep. 82] Navigating The Four F's Of Trauma Response: Fight, Flight, Freeze, & Fawn | Luis Mojica
February 13, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this episode, I speak about the four responses our bodies have to trauma: fight, fight, freeze, and fawn, Each response serves the purpose to help you survive a potential life threat. We're all here because of these automatic responses. Learning the nuance of each response helps us better recognize them when they're "turning on". Through this recognition, we create a relationship with them and then they're able to transform and release. On Tuesday June 28th, 2022 I'll be hosting a live...
[Ep. 81] Practicing Self-Inquiry To Relate Deeply With Your Body | James-Olivia Chu Hillman (Teacher & Facilitator)
February 06, 2022 13:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBI welcome my friend James-Olivia Chu Hillman back to my podcast to discuss their experience of practicing embodiment while also practicing self-inquiry. One practice is of feeling, the other is of thinking. Both interact, relate, and deeply affect the other. This is such a tender, deep, gorgeous conversation and I thank them for coming to it from where they truly were in the moment. For more info on their work, you can visit: Official Website Instagram You can register for the free emai...
[Ep. 80] Navigating Sexual Trauma w/ Luis Mojica
January 26, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBSexual trauma is not dependent on abuse. It simply means that an event was either threatening, or overwhelming, and it involved your sexual organs, sexuality, or your body/mind in a sexual context. In this episode I discuss how experiences like medical trauma & sexual fawning can create sexual trauma - even when sexual assault and abuse are not present. To join my webinar on Feb 1st about sexual trauma, please visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/. If you're seeing this after Febr...
[Ep. 79] The Amazing Gift From Surviving Near Death Many Times | Robin Landsong (Trauma Healer & Teacher)
January 23, 2022 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBToday I'm joined by an incredible woman named Robin Landsong. Her story is one of literal hell and miraculous survival. By age 8 she had already experienced such tremendous abuse and trauma. She found herself being the victim of an abduction and survived several near death experiences in Africa. She was hiding in a tree, after escaping a harrowing situation, when a woman in the village began singing to her. She didn't understand the language, but she felt a sense of safety and vitality awak...
[Ep. 79] The Amazing Gift From Surviving Death Many Times | Robin Landsong (Trauma Healer & Teacher)
January 23, 2022 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBToday I'm joined by an incredible woman named Robin Landsong. Her story is one of literal hell and miraculous survival. By age 8 she had already experienced such tremendous abuse and trauma. She found herself being the victim of an abduction and survived several near death experiences in Africa. She was hiding in a tree, after escaping a harrowing situation, when a woman in the village began singing to her. She didn't understand the language, but she felt a sense of safety and vitality awak...
[Ep. 78] Trauma Talk w/ Karine Bell
January 16, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBToday I'm joined by my friend Karine Bell. We tend to have these long, rolling conversations when we chat and this time, we chose to record it. Karine is a trauma therapist and facilitator of Tending the Roots, an incredible virtual collective that holds space for working with somatic abolitionism, cultural trauma healing, and liberating ourselves from cycles of trauma. You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can ...
[Ep. 77] Navigating How Music Began To Heal My Trauma | Luis Mojica
January 12, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this episode I speak about the spontaneous healing that I began to experience from playing music as a teenager. Looking back, I can see how I was co-regulating and creating safety within myself. I describe it in this episode & offer a song of mine for your own nervous system to experience and relate to. To sign up for my next 6-week course, please visit: http://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/ You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-som...
[Ep. 76] Navigating Capacity & Desire: How To "Stop Self-Sabotaging" w/ Luis Mojica
January 09, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBSometimes we don't have the physical capacity to handle the things we desire. Relationships, money, jobs, even feeling joy - these seemingly beautiful experiences can overwhelm our nervous systems and bodies depending on our trauma histories & present-moment capacity. This episode explores the difference between capacity and desire through 2 exercises that show you how your body responds to the things you think you want as well as how to tune into what your actual capacity is right now. Fo...
[Ep. 75] Navigating How We Leave Our Bodies When We Grasp At The Mind | Luis Mojica
January 05, 2022 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBIn this episode, I navigate how we lose our bodies when we grasp at the mind. I'm inspired by my friend & colleague James-Olivia Chu Hillman who wrote about this concept through their lens and experience. I share this here, as well as my own experience with this phenomenon. To sign up for my next course, please visit: http://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/ You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can register for t...
[Ep. 74] The Charrette Process: Finding Commonality With Those Who Oppose You | Bill Riddick (Therapist & Author)
January 02, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBBill Riddick is a therapist & facilitator of the Charrette Process. In 1971, he played a pivotal role in desegregating the school district in Durham, NC. During this particular charrette, he paired together a black civil rights activist with a white KKK leader. The result was profound. What he teaches me in this episode is that conflict heals through understanding & respect. Sharing information, curiosity, expressing feelings, and learning about those who oppose you can actually transform ...
[Ep. 73] Navigating The Roots Of Comfort Food | Luis Mojica
December 29, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBIn this episode, I navigate the roots of comfort food. What drives our body's desire to eat heavy, emotionally satisfying foods? I was inspired to talk about this after I heard Rupaul & Michell Visage talking on What's The Tee about why kale doesn't comfort them like a fried sandwich does. There's a biology behind our food habits and it relates to trauma. How adrenalized we are (or are not) affects which foods we move toward. When we understand the roots to these cravings, we get in touch...
[Ep. 72] Non-Violent Communication Through The Somatic Lens | Meenadchi (Holistic Practitioner)
December 26, 2021 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBMeenadchi joins me today to discuss Non-Violent Communication. It's an incredible method designed by Marshall Rothenburg & it helps us identify our needs, emotions, and requests so we can be clear in our relationships. I, personally, hit a wall with NVC because I didn't find it to be trauma-informed enough for me. This is where Meenadchi comes in. They teach and lead NVC workshops through the lens of somatic embodiment, trauma awareness, and decolonial culture. In addition, they're the on...
[Ep. 71] Navigating The Difference Between Duty & Desire | Luis Mojica
December 22, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this episode I navigate the states of duty & desire. I talk about noticing which traditions and habits we've inherited and upheld from a sense of duty & which we've inherited and upheld from a sense of desire. I also include a short exercise around feeling the now & noticing the difference between how now feels compared to the duty we're dreading. To sign up for my next 6-week course, please visit http://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/. You can register for the free email series here...
[Ep. 70] The Biology Of Trauma & How SE Helps | Dr. Abi Blakeslee
December 19, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBUnderstanding that trauma is a biology, not a mindset, is what makes somatic therapy so unique and beautiful. Traditional talk therapies tend to focus on the events and identifying how we think and feel about them, but they don't ask us where we feel the events. Trauma is not the event itself, it's the response to the event. I welcome Dr. Abi Blakeslee to my podcast to share her wisdom and insight around the biology of trauma and how that physical state of threat transforms into vitality t...
[Ep. 70] The Biology Of Trauma & How Somatic Experiencing Helps | Dr. Abi Blakeslee
December 19, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBUnderstanding that trauma is a biology, not a mindset, is what makes somatic therapy so unique and beautiful. Traditional talk therapies tend to focus on the events and identifying how we think and feel about them, but they don't ask us where we feel the events. Trauma is not the event itself, it's the response to the event. I welcome Dr. Abi Blakeslee to my podcast to share her wisdom and insight around the biology of trauma and how that physical state of threat transforms into vitality t...
[Ep. 69] Navigating Depression | Luis Mojica
December 12, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this episode, I discuss the somatic experience of depression. Something we see as a fixed state may just be a part of us asking for a break, needing rest, and wanting to recover from overwhelm. I discuss the practice of seeing sensations as beings inside of us. Getting to know them, asking them questions, and letting them show you how they want to be related to. This means there's nothing wrong with us and we're not flawed - we're just responding to things in a healthy way. Notice what ...
[Ep. 69] Navigating Depression w/ Luis Mojica
December 12, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBIn this episode, I discuss the somatic experience of depression. Something we see as a fixed state may just be a part of us asking for a break, needing rest, and wanting to recover from overwhelm. I discuss the practice of seeing sensations as beings inside of us. Getting to know them, asking them questions, and letting them show you how they want to be related to. This means there's nothing wrong with us and we're not flawed - we're just responding to things in a healthy way. Notice what ...
[Ep. 68] Healing Cultural Trauma With Ice-Cream | Tapiwa Guzha (Microbiologist & Ice-Cream Maker)
December 05, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThis episode explores the many nuances and layers around cultural trauma. The reverberations of it. How colonialism works itself into our language, then our values, and then our realities. This is a powerful discussion about a man who reflected on his own internalized racism and colonialism. He talks about how teenagers in Zimbabwe rebel against their own culture, in hopes to be more "Black American" and "civilized". Tapi opened Tapi Tapi Ice Cream in Cape Town, South Africa to teach peopl...
[Ep.67] Making Room Inside Of The Body To Heal Trauma | Brigitt Thompson (Author)
November 28, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBBrigitt Thompson is a writer, author of Trust Yourself With Money, and a former student of my 6-week course. Her personal experiences that arose from the course were so inspiring to me that I wanted to have her on here to reflect back to me, and you, my own work in her own language. What is most important to me is her statement: capacity feels like making room. This practice of making room is the foundation of my work. Making room for parts of us we judge, making room for desire, making ro...
[Ep. 66] Healing Collective & Cultural Trauma | Asha Frost (Indigenous Medicine Woman)
November 21, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBI'm joined by indigenous medicine woman Asha Frost. We explore the nuances of cultural trauma and how to heal that collectively. Asha comes with a unique and powerful sense of unconditional love. Her presence makes this work, amongst natives and non-natives, safe and powerful because she sees us all as relatives and, essentially, needing the same thing: connection to the self, land, and one another. This conversation reminds me how the body is always connected. It's the mind that forgets, b...
[Ep. 65] The Extended Mind: The Power Of Thinking Outside The Brain | Annie Murphy Paul (Author)
November 14, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBI'm joined my science researcher & author Annie Murphy Paul. We talk about how the mind is far more expansive than just the brain - or even the body. Her work intersects with my work to bring new language and data that supports what indigenous and body-focused cultures have always understood: the body relates to everything around it and the brain is only one piece of the equation. This holistic understanding of how we relate, learn, and function is invaluable. Understanding this allows us t...
[Ep. 64] Somatic Education & Educational Trauma | Devie Rose (Holistic Coach & Teacher)
November 07, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBDevie Rosie is my guest today. She works as a substitute teacher for Canada's public school system. She's also a breathwork facilitator who is, both, trauma-informed & has studied somatic psychology. We speak about how learning is dependent on safety, connection, and capacity. Together, we chat about ideas and philosophies on why school can be so traumatic and how, one teacher at a time, we can create deeper co-regulation with students and support their nervous systems to learn and stay pre...
[Ep. 63] Letting Nature Teach Us How To Heal | Tess Whitehurst (Author & Facilitator)
October 31, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBI'm joined by Tess Whitehurst and we speak about how we learn to heal from watching nature and from being in the Earth. I love this discussion because we try to understand, together, the difference between trauma response and reaction. How we use our imagination to create things, yet that same imagination can keep us in a fear response. Tess shares her practice of valuing pain and seeing it as interconnected with joy & life. We both agree that staying open is what allows trauma & pain to ...
[Ep. 63] Letting Nature Teach Us How To Heal | Tess Whitehurst (Author & Facilitator)
October 31, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBI'm joined by Tess Whitehurst and we speak about how we learn to heal from watching nature and from being in the Earth. I love this discussion because we try to understand, together, the difference between trauma response and reaction. How we use our imagination to create things, yet that same imagination can keep us in a fear response. Tess shares her practice of valuing pain and seeing it as interconnected with joy & life. We both agree that staying open is what allows trauma & pain to ...
[Ep. 62] Transforming Your Genes With Food | Karen Hurd (Biochemist & Holistic Nutritionist)
October 24, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBThere is a constant cycle of life & death occurring inside of our bodies at all times. Our DNA & how that DNA expresses can shapeshift at any time depending on our environments, mindsets, and food rituals. This is a blessing because the expressions that are not useful (illness & trauma responses) can also shapeshift into something new. In this episode, I am joined by biochemist & holistic nutritionist Karen Hurd to teach us how food and chemicals interact with our genetic expressions. For ...
[Ep. 61] Understanding Intergenerational Trauma | Mark Wolynn
August 22, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBThis week Luis is joined by a pioneer in intergenerational trauma and author of "It Didn't Start With You", Mark Wolynn. They dive into language and the history of stored and inherited family trauma. They discuss how trauma unconsciously passes down through DNA and the expression of that through verbal and nonverbal trauma language. Mark also tells stories from his practice and talks about rewiring the brain through positive practices. "Scientifically, when a trauma happens, it changes u...
[Ep. 61] Understanding Intergenerational Trauma | Mark Wolynn (Trauma Therapist & Author)
August 22, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBThis week Luis is joined by a pioneer in intergenerational trauma and author of "It Didn't Start With You", Mark Wolynn. They dive into language and the history of stored and inherited family trauma. They discuss how trauma unconsciously passes down through DNA and the expression of that through verbal and nonverbal trauma language. Mark also tells stories from his practice and talks about rewiring the brain through positive practices. "Scientifically, when a trauma happens, it changes u...
[Ep. 60] Energy Is Somatic | Natasha Levinger (Energy Healer)
August 15, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this episode, Luis speaks with Natasha Levinger - energy reader, healer, spiritual coach - about energy work, attunement, Spirit, grief, and more. "What a spiritual experience it is to be in a body." "Attunement is a beautiful thing. I was recently using it in an example of when we’re only attuning to others and not ourselves, that’s when it gets off balance. But attuning to people is also how we have empathy and how we connect and how we notice something’s off." "I easily talk to peop...
[Ep. 60] Energy Is Somatic | Natasha Levinger
August 15, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode, Luis speaks with Natasha Levinger - energy reader, healer, spiritual coach - about energy work, attunement, Spirit, grief, and more. "What a spiritual experience it is to be in a body." "Attunement is a beautiful thing. I was recently using it in an example of when we’re only attuning to others and not ourselves, that’s when it gets off balance. But attuning to people is also how we have empathy and how we connect and how we notice something’s off." "I easily talk to peop...
[Ep. 59] Family Constellation, Somatic Experiencing & Growing Up In An African Tribe | Euphrasia Nyaki
August 08, 2021 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBLuis speaks with Euphrasia Nyaki about her upbringing in Tanzania, the journey to somatic experiencing, engaging the ancestors, family constellation in her practice, and more. "I think those two pieces - the somatic experiencing with the intergenerational work - I feel like that's just the gold. I see so many people who...their bodies are still behaving like their ancestors', unbeknownst to them, because it's in there trying to express itself out, right? But it lacks context. So as you star...