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Holistic Life Navigation
Holistic Life Navigation
344 episodes
17 hours ago
Most of us were alone during our most traumatic experiences—and then left alone to try to heal from them. In this episode, Luis explores why isolation is at the root of so much trauma, how unexpressed survival responses can stay stuck in the body for decades, and why healing requires connection. He shares why group work is so powerful, how somatic practices and whole-food nutrition work together, and what it means to witness your body rather than become it. Register for Food Therapy Explore...
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Most of us were alone during our most traumatic experiences—and then left alone to try to heal from them. In this episode, Luis explores why isolation is at the root of so much trauma, how unexpressed survival responses can stay stuck in the body for decades, and why healing requires connection. He shares why group work is so powerful, how somatic practices and whole-food nutrition work together, and what it means to witness your body rather than become it. Register for Food Therapy Explore...
Show more...
Alternative Health
Health & Fitness,
Nutrition,
Mental Health
Episodes (20/344)
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[Ep. 289] The Avoidant-Anxious Duo: A Match Made In Hell or Heaven?
Let's explore attachment styles. Luis has learned from personal experience that avoidant attachment types are simply bodies overwhelmed by a connection that feels overly needy, like a burden, and as a result they over-identify with independence. Anxious attachment types seek safety outside of themselves, and often end up seeking that safety in an avoidant partner. So anxious types and avoidant types often end up partnered. The overwhelmed avoidant's behavior "proves" to the anxious type...
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2 days ago
22 minutes

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[Ep. 288] Let's Dive Deep Into The Origins Of Avoidant Attachment Styles
Join a crow, a fawn, and Luis on a morning walk to chat about the avoidant attachment style. There is a myth that avoidant attachment style folks are narcissistic psychopaths. He challenges this through the lens of somatics, seeing the avoidant attachment style as a habit in bodies that don't have capacity for connection. Their lack of capacity for their own feelings makes connection feel repressive work. So they push connection away. Instead of processing the feelings they often soothe...
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1 week ago
31 minutes

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[Ep. 287] Spirituality, Animism, & Parts Work w/ Dick Schwartz
Today Luis chats with Dick Schwartz, developer of Internal Family Systems (I.F.S.). Dick started his career as a family therapist. Upon asking the question, "why isn't family therapy working?" he began to develop what has become I.F.S. He learned from being in the field, and from making mistakes, how to tend to the parts of us that are usually frozen in the past. Dick found that when we talk to the inner critic with compassion, the deep healing work unfolds. Luis asks if Dick's work sprang fr...
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2 weeks ago
47 minutes

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[Ep. 286] How To Navigate Conflict Somatically
On today's episode, Luis discusses navigating conflict through a somatic lens. As he speaks about conflict, he does not mean abuse or threat, but disagreement, disappoint and frustration. Luis teaches about his "Tending To Rupture" method, and how he's been able to apply it to his client work, as well as his personal life. He discusses how the physiology of trauma response creates the conditions that make conflicts so difficult to resolve. Luis offers practical tips and guided practic...
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3 weeks ago
19 minutes

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[Ep. 285] Teeming With Life: The Role Regenerative Farming Plays In The Land & Our Communities w/ Will Harris
On today's episode, Luis speaks with Will Harris, a farmer, cattleman, and owner of White Oak Pastures. Will shares his personal story of how he inherited his family farm, and how he transitioned the farm from an industrial model to a regenerative one. When taking an industrial approach to farming, Will had caused desertification on parts of his land from the use of chemicals and monocultural farming. His cattle were taking hormones and pharmaceuticals to make them produce more. Over time, h...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

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[Ep. 284] Interrupting Teenage Isolation w/ Trevor Spring (Part II)
Trevor is back for a second podcast episode with Luis to discuss parenting in the age of social media and screen prevalence. The hard first question is, what social media and screen patterns do the parents model? Do parents use their own free time to disassociate and isolate with the screen? Do parents use the screen as a babysitter for their child/ren, so that they have time to resource themselves? When parents live an authentic, meaningful and satisfied life, they can connect to...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

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[Ep. 283] Supporting Boys Through Puberty w/ Trevor Spring (Part I)
Rooted Futures information: Website: https://rootedfutures.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rootedfuturesmentoring?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation". Sign up for our 6-month Embodied Relationships group, beginning in October: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/relationship-group Register for a weekend with Luis at Art of Living Retreat Center in Bo...
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1 month ago
48 minutes

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[Ep. 282] Interrupting Your Teen Boy's Isolation w/ Parallel Co-Regulation
In this episode, Luis continues the short series on male puberty by exploring parallel co-regulation, which is similar to parallel play -- meaning they're playing near or next to each other -- and how important it is for teenage boys. During puberty, many boys lose access to their feelings while stuck in a body overwhelmed by testosterone and transformation at every level. An increase in sensation added to a decrease in capacity for sensation leads to inevitable shut down and isolation....
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1 month ago
15 minutes

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[Ep. 281] The Difference Between Raising "Gentle Boys" & EMBODIED Ones
In this episode, Luis dives into the developmental trauma of boys -- a continuation of Episode 279: This Is Why I Think P*rnography Is Traumatizing For Developing Boys -- and how they are generally unsupported through puberty. There's a lot of discourse around "toxic males" and problematic men in our society, but not a lot of somatic discussion around how to support young boys in a new way so they can walk a different path: a more embodied one. Luis encourages community building for par...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

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[Ep. 280] This Is Why I Disagree With Gender-Affirming Treatment For Minors (And It's PRO-Trans)
Join Luis as he riffs about gender-affirming surgery, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers for minors. He looks to Marci Bowers, the first transgender female gynecologist and surgeon, who makes the case for not giving minors puberty blockers and hormone therapy. Children can safely explore who they are through temporary means, such as: make-up, fashion, roles, gender and stereotypes. The teenage years are inherently dysphoric, lets support kids to flow through these years with as much...
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1 month ago
19 minutes

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[Ep. 279] This Is Why I Think P*rnography Is Traumatizing For Developing Boys
On today's episode, Luis begins a conversation about male puberty that will continue into another two videos to explore what they face when testosterone begins to transform their bodies, minds, and chemistry. Because of this sudden biological change, p*rnography can be a developmental traumatizing experience for boys that leaves them further isolated from their bodies and emotions. For parental support and mentoring for boys, check out Trevor Spring's program: https://www.trevorspring...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

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[Ep. 278] What Does Stress Have To Do With Skin Health?
On today's episode, Luis discusses how our skin health is affected by our hormones, and by our liver health. Everything from acne, rashes, eczema, and psoriasis can be caused by impurities coming out through your skin when your liver is overtaxed. The focus is usually on sex hormones, but stress hormones can also tax your liver, which then can trigger flare ups. We can work with chronic stress externally, as well as internally by removing foods from our diets that can trigger an adrenal res...
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1 month ago
10 minutes

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[Ep. 277] The Secret Ingredient For Balanced Glucose? Movement
On today's episode, Luis discusses the connection between movement and glucose. Movement and modern, industrialized food now lack a reciprocity. Movement is required for gathering and processing food; movement that many of us no longer need to perform in order to access calorically dense food. Refined foods can often cause a glucose spike, which is followed by an insulin response, and then an adrenal response. When muscles are engaged after eating, it helps with your glucose storage, and can...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

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[Ep. 276] How Protein Affects Your Mood
On today's episode, Luis discusses protein: how it affects mood, the nervous system, and the brain, and why it's so important to understand. Proteins are a combination of amino acids, and dopamine and serotonin rely on them. Refined foods can temporarily fill the dopamine need caused by low amino acid intake, but ensuring you have enough protein is necessary for sustained balance. And sometimes the body's need for protein can change, depending on life circumstances. Luis talks about both plan...
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2 months ago
10 minutes

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[Ep. 275] Converting Cravings Into Whole Food Options
On today's episode, Luis teaches how our processed food cravings can be a compass towards whole food options. Luis gives clear step-by-step conversion choices which can help support our unmet nutrition needs, and discusses how to relate to our unmet relational and emotional needs that may arise when we stop repressing them with food. You can read more about, and register for, the 6-month Embodied Nutrition group here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-nutrition-group --...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

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[Ep. 274] Marginalization Without Victim Mentality & Grieving The Queer Community w/ Camille & Grey Doolin
On today's episode, Luis and Camille welcome back Grey Doolin to discuss marginalization and victim mentality. Join them for an open-hearted conversation, with a bit of throwing shade. They explore: · seeking safety from outside · the way counterculture and mainstream culture interact · honoring the knowledge of community elders · separating others' judgements from internal self-worth · building resilience and resources · capacity for disagreement [Ep. 262] Trans People Don't NEED To...
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2 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes

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[Ep. 273] Understand Your Cravings With This 5 Minute Practice
On today's episode, Luis teaches one of his favorite practices, called "Interrupting Your Cravings." Cravings aren't about having impulse issues: they're deep unmet needs in the body that we seek to get met through eating. One of those needs is nutritional, and the other is emotional. Luis guides us through a practice to help put a pause in our cravings to help uncover what information the body has to share with us. You can read more about, and register for, the 6-month Embodied Nutrition...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

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[Ep. 272] Healthy At Any Size?
On today's episode, Luis explores the way that the body stores fat, rather than the identity that can arise from it. Even though there are negative health impacts from too much fat being stored, the process is a natural, biological, animal instinct for survival, is a healthy response to the ingestion of refined carbs and sugars. Learning which foods affect insulin can help to shift the body from fat storage to fat usage mode. But beyond just food, stress and trauma play a role: both cause ad...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

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[Ep. 271] Live Seasonally: Prevent Burnout w/ Camille Leak
Hello sunshine! How do you enter a new day? Do you slowly stretch into it, or do you immediately plug in to dopamine via technology and screens? Join Camille and Luis as they discuss how living seasonally and cyclically can be supportive and resourcing to our bodies. At one time everyone lived in tandem with the seasons. Caffeine and electricity allowed our ancestors to break their own boundaries and nature's boundaries (of seasons, light, and temperature). This evolved into the d...
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2 months ago
49 minutes

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[Ep. 270] Do These 3 Things To Help Your Body Recover From Stress
On today's episode Luis teaches 3 simple, free things that can help your body better manage stress and trauma recovery. Watch to learn the suggestions, and how they can support you. You can also watch the video he mentions here: https://youtu.be/7xglDqF52mg You can read more about, and register for, the 6-month Embodied Nutrition group here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-nutrition-group ---- You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/...
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2 months ago
8 minutes

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Most of us were alone during our most traumatic experiences—and then left alone to try to heal from them. In this episode, Luis explores why isolation is at the root of so much trauma, how unexpressed survival responses can stay stuck in the body for decades, and why healing requires connection. He shares why group work is so powerful, how somatic practices and whole-food nutrition work together, and what it means to witness your body rather than become it. Register for Food Therapy Explore...