Holistic Life Navigation

In this episode, Luis is joined by Marth Beck, a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author. Martha wrote The Way of Integrity which Luis lovingly refers to as "The Guide on How to Stop Fawning."

Martha and Luis engage in a dynamic conversation about trauma response of fawning, how fawning impacted their lives, and how it felt to release that trauma response. They explore why the body hates to lie, i.e. the physical manifestations that occur in our bodies when we suppress our truths and desires as well as why we often times lose our integrity not because we are bad but because we are trying so hard to be good. 

Martha also shares with us what she learns from her integrity cleanses, i.e. abstaining from lying for a year, and what it was like to coach Oprah through a somatic practice of understanding a fawn response.

For more information on Martha's work, visit: https://marthabeck.com/

For more information on Luis' work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

In this episode, Luis shares how modern comforts and convenience can actually distract us from moments of peace and gratitude.

Luis  invites us to explore our trauma ego -- the trauma ego needs to find threat even when none is actually present.

As such, even when we have a roof over our heads, food in our refrigerators, running water, etc., the traumatized nervous system won't allow us to orient to that comfort or peace which can manifest as our bodies having incongruent or distorted reactions to situations. 

For more information about Luis's work, please visit: www.holisticlifenavigation.com.

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

In this episode, we welcome back one of Luis's teachers, Maureen Gallagher, a Licensed Psychologist (NY, NJ), Somatic Experiencing Faculty Member, and Inner Relationship Focusing Trainer

Maureen and Luis dive deep into Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF), sharing how it has been an integral  part to their Somatic Experiencing practices.  They explore what it means to have a relationship with various parts of you, in the same way you would with another being.

They also explain how IRF helps us connect the "I" we consciously identify with and the other needs or motivations we may have in our body, allowing us to begin to release feelings of shame or guilt and instead pivot to curiosity of these seemingly "out of control" habits and behaviors.

Maureen leads us through a brief IRF practice as well as shares details about her IRF course offerings.

For more information on Maureen's work, visit: https://embodyingpsychotherapy.com/

For more information on Luis' work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

This is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X.

They had Luis on their program called Mid-Day Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode, and others, by visiting them here.

In this episode, they interview Luis about his experiences growing up that led him into somatics and trauma healing work.

The accidental discovery of music as the catharsis for deep healing, personal mythology,  and emerging from hate with love are just some of the topics.

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

In this episode, we welcome back friend of the show, Jeana Brown founder of The Sweet Dark.

Jeana shares with us how self-touch and how bringing ritual to self-care or daily hygiene helps to bring us into better communicaiton and relationship with our bodies.

She and Luis explore why the intent of self-care and self-touch is not to erase surface-level tension in the body but instead use that tension as a signal or indication of something deeper happening in the body, i.e. coming into right relationship with the body by learning its language.

Jeana has generously offered HLN listeners a 20% discount on Tutti, and all-in-one botanical elixir that can be used anywhere you have skin or hair. The discount code is ritual23.

For more information on Jeana's work, visit: https://thesweetdark.com/ and on IG @the_sweetdark.

For more information on Luis' work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

We welcome back the entire HLN team in this episode!

Luis, Marika, and Camille first explore their learnings from the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In particular they share how this movie helped to spark their curiosity around things such as animism, human supremacy, and examining the world from different perspectives.

They further explore the idea of human supremacy and its relationship to trauma -- how many of us can come to believe that we are too good to experience trauma or we are above trauma and how that refusal or inability to relate to various events in our lives can actually produce traumatized nervous systems.

For more information about Holistic Life Navigation, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

In this episode I share a replay from a webinar I did in which I talk about how my own trauma and chronic illness led me to this work.

It's taken me 17 years to understand and put into words what I went through.

It's also taken me 17 years to map out how to release stress & trauma with self-inquiry, nutrition, and somatics.

I teach it all in my 6-week course. Listen to this episode to learn more about it.

Registration is open until the 23rd.

Go here to register today: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course-sign-up.

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

In this episode, Luis is joined by Monica Guzman, author of “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" and the director of digital  storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the partisan divide.

Monica and Luis engage in a very interesting conversation about navigating politics when it seems almost impossible to do so. Monica explores the polarity between judgment and curiosity as well as why we have come to equate disagreement with threat and how that dynamic has resulted in spaces where we judge each other more and engage with each other less.

Luis and Monica also share common experiences that have nurtured their capacity for curiosity even regarding politics: 1) having dual identities and 2)their parents voted for Donald Trump but they did not.

For more information on Monica's work, visit: https://braverangels.org/ 

For more information on Luis' work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

Paula Engebretson joins Luis today in this interesting discussion between medication, holistic nutrition, and somatics.

We often get the question if you can do this work while taking meds. Paula teaches us that the answer is individual and, for her, was YES!

She explains how she lived with symptoms of ADHD and stress for decades before getting her official diagnosis, getting medicated, and then diving into our 6-week course where she learned how to navigate her mind, body, and business.

For more info on Paula, please visit: https://imbusybeingawesome.com/

To register for our 6-week course, which takes place on February 6th 2023, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course-sign-up

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

In this episode, Luis explores why without overcouplings, comparisons are actually benign and without meaning -- they are just observations.

He shares his own experiences with comparisons and body image as well as explains what "your truth is my myth" means to him and how it became a practice in helping him have to capacity to be with differences.

For more information about Luis's work, please visit: www.holisticlifenavigation.com.

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]