In this episode, Luis explores why building capacity for pleaser is a critical yet often over-looked part of trauma-healing.

Pleasure, joy, peace, etc. are an excellent resource when trying to heal our trauma. They are the counter-vortex, i.e. they provide the resourcing our bodies need to be with sensations that are more constricting.

However, it can be very difficult and overwhelming for a traumatized nervous system to be with pleasure because it doesn't trust the openness -- it feels vulnerable and defenseless.  Constriction feels safer and is familiar to a traumatized nervous system.

Luis guides us through practice to help us notice pleasure and then observe what our current capacity for pleaser is. He invites us to notice how do our bodies constrict around moments of pleasure, often with intrusive thoughts, and then how we can respond to the presence of those thoughts to little-by-little expand our capacity for pleasure.

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 freestyle episode!

Luis, Marika, and Camille explore a myriad of topics, including:

• The role of media 
• Navigating Politics 
• Judgement vs. Curiosity
• Capacity & Time
• Death as a Teacher
• Dissociation vs. Detachment

Also, we learn about yet another job Luis had in his past!

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 attuning to the present moment isn't about bypassing but rather it is about inviting everything in.

We can often bypass the beauty or calm of the present moment because our bodies are responding to a remembered past or an anticipated future. However, by allowing our bodies to feel the absence of threat, it actually provides our bodies the resourcing to respond to threat when it is actually happening.

Luis provide a practice to help us check-in and question when our bodies are reacting to a remembered threat, the current moment, or an anticipated threat. Also, even when experiencing threat or a "negative" situation, are there aspects of beauty, calm, or safety we can still attune to?

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 his brother-friend, Steve Rasovsky. Both Luis and Steve have had COVID and found a lot of wisdom in their experience. Fundamentally, COVID offered them both an invitation into the slowness an authenticity of their bodies because their flight response was physically inaccessible.

Please note that neither Luis or Steve are medical practitioners and this episode isn't about the variants, vaccines, etc.

Instead, Luis and Steve share with us what they learned from COVID, what they were able to release as a result of the experience, and how they continue to integrate those learnings into their lives even after recuperating.

For more information on Steve's work, visit: https://theinnerapothecary.com/.

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 we often procrastinate and how procrastination is a form of freeze response.

We procrastinate, or go into freeze response, when our bodies experience overwhelm. However, rather than relating to that overwhelm, we often to to a place of judgement and shame: "Why am I so lazy?" "Why can't I get my life together?" "Why am I so irresponsible?" Luis also explores the stigma associate with rest and recuperation.

Luis shares a practice that helps us to instead stay in a place of curiosity about the procrastination by asking things like "What part of me is overwhelmed right now?" "Do I even want to do this?" or "What do I currently have the capacity for?" and how he has applied this practice in his life.

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 James-Olivia!

This episode is a bit of an ADHD masterpiece where James-Olivia and Luis explore a plethora of topics, including:

•  Our attachment to stories about others
• The freedom to both follow and break the rules and shift with time
• Decolonizing Marriage & Individuating
• How to be free around those who don't recognize their own freedom
• Belonging & Spirituality
• Why it can be so liberating to approach everyone -- whether they are close relatives/friends or complete strangers -- from the standpoint of "Who are you? I don't know you?"

For more information on James-Olivia's work, visit: https://inquisitivehuman.com/.

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 we often feel compelled to justify or rationalize our boundaries with others by creating a negative story about them rather than just accepting our inner knowing or our body's response as enough.

This negative stories we create and repeat about others serves as the proof we need for our boundaries, but does it truly serve us? Does the story create peace or pain? Does the story provide safety or does it mobilize us in a threat response?

Luis shares a practice that helps to illustrate why we don't have to invite pain into our bodies to validate our boundaries. 

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 Dr. Aimie Aigian, MD MS MPH. She is the leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and restoring the body to its best state of health through her signature model and methodology, The Biology of Trauma.

Dr. Aimie shares with us how she came to observe and personally experience that the mind and the body are all one, inter-related system. She discusses how traits at the cellular level contribute to what many perceive as purely "emotional responses".

Additionally, she and Luis discuss why nutrition can impact our capacity and ability to be present with our sensations and how there is power in that knowing. 

For more information on Dr. Aimie's work, visit: https://www.traumahealingaccelerated.com/.

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 how and why we often force ourselves to be with or doings for other people simply because we love them.

We often over-couple love with action, i.e. if we love someone, we should do things for them and if we don't do those things, our love is in question. With this overcoupling, love can move us to bypass our own boundaries which ultimately result in resentment towards the person we love. But what would it look like to uncouple love from action?

What if we are able to expand our capacity for contradictions, i.e. "I love you and I don't want to be around you right now"? What if we could trust in the love rather than having to constantly prove its existence? We could release the burden to always do something with or for others.

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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 learn more abut Marika Malaea, the Operations Manager of Holistic Life Navigation.

Marika generously shares with us pieces of her own healing journey, including being adopted by a family of a different culture, the pressures and desire to conform to a Eurocentric standard of beauty, and how once she was able to be embodied, it actually did not feel good.

She also shares with us how somatics have changed her relationship with politics and social media as well as how she navigates responding to emails after Luis has triggered people (which is quite often - lol).

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

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

You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar

You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group

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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]