What are cities or towns and what are they for? In many parts of the world, their purpose appears to be helping the rich get richer at the expense of everyone else. In this personal conversation we discuss the concept of places created and designed for flourishing, settlements for healing. What would or what does is it look like when a place is designed to allow everyone to flourish and heal from generations of trauma in community?

This episode reaches back into our pasts and how the nutritional environment we were born into continues to shape us today: from tragically malnourished to nutritional hyper-fixation, our experience with food often unfolds in dramatic expressions of our lives and personalities.

This episode explores intergenerational trauma and family conflict through a personal lens. We ask how we can transcend who we are by fully embodying our pain passed on throughout centuries and millennia of human struggle. 

In our second episode on trauma, we discuss the impact of city life on mental health, specifically focusing on buildings and architecture.  

In this episode, we discuss our experience with race and our thoughts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.  

Ryan interviews Ana Medina who is a Shadow Worker, Pranic Healer and Subconscious Excavator.  

A few weeks ago, Ryan sat down with Herbalist, Sarah Troupes to discuss plant medicine and various ways to care for our bodies using energy from the earth. 

During a road trip across the country, Ryan and Ryan discuss American culture and history.