Holistic Life Navigation
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.
Episodes
282 episodes
[Ep. 232] My Post About Trans People Triggered Her... So We Recorded A Podcast About It w/ Kai Cheng Thom
On today's episode Luis is joined by Kai Cheng Thom: somatic therapist, depth psychologist, and author. Back in August, Luis put up a post on social media sharing both his personal experiences and opinions about gender dysphoria, body dysmorphi...
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[Bonus Episode] Why Food Comforts Us & How To Interrupt The Pattern
Luis teaches us about his latest obsession: postprandial bloodflow. He talks about what it is, how affects it, and why it matters. He explains how it relates to comfort foods, emotional eating, and binge eating. The video ends with a somatic pr...
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[Ep. 231] Elegy For An Elephant: Transforming The Grief From Suicide Into Art w/ Ryan Abramowitz
On today's episode Luis welcomes Ryan Abramowitz, author and artist of the book "Elegy For An Elephant", and Melissa McConnell, who introduced Ryan's book to Luis, to have a group discussion about the grief of losing a loved one to suicide, and...
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[Ep. 230] My Ancestors Didn't Have Time To Be Traumatized, But I Do
On today's episode, Luis shares his reflections on his ancestry, and the experience of his ancestors juxtaposed against his present experience. He discusses the differences between cultures, and the practice of understanding and accepting ances...
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[Ep. 229] How Fawning Affects Your Sex Life (A Mini-Course)
On today's episode, Luis talks about how fawning affects your sex life, and what you can do about it. He discusses:what fawning is, and why we do itthe relationship between fawning and sexthe longterm impact of pro...
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[Ep. 228] It's Official: My Book Proposal Has Been Accepted!
On today's episode, Luis sits down for a casual conversation to connect with everyone, and share what's alive and present for him. He discusses: co-dependencycapacity and desire his upcoming book...
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[Ep. 227] The Relief Of Mystery, Aliens, and Humanizing The Other w/ Chion Wolf
On today's episode, Luis is joined by fellow podcast host Chion Wolf, and they share an interesting and meandering conversation. While moving from topics including atheism, the existence of extraterrestrials, and manifestation, they highlight t...
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[Ep. 226] Navigating Co-Dependency & Narcissism
On today's episode, Luis shares more about his personal experience with social media, and how he approaches responses and comments that have anger or upset. He shares how you can incorporate this approach into your life if you have a public pre...
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[Ep. 225] "My Body Is Female, I'm Not": Using Somatics To Explore Gender w/ Quinn Silverleaf
On today's episode, Luis meets with Quinn Silverleaf, and they explore sexuality, sex, and gender through a somatic lens. They share their own unique lived experiences and viewpoints.They discuss:· ideology vs. somatic experienc...
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[Ep. 224] How Am I Using My Freedom?
On today's episode, Luis explores what it means to be free. Freedom is messy, and full of mistakes and hypocrisy. In the United States, the diversity of people, thought, and lifestyle creates a tapestry that can be either settling or activ...
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[Ep. 223] Navigating Screens: How To Release Stress From Media
In today’s episode, Luis explores somatic empathy and pendulation - swinging between two different sensations or experiences. He explains why we need to develop the skillset to regulate our somatic empathy to stay present while taking in media....
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[Bonus Episode] Is Binge Watching Too Much For Your Body?
How are screens - televisions, smartphones, iPads, and more - impacting our bodies? In today’s episode, Luis breaks down how our bodies react to the news, social media feeds, and other forms of online media.Today’s society has acc...
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[Ep. 222] How A Pet Rat & Punk Rock Turned My Wife Into An Herbalist w/ Aemen Bell
In today’s episode, Luis sits down for a casual chat with herbalist Aemen Bell, who is also his wife. From sharing how she healed her lung condition as a teenager to spilling the tea on one of their first dates, Luis and Aemen touch on everythi...
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[Bonus Episode] The Origin Of Our Freeze Responses
Do you know what the freeze response is? In today’s episode, Luis explains how this natural tension in the body happens when we’re scared, threatened, or nervous. He does so by looking at videos from the animal kingdom. When we nee...
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[Ep. 221] Dissociation: Could It Be Useful? w/ The HLN Team
Today’s episode is a casual conversation with the Holistic Life Navigation Team: Luis, Camille, Evan, and Marika. The team shares their personal experiences about dissociation and what happens during that trance-like state when we ‘zone out’.&n...
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[Bonus Episode] What Can A Possum Teach Us About Social Conflict?
In today’s episode, Luis shares what a possum protecting itself from a coyote can teach us about the ‘freeze and collapse’ response. While it is essential to survival, our bodies can turn on that same response even when there’s not a life-threa...
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[Ep. 220] If You Can Ruminate, You're Safe - Navigating Remembered, Expected, & Actual Threat
In today’s episode, Luis and Camille discuss how our bodies interpret threats and how to decipher the somatic reality of whether or not it’s happening to us now. When we think of something happening to us in the future and the past...
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[Bonus Episode] Eat These 4 Things For Stress
What foods can I eat to help me move through a stressful situation in a more tolerable way? In today’s episode, this is the exact question Luis answers for listeners seeking a way to use food to help them regulate their nervous system.
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[Ep. 219] Not Everything Is A Microaggression: Is This The New DEI? w/ Camille Leak
In today’s conversation, Luis and Camille Leak reflect on past experiences to chat about privilege, marginalization, diversity, and inclusion. Breaking down what these terms mean and what it lo...
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[Bonus Episode] How Stress & Trauma Connect With Binge Eating
Why do I binge eat? In today’s episode, Luis explores the connection between stress, trauma, and binge eating to help us understand why this behavior presents itself.Sharing his personal story about trauma, Luis breaks down the physiolo...
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[Ep. 218] The Biology Of Your Emotions & How Food Helps w/ Karen Hurd
In today’s episode, Karen Hurd explains the physics of neurotransmitters and chemical releases, and how the foods we eat alter the chemicals in our brains. From breaking down what happens...
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[Bonus Episode] Is Porn Use A Form Of Sexual Trauma?
In today’s episode, Luis talks about the somatic exploration of how porn affects our bodies physically and mentally. Luis breaks down how the somatic experience and the physiology behind porn use are similar to the thrill of drug u...
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[Ep. 217] That's SO Virgo: How We Limit Ourselves With Our Zodiac Identities w/ Britten LaRue
In today’s video, astrologer and author Britten LaRue is back on the podcast to talk about authenticity, transformation, and not over-identifying with your sign. Discussing emergence astrology, she shares how astrology can gui...
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[Bonus Episode] Why Your Solar Plexus Is Tight & How To Release It
In today’s episode, Luis answers a listener’s question- “Why do we sometimes feel tightness in our solar plexus?” Luis breaks down the mechanics of this natural response and what we can do about it.Using the
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[Ep. 216] Navigating The Taboo Topic Of Suicide w/ Luis & Camille
In today’s video, Luis and Camille speak about suicidal ideation, and how to talk about this charged topic with love and support. Sharing their experiences from both sides of the fence, they talk about how connection, and removing s...
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