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
325 episodes
[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 ...
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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 outs...
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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 n...
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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 inst...
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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 re...
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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://...
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[Ep. 269] This Practice Can Change So Much
On today's episode Luis takes us through a brief self-inquiry practice to help us get in touch with the ways we use food to modulate our emotions and sensations.He reviews the way he organizes kinds of foods, and the way these food cate...
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[Ep. 268] Embodied Nutrition: How My Traumas & Eating Disorders Created Food Therapy
On today's podcast, Luis discusses his personal journey with trauma and nutrition, and how the two together have an impeccable ability to help people recover from stress and trauma.Luis shares his full personal story of childhood abuse,...
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[Ep. 267] Why You Can't Stay On Your Diet
Food helps us tolerate the intolerable. Processed foods can provoke a state change within us (such as joy, comfort, energized, numbed out), which produces an adrenaline response. If we eliminate processed foods, and experience food sobriety, we...
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[Ep. 266] My 3 Favorite Snacks For Your Adrenals
Snack time at Holistic Life Navigation. Drop in for a quick podcast bite full of info and tasty treats. Do you ever experience anxiety or panic attacks? In these moments glucose fluctuates and the blood stream is flooded with ...
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[Ep. 265] Embodied Performing: How To Actually ENJOY Feeling Seen
How does it feel to express yourself in front of others? Are you at ease? Excited? Tense? Frozen? Is stress keeping you from having a voice and expressing yourself because being seen feels dangerous?Luis uncoupled his own performin...
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[Ep. 264] The "Empath" Is A Trauma Response
Do you think of yourself as an empath? Do you feel a flower blooming as deeply as you feel a war-torn country's pain? Empathy itself is a bridge of understanding, non-binary and fluid. This is flexible empathy that can pendulate bet...
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[Ep. 263] A.I. For Creatives: How Can It Make Us More Human? w/ Holly Howard
Remember when toll booths were replaced by EzPass? Did you wonder how you would find your way to the closest restaurant or gas station without the interpersonal connection of the toll booth worker? Likewise are you skeptical about A.I.? Join Lu...
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[Ep. 262] Trans People Don't NEED To Belong: The Freedom Of Being An Outcast w/ Grey Doolin
Two fringe misfits walk into a Zoom room and..... Join Grey Doolin and Luis for a joyful, lit up conversation about the spirituality of sex dysphoria. Grey shares how their trans identity is a gift not a destination, and how it's no...
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[Ep. 261] "Ayahuasca Told Me To De-Transition" Born Female, Living As Male, Then Back To Female w/ Maddie Durbin
Maddie Durbin joins Luis for a tender exploration of her experience becoming Max, and de-transitioning back to Maddie. At 19 Maddie was looking for freedom from the pain of the human condition, she turned to transitioning as an escape. She went...
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[Ep. 260] "The Forest Enhances Who Your Are": How To Be a Conscious Colonizer w/ Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, is a farmer, systems developer, agronomist, and business manager who runs an ecosystem. He joins Luis for a fascinating conversation ranging from the Indigenous intellect to hazelnuts. We are a reflectio...
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[Ep. 259] Adrenaline & Cortisol + The Link Between Weight Gain & Hormonal Problems w/ Karen Hurd
Our favorite biochemist, Karen Hurd, joins us again to discuss the difference between adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline gives us strength to fight or run, while cortisol reduces inflammation. These hormones are released simultane...
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[Ep. 258] What Ghana Can Teach About Relationships, Politics, and Privilege
Luis and his friend Steve Rasovsky have an openhearted chat about Steve's recent trip to Ghana. The Ghanaian people shared their dance, joy, community and presence with Steve. In that environment he was able to melt into presence alongside them...
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[Ep. 257] 3 Common Habits That Keep You Awake At Night
Luis tucks in for a bedtime conversation about three evening routines that can optimize sleep. Sleep is the body's ritual of repair: these 3 practices will help tend the body to do it's repair work. Think digestion, light, and sensation. Best p...
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[Ep. 256] How Stress Affects Your Hormones, Digestion, & What To Eat About It w/ Karen Hurd
Chronic stress and PTSD are a hormonal imbalance issue, and if one hormone is out of balance, all hormones are out of balance. These hormones, in or out of balance, control every chemical reaction in the body. Join Luis and Karen Hu...
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[Ep. 255] Can You Recover From Trauma While Drinking Coffee?
Blood pressure is rising, heart rate is increasing, neurotransmitters are firing, muscles are tense and your nervous system is activated. Is it due to stress, or caffeine? Join Luis as he considers these questions around caffeine:&n...
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[Ep. 254] Spatial Alchemy: Designing Your Home To Change Your Body & Life w/ Olga Naiman
Sit in on this juicy conversation between Luis and interior designer Olga Naiman. They discuss creating rituals and spaces that can code our environment for what it is we seek more of in life. If we learn the somatics of what it is we want to f...
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[Ep. 253] What Your Posture Says About Your Trauma
In today's podcast Luis discusses how trauma is stored in the body's posture. When being seen feels dangerous the body goes into a freeze or shame posture of hiding to protect itself. What are the automatic, baseline postures that your body hol...
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[Ep. 252] Money Trauma: Debt Don't Bother Me, Overcharging People, & Being White Trash At Heart
On today's episode, Luis and Camille discuss money, money trauma, and the ways in which we may have inherited or learned about relating to money.They explore:· The relationship we have with money, rather than the money itself
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[Ep. 251] This 2 Minute Practice Can Alleviate Anxiety - & It's Free!
Don't wait until you are feeling anxious to practice this one! Jump right in where you are and practice pendulating. Luis teaches us how to feel where we are now, and where we feel anxiety in our bodies. We are not our anxiety, a
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