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
306 episodes
[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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[Ep. 250] Eating Unprocessed Foods Is A Vote For The Land
Click for story-time with Luis as he reads a favorite chapter that was cut from his soon to be published book, FOOD THERAPY (April 2026). He posits that processed food is disassociated from the land. Often GMO crops are altered to survive glyph...
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[Ep. 249] My 3 Favorite Teas For Female Hormones
On today's episode, Luis shares his favorite herbs, specifically for supporting PMS or menopause.Building on the previous episode about herbs for liver, he explains how the liver is helpful for women's hormones. He teaches how to make t...
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[Ep. 248] Stress Affects Your Liver...These Herbs Can Help!
On today's episode, Luis discussing the importance of liver health for full body and metabolic health, as well as it's relationship to recovering from stress and trauma.He explains what role the liver plays, and what dietary choices can...
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[Ep. 247] Somatic Empathy: How To Not Get Stuck In The Doom Scroll
Walk with Luis on a cold day as he chats about doom scrolling and horror. If someone has high somatic empathy, when they watch horror on a screen, it creates an adrenal response as if the horror is happening to them. Bodies brace for the impact...
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[Ep. 246] How Carbs Are Turning On Your Trauma Response
Feeling overwhelmed? Most of us turn to carbs, which results in a hit of dopamine that turns on our adrenaline response. The faster a carb turns into glucose, the sooner we experience a low blood sugar induced adrenaline response. Historically ...
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[Ep. 245] This Might Be Why You're Waking Up At Night & How To Fix It
Ever wake up in a panic, with a dry mouth and a nightmare? Join Luis for this bed time snack sized podcast. Your nighttime woes might be a glucose spike cascading into an adrenaline rush. Luis outlines the physiology of what happens in our bodi...
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[Ep. 244] I Was Wrong: Protein, Veganism, & The Mysteries Of Nutrition
Sitting in Costa Rica, by driftwood and the sea, Luis contemplates the mysteries of nutrition. Having studied the dense and "boring" side of nutrition, his fear of being wrong was triggered when he was called out on social media. This experienc...
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[Ep. 243] The Most Accessible & Affordable Stress-Reducer Is...A Pillow?!
Ever feel anxious, panicked, or like a "floating head" detached from your body? When in these states we can lose our instinct to tend to our body. For example, we might not realize we need to eat, pee, or take a deeper breath.
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[Ep. 242] Chocolate Dependence, Divorce, & What I Learned
Luis reads us a chapter of his upcoming book "Food Therapy" (2026). In it he discusses how eating is relational. Our body receives the being of a plant or animal and digests it, breaking it down into chemicals that relate to our bodies' chemica...
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[Ep. 241] Why We Scarf Down Food To Shapeshift
Large amounts of refined foods have the power to elicit big hormonal responses in our bodies. If we have a subconscious desire to shape shift to a new state, we often go to food to make that change for us. Depressed? We might reach for foods th...
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[Ep. 240] Those B*tches Appropriated Us! DEI, Decolonization, and Wokeness
Camille and Luis enjoy a playful conversation about the trendiness of terms including DEI, decolonization, woke-ness, Queer, witch, and liberal. Trends are cut off from the deep rooted culture of the thing itself, and therefore come and go. Lui...
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[Ep. 239] Beans: Superfood or Super Toxic? These Studies Will Amaze You
Are beans an anti-nutrient due to their phytic acid content, or are they a superfood? Come investigate what is really behind the phytic acid scare around beans. How much phytic acid IS in a 1/2 cup serving of cooked beans anyhow? Luis does the ...
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[Ep. 238] LA Wildfire, Palestine, & Israel: How Relinquishing Ownership Is At The Center Of Each
Ownership is the question explored in this epic podcast where Luis interviews Unique Hammond, Zeena Ismail, and Hadar Cohen to share their distinctive perspectives of being forced out of their home/land. The inspiration for the podcast arose fr...
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[Ep. 237] My Nuanced Take On Trump's 2 Gender Policy
"As of today it will henceforth be official policy of the United States Government that there are only two genders, male and female." - Donald TrumpLuis explores how this policy effects transgender, transsexual, non-binary and intersex f...
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[Ep. 236] Understanding How Your Diet Is Triggering Your Stress Response
Let's explore the often ignored connection between nutrition and trauma. Luis breaks foods down into three categories: stimulants, depressants, and balancers. When we eat sugar there is a spike in blood sugar levels, triggering a sp...
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[Ep. 235] Exploring Identity Politics: Do Black & Brown People Even Like The Term POC?
Luis shares part of his family story before weaving rich voices and interviews to explore the use and meaning of the phrase People of Color, or POC. Many questions and facets are explored: Do we take on ideas to belong? Does the phrase POC othe...
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[Ep. 234] Is Misgendering A Form Of Progress?
Luis shares part of his intersex journey as he explores the idea of misgendering as progress. Join him as he discusses the difference between sex and gender, harm and difference in the context of free speech. He believes we all have a responsib...
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[Ep. 233] Cognitive Dissonance: Using It To Your Advantage
Thanks to a listener request, Camille and Luis discuss cognitive dissonance through the lens of somatics and parts work. Cognitive dissonance, the friction between held and opposing beliefs, can result in an uncomfortable tension. The discomfor...
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[Bonus Episode] The Sugar-To-Adrenaline Pipeline
Join Luis as he explores the effects of sugar, starch and refined carbohydrates on the body. Journey from the first bite to blood glucose levels spiking, all the way to the body's resulting stress response. Learn the balancing nutritional recom...
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