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
332 episodes
[Ep. 282] Interrupting Your Teen Boy's Isolation w/ Parallel Co-Regulation
In this episode, Luis continues the short series on male puberty by exploring parallel co-regulation, which is similar to parallel play -- meaning they're playing near or next to each other -- and how important it is for teenage boys. ...
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[Ep. 281] The Difference Between Raising "Gentle Boys" & EMBODIED Ones
In this episode, Luis dives into the developmental trauma of boys -- a continuation of Episode 279: This Is Why I Think P*rnography Is Traumatizing For Developing Boys -- and how they are generally unsupported through puberty.There's a l...
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[Ep. 280] This Is Why I Disagree With Gender-Affirming Treatment For Minors (And It's PRO-Trans)
Join Luis as he riffs about gender-affirming surgery, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers for minors. He looks to Marci Bowers, the first transgender female gynecologist and surgeon, who makes the case for not giving minors puberty blockers a...
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[Ep. 279] This Is Why I Think P*rnography Is Traumatizing For Developing Boys
On today's episode, Luis begins a conversation about male puberty that will continue into another two videos to explore what they face when testosterone begins to transform their bodies, minds, and chemistry. Because of this sudden...
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[Ep. 278] What Does Stress Have To Do With Skin Health?
On today's episode, Luis discusses how our skin health is affected by our hormones, and by our liver health. Everything from acne, rashes, eczema, and psoriasis can be caused by impurities coming out through your skin when your liver is overtax...
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[Ep. 277] The Secret Ingredient For Balanced Glucose? Movement
On today's episode, Luis discusses the connection between movement and glucose.Movement and modern, industrialized food now lack a reciprocity. Movement is required for gathering and processing food; movement that many of us no longer ne...
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[Ep. 276] How Protein Affects Your Mood
On today's episode, Luis discusses protein: how it affects mood, the nervous system, and the brain, and why it's so important to understand.Proteins are a combination of amino acids, and dopamine and serotonin rely on them. Refined foods...
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[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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