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[Ep. 331] "Had I Listened To Her, I Wouldn't Even Be Doing This" - Healing The Inner Child w/ Dr. Nicole LePera (The Holistic Psychologist)

2026-04-0754:18

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Luis welcomes back Nicole LePera to the podcast to chat about her new book, "Reparenting the Inner Child." They discuss what it's like being real and messy in the public eye, and the role the fawn response plays in that experience. They explore how the inner child shows up in daily life, how tending to one's capacity expands the work outside of the session or practice space, and how to reparent without merging ...

[Ep. 330] Stress Demands More Nutrients

2026-04-0547:02

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Neuronutritionist Timothy Frie joins Luis today. Tim learned early in his studies that the neural pathways of appetite and food-seeking are the ones most impacted by stress, and that stress increases nutrient demand. He connects the threads for us on how he followed this curiosity, healed his body and disordered eating patterns, to how he now teaching practitioners Neuronutrition. Neuronutrition is the intersecti...

[Ep. 329] What Being Goth & Recent Imposter Syndrome Taught Me About Belonging

2026-03-2933:25

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Kickin’ it old school, Luis does a solo meander around the topic of belonging. Videoless podcasting, as he is today, allows his vision the enjoyable option to focus on whatever it wants, like the ant walking on a nearby plant. (Fun HLN fact, Camille decided she wanted to learn from Luis when she saw his reaction to a bug walking on him in a presentation.) Luis recorded this podcast while teaching at the Psy...

[Ep. 328] How Screens, Processed Food & Burnout Are Driving Your Freeze Response

2026-03-2243:41

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Dopamine, amino acids, hopelessness, and beans! Let's dive in with Luis and Camille as they explore burnout and freeze alongside ADHD. If we get our dopamine from ultra processed foods, devoid of micronutrients, lacking L-Tyrosine, we do not replenish the building blocks to make more dopamine. We find ourselves hopeless, unmotivated, exhausted, and overwhelmed. Frozen. Whether we are diagnosed neurodivergen...

[Ep. 327] Exhaustion Is A Boundary: Are You Breaking It?

2026-03-1807:35

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book "How do I stimulate myself to get through life without burning out and getting sick?" Today Luis explores this question, sharing what he wrote in a recent newsletter. He also discusses other upcoming offerings, where you can learn more in a nuanced, somatic environment. You can watch the replay of the webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/food-therapy-focus-without-burnout Haven't joined the newsletter ...

[Ep. 326] Embodying ADHD: Creating A Life That Fascinates You (Part 3/3)

2026-03-1531:28

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Throwback to when Camille’s weekends contained 16 bottles of wine, and a day contained 80 cigarettes for Luis. Wine and cigarettes respectively calmed and stimulated their neurodivergent brains into surviving. They no longer need wine or cigarettes because they live in alignment with their interests and capacity: part of the process was learning to live lives that fascinated them. In month 6 of the ADHD slo...

[Ep. 325] Embodying ADHD: Navigating Overwhelm, Capacity, & Relationships (Part 2/3)

2026-03-0838:17

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book We aren’t gonna tell you how to fix ADD/ADHD. (Spoiler alert, you or your loved one don’t need fixing.) We are, however, going to teach our 6-month group on how to relate to ADHD, in yourself or in someone else. The actual problem is a societal standard our brain wasn’t designed for. In this podcast we are talking about months 3 & 4 of the slow group curriculum. We will explore navigating overwhelm, and...

[Ep. 324] Embodying ADHD: Dopamine Deficiency, Functional Freeze, & Stimulants (Part 1/3)

2026-03-0137:46

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book At the age of nine Luis was diagnosed with ADHD. He never medicated with pharmaceuticals: instead his drugs of choice were coffee, cigarettes, and a stimulating diet. Over the years Luis has learned how to reduce the stimulants needed to keep him engaged. ADD/ADHD is when there is not enough dopamine getting to the brain, usually because of low levels of brain and gut, or vagus nerve inflammation. People in...

[Ep. 323] Embodying ADHD: My Story Of Being Unmedicated & Thriving

2026-02-2230:14

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book In this replay episode, we explore ADHD or RITC -- a Radical Inability To Conform. Luis shares with us his own childhood experiences with ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, and nervous ticks. Often people are prescribed medications to suppress these conditions but Luis questions what would it mean to allow ourselves to relate to them as expressions? Luis begins to reframe the idea of ADHD; pivoting from "I can't focus"...

[Ep. 322] Biochemist Explains How Chronic Stress Fuels 99% Of All Our Diseases

2026-02-1537:19

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Our favorite biochemist, Karen Hurd, joins us again to discuss how stress fuels disease. Chronic levels of stress, be it from food, relationships, physical exertion, thought patterns, or the environment, all tax the adrenal glands. Karen tells us how and why this happens. With taxed adrenals we are left feeling burnt out and reach for coffee and stimulants, forcing us to push past our bodies need to rest. Luis an...

[Ep. 321] How Stress & Trauma Affect Female Hormones & Sexuality

2026-02-0801:01:57

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Kymber Maulden joins us on the podcast today. Fertility isn't just for women who want to be mothers, it is a sign of health in menstruating females. Trauma stresses and rapidly oxidizes the body, causing it to need even more nutrients and therefore be in metabolic debt. This draws on resources contributing to low progesterone and elevated testosterone, which may lead to PCOS and infertility. Luis and Kymber...

[Ep. 320] Let's Talk About The New Food Pyramid

2026-02-0157:48

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book The new Food Pyramid is released in the United States, turning the old one on its point. Regardless of how you feel about the administration it is released under, the focus has shifted from carbs and demonizing fats to centering protein, vegetables, nuts, beans and healthy fats. Camille reminds us that it is a guideline, not a hard and fast rule, because diverse bodies have diverse needs. And, she reminds us, sci...

[Ep. 319] The Self, Star Wars, and Savoring Depression

2026-01-2555:36

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Luis and Camille banter as they dive into the concept of the Self in somatics. Along the way Luis offers 3 practices to work with finding the Self as witness. This witnessing allows us to be with a sensation or state and feel it rather than avoid it. It also helps us dis-identify from the state. From there we can experience something unpleasant and be with it rather than fix it. From this place of witnessing, Lui...

[Ep. 318] How Nourishing Foods Helped Her Feel Like A Woman Again w/ Tasha Blank

2026-01-1855:26

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Luis and Tasha talk about beauty standards, eating disorders and their role in Tasha's life. She used food as a way to control her appearance and fit into beauty standards. Her hormones tanked. Out of desperation she began the complicated journey of taking control of her own health. In 2020-2021 she found herself within the nuance of liminal space. She felt non-binary, identity-less. In 2022 she suffered long-COV...

[Ep. 317] Meet Linda Erman: The Woman Who Initiated Me Into Somatics

2026-01-1138:10

PRE-ORDER the upcoming book now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book Meet Linda Erman, Luis' Somatic Godmother, Art Therapist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. About a decade ago Luis decided to go back to school for psychology. Instead of school his own body's resurgence of symptoms led him to Linda and her Somatic work. Linda herself found SE in her 50s. SE carefully tended her body, titrating into the trauma it held. Her changed biology was the proof she needed. As ...

[Ep. 316] LECTURE EXCERPT: The Correlation Between Visceral Fat, Inflammation, and Trauma

2026-01-0412:06

Curious about how Luis teaches? Here is your window into a nutritional teaching about stored trauma, visceral fat, and inflammation. Stored trauma in the body sets off a chain reaction resulting in elevated insulin, putting the body into fat storage mode. Visceral fat becomes an endocrine organ producing protein molecules called cytokines that create an inflammatory response. This process primes the body for carb consumption. Often food is either avoided, or binging is chosen, stressing...

[Ep. 315] Cracking The Code For Weight Loss: Insulin, Calories, and Stress

2025-12-2814:34

3 Oreos and 1/2 an Avocado join Luis on the podcast today. Their calories are the same, but how each affects our glucose levels is very different. Refined carbs spike glucose, which increases insulin, and puts us into fat storage mode. Another factor to weight is stress and trauma, especially when in functional freeze, where we produce adrenaline, but do not burn it off with movement. Join us live on January 13th 2026 at 10am EST as we take a deeper dive into this topic together. You ca...

[Ep. 314] Food Therapy: How Nutrition Impacts Addiction & Recovery (Webinar Replay)

2025-12-2101:19:23

Today's episode is a replay of the recent free Food Therapy session. Recovery is different from abstinence, though both are important as you heal from addiction. Abstinence is the avoiding of an addictive substance, while recovery is the balancing of your body from years of addiction. For example, some people go from cocaine to coffee so the same activating patterns of addiction are playing out with a new substance. This free session focuses on the somatic psychology behind addiction (a despe...

[Ep. 313] The Connection Between Weight Gain & Trauma

2025-12-1416:58

Quick and dirty, Luis outlines the science between insulin and fat storage. It's not the least amount of calories that is the golden ticket, instead, it's the least amount of glucose spike. He teaches us which foods, and the ideal combination of those foods, that results in the least amount of glucose release, so that the body goes into fat burning mode instead of fat storage mode. An important factor in the equation is addressing emotions and unmet needs that drive food cravings so we ...

[Ep. 312] How This Blue Collar Carpenter Became An Embodied Man w/ Colin Safranek

2025-12-0745:22

Colin is our fourth and final small group facilitator for the Embodied Masculinity program starting January 6th 2026. His journey to somatics, and Luis, started with a nail gun, and the pain resulting from repetitive use. He realized he was holding tension around accuracy in physical labor, and relationally around important topics. Somatics helped show him how to hold his body through work and relationships in a way that was easeful, not painful. Luis invites Colin to share what he loves abou...

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really appreciate when you address the schism of how people read one's identity from your inner experience, and especially when you relate it to all different aspects of eco-social-somatics, meaning the physiology, the social, and the experiential aspects of "passing white white (cis, straight)" (recognizing the privileges that come with that, while still acknowledging) at the same time the inner experience of an identity that's different than what is perceived in the surface. and you got deep into some of complexities if that here really so well, acknowledging ancestry and so much n thanks!

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