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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.comWritten, produced and recorded by Luis Mojica. Edited by Fredo Viola. Intro song: "Wood Smoke" by Fredo Viola.  

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[Ep. 354] Screens: The New Drug Everyone Is Dealing Kids

Screen addiction in kids, and the isolation it fosters, is the most insidious parenting issue today. Kids and adults disassociate both lose themselves in the screen — the big difference is that many of us developed without the prevalence of screens, while our kids don't have that privilege. Kids now retreat to their rooms, alone, orienting to TikTok and influencers, not their family or elders. Depression rates increase because we have taken away their connection to themselves, their fam...

Sep 27

19 min

[Ep. 353] "I Don't Believe Minors Should Transition"... An Honest & Respectful Disagreement Between Myself & Psychologist Mackenzie Steiner

Luis and Psychologist Mackenzie Steiner dive deep into their own truths about minors surgically transitioning, who *actually* is trans, de-transition rates, how gender dysphoria shows up in the brain, and gender affirming care options for children. They share wisdom and stories from their own individual experiences with gender dysphoria, and how they navigated the experience. Each opted for surgery as adults. The real gold is their respectful disagreement on if kids should be given gen...

Sep 20

1 hr 19 min

[Ep. 352] How To Connect With Your Kids When They're Shutdown (Parallel Co-Regulation)

Neurodivergent kids or teenagers often come home overwhelmed just from spending the day masking, or surviving the hormonal shifts. Directly engaging them often results in frustration. They need to rebuild their capacity from the day before they are resourced enough to engage with us. Let them disconnect and resource before initiating Parallel Co-Regulation. The goal of Parallel Co-Regulation is at least 15 minutes, no phone, no mining them for information, just doing a shared task together.&n...

Sep 13

19 min

[Ep. 351] Transform Your Child's Behavior and Moods With This Snack

Stimulating foods loaded in sugar and carbs are everywhere, and especially advertised to our children. These foods cause spikes and dips in glucose which result in an adrenal response. This transforms nervous systems and brain chemistry, negatively impacting dopamine levels. Sometimes we call the result a tantrum, shutting down, or an inability to concentrate. We can change so much about a kid’s, or our own, lifestyle, but without a balanced diet the brain chemicals needed to focus and ...

Sep 6

14 min

[Ep. 350] Embodied Parenting: Teens, Single Parenting, and Sleep Deprivation

Luis gives us question-and-answer style examples of his upcoming six month Embodied Parenting Slow Group, starting October 6th. https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group Parents ask how to single parent, or co-parent with a sick partner, how to parent while sleep deprived without doing the "cry it out" method, and how to parent rebellious teens and siblings. And a big one: how do you regulate once in crisis mode? Capacity is key! Luis discusses nuances of each topic...

Sep 3

24 min

[Ep. 349] You Need Capacity To Connect, Not Love

Today's podcast is an audio version of today's email.⁠ ⁠ Not a part of the HLN newsletter? You can join here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/join-my-newsletter You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group You can read more about, and register for, the workshop at Kripalu here: https...

Sep 1

13 min

[Ep. 348] It's Been 11 Years & This Is What Parenting Has Taught Me

Parenthood is brutal and brilliant, like drinking Ayahuasca for over a decade. Our upcoming six-month Embodied Parenting program starts October 6th, but it won't provide you with answers, nor a guide book. Instead, we'll dive deep into accessing and learning our bodies instincts and intuition to discover our own unique truth. Click here to sign up for our newsletter, and for Embodied Parenting practices and resources: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/join-my-newsletter Ready to di...

Aug 30

11 min

[Ep. 347] Let's Talk About Dysphoria In Kids

Today's podcast is an audio version of today's email.⁠ ⁠ Not a part of the HLN newsletter? You can join here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/join-my-newsletter ⁠ You can register for the Embodied Parenting webinar here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar You can also read more about, and register for, the 6 month program here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group You can read more about, and register for, the workshop at Kripalu here: htt...

Aug 24

12 min

[Ep. 346] Kids + Dysphoria: It Doesn't Always Mean They're Trans

We, or our children, can be gender non-conforming, or have body dysphoria and not be trans. There is nothing wrong with bodies in puberty (which is an inherently dysphoric experience): the problem is with our culture, families and society not having rites of passage, and not knowing how to support and hold space for teenage bodies as they mature. Dive into this podcast, and for a more in-depth exploration, join us for our six-month Embodied Parenting Slow Group, starting Tuesday October...

Aug 23

20 min

[Ep. 345] "We Think Gentle Parenting Is Cheesy"... How The HLN Team Parents

Marika, Evan, Camille and Luis talk about their experiences as parents on today’s podcast. Marika came to embodiment and studied somatics after her son became an adult, while Evan trained in somatics before becoming a parent to his one year old. So the team discusses embodied parenting from a full spectrum of perspectives and experiences. They discuss how embodiment has changed their parenting. As well as which parenting experience has triggered the biggest trauma response for each of t...

Aug 16

59 min