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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. 358] Weight Gain Isn't About Calories, It's About Glucose (Listen If You're Skinny, Too!)

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 read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november ---- You c...

Oct 19

7 min

[Ep. 357] Microdosing A Kit Kat Bar (Give Me A Goddamn Break)

Oct 12

8 min

[Ep. 356] One Or Two Parents Cannot Replace The Village

One of the biggest losses of the modern era is the loss of the village. Without the village we parent in isolation and use screens with our child(ren) to give us a break. But this plunges our kid(s) into their own isolation: isolation breeding isolation, and parental burnout. You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar You can register for Novemb...

Oct 5

4 min

[Ep. 355] This Is Why Parenting Sucks - & It Doesn't Have To

What does wanting our kids to like us have to do with a kid’s sense of being too much to handle? Drop in to find out in this tiny taste of the upcoming 6-month Embodied Parenting Slow Group, starting October 6th: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/parenting-group The live webinar has passed, but you can watch the replay here: https://hln.thinkific.com/courses/embodied-parenting-webinar Do you want your kid to like you? Do you reflexively back track? Do you freeze, acquiesce or faw...

Oct 3

7 min

[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

18 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

13 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

23 min

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

Sep 1

12 min