En iyi Holistic Life Navigation podcastleri (2025)

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[Ep. 280] This Is Why I Disagree With Gender-Affirming Treatment For Minors (And It's PRO-Trans) 19:37

1d ago19:37

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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 and hormone therapy. Children can safely explore who they are through temporary means, such as: make-up, fa…

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[Ep. 279] This Is Why I Think P*rnography Is Traumatizing For Developing Boys 23:06

5d ago23:06

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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 biological change, p*rnography can be a developmental traumatizing experience for boys that leaves them further isolat…

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[Ep. 278] What Does Stress Have To Do With Skin Health? 11:53

11d ago11:53

11:53

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 overtaxed. The focus is usually on sex hormones, but stress hormones can also tax your liver, which then can trig…

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[Ep. 277] The Secret Ingredient For Balanced Glucose? Movement 9:32

12d ago9:32

9:32

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 need to perform in order to access calorically dense food. Refined foods can often cause a glucose spike, which is…

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[Ep. 276] How Protein Affects Your Mood 12:13

15d ago12:13

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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 can temporarily fill the dopamine need caused by low amino acid intake, but ensuring you have enough protein is…

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[Ep. 275] Converting Cravings Into Whole Food Options 10:55

17d ago10:55

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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 to our unmet relational and emotional needs that may arise when we stop repressing them with food. Register here …

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[Ep. 274] Marginalization Without Victim Mentality & Grieving The Queer Community w/ Camille & Grey Doolin 1:05:48

19d ago1:05:48

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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 outside · the way counterculture and mainstream culture interact · honoring the knowledge of community elders · separating others…

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[Ep. 273] Understand Your Cravings With This 5 Minute Practice 10:25

22d ago10:25

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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 needs is nutritional, and the other is emotional. Luis guides us through a practice to help put a pause in our cra…

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[Ep. 272] Healthy At Any Size? 10:30

24d ago10:30

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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 instinct for survival, is a healthy response to the ingestion of refined carbs and sugars. Learning which food…

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[Ep. 271] Live Seasonally: Prevent Burnout w/ Camille Leak 50:51

26d ago50:51

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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 resourcing to our bodies. At one time everyone lived in tandem with the seasons. Caffeine and electricity al…

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[Ep. 270] Do These 3 Things To Help Your Body Recover From Stress 9:51

29d ago9:51

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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://youtu.be/7xglDqF52mg Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigat…

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[Ep. 269] This Practice Can Change So Much 9:26

1M ago9:26

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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 categories affect our nervous system and adrenals. Take moment to notice what foods you consume and crave, and you ma…

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[Ep. 268] Embodied Nutrition: How My Traumas & Eating Disorders Created Food Therapy 49:53

1M ago49:53

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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, and how food was the only thing that could suppress and repress his pain. His personal experiences drew him towa…

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[Ep. 267] Why You Can't Stay On Your Diet 13:03

1M ago13:03

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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 no longer have food manipulating our body chemistry. We become more awake to life. ⁠ ⁠ In our 6 month nut…

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[Ep. 266] My 3 Favorite Snacks For Your Adrenals 13:32

1M ago13:32

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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 adrenaline, resulting in an internal crisis. Once flooded with adrenaline we can experience hyper vigilance, muscle tension,…

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[Ep. 265] Embodied Performing: How To Actually ENJOY Feeling Seen 19:59

1M ago19:59

19:59

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 performing from a traumatic experience in childhood. This shift allowed him to move from burning out after performing to loving…

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[Ep. 264] The "Empath" Is A Trauma Response 14:03

1M ago14:03

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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 between embodying others joy and their suffering. Often when someone is referred to as an empath it is someone who reflex…

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[Ep. 263] A.I. For Creatives: How Can It Make Us More Human? w/ Holly Howard 58:26

2M ago58:26

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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 Luis and Holly as they chat about how A.I. can support your creativity, allowing you to do more of what you …

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[Ep. 262] Trans People Don't NEED To Belong: The Freedom Of Being An Outcast w/ Grey Doolin 1:02:58

2M ago1:02:58

1:02:58

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 not about shutting parts of yourself off, it's about bringing all of yourself along for the ride. An important part of t…

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[Ep. 261] "Ayahuasca Told Me To De-Transition" Born Female, Living As Male, Then Back To Female w/ Maddie Durbin 54:35

2M ago54:35

54:35

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 by Max for 6 years and took testosterone for 5 of those years, growing a full beard and undergoing a doub…

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[Ep. 260] "The Forest Enhances Who Your Are": How To Be a Conscious Colonizer w/ Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin 1:01:02

2M ago1:01:02

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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 reflection of the earth, all yearning for connection. To understand the earth we need to look within and ask, do we dominate, o…

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[Ep. 259] Adrenaline & Cortisol + The Link Between Weight Gain & Hormonal Problems w/ Karen Hurd 41:46

3M ago41:46

41:46

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 simultaneously. We are meant to experience short bursts of adrenaline and cortisol in emergency situations, not prolonged baths …

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[Ep. 258] What Ghana Can Teach About Relationships, Politics, and Privilege 54:41

3M ago54:41

54:41

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. Being referred to with familial pronouns, with all the physical contact, and living next door to the peo…

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[Ep. 257] 3 Common Habits That Keep You Awake At Night 9:57

3M ago9:57

9:57

Luis tucks in for a bedtime conversation about three evening routines that can optimize sleep. Sleep is the body's ritual of repair: these 3 practices will help tend the body to do it's repair work. Think digestion, light, and sensation. Best part is, this podcast comes with a late night snack! Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Su…

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[Ep. 256] How Stress Affects Your Hormones, Digestion, & What To Eat About It w/ Karen Hurd 49:02

3M ago49:02

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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 Hurd (biochemist, nutritionist and frequent guest), as they explore the science behind what happens in the body with lon…

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[Ep. 255] Can You Recover From Trauma While Drinking Coffee? 19:17

3M ago19:17

19:17

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: 1) How are you using it? Maybe caffeine is a medicine to energize when in a new time zone, or to help lift one out of a…

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[Ep. 254] Spatial Alchemy: Designing Your Home To Change Your Body & Life w/ Olga Naiman 41:38

3M ago41:38

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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 feel, we can build it in to our home. First see your home with the eyes of a stranger. Feeling lonely? Look…

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[Ep. 253] What Your Posture Says About Your Trauma 13:52

3M ago13:52

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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 holds itself in based on historic trauma, stress, or abuse? These patterns of tension are the body's way of b…

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[Ep. 252] Money Trauma: Debt Don't Bother Me, Overcharging People, & Being White Trash At Heart 1:06:31

3M ago1:06:31

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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 · Not finding safety in money, and the reality of needing money · The difference between how much money we have vs. the me…

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[Ep. 251] This 2 Minute Practice Can Alleviate Anxiety - & It's Free! 10:42

4M ago10:42

10:42

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 part of us feels anxious. What does the rest of us feel? Using this tool Luis is able access the parts of himself that a…

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[Ep. 250] Eating Unprocessed Foods Is A Vote For The Land 42:23

4M ago42:23

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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 glyphosate, wrecking bio-diversity, increasing chemicals, and providing reduced nutrients. Two pounds of GMO al…

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[Ep. 249] My 3 Favorite Teas For Female Hormones 11:28

4M ago11:28

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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 the "triple root infusion", as well as when and how much to drink. He also includes two other herbs that can help …

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[Ep. 248] Stress Affects Your Liver...These Herbs Can Help! 10:11

4M ago10:11

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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 change the liver's ability to function. He then talks about two herbs to help support liver, what they do, and h…

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[Ep. 247] Somatic Empathy: How To Not Get Stuck In The Doom Scroll 19:58

4M ago19:58

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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 of impending doom, but instead of impact, they move on with their lives in to the world, still braced. Ho…

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[Ep. 246] How Carbs Are Turning On Your Trauma Response 35:44

4M ago35:44

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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 we had to work hard to get that spike of dopamine and glucose, but our animal bodies have not evolved to k…

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[Ep. 245] This Might Be Why You're Waking Up At Night & How To Fix It 13:49

4M ago13:49

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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 bodies, along with yummy, practical solutions to experiment with. Give it a try, and notice how you feel. Regi…

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[Ep. 244] I Was Wrong: Protein, Veganism, & The Mysteries Of Nutrition 38:50

4M ago38:50

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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 experience prompted his beach-side musings on efficient and non-efficient proteins, how individuals process carbohy…

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[Ep. 243] The Most Accessible & Affordable Stress-Reducer Is...A Pillow?! 13:35

4M ago13:35

13:35

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. Maybe you need a pillow, one of Luis' favorite strategies for being with stress and trauma. The humble, and often accessibl…

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[Ep. 242] Chocolate Dependence, Divorce, & What I Learned 20:31

5M ago20:31

20:31

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' chemicals. In this unconscious alchemy food becomes our bodies. We often use this shift to change our chemistry a…

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[Ep. 241] Why We Scarf Down Food To Shapeshift 14:11

5M ago14:11

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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 that make us feel more alive. Wound up and anxious at the end of a long day? We might reach for foods that d…

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[Ep. 240] Those B*tches Appropriated Us! DEI, Decolonization, and Wokeness 1:03:45

5M ago1:03:45

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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. Luis reveals how the appropriation of these words into trends feels in his body and why. They discuss intent …

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[Ep. 239] Beans: Superfood or Super Toxic? These Studies Will Amaze You 15:33

5M ago15:33

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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 math and gives us tips on how to reduce phytic acid, why it's worth the trouble, and how a little bit can …

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[Ep. 238] LA Wildfire, Palestine, & Israel: How Relinquishing Ownership Is At The Center Of Each 1:54:35

5M ago1:54:35

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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 from the ashes of the LA wildfire where Unique's home was burnt to the ground as nature evicted her. Forced …

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[Ep. 237] My Nuanced Take On Trump's 2 Gender Policy 22:14

5M ago22:14

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"As of today it will henceforth be official policy of the United States Government that there are only two genders, male and female." - Donald Trump Luis explores how this policy effects transgender, transsexual, non-binary and intersex folks. He discusses the fluidity of gender, whereas sex is biology assigned at birth. Luis reads this policy as a…

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[Ep. 236] Understanding How Your Diet Is Triggering Your Stress Response 16:08

5M ago16:08

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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 spike in insulin, leading to a drop in glucose, resulting in an adrenaline spike. You heard that? Your body is having a …

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[Ep. 235] Exploring Identity Politics: Do Black & Brown People Even Like The Term POC? 1:16:23

6M ago1:16:23

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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 other specific groups in a condescending way? What is the story, meaning, or belief we have about the label PO…

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[Ep. 234] Is Misgendering A Form Of Progress? 15:55

6M ago15:55

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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 responsibility to orient to, and find safety in, ourselves. The more comfortable Luis is in himself, the less offen…

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[Ep. 233] Cognitive Dissonance: Using It To Your Advantage 43:49

6M ago43:49

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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 discomfort caused by this tension is usually avoided, or even "erased". Alternatively, leaning in to the tension ca…

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[Bonus Episode] The Sugar-To-Adrenaline Pipeline 8:25

6M ago8:25

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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 recommendations to employ before eating sugar, starch and refined carbohydrates to help mitigate the effects of…

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[Ep. 232] My Post About Trans People Triggered Her... So We Recorded A Podcast About It w/ Kai Cheng Thom 1:22:56

6M ago1:22:56

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On today's episode Luis is joined by Kai Cheng Thom: somatic therapist, depth psychologist, and author. Back in August, Luis put up a post on social media sharing both his personal experiences and opinions about gender dysphoria, body dysmorphia, and youth in the trans community. The post received a lot of attention, and started a conversation with…

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