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Holistic Life Navigation

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/outro song: "Witch Love"

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51:19

[Ep. 310] "They Called Me Gay Just For Singing" Why...

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2025/11/23

2025 and it's still fringe as f*ck for men to do somatic work. Why? Because men are conditioned to suppress the parts of themselves that are tender and vulnerable with dissociation and porn. Join Luis and his friend Steven as they discuss masculinity and the upcoming 6 month Embodied Masculinity Slow group, starting January sixth. Steven reminisces about singing with a friend when he was 11 years old, when a parent commented, "You are gay, aren't you?" Singing with a friend was "not ma...

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[Ep. 309] Share This With A Man You Know: How P*rn...

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2025/11/20

Our boys, too often, grow up using porn as a formulaic way to self soothe. They experience the dopamine rush, stimulation and sexual gratification in isolation. There is no touch or feedback in return, no boundaries to navigate, just dissociative pleasure.This stress loop, repeated chronically in a young body becomes a developmental trauma. The pattern spills into future relationships, where they find themselves numbed out and disconnected from themselves and their partners. Join Luis f...

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[Ep. 308] "He Called Me A F*ggot For Wearing Striped...

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2025/11/16

Atarah Valentine joins Luis on the podcast today. They warm up talking about how we can practice self hatred, and we can practice gratitude. It's all a practice. What choices and practices have adapted you to be the person you are? Men, Atarah saw, hurt women. He did not want to hurt women. As a result he practiced hating masculinity. He evoked feminine energy emulating his grandmother who wanted to fix everything for everyone. Another woman he emulated was his mother who married ...

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48:21

[Ep. 307] Mystic Nomad: A Woman’s Wild Journey to...

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2025/11/13

On today's episode, Luis is joined by Annette Knopp - meditation teacher, somatic educator, nature mystic, and author - to discuss her newly released book Mystic Nomad: A Woman's Wild Journey to True Connection. In her book, Annette shares the personal experiences that shaped who she is as a person, and then how these events developed her way of teaching and showing up in the world. Part memoir, part modality teaching, she wrote the book with the intention of sharing her story as a way to sup...

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48:26

[Ep. 306] When Men Don't Have To Hold It All...

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2025/11/09

Meet Zach Kalatsky, a mentor for the Embodied Masculinity 6 months slow group, as well as a member of the HLN retreat team. He joins Luis today for a chat about their experience as friends, and as part of a team that holds the all male slow group members. So many men identify as being fatherless sons, sons of men who could not connect and support their boys the ways they needed. The result is a lingering and deep sense of never being supportively held by men in their life. Part of the s...

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[Ep. 305] Why Men Don't Practice Somatics

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2025/11/06

Somatics is naturally an inward focused practice involving the noticing of internal feelings and sensations, something that sociatally, in America at least, only women are "allowed" to notice. Men often feel like they need to be loud and dominant, focusing their energy outward lest they seem weak, whereas women can be fluid, sensuous and internally focused. However, it's when men learn to relate to their own feminine energy, getting comfortable going inward, that they can securely unfurl into...

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[Ep. 304] The 2nd Puberty & Embodying Masculinity w/...

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2025/11/02

Naveed and Luis connect over their work in the 6 month Embodied Masculinity Slow Group, a vulnerable, male only, space. Often boys traverse the transition of puberty in isolation, taught only by porn. After a lifetime of objectification from porn use it's common for men to have dissociative relationships with their penises and masculinity. The slow group provides a counter vortex from the isolation to experience a second puberty, together, in community. So many of us were raised by overworked...

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[Ep. 303] How I Stopped Hating Men

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2025/11/01

Join Luis as he gets vulnerable about his history with dysphoria around masculinity. His DNA is coded to express as female, yet he has male sex organs that produce testosterone. Feminine attributes made him the target of male abuse, and as a result he learned to reject his masculinity (associated with abuser energy) and femininity (associated with victim energy), both felt dangerous. The abuse and bullying he endured in school led to intense internalized shame and self hatred. Luis learned to...

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94:50

[Ep. 302] Radical Rehumanizing: How To Dislike...

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2025/10/12

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Luis invites Camille Leak and Gray Doolin into a raw conversation about the somatics of dehumanization. Together, they explore what happens in the body when we dislike someone so deeply that we strip away their humanity, and how to stay open-hearted even in disagreement. The team discusses how somatic awareness has helped them recognize that feelings like disappointment, disgust, or dislike don’t have to lead to dehumanization. By staying embo...

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[Ep. 301] Sovereign Love: Finding Safety In Yourself,...

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2025/10/07

On today's episode Luis welcomes his friend and colleague Dené Logan - group facilitator, therapist, and author - to the podcast. They discuss her concept of Sovereign Love, and dive deep into the nuance of relationships and the way we show up to them.and the culturally imposed ideas of what a love, and relationships, look like. They explore: Culturally dominant ideas of what love and relationships should look likeMasculine and feminine energiesCo-dependent and enmeshed relationshipsCon...

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[Ep. 300] Hate Speech: Can Words Really Hurt Us?

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2025/10/05

Luis and Camille dive into the complexities of free speech, exploring the difference between what is truly dangerous and what is simply triggering. They discuss how words can hurt when our sense of self isn’t yet established, and how building the inner witness allows us to pause, discern, and let go of what doesn’t belong to us. Together they unpack the distinction between harm and danger, the power of harmful rhetoric, and the importance of developing the capacity to hold both truths: words ...

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[Bonus Episode] Food Therapy: Supporting ADHD With...

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2025/10/02

Most treatments for ADHD rely on stimulants that create dopamine spikes, helping us push through tasks that otherwise feel painfully boring. While these can help in the short term, they don’t address the deeper needs of the body. As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9 and has been working for over 15 years as a nutritionist and somatic therapist, Luis will teach how to use nutrition to restore your nervous system and even create more sustainable dopamine for focus and to get things d...

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[Ep. 299] The Connection Between Processed Foods &...

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2025/09/28

Why do we crave junk food when we’re stressed? In this episode, Luis explores how trauma and chronic stress deplete the body, driving us toward processed foods for quick hits of serotonin and temporary relief. He explains the three categories of foods—stimulants, depressants, and balancers—how each affects our emotional state, and why balancing foods are essential for true regulation. Luis also shares his top three nutrition tips for nervous system balance and reads an excerpt from his upcomi...

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44:37

[Ep. 298] Unfawning, Risking Conflict, & Channeling...

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2025/09/25

On today's episode, Luis welcomes back Dr. Ingrid Clayton for a deep dive into fawning. Both share their personal experiences with fawning, both historical and present, and how their relationship with this trauma response has evolved over time. They discuss: how conflict and authenticity feels risky, and fawning helps to avoid itstepping into authenticityincreasing capacity for discomfort and relating to activationfinding safety in the self, and building a relationship with the selfhow fawnin...

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[Ep. 297] The Biology Of Trauma [THE BOOK] w/ Dr....

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2025/09/23

What if your body wasn’t broken, but brilliantly designed to survive? In today’s episode, Luis speaks with Dr. Aimie Apigian — medical doctor, biochemist, and foster parent — about her new book The Biology of Trauma. After her foster son told her he was going to kill her, Dr. Apigian’s search for answers revealed that trauma is rooted in biology, not weakness. Tune in as they discuss how trauma rewires the nervous system, why connection and standard attachment strategies often fail for trau...

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[Ep. 296] Pendulation: The Practice That Saved My Life

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2025/09/21

On today's episode, Luis teaches about pendulation, a term coined by Peter Levine, and taught through Somatic Experiencing. Luis shares about his understanding of "active" pendulation, how to not bypass, and how the practice changed his life. At the end of the episode, Luis takes us through a guided pendulation practice so you can experience firsthand what he's teaching about. You can read more about, and register for, the live 7-week foundational course here: https://www.holisticlifenavi...

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[Ep. 295] Humanizing Charlie Kirk: Using Somatics &...

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2025/09/19

On today's episode Luis discusses his practice of humanizing those he disagrees with, and how the killing of Charlie Kirk, and the response to it, inspired him to share his reaction. When one of the people who had abused him died, Luis thought he'd feel relief, but instead found grief and love underneath the fear he'd been trapped in. His own self-inquiry made him decide that it hurt him more to hate his abuser than it did to humanize him. From this realization Luis began his personal r...

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[Ep. 294] Trauma Healing 101: Learn How To Combine...

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2025/09/17

Most of us were alone during our most traumatic experiences—and then left alone to try to heal from them. In this episode, Luis explores why isolation is at the root of so much trauma, how unexpressed survival responses can stay stuck in the body for decades, and why healing requires connection. He shares why group work is so powerful, how somatic practices and whole-food nutrition work together, and what it means to witness your body rather than become it. Register for Food Therapy Explore...

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[Ep. 293] How To Eat For ADHD

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2025/09/14

Luis has lived the ADHD diagnosis, along with tics, tourrettes, binge eating, self-hatred and suicidal ideation. All of this stress does a number on the gut lining, which leads to brain inflammation and brain fog. Luis began to notice that all of his symptoms would shapeshift depending upon what food he had eaten. Eventually this practice taught him how to eat for a nutrient deficient brain, while somatics taught him how to be a conscious witness. The combination of nutrition and somatics all...

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[Ep. 292] Treating ADHD By Making Life More Exciting

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2025/09/11

Do you have ADHD? Has anyone ever asked you what kind of food you eat and if your life excites you? Luis had self-medicated his ADHD with sugar, caffeine, and cigarettes because stimulants boost dopamine. This can help with short term productivity, but these substances also stimulate the heart, nervous system, and adrenals, eventually leading to burnout. What if we learned how to use dopamine deficiency as a compass to find what truly lights us up? Want to learn more about how to ...

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