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Kickin’ it old school, Luis does a solo meander around the topic of belonging. Videoless podcasting, as he is today, all...
03/29/2026

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 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium. Before getting on stage, Luis found himself unexpectedly shaken. He tended the sensation, allowing it to show him a part of himself that was shrinking. This part was protecting him from not belonging to the group of licensed mental health workers he was teaching.

"Belonging" in modern times means conforming societally in a relationship of extraction and consumption. Whereas, ancestrally, there was a wisdom and a reciprocity to conforming and belonging. Belonging meant a connection to earth, land and ancestors.

In these modern times Luis’ goal is finding safety in not belonging. He prefers belonging to himself, and from that place of safety building his own misfit tribe of weirdos.

Listen to the podcast:
https://holisticlifenavigation.buzzsprout.com/

03/27/2026

It's my belief that anyone who has a hard time focusing on their responsibilities and daily tasks is really an artist in hiding.

There's something else inside of you that wants to unfurl.

There's a different path, lifestyle, way of relating and doing things that actually thrills you and cultivates endless focus.

I left a life of normativity many years ago. When I was 19 I dropped out of college, gave my brand new car back to the dealer, and moved into a rickety but beautiful apartment in another town.

I spent the next decade in poverty working minimum wage jobs until I created this service of mine that sustains me now.

All through those years, living in sh*tty neighborhoods and places, making $1200 per month, I was HAPPY.

Beyond happy, actually. I thrived.

Because I wasn't putting my brain into a vice grip anymore.

I wasn't trying to conform to something I was told was the way to be, live, or think.

My ADHD, which had been diagnosed at 9, was (and is) my body's way of forcing me to take a path uncharted.

To do things that are risky, new, and interesting.

To be an artist in all my pursuits, not just while making music.

You walk with your ancestors within your flesh.

Their stories, their otherworldly ways, their indigenous knowledge - none of it is able to conform into this bleak, square, iPhone-driven, commerce-driven culture.

You're bored, as you should be, and we call it ADHD.

Let's cast of the identity and heed the invitation: to live differently and without shame.

Join me in my 6 month program which begins on April 7th.

We will explore eating, living, thinking, and BEING in our neurodivergent differences in a way that causes us to thrive, express, and live life based on our capacity, not external standards.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-adhd

I thought I had a learning disability growing up. I was in remedial classes and couldn't comprehend anything I read or h...
03/26/2026

I thought I had a learning disability growing up. I was in remedial classes and couldn't comprehend anything I read or heard in my classes because I was always dissociating.

But I would come to learn that dissociating is how we get a break when we're overwhelmed.

Because we see this as something to prevent or push through, we tend to use stimulants to break through the dissociation.

But stimulants just add more overwhelm which will cause more dissociation to occur.

All of this is the result of fighting your nature, at least it was for me.

I had to learn a whole new way to learn.

I had to move, listen to interesting music while doing tasks (I'm doing it as I type this. Thanks )

I have to bow to my capacity and take breaks, or make my environment and experience profoundly wonderful to support my body and brain.

Instead of pushing through, I've learned more about support.

And so I'm leading a 6 month group for people with ADD, ADHD, or similar experiences around losing focus and interest, easily going into freeze, and wanting to find a new way to increase their capacity that isn't just about stimulating and shutting down.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-adhd

We begin April 7th.

It's like this: if you don't like your life you will have to stimulate yourself through each day, each task, each relati...
03/24/2026

It's like this: if you don't like your life you will have to stimulate yourself through each day, each task, each relationship.

Slowly changing who you spend time with, how you spend your time, and what you focus on in this life will rewire your brain to find pleasure, interest, and motivation in your everyday.

Those of you with ADHD/ADD, like me, really cannot afford to live a life that doesn't serve us.

Our brain chemistry just doesn't allow us to apply ourselves to anything that isn't thrilling on a soul level.

You can judge yourself for this, you can fight this, you can even continue simulating through to assimilate into a life that doesn't serve you.

Been there, done that. And it was kind of fun smoking 4 packs of ci******es and drinking coffee all day until I wound up in the hospital several times due to full body collapse.

I'm spending 6 months to teach you how to apply food, somatics, and lifestyle changes to your everyday life so that your brain can begin finding joy in your everyday life.

And you can rely on stimulants less.

This group will cover so much that is often uncovered in the world of ADHD and neurodivergence.

Please check out the link in my bio for all the info. We begin on April 7th.

Email info@holisticlifenavigation.com with any questions you may have.

I'm not suggesting we should be punished for what we eat, but it is my opinion that nature has its own set of boundaries...
03/23/2026

I'm not suggesting we should be punished for what we eat, but it is my opinion that nature has its own set of boundaries.

The rainforest cannot fight off the tanks that bulldoze it to grow GMO sugar beets, but the exploitation of that land can affect us with rampant diabetes from too much sugar in the diet.

The indigenous Mother Corn of the Americas cannot kick you when you reduced her to a monocrop of GMO corn for sweetening sodas and cereals, but that corn syrup can have detrimental effects on your liver.

The watershed cannot fight back when Coca Cola depletes it and causes massive thirst and droughts in already impoverished communities around the world, but drinking these products can give us insomnia, heart disease, and metabolic issues.

And that is because food is a being. Land is a being. They are no human, but they are persons.

Exploiting them IS exploiting us and each other. It is a web of, mostly, innocent consumer complicity.

We are enjoying a cheap candy at the corner store while funding someone else's oppression: be it human, animal, insect, or land.

And all of this LANDS inside of us. How couldn't it? We are all connected.

My book is not another food book about health. It's a book about how collective and individual relationship to the land, ecosystems, and one another VIA food.

It's about learning how to embody your cravings and the foods you eat so that you can tend to your unmet needs, balance your body with nutrition, decrease your stress, increase your health, and relate to food as living landscapes across your plate.

Pre-order now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book
..and make sure to add your order number to the book club to access a free 2 months with me as we bring the book to life in a series of virtual sessions.

03/22/2026

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 neurodivergent or not, ultra processed foods, and screens, can put us into a state of freeze and burnout. Our next 6 month Slow Group, starting April 7th, will be focusing on counteracting these symptoms and nourishing bodies holding ADHD, as well as freeze and burnout. We may not have the ADHD diagnosis but we may have the experience of ADHD symptoms.

We are not trying to fix ourselves. We are learning to relate to ourselves and to the ADHD/burnout symptoms. We also learn to relate to screen usage and nutrition because it can either enhance or reduce our capacity.

Luis closes the episode with a beautiful and simple practice that can help us navigate burnout.

Listen to the podcast:
https://holisticlifenavigation.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/

Neurodivergent is a diagnosis for some of us who, as a baseline, have lower dopamine and brain inflammation.It affects h...
03/22/2026

Neurodivergent is a diagnosis for some of us who, as a baseline, have lower dopamine and brain inflammation.

It affects how we process the world around us which often results in easily getting overwhelmed by sensations, tasks, and people.

However, the average individual without a diagnosis is currently also experiencing these symptoms.

Because screens, overworking, and processed foods deplete our dopamine.

So no one is really neurotypical anymore.

Cue in Paula Cole "Where have all the normies gone?"

I've developed a 6 month program that will teach you all how to get back your brains from the endless hits of dopamine that the modern world "gifts" us with.

Somatic techniques help us support the frozen parts, rather than push through them, which allows for their release.

Nutritional guidelines, based in the science of the nervous system, will teach you which foods actually help to restore dopamine levels and support your nervous system and adrenals to recover.

Lifestyle changes make it so you actual friendships, environments, and hobbies spark genuine interest in your brain & become something you actually look forward to doing.

You put these three together, over the course of 6 months with me in a virtual community with others, and you get massive transformation around how you live, how you feel, and how you relate to yourself.

All the details are in the link in my bio, or just visit www.holisticlifenavigation.com for more info.

Let us know if you have questions.

In two weeks I'll be in conversation with my friend Deran, founder of .This FREE event will educate you about the import...
03/21/2026

In two weeks I'll be in conversation with my friend Deran, founder of .

This FREE event will educate you about the important role everyday foods play in helping your body recover from stress and trauma.

This is important for black and brown communities who are disproportionately affected by the negative physical and mental health effects of processed foods.

My approach is accessible, affordable, and more about education than it even is about access to higher quality foods. All of which I will explain in this session.

Register here: https://blacktherapistsrock.com/event/food-therapy-conscious-eating-to-navigate-anxiety-stress-trauma/

And the most overlooked form of therapy goes to...FOOD!The most consistent thing we practice, each day, is eating.It aff...
03/20/2026

And the most overlooked form of therapy goes to...

FOOD!

The most consistent thing we practice, each day, is eating.

It affects every waking moment of our biology.

Yet, nutrition gets a mere sentence or, if we're lucky, a paragraph in most psychology books, trauma books, and self-help books when it comes to anxiety, stress, and trauma.

This is why I wrote "Food Therapy". So I could dedicate an entire book the underdog of somatics: eating.

I'm not saying you will always be in a state of peace and calm when you eat foods that regulate your nervous system.

There are external factors that create stress response as well.

However, you CAN avoid food-induced stress almost entirely.

Even if you get your groceries from the corner store.

It's all in my book, which comes out on April 28th. We have some great in-person and virtual events coming up.

Comment "food" to get a link to the pre-order page & we'll send it straight to your DMs.

IMPORTANT: Copy and past your order number into the book club form on that page so you can take part in my 2 month, live book club for free.

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