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06/23/2026

Searching the internet and scrolling social media is the modern way we forage.

We look for the sweetest berry, the fruit that yields the most glucose for survival.

The same thing happens when I forage for herbs with my wife. You turn a corner of a path and BAM you find white yarrow flowers, stinging nettles, or dandelion leaves waving at you.

The body lights up and it MOVES you toward the prize.

Scrolling is using this ancient mechanism without the movement or the prize, which is why it's addicting and exhausting.

Take it from a dopamine-depleted bitch like me. Learn how to use your dopamine-thirsty scrolling habit to actually propel you back into your life.

This knowledge has transformed the practice of so many coaches, therapists, doctors, and practitioners.I wrote all about...
06/22/2026

This knowledge has transformed the practice of so many coaches, therapists, doctors, and practitioners.

I wrote all about it in my book "Food Therapy" and now I'm leading my annual 6-month program titled Embodied Nutrition so I can directly teach it to you myself.

When you understand how processed foods trigger fight/flight you can better educate your clients (and yourself) around how to navigate food through a somatic, felt-sense.

This program is open to therapists and non-therapists because it's vital information for anyone with a body.

This post is just speaking to practitioners because I want more of them to learn this and incorporate it in their practices.

This 6 month program will teach you so much about how food affects our mental and physical health.

You will walk away with a ton of knowledge, practices, and simple guidelines to play with.

Best of all: you don't need to become a nutritionist to implement this in your practice with clients or in your life.

I teach it through a lens that is easy to understand and integrate for everyone.

All sessions are recorded and everyone gets, both, replays life AND 1:1 support throughout the entire 6 months.

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

We begin on July 7th.

06/21/2026

Luis and Nicole Sachs dig into the depths of pain. She believes pain is caused by fear, and the meaning we assign to the pain, keeping the nervous system in fight or freeze. If we think something is wrong with us, a stress response results, because we become our own threat.

Nicole lived in her own cage of pain, fear and shame until she found Dr. Sarno’s work. He believes back pain is due to bottled up rage that is not societally acceptable. His work prompted Nicole to pause when the pain arose and ask herself if she was angry, and what was angering her. But she didn’t limit herself to anger. She played with it, and explored emotions. The pain dissipated with her practice. A reoccurrence of the pain in the early years of motherhood shook her to the core and led her to work with Dr. Sarno in person.

In her journey she developed Journal Speak, built on Dr. Sarno’s foundation. Her formula is Journal Speak + science + the dissolution of shame = freedom. Tune in to hear more of her process and journey, plus how to start your own Journal Speak practice.

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

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

I cannot tell you how much transformation I've seen in myself and my clients from understanding this.Carbs are not bad -...
06/19/2026

I cannot tell you how much transformation I've seen in myself and my clients from understanding this.

Carbs are not bad - they're just processed in ways we haven't evolved to metabolize properly.

My program teaches you HOW to eat food, rather than avoiding foods.

It's comprehensive and effective because it holds, both, the biochemical properties of foods and the emotional properties.

Each month I'll teach you about a specific nutrient (fats, carbs, proteins) through this dual lens so you can understand *what* emotional needs and even unprocessed traumas are at the root of your eating habits.

You'll also have plenty of guidelines, food experiments, and 1:1 support throughout the program when it comes to implementing food changes as you wish to.

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

We begin July 7th.

I really trust nature.When I hear about a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood...I don't think "tragedy". Instead, I think "mo...
06/18/2026

I really trust nature.

When I hear about a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood...I don't think "tragedy". Instead, I think "mother has spoken".

I revere her big, enormous, powerful body.

I revere her ability to give and take life.

It is the ultimate power of womanhood and of the feminine: to destroy and rebuild from the same tissues and soils.

And this is why I love somatics because it takes us out of our ideas and social norms and puts us in touch with an ancestral language of feeling and knowing.

Not of thinking or imagining, but bone-deep wisdom.

Wisdom that no one can colonize, torture, oppress, or indoctrinate you out of.

Nature is politically incorrect because politics don't apply.

Nature is unethical, impolite, and NOT fawning in any way.

It exists in the most honest way that is, both, gruesome and beautiful depending on whatever is called for to promote more life.

The body is, too.

A weeping rash, an obese body, a tantruming child, or a seductive tantrika - these bodies are always perfectly expressing from the environment they're rooted in.

These roses blew my mind. Their smell, their unapologetic glory, and their unflinching death.

May I be more like them.

What happens when you combine trauma therapy with nutrition? It all starts to make sense.When you realize that trauma ha...
06/17/2026

What happens when you combine trauma therapy with nutrition? It all starts to make sense.

When you realize that trauma has a biology that affects food choices and how food digests you start to gain and important insight into your food habits, your health, and your life.

I'm a nutritionist and trauma therapist who started using food as a recovery tool for my clients suffering from PTSD.

And I watched as their insomnia, self-hatred, anxiety, overwhelm, and fear dissolved.

Certain foods will increase your fight/flight response which increases the above symptoms.

While other foods will decrease your stress response, which can decrease those symptoms.

It's really that simple.

What makes it complex is the emotional attachment we have with food + the circumstances that cause us to eat the foods that stress out our bodies.

I authored the bestselling book "Food Therapy" which outlines this all with great detail.

And now, I am leading my annual 6 month program titled "Embodied Nutrition" where I will personally lead a group of people through the fascinating intersection of somatic psychology and nutritional therapy.

All the info you need is in the link in my bio. We begin on Tuesday July 7th.

Any questions? Email [email protected].

Earth on a plate.I don't see nutrition through the lends of isolated compounds like omega 3s, fats or vitamins.Those thi...
06/16/2026

Earth on a plate.

I don't see nutrition through the lends of isolated compounds like omega 3s, fats or vitamins.

Those things are important, but they don't help me better relate to food.

I like to see nutrition through the lens of animism. The energy, experience, and even personality of the food.

And when I eat it, its personality becomes part of mine.

Shimmering sardines swimming in the vast ocean, bringing the dance of water and the ancient knowledge of plankton right into my body.

Strawberries from the farmer's market, glowing red as we near the Summer Solstice. A reminder that fruit comes to support our skin and body as things heat up.

Green broccoli (steamed), a tightly compacted network of unopened flowers. Their potent information unfurling into my bones and blood.

Pinto beans, which deliver nutrients to the ground they grow from. Literally grounding nutrients into the soil. That same generosity enters my bowels and brain.

These 4 whole foods are whole beings. Each brings its own story, wisdom, and life experience.⁠
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And all that turns into my body.⁠
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Processed food isn't good, nor bad. It's processed: dissociated from its whole self.⁠
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We eat that dissociation and it further dissociates us.⁠
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Just looking at this plate is co-regulating. It's like looking out at the meadows, seas, and fields from where they came.⁠
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And the result is too. My glucose is balanced, stress hormones lower, and mood consistent.

Regardless of the health benefits we can achieve through intermittent fasting (oh, and they can be amazing) it still inc...
06/15/2026

Regardless of the health benefits we can achieve through intermittent fasting (oh, and they can be amazing) it still increases your stress hormones - especially when you are doing something difficult.

The adrenaline that is created to overcompensate for low glucose shows itself through irritation, overwhelm, fear, panic, and anxiety.

Whether you're being seen in an intimate conversation with your beloved, or in front of a thousand people giving a speech - there's already a powerful charge to it.

The body doesn't need added stress.

Food-induced stress is largely created from foods that destabilize glucose levels in the blood.

I wrote an entire book on this called "Food Therapy". You can buy it anywhere or even listen to the audio version, which I narrated.

On July 7th, I'm leading a 6-month program which will explore nutrition through an entirely new lens: the nervous system.

How does food affect your feelings?

How does it influence your posture, your breath, your confidence?

How can simple food shifts increase your capacity for the life you live, or even want to live?

We will explore this and so much more in my "Embodied Nutrition" program.

06/14/2026

Feeling anxious? Your body might need to down-regulate.

Feeling depressed? Your body might need to up-regulate.

This modulation of finding balance can be achieved in two ways, through a simple supportive practice Luis offers, and through food. Food affects our biology 24 hours a day. What we eat can activate us into a fight-or-flight response, effectively inducing stress. Or, we can consciously alchemize our food to support our body to be in a place of balance. No shame either way.

Eating to balance the nervous system helps the body build capacity to be seen. Luis recommends a snack practice to experiment with and see how your body responds.

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

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

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