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Holistic Life Navigation, P. O. Box 263, Bearsville, NY (2026)

01/29/2026

When human relationships cause you to not trust connection, look no further than to your plant, animal, and elemental family.

The wild, natural world has so many relationships waiting for you.

The moss, the dew, the sun, the plants...so many different beings and bodies that can handle you.

Letting the body feel safe in connection, even to non-human beings, is the beginning for most people. Especially when you've been isolating with screens to avoid rupture and people due to anxiety from past situations.

Try this practice, see where it takes you, and dive deep with me in one of my upcoming retreats.

February 28th at and September 6th .

Info through bio link and website.

01/27/2026

In 2 weeks I am teaching a FREE session on how to nourish your children through food to prevent, and reduce, everything from tantrums to emotional imbalances.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/nutrition-for-your-kids

01/26/2026

My FREE session takes place on February 10th at 10am EST.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/nutrition-for-your-kids

Come with questions, feedback, and be ready to dive in with me.

01/25/2026

Luis and Camille banter as they dive into the concept of the Self in somatics. Along the way Luis offers 3 practices to work with finding the Self as witness. This witnessing allows us to be with a sensation or state and feel it rather than avoid it. It also helps us dis-identify from the state. From there we can experience something unpleasant and be with it rather than fix it. From this place of witnessing, Luis finds that others cannot shame or embarrass him. This realization brings responsibility, as others can no longer be blamed for his state.

Practicing somatics, they discuss, connects them to spirit, which reminds them, as these things do, of Darth Vader and Yoda. Many religions require us to detach from the body to find God, whereas with somatics it's connecting to the body that allows them to connect to spirit.

Camille dips in to her practice of savoring depression, a state that cyclically visits her in the dark of winter. She notes that if she identifies with it, fights or resists it, it will be prolonged. Whereas if she savors it, and practices sinking into it she can actually find pleasure in the experience.

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

Watch on YouTube:
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01/22/2026

The hardest thing to navigate around trauma is finding people to lean into in order to help you release it when people have been the cause of your ruptures.

Trauma, shame, overwhelm, and anxiety are mostly connection issues.

The body feels disconnected from where it is and who it is around for good reasons.

1) This can be because it's actually unsafe where you are and the dissociation and shutdown is protective.

2) Historically it's been unsafe so the body doesn't trust opening up to anyone - even when they're safe and potentially helpful.

It takes time to titrate into trust, openness, and connection. All of my retreats and online groups are designed with this in mine.

Check out the link in my bio to see what's coming up.

01/19/2026

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Yesterday's guest sat down with me to have a brilliant conversation around her gender dysphoria and how it resolved through changing her diet.

I can't begin to tell you the amount of parents I've worked with who have dysphoric teens and, once they change what they eat, the dysphoria vanishes.

I've also had tr*******al clients (and some non-binary ones) who continue the path of transitioning but include nutritional therapy and they, too, see a marked difference in their mental health and overall gender dysphoria.

Food directly impacts stress hormones, which affect your s*x hormones.

Chronic imbalance of these hormones can result in mental health issues, anxiety, insomnia, depression and, yes, gender dysphoria.

01/18/2026

Luis and Tasha talk about beauty standards, eating disorders and their role in Tasha's life. She used food as a way to control her appearance and fit into beauty standards. Her hormones tanked. Out of desperation she began the complicated journey of taking control of her own health. In 2020-2021 she found herself within the nuance of liminal space. She felt non-binary, identity-less. In 2022 she suffered long-COVID and learned that her body needed to shift out of veganism into eating animal products. 6 weeks later her body felt like a woman again. She reconnected to herself in a way her Maiden body had never experienced. She realized how disconnected she had been and revels in it's new connection.

She uses her newfound life force energy to reintroduce people to their power through dance, likely with the same grace and openness that she shares her life with us here. She DJ's parties, teaches workshops, and she teaches facilitators. Embodied DJing, facilitating initiatory experiences, is the modern form of ancient medicine, creating the heartbeat of the crowd. Let's shake it out together!

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

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

01/17/2026

There is so much I've wanted to say lately about politics, culture, philosophies, spicy and controversial UNpopular opinions.

And then I say it, to myself, and I feel absolutely content.

I'm in a season of listening right now.

Listening to my body, the trees, the people around me, and the collective.

Listening, feeling, speaking where no one can hear me except for a good friend, or tree, or squirrel.

And then feeling absolutely satisfied.

This is a photo I took of a bunch of native trees in Iceland last year. Being on that continent felt like I left society.

I felt beautifully forgotten, uninterested in success or being known, and humbled by the vast and brutal landscape of that place.

The land of ice and fire.

The seed of contentment was watered in me, deeper than it had been in a while, and I've been growing it ever since.

Protecting it, actually. Because I live in a society that expects acceleration, growth, and success at any cost.

I don't want to reflexively mirror those expectations and internalize that goal of endless growth which is not mine.

Success, for me, has always been about: how does what I do nourish my body? How do I treat myself and the people around me? Is my capacity congruent with my desires?

As I go into 2026 I am asking myself: what will my business and work look like with less and less urgency?

Will it work?

How will I promote a book when I don't care about sales or validation?

It's a question that will answer itself in time.

01/15/2026

Seeing myself in trees actually saved me from su*cide.

I was an inters*x kid with no representation in the world. I didn't know what my body was doing, I felt betrayed by my budding breasts and wider hips. I felt disgusted and ashamed by the s*xual violations my body seemed to magnetize into it.

And I just didn't want to be here anymore.

Then, when I was 13 years old, I felt called to the forest outside of my home for the first time ever.

As I walked down to the trees I saw a knotted willow, I saw birch trees peeling, I saw bulbous, tumor-like growths exploding from healthy tree trunks.

And I saw myself.

I saw my acne in the trees soft, peaceful explosion.

I saw my body in the pine tree which had, both, the emergence of round breast-like growths as well as beautiful ph***ic pine cones dangling from their branches.

And I saw myself.

I saw male birds, all naturally dolled up with shimmering eye shadow and bright orange breasts singing their arias in gorgeous falsettos.

And I saw myself.

Nature showed me I belonged. I finally felt natural and not otherworldly, yet, very worldly indeed.

I was not just of nature - I was nature.

And I went from feeling completely deformed and distorted and emerged feeling like I might just be okay after all.

I understood the land as a person. Just like a good friend can hold my hand and reassure me of my goodness, so can the Earth.

It is from this place that I teach, even when I don't say it.

And it's from this place we designed our next retreat from.

We'll be spending a week on wild, ancient land in northern England for a week beginning on September 9th.

All the info you need is through the link in my bio.

01/12/2026

My 'Food Therapy' philosophy has no room for shame or even the concept of "falling off the wagon".

These are binary concepts that result from a relationship with food rooted in control.

Either the foods themselves are controlling me and I feel hopelessly at the mercy of my snack cabinet, or I must control food so I can emerge thinner, younger, healthier, etc.

Control isn't sustainable, on either side, because freedom is too innate. So we break free by rebelliously raging against the strict guidelines we are trying to control ourselves by through overeating, then shaming, then hating ourselves, then eating more comfort foods to soothe the shame.

But there is another way.

Each meal is its own individual moment in time that will affect you for the next several hours, as far as your chemistry goes.

I can eat a comforting, yet stimulating, duo of a donut and coffee for breakfast to lift my mood and then eat a balancing meal of beans, avocado, and chicken for lunch and by the time I'm home for dinner my chemistry is more balanced than it was in the morning.

Seeing the body as compost, as everything belonging and transmuting, can help you leave the binary dietary thinking of "good" or "bad" which then leaves the self judgements of "right" or "wrong".

Which then relinquishes shame.

Eat those cookies with kindness toward yourself because some part of you needs them, and then enjoy what they give you so later you can eat something that nourishes you on a cellular level, not just emotional one.

Tomorrow's FREE session will go over the correlation between weight gain and trauma, but also around my 'Food Therapy' philosophy around not fearing cravings, yet understanding them.

As a deeper way to understand yourself.

Everyone gets a replay.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/weight-and-trauma

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