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Let's talk about it. Tell me how you've experienced this below.Have you been the one relating this way due to AD(H)D?Hav...
03/16/2026

Let's talk about it. Tell me how you've experienced this below.

Have you been the one relating this way due to AD(H)D?

Have you been on the receiving end of someone relating this way with AD(H)D?

Let me hear your questions, stories, and comments.

You can get 10% off my entire program if you register before this Friday (3/20).

Link in bio.

03/15/2026

Throwback to when Camille’s weekends contained 16 bottles of wine, and a day contained 80 ci******es for Luis. Wine and ci******es respectively calmed and stimulated their neurodivergent brains into surviving.

They no longer need wine or ci******es because they live in alignment with their interests and capacity: part of the process was learning to live lives that fascinated them. In month 6 of the ADHD slow group, we dive into how to cultivate a fascinating life for ourselves.

A fascinating life isn’t a life of luxury, it’s learning to notice what lights us up, and following that interest. It can be as simple as buying rhinestone pens instead of plain black pens. It can be taking out books from the library on our latest hobby curiosity.

Our neurodivergent baseline is low dopamine. Modern lifestyles deplete our dopamine further. We need a life so interesting to us it makes us want to get out of bed in the morning, effectively making life the stimulant.

They also talk about month 5 of the course, which is all about being in relationship with someone who is neurodivergent or overwhelmed. For example, Camille needed silly shows after a day of cognitive heady interactions. Her husband needed cognitive shows after a day teaching young children. Their solution was game shows giving Camille an element of play, and her husband cognitive stimulation.

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

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

I discovered this by accident before I knew what freeze response even was.When I was working full-time as a nutritionist...
03/15/2026

I discovered this by accident before I knew what freeze response even was.

When I was working full-time as a nutritionist, before studying trauma, I would see people motivating themselves out of depression with coffee and sugar through the day but then soothing themselves with heavy, comfort foods in the evening to fall asleep.

I would lower the amount of stimulants and depressants in their diet and increase the balancing, supportive foods.

And guess what happened?

Depression lifted.

Motivation increased.

Joy and hope increased.

Their guts transformed, which made their brain chemistry transform, and their trauma responses were drastically lowered.

I have a program coming up that focuses on ADHD, freeze, and overwhelm.

Many of us learn to *push* through freeze with stimulants and even with affirmations and motivation techniques.

I teach people how to *support* freeze so they can naturally unfold out of it and into expression, movement, and life.

This program will dive into:

- nutrition
- somatic techniques
- lifestyle changes
- our relationship with screens
- living life based on capacity
..and so much more.

Whether you're autistic, have ADHD, chronically stressed, or navigating auto-immune issues and PTSD this program is for you if you experience chronic overwhelm and freeze from these conditions.

It's 10% off for another 5 days, so click on the link in my bio to join.

It is an extremely normal (and healthy) coping mechanism to tune out when you're feeling bored or misattuned with.When s...
03/14/2026

It is an extremely normal (and healthy) coping mechanism to tune out when you're feeling bored or misattuned with.

When someone doesn't see you or knows how to connect to you - or speak your language.

When you feel stuck, unseen, trapped, and unmet we tune out.

You know what we call that in the trauma field? Dissociation.

PTSD, chronic overwhelm, insomnia, and poor nutrition contribute to more ADHD symptoms.

Kids don't have an attention problem - they have chronic overwhelm.

You don't have a motivation problem - you have an overactive nervous system that is exhausted.

My 6-month program is going to cover all of this. For those with ADHD, for those without it, and for anyone who needs help and support learning how to live life in a new way that doesn't create so much overwhelm and freeze.

Link in bio. We begin on April 7th.

03/13/2026

Learning how to feel the difference between a trigger and a preference is lifesaving for a relationship - and it actually helps you have better boundaries.

Being triggered is when I FEEL something bigger than what's happening *now*.

When something *now* is reminding my body of something in the PAST.

So the meaning, the reaction, and the sensation is usually incongruent with what I'm currently experiencing.

Incongruent is different than invalid.

The triggered place still requires attention, connection, and time to metabolize. I have a whole self-led course that teaches you how to do this. It's on my site.

Preferences are different.

Preferences don't feel like panic. I don't feel out of control, nor do I feel urgency.

Preferences actually emerge outside or separate from a triggered state.

When I'm triggered, there is no preference. My body believes I'm in danger and I lose sense of any agency or choice.

This is why I cannot even have boundaries or preferences when I'm triggered - I just have reactions.

Begin to notice the difference, sensationally.

Notice when you feel clear, open, and not threatened yet, at the same time, solid in knowing what you're okay with and not okay with.

Compare this when you feel shut down, out of control, overwhelmed, or met with urgency during a trigger.

03/11/2026

Do I spend an ounce of my time and energy on regret? Nope.

But in those times when a crumb of regret surfaces, I redirect it into gratitude.

I FEEL the relief of having clarity and capacity NOW that I couldn't have THEN.

This lets me do now what I couldn't do then.

It's one of my favorite practices for avoiding freeze, shame, and even repeating past behaviors that no longer serve me.

The best treatment for depression, ADD, ADHD, and even functional freeze I've ever seen is the long-term practice of cre...
03/11/2026

The best treatment for depression, ADD, ADHD, and even functional freeze I've ever seen is the long-term practice of creating a life that fascinates you.

Too many of us live by other people's standards.

We force our bodies to conform to relationships, jobs, and environments that just don't excite us, nourish us, or match our integrity and capacity.

The result? Stimulating yourself through life.

Leaning on medications, drugs, caffeine, sugar, scrolling and anything else that gives the nervous system a shock of stress and a hit a dopamine.

But life, itself, can be a form of stimulation.

A project you truly love, a person who really gets you and lights you up, a lifestyle in your home that makes you all gooey and satisfied.

Life can be delicious, but you have to be willing to cultivate it. Our dominant culture will certainly not hand that to you.

I'm going to be teaching a free session about this next week on March 16th.

I'll be teaching how and why we stimulate ourselves to get through our lives, especially for those of us with ADD/ADHD who already have lower dopamine levels than the average person.

More importantly, I'll teach how to continue stimulating while balancing your body at the same time to avoid burnout.

It's absolutely free and a 6 month program will follow in April for those of you who want to really dive in and be supported in doing the deeper work.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/recover-from-burnout

I just updated the name of my slow group because, at the end of the day, we are working with freeze and overwhelm.Whethe...
03/10/2026

I just updated the name of my slow group because, at the end of the day, we are working with freeze and overwhelm.

Whether you have ADHD, autism, are chronically stressed from work, or just burnt out from life - what I will teach you in this 6 month program applies to all of the above.

And since I won't be teaching it for another 2 years I wanted to be clearer about who it's for.

There are 10 days left to get 10% off.

Please visit the link in my bio to register.

We begin April 7th.

Anyone who has ever been addicted to anything knows that we look for ANY reason to use.I would wash the dishes and think...
03/10/2026

Anyone who has ever been addicted to anything knows that we look for ANY reason to use.

I would wash the dishes and think "time for a cigarette" or go to the bathroom and think "time for a cigarette".

The same goes for being dependent on a victim identity.

I have experienced a lot in this lifetime that would categorize me as a victim of certain trespasses.

Therapists and friends over the years enforced these identities.

Victim of Sexual Assault. Victim of Malpractice. Victim of Bullying. Victim of Childhood Trauma.

I had so many good reasons for being a sh*tty boyfriend, s*x addict, and binge eater.

My father was absent when I was growing up, I was born inters*x, I was chronically ill, I was s*xually assaulted numerous times, bullied throughout school, impoverished for a decade...you name it.

It wasn't until I decided to stop using all these experiences against myself but, instead FOR myself, that I really began healing.

I will say: identifying myself as a victim was the beginning for me. Like a stage of grief, but getting stuck in that stage did nothing but cause me to suffer.

It wasn't until I saw each of these moments as initiations that I truly got the cosmic joke.

For whatever reason, I required these experiences to form who I am today.

I am able to relate to so many different people and their experiences because of all the strange, traumatic events that took place in my life.

I don't need to call these past events into my present identity anymore.

They are not who I am, but they have *shaped* me.

And I quite like my shape now. I wouldn't regret or want to take away a thing.

Because I survived.

And when I feel my survival, and feel gratitude for those initiations, my power and my life force blossoms.

And I am so much more useful to everyone around me.

And I am so much kinder and more in love with myself.

And I am so much happier and lighter.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events-virtualI went through a period of burnout in 2018. It's 8 y...
03/09/2026

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events-virtual

I went through a period of burnout in 2018. It's 8 years later this month and my work has exploded into the world, I offer more than I ever did before, and I haven't burnt out from it.

Even with all the travel and dietary changes last year.

It's because I understand how stimulants and balancers impact my body. It's a simple concept that I've developed and I will teach to you.

Join me on March 16th to learn this FOR FREE. Everyone who registers gets the replay.

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