Mental Health In A Modern World

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Cravings are a lot of times the replacement for a lack of fulfilling of desire on a soul level,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic mental health coach and founder of Healing4D.com, who explains on this solo episode of Mental Health in a Modern World why your relationship with food is really a mirror of your relationship with your mother, your...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify "If your neurochemistry is hijacked, you do not have free will," says Greg Schmaus, holistic mental health coach and founder of Healing4D.com, who returns to Mental Health in a Modern World for a solo episode on how to stay conscious in an age of distraction, overstimulation, and overconsumption. Greg shares five ways to reconnect with yo...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Thinking is the language of the mind. Feeling is the language of the body. When the body’s inflamed, when the body’s stressed, when the body has a lot of, you know, toxicity in it, we don’t really want to feel the body. It’s uncomfortable. So a lot of times the mind becomes overactive as a way of numbing out feelings in the body, almost...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “You can only descend as far as your nervous system will tolerate,” says Tatiana, clinical psychologist and co-creator of the Living Eros program, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to explore how true healing from addiction means journeying beneath compulsive behaviors—armed with emotional skills and compassionate community—into t...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “It’s very important for parents to have their own sense of purpose and their own dreams. The idea that parents are going to vicariously live through their kids…I think is extremely dangerous,” says holistic healer and former top national tennis player Dane Esses, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to explore the hidden emotional c...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “From my experience, when we are in our natural state of being, when we are in our unique vibration, we experience optimal health—but the further and further we get from our unique vibration, the more we create an opening for illness or dis-ease,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and integrative mental health coach, in this...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “The more we build this relationship with our parts, the less they take over our system… the more we can be what's called self-led and work for our parts rather than from our parts, which is really a beautiful step in creating the life that we want,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and creator of the Internal Family System...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “When your inner world becomes your whole environment, it really magnifies how much the mind creates our reality, how much our perceptual experience dictates our experience. Heaven or hell is really dependent on our state of consciousness.” In this riveting solo episode of Mental Health in a Modern World, holistic health practitioner Greg...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “When you can quiet the mind and there’s not a wave or a ripple, that’s when you experience the true reflection of yourself—and the true reflection of reality,” says holistic health practitioner Greg Schmaus, who returns to Mental Health in a Modern World for a powerful solo episode on one of the most daunting challenges of our time: quie...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it’ll rule your life and you’ll call it fate,” says Josh Trent, host of the Wellness and Wisdom podcast, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to illuminate what true mental health really means in an era of speed and disconnection. Josh shares how his own early childhood trauma, from witnessi...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify "A lot of what we call disease is really just dis-ease with this mismatch of what we are designed for versus what we find ourselves in today," says Jeff Bohnen, psychiatry resident and holistic health practitioner, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to illuminate why much of modern psychiatry misses the mark on both the root and tr...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “We’re part of this flow of life—and to get back to harmonizing our mind, our spirit, our body involves being in nature and being connected with all of those things,” says Jonny Suarez, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to reveal how the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine illuminates the...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “We are metaphor, that we're made of metaphor. And so the issues that we have and the problems that we have with people are metaphors for the places where our brains are tied in knots and need to be untied and untangled so that we can become whoever it was brains were meant to be— in their snowflake, completely unique incarnation in the w...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “There are no good archetypes, there are no bad archetypes. All archetypes have 50% light and 50% shadow,” says holistic health practitioner Greg Schmaus, who returns to Mental Health in a Modern World for a deep dive into the four survival archetypes and the unconscious contracts that shape our healing journeys. Drawing on teachings from...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “It's the whole Dionysian Apollo dilemma… We don't value this sort of just oozing with, like, some sort of naturalist phenomenon that maybe came to you through a walk in the woods or standing under a waterfall and picking fresh fruit off of a tree or just trying to eat some flowers or berries from a bush. Like, ugh, who said that was okay...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “I love talking about rewiring your belief systems because, you know, your beliefs create your choices and your choices, you create your actions, and your actions create your reality,” says Kirsty Pratt—holistic coach, Ninja Warrior, and former Catholic schoolgirl—on this episode of Mental Health in a Modern World. Kirsty’s journey from b...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “We can't take people places we haven't gone ourselves,” says trauma therapist Chris Burris, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to reveal why most of what we call ‘mental illness’ is actually the psyche’s adaptive strategy for survival—and why only true self-healing can allow us to guide others. Over his 35 years of clinical experi...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “The inner critic is not an enemy. The inner critic has good intentions. The inner critic is a benevolent protector,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and integrative mental health coach, on this episode of Mental Health in a Modern World. After personally overcoming severe anxiety and OCD, Greg Schmaus has dedicated the la...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “The medicine’s always with you. Until you realize it for yourself, it doesn’t matter who tells you that or how many times you drink ayahuasca,” says Kyle Kingsbury, former UFC fighter turned holistic health coach, on Mental Health in a Modern World. Kingsbury shares how his journey from the physical violence and discipline of professiona...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Spirit’s always in charge… Life is just the lily pads to getting to where we’re going to go anyway,” says Dawn Paula, evidential medium and energy healer who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to unravel the mysteries of intuition, near-death experiences, and the deep connection between the physical and spiritual realms. Having encoun...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “I've been using spirituality and other means to reject myself and repress who I am, and I was just finally ready to ask for help,” says Speaker A, an emerging artist whose struggle with insomnia, pornography addiction, and the fear of intimacy leads to a powerfully vulnerable session on Mental Health in a Modern World. In a riveting conv...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify "Addictions are when wants become needs—and wants become needs as a result of unmet needs," says Speaker A, holistic health practitioner and host of Mental Health in a Modern World . Drawing from a decade of experience helping clients navigate anxiety and OCD, Speaker A dives deep into the epidemic of “socially approved” addictions, from...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “You resist persists. If you want to shrink something, let it expand. If you want to get rid of something, allow it to flourish. As soon as you make one thing good, another thing becomes bad,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and founder of Healing 4D, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to share his deeply personal a...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Oftentimes, I share with the students. Everybody wants to do Psychedelic Journey these days. And I'm like, listen, if you are not cleaning up your diet and getting your body right, your mind is not going to be able to project the images properly.” says Speaker A, holistic lifestyle coach, shamanic practitioner, and expert teacher at the...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Even things that are quote, unquote, healthy for us can become addictions and turn into damaging behaviors,” says Justin Price, structural health expert and holistic coach, reflecting on decades spent tracking pain, performance, and the seamless dance between body and mind. In today’s episode of Mental Health in a Modern World, Justin Pr...