Mental Health In A Modern World

📺 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...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “Anxiety is never the root cause—it’s a symptom of a deeper problem,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health coach and founder of Healing 4D, who returns to Mental Health in a Modern World with a solo episode devoted to healing in the age of anxiety. As rates of anxiety continue to hit record highs—affecting up to one-third of U.S. adults—Gre...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “This is a vocation that chooses you. Ultimately, it's not a vocation that you choose,” says Payam, a shamanic medicine carrier and integrative healer, joining the Mental Health in a Modern World podcast to illuminate the true demands and sacred responsibilities of medicine work. Far from a fashionable trend or therapeutic add-on, Payam e...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “As soon as they have hijacked your dopamine system…you don't have free will anymore,” says Greg Schmauss, holistic health practitioner and host of Mental Health in a Modern World. After overcoming severe anxiety and OCD himself, and guiding thousands through integrated approaches to mental well-being, Greg brings clarity to why mental he...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify “In a real initiation, there's no going back,” says Mike Salemi, renowned coach and men’s work facilitator, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World for a deep exploration of modern masculinity, authentic power, and the missing rites of passage that shape who we become. A celebrated strength coach turned men’s retreat leader, Mike Salemi...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify "That loneliness that I felt was more—it was not the disconnection externally, it was the internal disconnection... behind all the grasping around substances, it was really trying to pull my attention to seal into this more," says McKayan May, sharing a raw account of his healing journey from addiction and religious trauma on Mental Healt...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify "I started to really come to the awareness that, you know, heaven and hell are not places we go to, they're states of awareness that we embody." – Greg On this inaugural episode of Mental Health in a Modern World , you’ll meet Greg, a former Division I athlete whose life was turned upside down virtually overnight by debilitating anxiety a...

📺 Watch on  YouTube  and  Spotify Most people can feel that something is off with modern mental health care—too much labeling, too little listening, and not nearly enough focus on the whole human being. Join Greg Schmaus, holistic mental health coach and founder of Healing4D.com, each week for grounded, honest conversations that blend nutrition and lifestyle coaching, psy...