Mental Health In A Modern World: Holistic & Alternative Approaches for the Spiritually Curious Young Adult

Greg Schmaus — Holistic Mental Health Coach, Archetypes & Parts Work
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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, psycho-emotional healing, mindfulness training, and archetypal work to help you rediscover your true nature beyond anxiety, depression, OCD, and trauma. If you’re a spiritually curious young adult, a high-performing professional overwhelmed by technology and overstimulation, or someone seeking a holistic approach to mental health and deep self-discovery, this show offers practical tools, real client insights from over 6,000 coaching sessions, and a path toward peace, purpose, and wholeness.

  1. 4d ago

    The Psychology of Food Addiction, Attachment, and the Mother Wound

    📺 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 body, and your soul. Today, Greg takes you through the psychology of food from the ground up. He explains how the mother archetype and the mother complex imprint the way we nourish, control, neglect, or smother ourselves with food. He shows why at least 90% of addiction is rooted in attachment injuries, and how food becomes a reliable source of warmth, love, and oxytocin when that connection wasn’t available in childhood. He also breaks down the biology behind stress eating, including the cortisol and insulin loop and the gut microbiome’s influence on sugar cravings. Join today’s episode to learn why consuming food and consuming information are the same act on a quantum level, how to tell whether you’re feeding your body or your ideas, and why eating and drinking may be a spiritual practice. 5 Key TakeawaysYour relationship with food is a mirror of your relationship with your mother. Ask yourself whether you control, neglect, smother, or swing between extremes with food, then trace each pattern back to how you were parented.Addiction is rarely a willpower problem. It’s an attachment injury looking for a safer source of comfort. Identify where a parent wasn’t emotionally available and offer yourself the care you’re now seeking from food.You can’t attune to your body while you’re feeding your ideas. Drop the diet dogma and ask your body what it needs right now, then listen to the answer.Stress eating is chemistry before it’s character. Carbs release insulin to quiet cortisol, so support your blood sugar, lower inflammation, and feed your microbiome before you judge your cravings.What you consume, you become, whether it’s a meal or a feed. Choose quality, right quantity, and diversity for both your food and your information, and create as much as you consume. Memorable Quotes“Cravings are often the replacement for a lack of fulfilling desire on a soul level. A lot of addiction and cravings with food come from not meeting the needs of the soul and filling ourselves by other means.”“One of the most important questions with food is: are you feeding your body, or are you feeding your ideas?”“Food, alcohol, drugs are things that will never judge you, reject you, or abandon you. They simply offer the feeling that a parent or primary caretaker ideally would have offered.”Resources MentionedBeyond Addiction: Healing the Wounds That Bind Us - https://healing4d.com/addiction Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    The Psychology of Food Addiction, Attachment, and the Mother Wound

  2. Oct 2

    The Soul vs. The Algorithm: Consciousness in the Age of Technology

    📺 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 your soul, from solitude and nature to creative expression, passions, and solo travel, and five things that quietly unplug you: distraction, overstimulation, overconsumption, obligation, and depletion. He explains Jung's individuation, the tension between authenticity and attachment, and how balancing inner masculine and feminine means balancing structure and flow. He also looks at how television, algorithms, cheap dopamine, and AI can outsource your inner guidance, and why Google Maps is an unexpectedly good spiritual teacher. Join today's episode for a guided heart practice that teaches you what a clear yes and a clear no feel like in your body. 5 Key TakeawaysYour attention is your doorway to your soul, so guard it. Block out time for solitude, meditation, or contemplation this week.Cheap dopamine quietly steals your free will. Take a short break from social media, processed food, or alcohol and notice what comes up.Obligation, depletion, and overconsumption cover up what needs your attention. Ask yourself where a role is overriding the needs of your soul.Nature has no ego to mirror back to you, so it is the easiest place to feel connected. Spend time outside today, phone away.Your heart already knows the difference between yes and no. Ask it to show you each one, and practice listening before you decide. Memorable Quotes"If we're living in a state of distraction or chaos, concentration and sustained attention are how we go from chaos into coherence.""If your neurochemistry is hijacked through the dopamine system, you do not have free will.""Feeling is how we connect with the heart, the heart is how we connect with the soul, and the soul is how we connect with the divine."Resources MentionedBeyond Addiction: Healing the Wounds That Bind Us (Greg Schmaus, use code podcast for 20% off) - https://healing4d.com/addiction Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    The Soul vs. The Algorithm: Consciousness in the Age of Technology

  3. Sep 25

    The Gut Brain Connection: How Your Gut Shapes Your Mental Health

    📺 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 like since the body’s really uncomfortable, we start to live from the neck up to avoid feeling what’s happening below,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and founder at Healing For Zero, on Mental Health in a Modern World. A survivor of severe anxiety and OCD, Greg Schmaus has spent a decade guiding others through integrative healing—bridging nutrition, biology, psychology, and spiritual practice. In this episode, he dismantles the reductionist mindset of modern medicine, which treats mental health as a mere chemical equation, and instead invites us to consider ourselves as living ecosystems—trillions of cells, bacteria, thought patterns, relationships, and boundaries all constantly interacting. Greg Schmaus explains why gut health is foundational to mental and emotional wellbeing, and reveals how everything from antibiotics, processed foods, chronic stress, or environmental toxins can disrupt the delicate dance between our “abdominal brain” and our mind. He explores the two-way highway connecting gut and brain, the dangers of dysbiosis and leaky gut, and powerful, actionable approaches for tending your ‘inner garden’: from diverse, whole-food eating to gratitude, sleep, circadian rhythm support, and breathwork. Learn how caring for your microbiome may be the missing piece in calming anxious minds, restoring self-identity, and reclaiming true health—and why tending to both your inner and outer gardens is the path forward—for body, mind, and planet. 5 Key TakeawaysTo transform your mental and gut health, start making these changes today: 1. Feed your microbiome by eating a diverse diet rich in whole foods, fibers, prebiotics, and fermented foods as tolerated. 2. Protect your gut by reducing processed foods, excess sugar, unnecessary antibiotics, alcohol, and exposure to chemicals and pesticides. 3. Support your nervous system—prioritize quality sleep, manage stress, and incorporate practices like meditation, breathwork, tai chi, or qigong. 4. Spend more time in nature to nourish your inner and outer ecosystems, reinforcing your connection with the natural world. 5. Foster social connection and gratitude, and practice simple activities like gargling, humming, and abdominal massage to strengthen your vagus nerve and boost gut-brain health. Start integrating one or more of these actions this week and notice the changes in your body and mind! Memorable Quotes"Thinking is the language of the mind. Feeling is the language of the body." "The gut is our biological interface; it’s the boundary that differentiates what’s you from what’s not you on a cellular level, the outside world and your inner biological environment.""Supporting the health of the body and the mind is more of an art than a science. When we learn how to garden well and balance the terrain, that’s when we really optimize health."Resources MentionedBeyond Addiction: Healing the Wounds That Bind Us (online program) by Greg Schmaus - https://healing40.com/addiction Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    The Gut Brain Connection: How Your Gut Shapes Your Mental Health

  4. Sep 18

    Eros and Addiction: What Are We Really Longing For?

    📺 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 the depths of our own shadowed psyche. In this transformative conversation, Tatiana shares how mythology, somatic practices, and parts work form the backbone of Living Eros, a program that reframes addiction as a spiritual crisis rather than a failure of will or morality. Instead of stigmatizing relapse or focusing solely on sobriety, Tatiana explains the unique power of integrating mythic descent, group support, and self-compassion to help people confront and befriend the deepest needs underlying compulsion. Tune in to Mental Health in a Modern World to hear how Tatiana is sparking a paradigm shift—inviting us to reclaim the soul at the heart of healing, and guiding us through the mythic gates where shame dissolves and authentic desire emerges. 5 Key TakeawaysThis episode offers a transformative roadmap for approaching addiction, desire, and self-integration. 1. Approach your shadows with curiosity, not shame—identify the needs your compulsive behaviors try to meet, and begin to befriend those parts of yourself. 2. Move at your nervous system’s pace—lasting healing means not rushing the descent into your unconscious, but equipping yourself with emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. 3. Seek and offer community—healing requires the witnessing and support of others; isolation and speed can amplify harm. 4. Practice integrating both the descent and ascent—true recovery means not just facing darkness but also learning to embody desire’s light side and bring lessons back into your life. 5. Balance compassion with accountability—offer yourself both warmth and precision, refusing to be defined by shame, victimhood, or a single label. Start your journey today: slow down, reach out, and commit to the wholeness waiting within you. Memorable Quotes"We don't want people to descend deep enough to confront their shadow self, to identify what needs were being met by the compulsive behavior, without equipping them with the emotion regulation skills, the distress tolerance skills that allow them to do that work. You can only descend as far as your nervous system will tolerate.""Inanna is a goddess who journeys down through seven gates to the underworld, and at each gate she has to remove one piece of her regalia. At the first gate, she removes her crown, which for us represents the persona—the version of ourselves that we present to the world. As she continues her descent, she removes jewelry, her armor, and so on until she arrives at the bottom with nothing left. That's the literal structure of the ten sessions; each week corresponds to one of the gates.""It's such a privilege to— and I don't mean this to sound like biblical language, although there's nothing wrong with that— but to shepherd people through a journey that brings them back to themselves in a really holistic way. I feel really grateful to be a part of that, to have people's trust to do that."Connect with McKayan and TatianaWebsite - https://www.eros-shift.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatiana-martin-phd-60311931/ & https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckayan-may-60304b150?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mckayan888?stkn=ZDZrMDhjNjE2eGw2&utm_source=qr X - ttps://www.threads.com/@mckayan888?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Resources MentionedEros Shift Live Coaching Course launches October 6th. Listeners can receive a discount using EROS10 at checkout. To view more info and register for the coaching course visit Eros-shift.com Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    Eros and Addiction: What Are We Really Longing For?

  5. Sep 11

    Mental Health for Athletes - How Childhood Trauma Impacts Performance

    📺 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 costs that come with achievement-driven childhoods. Dane opens up about how the pressures of elite sports and unspoken family expectations created a pattern of tying self-worth to performance—leaving a legacy of anxiety, burnout, and addiction that often follows athletes into adulthood. In this episode, Dane shares his journey from chasing temporary relief through winning on the court to finding genuine healing by unraveling the deep-rooted contracts formed in his family system. Alongside host Greg Schmaus, he explains why so many athletes and high-performers struggle after stepping out of the spotlight, the dangers of families outsourcing fulfillment to their children, and how to finally break free from generational patterns of guilt, people-pleasing, and “performing to keep the peace.” Tune in to Mental Health in a Modern World for an inside look at Dane’s process—including a powerful live demo of parts work and family constellations—to discover what it really takes to transition from performance to authenticity, reclaim self-worth, and become the hero of your own story. 5 Key TakeawaysUnlock your potential and heal old wounds with these five powerful actions inspired by this episode: 1. Examine Your Motivation: Reflect on whether your drive to perform is rooted in your own passion or in the need to please others, especially family members. 2. Identify and Release Unhealthy Contracts: Practice naming and consciously letting go of unconscious contracts you've made to carry others' happiness or define your worth through external achievement. 3. Prioritize Authenticity Over Performance: Embrace play and enjoyment in your pursuits, allowing your true self to emerge rather than being ruled by competition or approval-seeking. 4. Set Emotional Boundaries: Recognize what emotional burdens are yours to carry and which belong to others, and return what's not yours to lighten your mind and body. 5. Engage in Daily Check-Ins: Implement a regular practice of self-reflection and playful activity to support integration, healing, and ongoing self-awareness. Take the first step today—choose one action and commit to your own healing and authenticity! Memorable Quotes"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 and their kids are going to make a bunch of money and buy them a house is extremely dangerous.""Performance isn't my self-worth. It can be fun and I love competing, but now it's more about enjoying myself and not tying my identity to whether I win or lose, because that's certainly a recipe for disaster.""I think the first thing I want to offer is if you're an athlete and you feel like you're going through a crisis, look at your crisis as an opportunity to further step into your purpose. Even if you can't see that right now, just let things take their course and keep going."Connect with DaneWebsite - https://decodewithdane.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dane-esses-775a36307/ Resources MentionedPaul Chek (holistic health and performance practitioner) - https://www.chekinstitute.com/ Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    Mental Health for Athletes - How Childhood Trauma Impacts Performance

  6. Sep 4

    Archetypal Psychology - How Your Spiritual Beliefs Drive Your Mental Health

    📺 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 episode of Mental Health in a Modern World. Drawing on years of personal healing and thousands of client sessions, Greg Schmaus challenges the idea that more knowledge, consumption, or external achievement leads to wellbeing. Instead, he reveals how the essence of both healing and life itself is about letting go: subtraction, self-inquiry, and finding alignment with one's soul’s vibration. Today, Greg Schmaus dives into the core of spirituality in a modern world, exploring how our inherited images of God—our Imago Dei—shape not only our spiritual outlook but also our archetypes of survival, our relationship with death, and ultimately our health. He unpacks how overstimulation, distraction, and “cheap dopamine” threaten our spiritual connection, and offers practical guidance for reclaiming intentionality, balancing creation versus consumption, and using meditative breathwork to access the heart—the true dwelling of the divine within us. Tune in to Mental Health in a Modern World to discover how questioning your inherited beliefs—and living with deep intention—can unlock vitality, peace, and a greater sense of purpose. 5 Key TakeawaysSpiritual vitality in the modern world depends on tangible practices that align you with your unique vibration and empower conscious living. Start applying these today to transform your connection with yourself and the world. 1. Prioritize daily silence and solitude to access your soul and the divine—schedule intentional quiet time in your routine. 2. Immerse yourself in nature often so you can directly experience the living divine—go outside, truly witness, and connect. 3. Limit overstimulation, cheap dopamine, and distractions—put down your phone, reduce processed foods, and reclaim your focus. 4. Balance creation and consumption—commit to making something as often as you consume, even in small ways like cooking your own meals or creating content. 5. Set clear intentions for your actions and choices—before you eat, go online, or take any action, clarify your “why,” and choose consciously. Memorable Quotes"In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped.""Our relationship with God, whatever our Imago Dei is—image of God—becomes the lens that we perceive all of reality through.""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."Resources MentionedTao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell (Translation) - https://amzn.to/3Vv1pdA Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    Archetypal Psychology - How Your Spiritual Beliefs Drive Your Mental Health

  7. Aug 28

    Understanding Your Inner Self - a Guide to Parts Work

    📺 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 Systems-inspired approach to mental health, on Mental Health in a Modern World. After overcoming severe anxiety and OCD in his own life, Greg Schmaus dedicated over a decade to helping others heal using a unique fully integrated approach—fusing psycho-emotional healing, mindfulness, lifestyle coaching, and archetypal work. In this illuminating episode, he breaks down the art and science of “parts work”—a compassionate method for understanding and transforming the “managers,” “firefighters,” and “exiles” inside us all. Far from pathologizing behaviors like perfectionism, people-pleasing, or even addiction, Greg Schmaus explains how such patterns are protective in nature, and invites listeners into an experiential practice for unblending and befriending these inner parts. Tune in to this week’s episode of Mental Health in a Modern World to discover how shifting your relationship to your internal system can create the foundation for genuine healing, self-leadership, and inner peace. 5 Key TakeawaysUnlock deeper self-understanding and healing by integrating parts work into your daily life. 1. Recognize and name the different parts within yourself—such as managers, firefighters, and exiles—to better understand your inner world [00:03:39](/timestamps/219). 2. Practice unblending by separating your core self from reactive or protective parts, allowing you to respond with compassion instead of reactivity [00:14:15](/timestamps/855). 3. Build a compassionate relationship with your parts by speaking for them rather than from them, reducing inner conflict and external drama [00:16:06](/timestamps/966). 4. Use the 6 Fs practice—Find, Focus, Flesh out, Feel toward, identify Fear, and Befriend—to systematically work with your protector parts [00:30:15](/timestamps/1815). 5. Regularly check in with your parts, maintaining an ongoing self-led relationship to promote healing and greater self-sovereignty [00:30:50](/timestamps/1850). Start your practice today—choose one part, listen in, and take the first step toward a more harmonious inner world. Memorable Quotes"And 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 a beautiful step in creating the life that we want." "There are no bad parts. Once you have a deep understanding of all of the roles that these parts are playing, you realize that every part is playing, once upon a time, an essential role to keep an exile or to keep a core wound safe. At the end of the day, they all have good intentions.""It's not about getting rid of parts, but it's about not allowing the parts to take over the system. Not allowing the parts to stay too blended with us and to develop a benevolent and compassionate relationship from self to part."Resources MentionedNo Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz - https://amzn.to/4c88Yp3 Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

    Understanding Your Inner Self - a Guide to Parts Work

  8. Aug 21

    What Four Days in Total Darkness Taught Me About the Mind

    📺 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 Schmaus recounts his profound journey through a four-day darkness retreat in Poland—a spiritual technology used for centuries by shamans and Tibetan monks to catalyze advanced states of consciousness. Greg shares how this unique immersion in absolute darkness stripped away every external reference point, forcing him to confront the parts of himself he’d previously tried to escape. He explores how the absence of light, time, and distraction brought him face-to-face with his attachments, routines, and sense of identity, ultimately allowing him to experience both deep peace and challenging moments—proving that mental state is everything. Greg describes the physiological reset, the emergence of endogenous visionary states, and the powerful spiritual lessons that led him to reconnect with his authentic self and the feminine aspect of divinity. Tune in to Mental Health in a Modern World to discover how subtracting all external stimulation can illuminate the light within, and why embracing the void may be the medicine modern life so desperately needs. 5 Key TakeawaysDarkness teaches us that true healing and self-connection come from subtraction, surrender, and direct experience with our inner world. 1. Spend regular time in silence and solitude, removing distractions and external stimuli, to reconnect deeply with your authentic self. 2. Practice releasing attachments to routines, schedules, and the need for control—notice what expands in you when you let go. 3. Tune into your body’s natural rhythms without relying on external cues; eat, rest, and move based on internal signals rather than the clock. 4. Embrace both moments of bliss and discomfort as they arise—meet your entire inner landscape with curiosity, not avoidance. 5. Use mindful eating and sensory practices to become more present, attentive, and intuitive in your daily life. Dare to step into your own darkness—unplug, let go, and discover the powerful light within you. Memorable Quotes"All that's left is who you are without any outer reference points, which is such a more expansive, natural, truer, more authentic identity." "In a world full of addition—more information, more material goods, more education, more things to consume—perhaps the greatest medicine is subtraction." "What you're really afraid of in the darkness is what you're filling the darkness with, which is you. The fear of the darkness is really the fear of our own shadow, the fear of our own mind and the parts of us we’ve cast into the darkness." Resources MentionedAubrey Marcus Podcast (Darkness Retreat episode & documentary) - https://www.aubreymarcus.com/pages/podcast Ram Dass (Spiritual Teachings) - https://www.ramdass.org/ The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu - https://amzn.to/3XCWWD4 Connect with GregWebsite - https://www.healing4d.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM

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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, psycho-emotional healing, mindfulness training, and archetypal work to help you rediscover your true nature beyond anxiety, depression, OCD, and trauma. If you’re a spiritually curious young adult, a high-performing professional overwhelmed by technology and overstimulation, or someone seeking a holistic approach to mental health and deep self-discovery, this show offers practical tools, real client insights from over 6,000 coaching sessions, and a path toward peace, purpose, and wholeness.

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