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, parts work and archetypal work, alternative therapy approaches that 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. 13h ago

    AI, Psychedelics, and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

    📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify "Now is probably the worst time in human history to try to tie your purpose to what you do for work," says Mike Bledsoe, a philosopher, business advisor and self-described psychonaut, who joins the Mental Health in a Modern World podcast with host Greg Schmaus. Mike explains why the people who thrive in the coming years will be those who can hold their identity lightly as AI reshapes work faster than human consciousness can keep pace. After building a YouTube following of a couple hundred thousand in the 2012 to 2017 era, Mike found that chasing a grand sense of purpose fed his ego and led to poor business decisions. It took expecting his first child to show him a truer, more focused purpose. Today, Mike shares the simple question that transformed his marriage: "Is this worth my peace?" He also explains how saying "good job" to children can plant the seeds of people-pleasing. He describes the two weeks of nihilism he fell into when agentic AI emerged, why he chose to go all in rather than escape, and how to use AI without outsourcing your inner authority. He also reveals how a couple hundred psychedelic journeys prepared him for this era of instability. Join today's episode to learn more about how Mike bridges sweat lodges and software, and why he believes the planet is developing its own nervous system. 5 Key TakeawaysPeace is the greatest thing you have, and most of what steals it isn't worth the price. The next time you feel a charge of anger or sadness, ask yourself Mike Bledsoe's question: "Is this worth my peace?"Circumstances don't create your experience; you create your experience in each circumstance. As Greg Schmaus learned standing in sewage water at 11 o'clock at night, you can find joy no matter what is happening outside you, so look for it in your next hard moment.Your sense of worth can't depend on someone else's approval. Every night, ask, "What am I proud of myself for that maybe no one saw?" Then answer it out loud and validate yourself.Now may be the worst time in history to tie your purpose to your job, because the people who thrive will be the ones who can adapt their identity. Hold your roles lightly, and stop letting a career label define who you are.How you approach AI mirrors how you approach every authority in your life. Use it to gather information, not to make decisions for you: demand citations, question its recommendations, and keep the final call yours. Memorable Quotes"Now is probably the worst time in human history to try to tie your purpose to what you do for work. The people who are going to thrive are going to adapt very easily, and the most adaptable people can adapt their identity.""Can any one person go out and save the world? No, but you can save your world, how you're experiencing it and how your being is going to impact the people around you. And if there's enough of us pursuing that, the world will be a great place for everybody.""If you want world peace, then you have to find peace inside yourself first. Anyone who's trying to create world peace while holding anger is just causing more of a disturbance."Connect with MikeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbledsoe/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_bledsoe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.bledsoe X: https://x.com/michaelbledsoe Resources MentionedThe Tao of Parenting - https://www.centertao.org/essays/letters-to-andy/a-guide-to-taoist-parenting/ 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

    AI, Psychedelics, and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

  2. Oct 30

    The Hidden Addiction: Why We Become Attached to Our Thoughts and Emotions

    📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify "There's no emotion that's a bad emotion. They all have value. But the truth is, guilt and shame have no value," says Nicole DeVaney, holistic health practitioner and shaman, who joins Mental Health in a Modern World to explore how we become addicted to our own thoughts and emotions, and how to break free. Many of these patterns, Nicole explains, begin before the age of seven, even in the womb, which is why chaos can feel like safety to someone who grew up surrounded by it. After 18 years in practice, she estimates that close to 90% of the origins of musculoskeletal pain are rooted in emotion. Today, Nicole and host Greg Schmaus discuss why the inner critic is cyclical and how women can work with it rather than against it. She explains how breaking her back doing too much yoga sent her to learn the science of the body. She also shares how quitting tobacco by balancing her amino acids and clearing heavy metals allowed buried shame to surface nine months later. Nicole recounts the unexpected ceremony that began her 10-year shamanic training. She shares why she dreams of the day therapists and shamans hold hands. She also explains why taking a pill "'cause of cancer" may mean taking "a pill of cancer." Tune in to learn Nicole's daily Joy Gym practice and why she believes our hearts are the compass that holds more medicine than all the podcasts, books and shamans she has ever visited. 5 Key Takeaways1. Lasting change comes from daily reps, not one-time breakthroughs. Try Nicole DeVaney's Joy Gym on your next walk: spend at least two minutes radically accepting whatever you feel, then two minutes saying out loud, as specifically as you can, what brings you joy. 2. The inner critic is meant to restore order, not to keep you beating yourself up. The next time it shows up, acknowledge what it is pointing to, journal it, and take one concrete action instead of looping down the critical path. 3. The parts of you that feel most painful are often trying to protect you, and guilt may be guarding grief you have not yet felt. Practice "unblend and befriend": separate yourself from the part, then get curious about what it is trying to keep safe. 4. Your body has to be strong enough to carry deep healing. Before you dig into old wounds, take an honest look at your sunlight, sleep, nutrients, and hydration, and strengthen one of them this week. 5. Your heart is a compass, and inside it are all parts of you. Each day, ask what your heart would love from today, then find one way to act on it. Memorable Quotes"Our hearts are a compass, and inside that heart is all parts of you. Allowing yourself a little bit of space each day to ask what your heart would love from today, and to find a way to take action on it, has more medicine than all the podcasts and books and shamans I've ever visited.""If you tell yourself the story that you're whole and you're well, and you feel it with every fiber of your being, you're right. And if you tell yourself you're broken and unfixable, and you feel it with every fiber of your being, you're right.""It's not quitting the gluten, it's quitting the gluteomorphines that keep us numb to the feelings we're feeling. When we take away the drugs we numb ourselves with, that is really the doorway to healing the unfelt experiences."Connect with NicoleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-devaney Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolethechekgoddess/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CHEKgoddess/ Resources MentionedThe How To Healer - nicoledevaney.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

    The Hidden Addiction: Why We Become Attached to Our Thoughts and Emotions

  3. Oct 23

    From Projection Into Insight: Discovering the Wise Self Within with Keith Witt

    📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify "Anytime you deny a basic truth or you deny a drive, you have corruption," says Keith Witt, a psychologist who has been doing therapy for 53 years and has conducted more than 75,000 sessions. He joins Greg Schmaus on Mental Health in a Modern World to explain why everything is relational: our biology, our inner lives and even our spirituality. Keith describes how infants are born with only a fraction of their neurons connected, and how their nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems are co-regulated through eye contact with their mothers. He also shares a surprising fact: the drive for spiritual connectedness doubles in intensity between ages 15 and 20, and missing that critical window carries a real cost. Keith explains how discovering integral psychology in his 40s transformed his work, and why he believes the future belongs to multi-perspective thinking rather than siloed systems. He recounts flunking his psychologist licensing exam twice before realizing he had to claim he routinely referred depressed clients for antidepressants, even though he didn't. He offers a neuroscience-based view of shadow as the entire adaptive unconscious, and he makes the case that we shouldn't try to heal our projections but turn them into a sensory system. He introduces his concept of the "wise self," the optimal inner navigator. He also explores internal family systems, family constellations, shame as a developmental driver and where religion may be heading in the century to come. Tune in to hear Keith's two essential pieces of advice for staying balanced in a fast-paced, overstimulated world, and why finding a wise person you trust might be your secret weapon. 5 Key Takeaways1. Don't tolerate an unhealthy process. Keith Witt says couples wait an average of six years before seeing a therapist. Check in on your body, mind, spirit, self, culture and nature today, and if one is struggling, do something now. 2. Find a wise person you trust and meet with them regularly about you. That could be a therapist, coach or minister. When their view of you differs from your own, get real interested in it. Book that first conversation this week. 3. When you feel threatened, your emotions, perspectives and impulses shift, and you may not notice. Build a compassionate witness that can see it happening, because awareness regulates. The next time you feel defensive, pause and name the shift before you act. 4. Your wise self is your best navigator. It means having compassion for yourself and others, noticing your reflexive moral judgments, and checking them against "do good and don't do bad." Practice entering that state in your next hard conversation. 5. Radical acceptance comes first, and honesty follows. Accept everything about yourself, then be clear about what is healthy and unhealthy, emotionally, spiritually, relationally and sexually. Choose one habit to look at honestly today, without judgment. Memorable Quotes"It's fascinating to me that changing your mind is considered immoral in some systems. Anytime you deny a basic truth or you deny a drive, you have corruption.""We have a hunger for unity. The separateness hurts, and that drives us towards unity, and unity feels good. And that's why everything's relationships.""The modern world is the modern world. It's the world we're given. So we need to have radical acceptance of it and then have a good time. Have a joyful, healthy, loving life."Connect with KeithWebsite - https://drkeithwitt.com/ Resources MentionedThe School of Love Lecture Series - https://drkeithwitt.com/sol-lectures/ 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

    From Projection Into Insight: Discovering the Wise Self Within with Keith Witt

  4. Oct 16

    Healing Beyond Therapy: A Bottom-Up Approach to Mental Health

    📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify “The body doesn’t compartmentalize stress. It summates,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and host of Mental Health in a Modern World, in a solo episode on why the state of your body shapes the way your mind sees reality. Many of the anxiety, depression, ADHD and OCD struggles we blame on our thoughts, Greg explains, often begin with an unhealthy body and a stressed autonomic nervous system. Today, Greg unpacks a bottom-up approach to mental health rooted in the foundational principles he learned from Paul Chek and the Chek Institute. He explains how blood sugar swings, inflammation and the gut microbiome influence mood, why hydration and water quality are among the most overlooked factors in emotional health, and how sleep and dream time give the unconscious mind room to process. He makes the case that breath is our most direct access point to the nervous system, shares a simple box breathing practice, and describes how posture and exercise choices mirror our emotions, from pulling movements that say “yes” to pushing movements that say “no.” Join today’s episode to learn why a healthy body is the prerequisite for deeper emotional and trauma work, and how sauna and cold plunge, grounding, and the four elements of alchemy (earth, water, fire and air) can become free, everyday medicine for your mind. 5 Key TakeawaysYour breath is the fastest way to change how your mind sees the world. Practice box breathing today: inhale for four, hold for four, exhale for four, hold for four, all through your nose.Steady blood sugar means a steadier mood. Build every meal around protein, fat and fiber, and cut back on processed sugar and carbohydrates.Dehydration quietly stresses your nervous system. Drink about half your body weight in ounces of filtered, mineral-rich water each day.Sleep is when your unconscious mind does its deepest processing. Aim for bed around 10 PM and rise around 6 AM, in a dark, cool room.Movement and nature are free medicine for your mind. Take a walk of 30 minutes or more outside today, and get your bare feet on the earth. Memorable Quotes“Your mind can only be as healthy as the body it’s living in. If your mind is the windshield you see reality through, and your body is toxic or inflamed, it’s very hard to have a healthy perception of reality.”“How you breathe informs your autonomic nervous system, and therefore your mind, your mental health, and your perception of reality.”“Your body can’t get healthier and your mind not get healthier. We can’t put the cart before the horse.”Resources MentionedChek Institute (six foundation principles) - https://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

    Healing Beyond Therapy: A Bottom-Up Approach to Mental Health

  5. Oct 9

    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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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, parts work and archetypal work, alternative therapy approaches that 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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