Rageheart John Wood

Have you tried “all the things” to feel “better” but keep hitting dead ends and running into walls?

That’s literally what today’s podcast guest said when I asked him about his journey to health and healing.

He’d tried it all and yet he still wasn’t healthy.

He’d also known about the nervous system approach for years (and how important and foundational these topics are)…

…but he couldn’t get himself to do more than scratch the surface of these topics.

Says Jon:

"I thought I had my own path to healing covered by biohacking, meditation, journaling, taking my supplements, being “healthy” and dialed in AF.

I thought I was addressing things at the root cause.

The root?

I was convinced that I was suffering from some mystery illness that my doctors were failing to catch and observe via exams, labs, and extensive testing.

Depending on the flavor of the week, I thought I battling lyme, or CFS, or EBV, or a generational curse that some witch had put on my Polish great-grandmother for continuously stinking up the neighborhood with never-ending batches of stinky sauerkraut.

Each new self-diagnosis brought with it a new supplement, going to a different doctor or energy worker, trying different diets, buying a new tool (e.g. – somehow I managed to stuff an infrared sauna in my tiny NYC apartment).

Truthfully, none of these tools/practices/diets/etc. made a meaningful impact on my life and I kept on hitting wall after wall, wondering when I’d finally feel good and stop feeling s****y and malaise.

I never considered that I was simply shutdown and dysregulated, and all these interventions were bandaids on bullet wounds."

That’s what today’s podcast is about.

We talk about his life before he started to work with his nervous system and survival physiology…

…what he did once he finally got into it…

…and how his life is now as a result of all the nervous system work.

Enjoy!

In This Episode with Jon Martin, You’ll Discover:


Why Jon’s “healthy” lifestyle didn’t actually make him healthy (and what he had to do instead)
How to stop blaming and hating on yourself (it’s actually really simple and it doesn’t require years of meditation or therapy)
The little-known dangers of bypassing your emotions (and how you end up “compressed”, with no highs and no lows, just the mid-range, feeling apathetic and MEH)
How the nervous system approach to healing has transformed Jon’s life (from thinking he had Lyme disease to getting to the ACTUAL problem and solving it)
Why it’s important to go SLOW with nervous system work (hint: it’s like learning to ride a bike)
How to be your authentic self (plus, what even IS your authentic self?)
Why some people find meditation difficult, if not impossible (and what they should do instead)

If you struggle with anxiety, overthinking or racing thoughts, you've probably tried a whole lotta things to fix it...


Meditation
Journaling
Gratitude lists
Breathwork
Talk therapy
Drugs

...and more.

The question is:

Did it work?

Logan Hobson, a freelancer copywriter who lives in Japan, used all of these things but it didn't fix his anxiety.

He says he would sit down, close his eyes and meditate and then feel kind of calm and collected.

But during the day, when it really mattered, before sales calls and in social situations, the anxious feelings and racing thoughts came rushing back in.

Gratitude lists, journaling and even talk therapy were the same.

In his words...

"When you're doing the practice, it's great. But when it really counts, it's not there for you."

Then he found something that actually worked.

It reduced his anxiety immediately...

...cleared his head quicker than anything he'd tried before...

...and the racing thoughts and the tightness in his chest didn't rush back in like they normally did.

Plus, he could use the techniques during his day, when it really mattered.

That's what this episode is about.

How Logan reduced his anxiety immediately when everything else failed - and how you can too.

Enjoy!

In This Episode with Logan Hobson, You'll Discover:


how to reduce anxiety immediately when everything else has failed (it's so simple and profound and yet SO powerful)
why meditation, gratitude lists, journaling and even talk therapy didn't work for Logan (and what to do instead)
how Logan used these techniques to soothe his anxiety while skydiving (so he could actually enjoy the experience instead of being stuck in his head)
the approach that Logan says "works 10x better than meditation" (and how to get started with it)
the counter-intuitive truth about anxiety, overthinking and tightness in your chest (most people either don't this or won't tell you)

Have you ever met a narcissist?

What about a psychopath?

Or maybe just a manipulative person?

It’s not fun.

Especially if they get the better of you.

But you don’t have to be a victim.

There are powerful tools for detecting psychopaths, narcissists and manipulative people.

You just have to put them in your toolbox.

That’s what this podcast is about.

Tools for not getting seduced by bad people…

…whether the “bad people” are dickheads at work, school or in the family.

Enjoy!

In This Episode with Vic Dorfman, You’ll Discover:


How to stop getting seduced by psychopaths, narcissists and manipulative people
Why you want your buttons to get pushed (but only by the right people at the right time)
How to feel your feelings without wallowing in them (and why it’s not really about feeling your feelings but feeling your s__s_____s)
Why you might feel more anxious as your life gets better
How to stop using meditation as a “spiritual bypass” (it’s an easy-but-costly mistake to make)
Why you should pay close attention when you don’t like someone’s face (and how to stop feeling guilty for not liking someone)

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