Halloween Special: Facing the Ghosts Within – Transforming Trauma into Healing

18:10Lori Woodley:Trauma gets stored in the body. Yeah.

18:13Darin Olien:So whether it started there or it's here in your head.

18:18Lori Woodley:trauma is an inner experience of the body that's what trauma is trauma is not what happens to us

18:25Darin Olien:outside of us so you have to use the body have to to release the trauma have to you have to

18:34Lori Woodley:integrate it have to integrate it trauma creates more pain right so i see it as three different levels that need repair. Mind level, body level, and biology level. Each of those is giving signals to our nervous system of either safety or danger. So if you focused on the mind level, but you've neglected the body level and the biology level, those two levels are still sending danger signals to your nervous system. All three levels need to have this reset to safety in order for you to truly have moved on and resolve the past.

19:14Darin Olien:You have to work together.

19:16Lori Woodley:Have to work together.

19:17Darin Olien:Is there anyone doing this kind of work?

19:21Lori Woodley:Not that I know of.

19:23Darin Olien:See, that's just blows my mind.

19:25Lori Woodley:Isn't this crazy? We're in 2025.

19:28Darin Olien:I know blows my mind.

19:30Lori Woodley:Honestly, I wrote my book because so many people look to others as they're the ones to fix me. They're the ones to heal me. Whereas the way that I'm seeing it, there is so much that each person can do and needs to do for themselves. So truly healing begins with me, my relationship with myself, my ability to regulate myself, my ability to create my inner safety, not wait for you to do that for me. Right. It's my responsibility to make myself feel loved and worthy. It's not for you to make me feel loved, for you to make me feel worthy. That's my job.

20:12Darin Olien:Yeah, but then you have, it's so seductive because then you have all of the relationships.

20:18Lori Woodley:Right. Talk about trauma.

20:21Darin Olien:I mean, how is it even possible that we have any sort of successful relationship, whether it be, romantic or loving or marriage or whatever it is.

20:35Lori Woodley:Any healthy relationship. Yeah.

20:36Darin Olien:It's just a projection of like, fill this up for me. I mean, how do we even, how have we even gotten here? It's like, it's amazing. But you're just, you're just bouncing off of each other.

20:54Yeah.

20:55Lori Woodley:So in order to be in a long-term relationship, You either need to find someone who their trauma plays well with your trauma.

21:03Darin Olien:Yeah, because you're getting trauma.

21:05Lori Woodley:You're going to share trauma. You're going to share trauma. Or the other option is you're both taking responsibility for your own healing journey.

21:15Darin Olien:Dr. Amy highlighted the necessity of an integrative approach starting with a bodily safety. Jules now grounds us in actionable foundations, emphasizing how simple, consistent practices like mastering the breath are critical and crucial first steps to clean up our internal environment and prepare the body for deeper healing. From a foundational standpoint, what do you believe works well with all the people you've worked with and creating that starting point of a foundation?

21:52Maya Raichoora:So I believe it's, you know, I always look at the low-hanging fruit, which is the breath is number one. And then it takes about seven and a half hours to reprogram your body to breathe properly. So you don't have to, ideally it's called the perfect breath, four seconds in, six seconds out through the nose. It comes down to six breaths per minute. And it's really scientifically proven that it takes you out of fight or flight and gets you into the parasympathetic nervous system within less than a minute.

22:18Darin Olien:So when you say seven hours, practicing it. Yeah, exactly.

22:21Maya Raichoora:So what I say to everyone is like in the beginning, we need to give the body a feedback. So you want to lay down. So ideally you do this in the morning and in the evening before you, when you open your eyes and before you close the eyes, you take a book, place it on your stomach. And then you just like make sure this book is rising when you inhale through the nose. And then it goes down when you exhale. And when you do this for 15 minutes in the morning, you do it for 15 minutes in the evening. there's really no time because most people lay in bed and scrolling for 20 minutes do the same thing in the evening so just put the phone away and focus on your breath there's abscess like you know you can play music whatever you or just count in your head because the counting itself will calm down the mind and when you do this for 15 days you have seven and a half hours and then all of a sudden your breathing pattern is reprogrammed and you can you then will breathe differently throughout the day so how i what i look at is really always i mean you know everyone is looking on the outside like what's the next best supplement what's the next workout routine what's the next training i can do and everyone's stress cup is already over floating so where i'm coming from is like okay if my stress cup it's over floating i would rather take something out first before i can take something in so this simple breathing practice will make a huge difference because you set your day and your evening your sleep up for calmness.

23:47Maya Raichoora:And you know, if you add some affirmations afterwards, like journaling and so forth, there's habit stacking in the end of the day, but I always say start with the breath because it's the most important thing right now. So for everyone who's listening, if you've never done anything and you want to get your feet wet, just start with this simple practice as I just described because it will make a big difference.

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26:54Darin Olien:Jules emphasized starting with foundational practices like breath work to create inner safety. Maya Jawara expands on cultivating our inner world, showing us that visualization is far more than daydreaming. It's a trainable mental fitness skill. we can actively use to build new neural pathways and reshape our reality. What's these five techniques and why do you believe that they are different or more powerful or more effective?

27:30Dani Fontaine:Yeah. So these aren't my techniques, firstly. I, through my research, realized that visualization has been out there for centuries, right? Stoicism, Walt Disney, Einstein, but then also, you know, the latest sports psychology as well. So really what the book does and what I do in my work is bring together the five techniques that really give you a great toolbox for your mental fitness. So one, we have outcome visualization, which is where you are seeing the result in advance. Like for your goals, let's say an athlete sees themselves with a trophy. They show themselves, OK, I can do this. I can be a winner.

28:07Dani Fontaine:Then we have process visualization. this is where you use mental imagery to make a skill a technique a task better faster more effective huge in sports because you could mentally rehearse let's say a golf swing like 20 30 times in the mind and get it really effortless and perfect so that when you're there it's muscle memory because remember the brain doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's imagined i use this for public speaking i use it for sports but you can also use it for just processing your day as well.

28:38Darin Olien:So when you go so just illuminating that technique a little bit. So but let's say you have a meeting, let's say so it's close your eyes five minutes, just go in there, feel the energy of it all see the yeah, the experience, the emotion, the connection that you want to have happen.

28:58Dani Fontaine:Yeah, take today, right? I have never met you in my life. I'm literally in a new country. And it's like, I could have walked in here quite nervous and just being like, Oh, hey, like, you know, we don't really chat. It's nerve wracking, of course. But in the car, I took just a few moments to close my eyes and think, right, Maya, how are you going to walk in? What's the energy you want to bring? Just to start priming my brain and body to be like, yeah, it's going to be unfamiliar. You don't even know what the room looks like all these things. But because I did that there, when I'm here, it's like, Oh, I remember my brain's been here before so it can just be in a bit more flow or you know less nervous and that goes if I'm you know talking in front of thousands of people I will do that visualization maybe five six seven times so that when I'm on stage my brain and body think we've done this seven times so it's muscle memory um there's a comfort to that because you're stepping into

29:53Darin Olien:something that's actually not new then.

29:55Dani Fontaine:Exactly. Exactly that. And that's why athletes really rely on it because when you are trying to perform the best you can, you don't want to be thinking. You want to be able to trust. You want to trust your training. And that's why process visualization is incredible. It's so, so good for that. Then we have creative. So interesting when you talk about pain. Creative visualization is great for managing emotions, pain, disease, injury. So I used creative visualization for when, when my colon was in pain, I always used to describe it like, I used to say like, it's like razor blades, just like, you know, cutting me and like fish, like biting me.

30:38Dani Fontaine:So then exactly. So I then closed my eyes and I used to literally visualize that scenario. I used to visualize these piranhas like biting me and, you know, be painful. But then what would I do in the visualization I would shoot all the fish yeah yeah yeah so I literally exactly no I know but think about it the brain doesn't know the difference right between what's real and imagined so I started to influence my pain it's not that it just went away right but with time I realized oh wait a second I have control over this so if I said if I was just saying my you just try and like stop the pain or try and think about something else no no no hold on no exactly that and then eventually i was able to work with my cells work with my body even like a really simple example if you just close your eyes for me now and just imagine that you are at home in your kitchen so just see the furniture the colors and now go to the fridge open the fridge and there's half a lemon on the shelf and you just hold it in your hand a bit cold tough skin you can see that it's yellow bright and just start smelling it it's fragrant juicy and I take the lemon and drop by drop I want you to squeeze it into your mouth and it lands on your tongue and it's like so sour but it just like the ripples in your mouth like the cheeks go a bit weird and tingly, your saliva starts to really increase.

32:15Dani Fontaine:Now keep squeezing that lemon, taste the juice of it. It's so tangy, so citrusy. Maybe a pip comes in, it's a bit bitter. Good, really taste it. Okay, and open the eyes. Right. Were you able to, you know, right?

32:30Darin Olien:Things start happening.

32:32Dani Fontaine:Okay, but you're not actually eating a lemon. So you can see that, you know, just in 20 seconds, your brain and body both react. So creative visualization is a brilliant way to really connect the mind and body. Now I don't use it for pain, but I'll use it for like managing emotions and things like that. Then we have negative visualization, which is where you see worst case scenarios. Either you see yourself overcoming it, but some people are also really motivated by the fear of that worst case scenario. So depending on how your brain is wired, I would guide you through a particular one michael phelps very famously you know saw a lot of things going wrong in his race and his coach would be like to him now in your visualization what do you do so then when it happens and it did in beijing his goggles filled up with water and not only did he win the race he got the world record and in the interview they were like what and he was like i have been in that situation so many times in my mind so i didn't even flinch i knew i had to swim 75 of that race completely blind i knew that whereas most people they'd be like should i take them off like you know they'd panic a bit he didn't do that because he knew he's been in that negative scenario before so that's fascinating there um in stoicism they used negative visualization to basically it's quite it's quite intense but you imagine you lose everything you lose it all family money friends everything and you realize like what life would be like and then when you open your eyes the amount of appreciation it gives you life-changing um and then we have explorative visualization it's the most undocumented and unknown uh it's what the likes of Walt Disney, Einstein, Nikola Tesla used.

34:30Dani Fontaine:Disney called it imagineering. So engineering your imagination, where you tap into a part of your creativity that can help you problem solve or create new ideas in a very different way. So a good example is Einstein, if he was making a decision, he would just make a decision. He would visualize like he'd be on a train and there are two tracks in front of him one track goes down this way the other is this way but he would make that decision then if i went down this track what would happen and then by doing that when he wakes up he's like okay this is another decision i'm gonna make so like a two

35:05Darin Olien:decisions and they are represented in the train track and then he could play that out yeah and

35:11Dani Fontaine:that's called like metaphorical visualization so but these are all found in their like diaries and And they're, you know, they're quotes that are years and years back. So when I was doing my research, that's when I realized, I was like, wow, they're basically doing the same thing. Different words and different application. And so now when you look at those five techniques, you can use them for so many different things. Decision making, sharpness, techniques, public speaking, sports performance, goal setting, habits, all of it. And that's why I love the technique. It's super versatile. Wow.

35:45Darin Olien:Meyer revealed how we can actively train our brains using visualization. Dr. Max Butterfield shifts this internal focus to relationships, teaching us that the key isn't endless external searching, but cultivating self-awareness and self-regulation to navigate conflict and build genuine connection.

36:10Josh Macin:There's a lot of research showing that the way that people deal with their conflict is make or break for their relationship.

36:19Darin Olien:So when the shit goes sideways, how are you relating? Exactly. Yeah.

36:23Josh Macin:And there's some research by this guy named John Gottman. He's like the godfather of relationship research. And his big thing is contempt. You don't want to see contempt in a relationship. It's really not a good sign. I don't like to phrase things as a negative because that doesn't really help people. It's like, don't be contemptuous. Okay, what does that mean? So the question is, how do you, you're going to argue. How do you argue well? And in some ways it depends, you know, person to person. And so doing something like couples therapy for people can be really helpful just to learn, like to practice, to role play.

36:58Josh Macin:Like, okay, if he says this, what are you going to say? And how are you going to change this frame that you've been using that's not working? And so a lot of times you have to, there is no one size fits all advice. You have to look at somebody's relationship and say, what's not going right here? And how can we tweak it? And so I think we were better self regulators in the past than we are now. We don't have that level of accountability. It's like, you know, if you're a salesperson, you trick somebody into buying something, they don't like it. It's a bad product. There's no accountability for that.

37:32Josh Macin:And you'll probably never see them. Never see them again.

37:34Darin Olien:Yeah.

37:35Josh Macin:Back in the day, not even that long ago in human history, a couple hundred years, you lose your reputation in your community. And so I think part of it is we've lost our self-regulation skills. And you also see it emotionally. You know, you see these videos of like some guy getting the wrong burrito at Taco Bell. And so he smashes the, you know, the fish tank or whatever. And that's based on a real video that I saw. You know, I mean, that's not, it sounds like a made up example, but that happens. people from an early age need to be taught how to regulate their emotions, how to calm down. And so when you see somebody doing that as an adult, that means that they don't have that skill.

38:16Darin Olien:That's literally stuck in time. Their five-year-old is showing that.

38:20Josh Macin:Exactly. Exactly. I don't want to date that person. And so that plays in.

38:27Darin Olien:But you also don't find that out. You don't know. because they're not showing that. They're not reposting that one. No. No, that doesn't go on the Tinder profile.

38:38Josh Macin:It's not in the Bumble profile. Smashed a fish tank at Taco Bell. Yeah. But you'll find that out eventually. Jesus Christ. But then there's somebody else right around the corner. They probably have the same issues. Right. So it's a complicated situation, but I think it starts within rather than without.

38:58Darin Olien:Yeah.

38:58Josh Macin:In other words, we need to get our act together.

39:01Darin Olien:Max highlighted the importance of internal self-regulation for healthy relationships. Dr. Jess Stavalli brings us directly into the body's physical structure, revealing the vast fascial network as our emotional body where trauma is truly stored, emphasizing the need for gentle self-empowered techniques to release these deep holdings.

39:29Jules Schroeder:The fascial system.

39:31Darin Olien:Yes. And it's it's it's weirdly being talked about more.

39:37Kyle Nicolaides:I agree that it's definitely coming into the spotlight. I think it's finally getting the light that it deserves. Yeah. For so long it was just disregarded. Yeah. When you think about that how do you have 40 to 52 pounds of something in your body and you just decide we're just going to push this aside and it doesn't matter and then how do you take the system that literally interconnects and interweaves with every other system and has a play with it and previously say we don't need this like let me get to the good stuff is how it used to go but i really believe that the fascia system is like the quantum interface right is that's our electrical bioelectrical drive we are emotional and energetic beings.

40:18Kyle Nicolaides:And to the point of what you just said, this is why as humans, we've become so overloaded now. We're not living in a time that we used to. So we're overloaded by the constant stimulation, the go, go, go, the EMF, like the, the wifi, right? Just, and we don't have accessibility like we used to, to quality foods and water and simple air, like the things that the human being and human body needs because you and I both know like it's a self-healing organism but it has to be given the right environment but that is where I think what you're speaking of like it's just that constant overstimulation and like I think the fascia is the highway for all of that and that's why I teach the fascia truly is the emotional body and I believe that is going to come forth more, more and more.

41:08Darin Olien:So when you're seeing someone, how do you then start that journey between they're physically in pain? How do we then bring in this subtle support from the fascial system? How does that work?

41:25Kyle Nicolaides:So I'm very transparent. I'm a very direct person. So the minute somebody comes to me with pain, I'm like, talk to me. Like, what kind of trauma is behind you? Well, I don't know if it'd be trauma. And I said, I know it doesn't matter clinically what some professional is going to call it trauma. What are you holding? What happened in your childhood? What beliefs do you have? Like, and are there absolutely a hundred percent physical things that happen to the body that are going to affect the system? Yeah. So I want to be clear, I'm not discrediting that. But then when you look at even injuries, there is a play that comes through with the mental and emotional after that play into the recovery, right?

42:03Kyle Nicolaides:And I think that you, I think if we move to an integrative type of wellness, and I understand everybody can't know everything, but it's knowing when to say, we're going to work here physically, but you need to talk to somebody about this. This is why this is not letting go, right? And making sure, I think we're giving recommendations as providers to put the right team together. So no one's going to expect the physical therapist to be able to do psychotherapy while they're working on the body. But it is being able to say, this isn't letting go. I believe there's an emotional component. We need somebody else on the team to help with this.

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44:45Dr. Jess Stavale:So the endocannabinoid system is our homeostasic system. Okay, so like we have all these systems in the body that manage and do certain things. This system is the homeostasic one. It's the one that balances all the other systems. This is actually how it's working in nature. This is actually how it's working in real time when we eat something, when we interact with someone. Our CB1 receptors are receiving this information in the plasmic makeup of everything. And then it breaks it down in such an intelligent way for based on the human and based on their dynamics, it's keeping them in as best balance as possible to keep them alive.

45:26Dr. Jess Stavale:And when the system gets worn, the body gets worn, and then they go. And that's just how it goes because the system, the energetic force, cannot keep up. When the physical body depletes, it's because the energy has depleted. It's not vice versa.

45:43Darin Olien:As the last kind of.

45:45Dr. Jess Stavale:As the last boom. It's the last thing that even feels anything. All of our receptors are sensing. We're sensing the geometric shape imprints, the waveforms, everything that's coming to us. And then the body hits it and puts it into this dense process of feeling, of force, of like this, oh, okay. I'm here. Like, I feel. I love. I know. You know, all of the I ams. It's what you are, you know, versus when we aren't in this physical form, we're just there. We are sensory, you know, basically projectors at that point versus receivers. Right here, we're receivers. You know, we're receiving all inputs.

46:30Dr. Jess Stavale:That's what's so cool.

46:32Darin Olien:Yeah.

46:32Dr. Jess Stavale:We are the receptor. We are the receiver. and then we can take it take that signal inside of us and if we have the willpower and we have to have all of the right stuff inside of us we put it back out and that's how we come back into a balanced state otherwise people don't know how to put out information it's either too chaotic or too not you know or they're too this or too that versus this balanced state of what homeostasis actually is which is really balance i mean like tell me another system that that is the homeostasis system, please, like doctors. I mean, I'm pretty interested because I've been doing this for 17 years and I don't understand how more people don't understand that we will never get into balance till we tend to this system.

47:16Dr. Jess Stavale:And this is our, that's why sound and light and breath and all these things are helping people because it's our input. That's why this stuff works so well. It's the input of what we are densely made of. The more that we can attune it, the more people can take and be their own healers. When we give this stuff out to people, when we put our sound outside of ourselves, when we're like, oh, we go to a concert and all this stuff, we don't understand that the frequencies and also the bubbles of everybody around us actually heavily affect our field. I mean, our field just goes into this state of like, oh my God, you know, like I can't believe I'm doing this right now.

47:54Dr. Jess Stavale:And it has to intake all this extra heavy, heavy, extra sensory input. That's why people are overstimulated is because they're doing things to their field, to themselves that they don't really know that they're doing or how it's doing. But when we realize what, what this system is, we can actually attune it. We can attune it. It's our main signaling, modulating communication system. You know, I feel like it's like the missing link to us, to our evolution, to us being able to actually come together because it's our communication to each other. Once we're good with ourselves, we're actually good with others.

48:30Darin Olien:Yeah.

48:30Dr. Jess Stavale:Imagine that. Imagine that.

48:32Darin Olien:Danny explained the vital role of the endocannabinoid system in maintaining our internal balance. Josh Mancine now explores what happens when the balance is severely disrupted by internal toxicity sharing how targeted detoxification protocols are often necessary to clear parasites heavy metals and chemicals to reclaim our physical and emotional health number one everyone listening has parasites yeah everyone without a doubt yeah it's almost like if they've overrun your systems you're going to have problems. Yes. And our body also keeps many things at bay to the point where people are like, come on, I don't know.

49:22Darin Olien:It's just who I am. This is what I feel, all this stuff.

49:25Jules Schroeder:It's neurological.

49:27Darin Olien:It's biochemical. So create that context a little bit of the proliferation or the lack of understanding of how this interaction happens and or blows up and gets out of it.

49:45Jules Schroeder:So basically, when you're connected to God, to love, to health, vitality, nature, you have an alkaline environment in most of the body. Their systems are functioning in a particular way. When you start introducing trauma, you start introducing heavy metals and shitty foods and processed foods and bad water and chemicals and all of the stuff that we're subjected to that's in your book, right? Then essentially your terrain changes. You become a magnet for low vibrational frequencies, low vibrational energies, as above, so below. So whatever you're attracting spiritually, you're also attracting on a microbiome level as well.

50:28Jules Schroeder:So again, that trash example.

50:31Darin Olien:Yes.

50:31Jules Schroeder:If you're eating trash. You become that. Yeah. You become that. And you invite those things. And you invite a level of darkness and death and decomposition energy that will change you. It changes your thoughts. It changes how you view the world. It changes how you feel on a day-to-day basis. And you become more like death, like walking death. You can actually see death in a lot of people before they die. Smell it. You can smell it. You can feel it. Their skin, their eyes, things change in their presence, right? And so basically, for me personally, I was going through this illness. I had no idea what a parasite was, or I would think like, okay, that happens to like children in Africa, but that doesn't happen in America.

51:10Jules Schroeder:And I was very acidic without even knowing it. That's because I had mercury poisoning and I had chemical poisoning and I had Lyme disease and I had just so much darkness, even though I was just putting nothing but light in my system for years, trying to get out of this hell. Eating the perfect thing. Perfect foods. I was raw vegan for a while. I was just breathwork meditation, like chanting mantras, praying every single day, all day, right? Spiritual boot camp. There were times when I was living in the Amazon where every single moment of my waking day, I would just say, I love you. So I wouldn't try, like thoughts didn't matter to me.

51:45Jules Schroeder:I would go into thoughts, but I just said, okay, nothing matters except for the fact of me loving myself. And that's all I did all day for like eight, 10 hours, walking barefoot in the jungle. That's how much pain I was. Picking up other parasites.

51:58Darin Olien:Yeah, exactly. Damn it.

52:00Jules Schroeder:wrong path wrong country so the long and short of it like i i basically well i probably want to hear the full story but basically i the first worm that i ever shot out was in 2000 ever shot out so unprofessional yeah is it was in 2016 okay and i released my first worm it looked like an earth worm. And it changed everything I thought about my illness in one moment. In one moment, I said, whatever that is inside of me, that is how I feel. That's what my brain feels like. I feel like a worm inside of myself. My thoughts feel wormy. I feel disgusting with myself. I feel sick, tormented. Whatever that thing was, that is part of my disease, if not all of my disease.

52:53Jules Schroeder:In the moment, I thought it was all of it, right? It's not, but it's significant. And since that moment, you know, there was like, I did a year parasite cleanse after that. I released hundreds of worms, hundreds. Earthworm looking things, rope worms, round worms, tape worms. I've had tape worms this long, you know, and I've had to go back every year and do, and continually do a parasite cleanse. It's just something you have to do as a human being every year, once a year minimum, right? And depending on your state, depending on your state, even healthy people, I think would do one a year. But if you're not healthy, you should do multiple, multiple.

53:28Jules Schroeder:Yeah. Because essentially what happens is, you know, you keep eating and you keep you're not actually people are overeating. Okay, people are consuming too much way too much food. They're also stressed. They're also not chewing their food thoroughly. They're also toxic with all these other things. They also don't really know how to love themselves or connect to the divine. So you end up just creating cesspools in the intestines, in the liver, toxic store, you know, stored up toxins, and then the parasites start thriving again. And there's now with where I'm at in my journey, I know exactly when the scale tips.

54:05Jules Schroeder:I know exactly, because I just did a three month overseas trip, right? But I bring ivermectin with me and I know how to, you know, I can eat almost anything and be fine. Keep it up. But I know when the scale tips, you get an itchy anus, you start getting famished. That feeling of waking up in the morning, like you need food or you skip a meal and you feel like you're like desperate for food. A lot of people have that and they think that's hunger. That's not hunger. That's parasites. Okay. There's real hunger when you're like genuinely hungry and that has a depth to it. And then there's this parasite chemical hunger, which feels like you're going to die if you don't eat.

54:42Jules Schroeder:It feels like you can't think unless you eat. So basically, you know, it never ends. You always want to keep bad bugs in check and terrain modification, that's called, where you're just supporting the terrain with all the good things. The bad things die away or get gently kicked out, as you said. But, you know, everyone has to understand that, number one, you'll never get rid of all of them. But number two, most people are already tipped in that scale. They're overrun. They're overrun. It's affecting their thoughts. It's affecting who they think they are and how their mind operates. And that's what parasites are masters of.

55:20Jules Schroeder:Look at parasites in nature. They do unbelievable things to creatures. You see the cordyceps mushroom even. That's the wildest. They're brilliant. I mean, they're masters at manipulation, masters at hijacking.

55:36Darin Olien:Wow, what a journey through the shadows. right? We've revisited some incredibly powerful conversations today, shining a light and how trauma in all its forms truly lives within us, stored in our biology, our fascia, and our nervous system. We've heard that recognizing these inner ghosts isn't about getting lost in the darkness, but about understanding the integrated nature of the healing. It requires tending to our mind, our body, and our biology all at the same time. We've learned that suffering, even profound depression, can be a catalyst, a lighthouse guiding us back to what is real, the connection and purpose to ourselves.

56:28Darin Olien:The most empowering thread through all of this, you have the agency. Whether it's starting with the simple, profound act of consciously breathing like Jules taught us, or gently crossing backwards out of the autopilot like Lori showed us, through visualizations to activate and train our brain like Maya revealed, taking radical responsibility for our internal state as Max emphasized, treating our fascia with care as Dr. Jess guided us in, understanding your body's master balancing act via the endocannabinoid system with Danny, or committing to clearing physical toxicity like Josh detailed. The tools are available.

57:20Darin Olien:Healing isn't about a magic wand. It's about you taking the action, about being consistent, compassionate, and that action is powerful. It's about meeting ourselves where we are, building safety within, and taking those small courageous steps towards release and integration. So, as you step back into the world, remember that facing these inner phantoms, these stored traumas, is perhaps the bravest and the most rewarding work you can ever do. It's not spooky. It's sacred. It's powerful. It's the path to reclaiming your energy, your vitality, your joy, and it's the path back to your super life. Thanks for tuning in.

58:11Darin Olien:Be well, be brave, and keep shining your light.