Sep 09, 2026
I've spent a lot of my life in the healing world. Psychedelic experiences, modality after modality of therapy, and a whole lot of "healing work."
And looking back, I can see how much of that work focused on my spiritual and emotional terrain while skirting some very real nutritional needs my body was lacking.
Especially in my 20s, when I simply wasn't eating enough, though, like many of us, I thought I was.
And the deeper I go into mineral balancing, the more I wonder:
How much of what we're calling emotional or spiritual struggle is actually happening inside a body that doesn't have the resources it needs?
We can spend years working from the top down—talking, processing, understanding our patterns—and sometimes the needle still isn't moving.
I wonder how often there's a bottom-up piece being completely missed.
Is the body adequately nourished? Does it actually have the raw materials it needs? How is it adapting, or mal-adapting, to stress? What resources does this body actually have available to meet this life?
And then the kicker:
Do we need another Ayahuasca ceremony or perhaps a steak? (I'd say both ;)
We can't meditate our way out of a magnesium deficiency. We can't expect talk therapy alone to correct the nutritional deficiencies that may be contributing to anxiety or depression. And we can't build lasting resilience on a depleted foundation.
And how much harder might it be to integrate a profound and deeply sacred spiritual experience when our brain and gut aren't getting the nourishment they need?
We once again are reminded, yes, it's all connected. And yes, we must find the balance.
This is one of the reasons I find HTMA such a fascinating complementary tool for therapists, coaches, breathworkers, psychedelic practitioners, and really anyone working in the healing space.
It isn't about replacing therapy or emotional work.
It's about acknowledging that sometimes someone can be doing all the work and still not have the physical capacity to embody what they intellectually understand.
Because we tend to treat consciousness as if it exists somewhere above the body, untouched by what is happening below.
But the minerals in our bodies, the nourishment we receive, the stress we're under, the things we're exposed to—all of it becomes part of the terrain and lens through which we experience being alive.
Maybe some of what we've come to identify as simply "who I am" is actually who we learned to be inside of a depleted or dysregulated system.
And that's what fascinates me.
What happens when we begin nourishing that system? When we stop trying to override the body and start giving it the raw materials it needs?
I'm not interested in creating perfectly balanced humans with a perfect HTMA.
Our biology isn't something to be hacked.
I'm interested in capacity. In having enough resources within us that we have more choice in how we meet our lives.
More patience. More resilience. More discernment. More energy to relate, create, repair, love, and show up for the people and things that matter.
It's about remembering the body in a world that has become so mind-oriented and, at times, overly spiritualized.
We work with consciousness, relationship, our histories, patterns and wounds—and we also make sure the physical body has what it needs to support the person we are becoming.
Because maybe healing isn't always about finding another thing to work through.
Maybe sometimes it's about finally feeding the body that's been carrying us through all of it.
If you’re feeling this, I was recently on a podcast talking about HTMA and some of these topics listen here: Podcast