Therapist, somatic practitioner, and 15-year Navy veteran Nick joins Tammy and Lori for an honest conversation about healing the whole person — body, mind, and spirit.

Nick shares the founding of Ronan Relief, his work bringing somatic and plant-medicine modalities to veterans, and his own reckoning with fear, anger, and sex addiction. Together they explore merging the divine masculine and feminine, retraining a nervous system built for combat, and the quiet ways TV, dopamine, and scrolling pull us out of the present. Lori offers a vulnerable reflection on the hidden forms of "porn" in everyday life, and the three land on the daily practices — meditation, gratitude, a non-inflammatory diet, and A Course in Miracles — that bring them back to love instead of fear.

A tender reminder that we came here to remember who we really are.

Note: This episode discusses trauma, addiction, and mental health. If you're struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional. In the US, dial or text 988 (Veterans press 1).

Find Nick here: https://www.roninrelief/projects/

00:00 Welcome & meet Nick

01:16 Nick's path: therapy, somatics & 15 years in the Navy

02:38 Healing the whole person & the documentary dream

04:36 Merging the divine masculine & feminine

05:57 Facing fear, anger & sex addiction honestly

07:14 Seeing the "wounded child" behind men's behavior

08:36 Safety, vulnerability & re-identifying with God

10:40 Why we made this podcast: unity over division

11:38 Matriarchy vs. merging — uplifting women

14:24 The military, PTSD & men's bottled-up emotions

16:13 Retraining the nervous system & alchemizing energy

17:44 Meditation as the daily foundation

19:04 Building the men's program from lived experience

22:01 Tracing addiction to its childhood root

23:12 Lori's confession: smut books are porn too

25:40 Dopamine, escalation & "feeding the machine"

27:21 When pleasure starts robbing the present moment

28:01 Sex & shame: Europe vs. America

31:25 Throwing out the TV & turning it into an altar

33:32 Subliminal messages & your subconscious operating system

36:05 Horror films: intentional vs. compulsive watching

39:36 "Tell-a-vision": co-creating what we consume

41:12 A Course in Miracles: ego, fear & surrender

47:18 Remembering we are spirit

48:46 Food as medicine: the body as temple

51:42 Releasing control & the urge to fix everyone

53:09 Closing gratitude & goodbyes