#11: Jon Martin – The Shocking Truth About Your “Healthy” Lifestyle

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 shitty 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)