Mental Health In A Modern World

About Mental Health In A Modern World

Most people can feel that something is off with modern mental health care—too much labeling, too little listening, and not nearly enough focus on the whole human being. Join Greg Schmaus, holistic mental health coach and founder of Healing4D.com, each week for grounded, honest conversations that blend nutrition and lifestyle coaching, psycho-emotional healing, mindfulness training, and archetypal work to help you rediscover your true nature beyond anxiety, depression, OCD, and trauma. If you’re a spiritually curious young adult, a high-performing professional overwhelmed by technology and overstimulation, or someone seeking a holistic approach to mental health and deep self-discovery, this show offers practical tools, real client insights from over 6,000 coaching sessions, and a path toward peace, purpose, and wholeness.

Publisher

Greg Schmaus — Holistic Mental Health Coach, Archetypes & Parts Work

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Feb 2026

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   31. The Psychology of Food Addiction, Attachment, and the Mother Wound

   📺 Watch on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus?sub_confirmation=1) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2bWo7CWS0Lv8oFB4svtar9) “Cravings are a lot of times the replacement for a lack of fulfilling of desire on a soul level,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic mental health coach and founder of Healing4D.com, who explains on this solo episode of Mental Health in a Modern World why your relationship with food is really a mirror of your relationship with your mother, your body, and your soul. Today, Greg takes you through the psychology of food from the ground up. He explains how the mother archetype and the mother complex imprint the way we nourish, control, neglect, or smother ourselves with food. He shows why at least 90% of addiction is rooted in attachment injuries, and how food becomes a reliable source of warmth, love, and oxytocin when that connection wasn’t available in childhood. He also breaks down the biology behind stress eating, including the cortisol and insulin loop and the gut microbiome’s influence on sugar cravings. Join today’s episode to learn why consuming food and consuming information are the same act on a quantum level, how to tell whether you’re feeding your body or your ideas, and why eating and drinking may be a spiritual practice. 5 Key Takeaways Your relationship with food is a mirror of your relationship with your mother. Ask yourself whether you control, neglect, smother, or swing between extremes with food, then trace each pattern back to how you were parented. Addiction is rarely a willpower problem. It’s an attachment injury looking for a safer source of comfort. Identify where a parent wasn’t emotionally available and offer yourself the care you’re now seeking from food. You can’t attune to your body while you’re feeding your ideas. Drop the diet dogma and ask your body what it needs right now, then listen to the answer. Stress eating is chemistry before it’s character. Carbs release insulin to quiet cortisol, so support your blood sugar, lower inflammation, and feed your microbiome before you judge your cravings. What you consume, you become, whether it’s a meal or a feed. Choose quality, right quantity, and diversity for both your food and your information, and create as much as you consume. Memorable Quotes “Cravings are often the replacement for a lack of fulfilling desire on a soul level. A lot of addiction and cravings with food come from not meeting the needs of the soul and filling ourselves by other means.” “One of the most important questions with food is: are you feeding your body, or are you feeding your ideas?” “Food, alcohol, drugs are things that will never judge you, reject you, or abandon you. They simply offer the feeling that a parent or primary caretaker ideally would have offered.” Resources Mentioned Beyond Addiction: Healing the Wounds That Bind Us - https://healing4d.com/addiction (https://healing4d.com/addiction) Connect with Greg Website - https://www.healing4d.com/ (https://www.healing4d.com/) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ (https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/) YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus (https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/) 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co (https://fullcast.co) Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ (https://www.thepodosphere.com/) Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM (https://mental-health-in-a-modern-world.captivate.fm/htm) Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM (https://mental-health-in-a-modern-world.captivate.fm/htm)

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   30. Overstimulated Overwhelmed: Stay Conscious in a Modern World

   📺 Watch on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus?sub_confirmation=1) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2bWo7CWS0Lv8oFB4svtar9) "If your neurochemistry is hijacked, you do not have free will," says Greg Schmaus, holistic mental health coach and founder of Healing4D.com, who returns to Mental Health in a Modern World for a solo episode on how to stay conscious in an age of distraction, overstimulation, and overconsumption. Greg shares five ways to reconnect with your soul, from solitude and nature to creative expression, passions, and solo travel, and five things that quietly unplug you: distraction, overstimulation, overconsumption, obligation, and depletion. He explains Jung's individuation, the tension between authenticity and attachment, and how balancing inner masculine and feminine means balancing structure and flow. He also looks at how television, algorithms, cheap dopamine, and AI can outsource your inner guidance, and why Google Maps is an unexpectedly good spiritual teacher. Join today's episode for a guided heart practice that teaches you what a clear yes and a clear no feel like in your body. 5 Key Takeaways Your attention is your doorway to your soul, so guard it. Block out time for solitude, meditation, or contemplation this week. Cheap dopamine quietly steals your free will. Take a short break from social media, processed food, or alcohol and notice what comes up. Obligation, depletion, and overconsumption cover up what needs your attention. Ask yourself where a role is overriding the needs of your soul. Nature has no ego to mirror back to you, so it is the easiest place to feel connected. Spend time outside today, phone away. Your heart already knows the difference between yes and no. Ask it to show you each one, and practice listening before you decide. Memorable Quotes "If we're living in a state of distraction or chaos, concentration and sustained attention are how we go from chaos into coherence." "If your neurochemistry is hijacked through the dopamine system, you do not have free will." "Feeling is how we connect with the heart, the heart is how we connect with the soul, and the soul is how we connect with the divine." Resources Mentioned Beyond Addiction: Healing the Wounds That Bind Us (Greg Schmaus, use code podcast for 20% off) - https://healing4d.com/addiction (https://healing4d.com/addiction) Connect with Greg Website - https://www.healing4d.com/ (https://www.healing4d.com/) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ (https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/) YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus (https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/) 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co (https://fullcast.co) Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ (https://www.thepodosphere.com/) Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM (https://mental-health-in-a-modern-world.captivate.fm/htm) Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM (https://mental-health-in-a-modern-world.captivate.fm/htm)

3. 

   25 Sept 2026

   29. The Gut Brain Connection: How Your Gut Shapes Your Mental Health

   📺 Watch on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus?sub_confirmation=1) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2bWo7CWS0Lv8oFB4svtar9) “Thinking is the language of the mind. Feeling is the language of the body. When the body’s inflamed, when the body’s stressed, when the body has a lot of, you know, toxicity in it, we don’t really want to feel the body. It’s uncomfortable. So a lot of times the mind becomes overactive as a way of numbing out feelings in the body, almost like since the body’s really uncomfortable, we start to live from the neck up to avoid feeling what’s happening below,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health practitioner and founder at Healing For Zero, on Mental Health in a Modern World. A survivor of severe anxiety and OCD, Greg Schmaus has spent a decade guiding others through integrative healing—bridging nutrition, biology, psychology, and spiritual practice. In this episode, he dismantles the reductionist mindset of modern medicine, which treats mental health as a mere chemical equation, and instead invites us to consider ourselves as living ecosystems—trillions of cells, bacteria, thought patterns, relationships, and boundaries all constantly interacting. Greg Schmaus explains why gut health is foundational to mental and emotional wellbeing, and reveals how everything from antibiotics, processed foods, chronic stress, or environmental toxins can disrupt the delicate dance between our “abdominal brain” and our mind. He explores the two-way highway connecting gut and brain, the dangers of dysbiosis and leaky gut, and powerful, actionable approaches for tending your ‘inner garden’: from diverse, whole-food eating to gratitude, sleep, circadian rhythm support, and breathwork. Learn how caring for your microbiome may be the missing piece in calming anxious minds, restoring self-identity, and reclaiming true health—and why tending to both your inner and outer gardens is the path forward—for body, mind, and planet. 5 Key Takeaways To transform your mental and gut health, start making these changes today: 1. Feed your microbiome by eating a diverse diet rich in whole foods, fibers, prebiotics, and fermented foods as tolerated. 2. Protect your gut by reducing processed foods, excess sugar, unnecessary antibiotics, alcohol, and exposure to chemicals and pesticides. 3. Support your nervous system—prioritize quality sleep, manage stress, and incorporate practices like meditation, breathwork, tai chi, or qigong. 4. Spend more time in nature to nourish your inner and outer ecosystems, reinforcing your connection with the natural world. 5. Foster social connection and gratitude, and practice simple activities like gargling, humming, and abdominal massage to strengthen your vagus nerve and boost gut-brain health. Start integrating one or more of these actions this week and notice the changes in your body and mind! Memorable Quotes "Thinking is the language of the mind. Feeling is the language of the body." "The gut is our biological interface; it’s the boundary that differentiates what’s you from what’s not you on a cellular level, the outside world and your inner biological environment." "Supporting the health of the body and the mind is more of an art than a science. When we learn how to garden well and balance the terrain, that’s when we really optimize health." Resources Mentioned Beyond Addiction: Healing the Wounds That Bind Us (online program) by Greg Schmaus - https://healing40.com/addiction (https://healing40.com/addiction) Connect with Greg Website - https://www.healing4d.com/ (https://www.healing4d.com/) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/ (https://www.instagram.com/4d_healing/) YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus (https://www.youtube.com/@gregschmaus) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-schmaus-22929589/) 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production & Marketing by FullCast: https://fullcast.co (https://fullcast.co) Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/ (https://www.thepodosphere.com/) Mentioned in this episode: Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM (https://mental-health-in-a-modern-world.captivate.fm/htm) Embark on The HTM Journey MHMW - HTM (https://mental-health-in-a-modern-world.captivate.fm/htm)

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings