The History of Health, Science, and Wellness, for the last 2500 years.
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The History of Health, Science, and Wellness, for the last 2500 years. Our values are Rooted in health, psychology, and philosophy, synthesising ancient wisdom and modern science, we have come together with one shared Vision: "To guide a new generation into a deeper, more connected way of living and learning" holisticacademy25.substack.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Amy and David connect emotional patterns, body rhythms and older healing traditions through approachable, wide-ranging conversations.
Amy and David move between emotional life, bodily health and older healing traditions in a conversational back-and-forth that favors explanation over prescription.
A fruit fly gets a body clock, and your midnight snack gets a backstory.
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Visualization is paired with vagus-nerve language, framing abundance as something the body learns to hold.
Holistic Academy's abundance episode opens with Joe Dispenza's daughter and her fantasy of a free shopping spree before widening into the show's larger claim that the mind can help shape reality.
A reflective take on consciousness, breath, and money beliefs.
Holistic Academy Podcast uses its penultimate episode to connect the quantum leap to observation, contemplation, and consciousness, moving from Descartes, Galileo, and Newton to a view of the universe shaped by observation rather than dogma.
A warm case for friendship as a stress buffer, a shape for identity, and a source of well-being.
This conversation frames friendship as a buffer against stress, a link to immune response, and a force in identity. It moves cleanly from social networks to loneliness as a health risk, then lands on the larger idea that the self takes shape through relationship rather than…
A thoughtful case for breakdown as a route to a truer self.
Holistic Academy Podcast treats metanoia as more than a change of mind. It is the hard shedding of an old, scripted false self, followed by the awkward arrival of something more integrated.
A clear, reflective bridge between ancient duality and the nervous system.
The episode treats duality as a practical lens for nervous-system balance, moving from old legends and yin and yang into sympathetic overdrive, allostatic load, and the vagus nerve.
Fear, sunk costs, and the defensive habits that can take over relationships.
This episode keeps coming back to how fear bends judgment, whether that shows up as sunk-cost stubbornness, a freeze response, or a fawn response.
An earnest money-and-mind conversation that leans spiritual, hopeful, and steady in its own lane.
The episode treats money as more than arithmetic. It frames wealth through optimism, gratitude, belief, and the link between inner state and outward choice.
A calm take on breaking family patterns without flattening parents.
This episode treats inherited family pain as something people carry forward, and it makes a steady case that healing starts with grieving instead of blaming parents.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
The episode closes the first series with a conversation about quantum wealth and the psychology of money.
The hosts open with metanoia, the ancient Greek idea of a deep change of mind or a full shift in consciousness.
The episode starts with one plain question: how can the gut shape mood?
Amy and David trace the history of vulnerability from its Latin roots meaning 'to wound' through existentialist philosophy, Adler's inferiority complex, Rogers' person-centered therapy, Ainsworth's attachment theory, and Pennebaker's expressive writing paradigm.
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This episode explores the intersection of epigenetics and ancient wisdom, showing how modern science validates concepts from Ayurveda and other traditions.
Deep therapeutic education episode exploring mother and father wounds through attachment lens.
Amy and David open with an Indiana University study on gratitude letters.
Holistic Academy Podcast Episode 17, “The Abundance Blueprint: Manifesting with Mind, Body & Biology,” links ancient Egyptian and Vedic practices to modern neuroscience, with Amy and scientist-author-holistic coach David Ortega leading the discussion.
Amy and David open by tracing emotions to organs, seasons, and elements, with lungs tied to grief and sadness, kidneys to winter, the liver to anger and frustration, the heart to joy and excitement, and worry or overthinking linked to another body system.
Holistic Academy 2025 spends its penultimate episode on the quantum leap.
Holistic Academy Podcast’s "Friendship & Belonging" ties Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Cicero, Epicurus, and modern psychology to one question: what is friendship for?
Holistic Academy Podcast Episode 15, “Duality Unlocked: Ancient Legends, Yin & Yang, and the Science of Your Vagus Nerve,” links Zoroastrianism, Taoist yin-yang, Descartes, and the autonomic nervous system.
Holistic Academy Podcast’s “Narcissism & Emotional Boundaries- How to Protect Your Energy and Mental Health” frames narcissism as a topic linked to family dynamics, attachment styles, and the earlier discussion of the “mother and father wound.” Amy and David describe narcissism as a pattern of emotional confusion, including “energy vampires,” love bombing, trauma bonding, and bread crumbing, with examples like non-stop texts, lavish apologies, and inconsistent follow-through.
Holistic Academy Podcast Episode 14, “Fear Factor: How Our Brains Hijack Our Decisions,” uses a boss text like “we need to talk” to show how fear can make a modern brain react like a prey animal on the savannah.