The Life Stylist

Time doesn't heal trauma. The damage accumulates until your body pays the price.

Dr. Aimie Apigian is a Preventive and Addiction Medicine physician and bestselling author of The Biology of Trauma. Her path in this work involved a failed adoption and an autoimmune diagnosis.

We talk about why fear stored in the body creates the sickness you're trying to biohack your way out of. Aimie breaks down the difference between suppression and repression, and why the latter costs you more physically. It turns out the reason cognitive approaches keep failing addicts and high performers alike has to do with what happens in the nervous system before we form our first thoughts..

Finally, Dr. Aimie breaks down the five core skills of self-regulation every human needs to know.

If you've been chasing supplements, protocols, and cold plunges hoping something will work, this conversation might just shift what you try.

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You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction
[7:05] The core abandonment wound shared by so many people in recovery
[14:47] Suppression and repression damage your health in different ways
[25:18] Mind, body, spirit, and biology, the fourth layer most healing models miss
[31:17] Healing your nervous system requires energy you may not have
[49:47] The difference between everyday stress and stored trauma
[57:10] Turning every coping mechanism into a tool by asking one question
[1:06:16] The five core skills every human needs to become resilient
[1:13:02] Detoxing addicts kept relapsing until she taught them to feel safe
[1:20:01] The missing body piece in the 12 Steps and why plant medicine reached deeper
[1:27:45] Three teachers who shaped her work, from Tian Dayton to Gabor Maté to Jeffrey Bland

Resources Mentioned:

Attachment Parenting | Wikipedia
Read: A Horse Named Lonesome: Tales and Teachings to Reclaim Connection, Transcend Separation, and Discover the Divine Within by Luke Storey | Book
Cal Callahan, The Great Unlearn | Website
Tian Dayton, Relational Trauma Repair | Website
Read: Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance by Tian Dayton | Book
Dr. Gabor Maté | Website
Read: When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Mate M.D. | Book
Dr. Jeffrey Bland | Website
The Institute for Functional Medicine | Website
Read: The Language of the Heart: Bill W's Grapevine Writings by Bill W. | Book

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/draimie

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Dr. Gabor Maté: Breaking the Epidemic Cycle of Trauma & Addiction To Find True Healing & Liberation | Podcast

Find more from Dr. Aimie:

Dr. Aimie Apigian | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTube
Read: The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It by Dr. Aimee Apigian here.

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

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For this Lonesome Conversation, Tim Corcoran joins me to pull apart two very different kinds of loneliness: the interpersonal ache of having no one around, and the existential kind where you feel alone in the universe even in a crowded room. We get into why the wild speaks to that deeper loneliness, why middle-aged men are statistically the loneliest among us, and why "just go find community" so often fails to fill the gap.

About Tim

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he offers Nature Based Purpose Guidance to support people with a love for wild nature who feel a deep yearning to discover their soul-level calling. Tim also serves as co-director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho in 2005, dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking.

A leader of wilderness vision quests, holistic rites of passage, and men’s groups, Tim has been facilitating spiritual initiations in the wilderness since 1999. Healing the cultural rift between the mainstream and indigenous cultures, transformational consciousness work, the spiritual journey, ancestral work, the sacred hunt, deep nature connection, family, and health are all strong commitments in his life. Tim is a heart-centered father of two brilliant sons and husband to a magnificent wife, and lives in pristine Sandpoint, Idaho.

Lonesome Conversations Limited Series

Lonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

I'm excited to announce the Lonesome Conversations Limited Series!
Lonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes every Friday alongside our regular show over the coming months.

Why do you keep falling in love with the same toxic person, just wearing a different face?

I sat down with Ross Rosenberg, MEd, the author of the bestselling book Human Magnet Syndrome, and a psychotherapist whose work has reached over 34 million YouTube views and sold 200K books in 12 languages.

Ross has spent decades untangling the real roots of codependency and reframed it as what he calls Self-Love Deficit Disorder.

We get into the invisible pull between people who give everything away and people who take it, and why that chemistry so often feels like fate when it is really just familiar pain.

He breaks down the pyramid that starts with attachment trauma, builds into core shame and pathological loneliness, and ends in compulsive attraction to narcissistic personality disorder. His method for reaching memories the conscious mind cannot access explains why talk therapy alone rarely breaks these cycles.

We also cover emotional incest and what it takes to divorce a narcissist.

Visit selfloverecovery.com and use code LUKE to save 35% off all books, courses, and seminars. Email help@selfloverecovery.com and mention LUKE for 25% off your first therapy session.

You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction
[4:43] Codependency's history, from Al-Anon jargon and the tango dance concept to self-love deficit disorder
[16:09] The self-love deficit pyramid, from attachment trauma to pathological loneliness
[24:40] Familiar love feels like a drug, healthy love feels like home
[36:37] The difference between a pathological narcissist and someone who's simply selfish
[43:29] The narcissist's hated child grows up broken and can't see the problem
[50:50] Comparing overt abuse to neglect and abandonment in shaping a child
[59:44] Talk therapy fails while psychedelics open the door to buried trauma
[1:07:08] Inside the HITCH technique and the moment a client reintegrates their inner child
[1:15:17] Narcissistic bonds take a toll, from childhood emotional incest to needing a strategist in divorce

Resources Mentioned:

Melody Beattie | Website
Read: A Horse Named Lonesome: Tales and Teachings to Reclaim Connection, Transcend Separation, and Discover the Divine Within by Luke Storey | Book
Dorothy Tennov | Wikipedia
Read: Alcoholics Anonymous by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services | Book
Attachment Theory | Wikipedia
John Bowlby | Wikipedia
Bessel van der Kolk | Website
Read: The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley | Book
Read: Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners by Kenneth M. Adams |
Book

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/selflove

Find more from Ross:

Ross Rosenberg, M.Ed | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTube
Self Love Recovery | Website | Facebook
Read: The Codependency Revolution: Fixing What Was Always Broken by Ross Rosenberg here.

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

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Can one molecule almost double our lifespan?

Chris Burres is the founder and chief scientist at MyVitalC, the oldest and longest manufacturer of the Nobel Prize-winning ESS60 molecule. He came here to explain why almost nobody has heard of it.

The story gets stranger the further in we go. Rice University scientists discovered this ball-shaped carbon molecule in 1985. It performs better than most existing materials in batteries, tires, and inks, and its antioxidant properties are far more powerful than vitamin C. Then a French toxicity study produced unexpected longevity results.

Chris outlines the manufacturing process, the liver recovery data, the cancer cell study, the sleep testimonials, and the pet results that leave placebo out of the argument.

If you've ever taken C60 and wondered whether you were drinking expensive pee, this one is for you.

Visit myvitalc.com/lukestorey and use code STOREY for $30 off your first order.

You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction
[5:38] The rat study that found 90% longer lifespans
[14:15] The graphite-vaporizing, oxygen-free reactor process behind manufacturing pure ESS60
[21:18] Adding "not for human consumption" while biohackers kept calling about their 275-pound rats
[34:14] The multi-billion-person sleep study we run every daylight savings time
[48:47] Why five ampoules a flight became part of my air travel arsenal
[55:29] Exploring whether C60 can detox your brain the way activated charcoal can't
[1:27:50] The gossip behind the Nobel Prize and the grad students who discovered it but got nothing
[1:37:50] Why manually stacking the youth peptide and ESS60 beats using an emulsifier
[1:42:45] The Sesame Street test for spotting C60 products that contain zero C60
[1:50:39] Three teachers who shaped Chris

Resources Mentioned:

Wizard Sciences: Use code LUKE for 15% off all products! (except subscriptions) | Website
Sens.AI | Product
The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by repeated oral administration of [60]fullerene by Baati et al. | Article
AX3 Bio-Pure Astaxanthin | Product
Presence and Quantity of Botanical Ingredients With Purported Performance-Enhancing Properties in Sports Supplements by Cohen et al. | Article
Fullerene C60 Protects Against Intestinal Injury from Deoxynivalenol Toxicity by Improving Antioxidant Capacity by Liao et al. | Article
C60 Fullerene Reduces the Development of Post-Traumatic Dysfunction in Rat Soleus Muscle by Prylutskyy et al. | Article
READ: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dream by Matt Walker | Book
READ: The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball by Hugh Aldersey-Williams | Book

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/c60

Related The Life Stylist Episodes:

C-60: The Miracle Molecule for Biohacking Pets, Hair Loss, EMF, & Cancer W/ Ian Mitchell | Podcast
Holon Brain Training: Transcend Trauma & Master the Flow State w/ Drs. Drew Pierson & Amy Albright | Podcast
Dave Asprey – Smarter Not Harder: Top Biohacks for Vitality, Longevity & Maximum Brain Power | Podcast

Find more from Chris:

MyVitalC | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTube
Read: Live Longer and Better: Your Journey to Living Longer and Better Has Never Been More Achievable Than Today by Chris Burres and Jerome R. Corsi, PhD here.
Read: The Longevity Molecule: The Secret to Doubling Lifespan to 152 Years (and Beyond) by Chris Burres here.

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

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