Episode Summary:

In this grounded and heartfelt conversation, Joshua welcomes Julian Bermudez—trauma-informed guide and integration therapist. Together they explore the deeper dimensions of healing, embodiment, and soulful living.

Topics Discussed:

• Authenticity and Adaptation: How survival strategies formed in childhood often lead to spiritual disconnection later in life.
• Trauma-Informed Presence: Julian shares how attunement, co-regulation, and slowness are central to his work with clients.
• Deconstructing Performance: A conversation on how striving and self-improvement can become barriers to real healing.
• The Body as Portal: Using somatic awareness to come back into truth and connection.
• Integration and Wholeness: Supporting others to metabolize experience and trust their own wisdom.
• Poetry and Soul Language: Touching on the power of poetry as a way to name the ineffable, including references to John O’Donohue.
• Real Ritual: The value of simple, intentional practices rooted in presence rather than production.

Resources Mentioned:

• To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Julian Bermudez is a therapist, guide, and companion on the path of healing. He works closely with people navigating trauma, identity, and the integration of psychedelic experiences—helping them reconnect with the deep, unshakable truth of who they are. His work is not conventional. It doesn’t revolve around diagnoses or protocols. Instead, it’s rooted in presence, deep listening, and the belief that healing is a return to our natural state of being: connected, present, and whole. Through somatic work, meditation, and honest self-inquiry, Julian helps people soften the survival patterns that once protected them—but now keep them stuck. He offers a grounded, intuitive approach that bridges modern therapeutic insight with timeless human wisdom. His mission is simple: to preserve and nurture the human experience. In a world that often pulls us away from our aliveness, Julian helps clients come back to themselves, to each other, and to the world around them. His work isn’t just about feeling better—it’s about recovering what it means to be human.

Julian's website: Psychedelic-integration.net

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.