#159: Finding Alignment featuring Aaron Alexander

Aaron Alexander is the author of the Aligned Method and host of the Aligned Podcast. Aaron is best known for his fresh perspective on movement & lifestyle as it relates to overall health. He has worked with professional athletes, celebrities, and everyone in between to help find healing in their bodies and build true health. In our conversation with Aaron we discussed:

- Masculinity: Are we missing a right of passage?
- Creating a more playful and limitless lifestyle
- Waking up to problems with conventional health advice
- Nutrition: Is it really that important or that challenging?
- The Body: How to heal it and overcome years of chronic stress?

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TIME STAMPS

2:06- Backstory and align method
6:22- Where to start?
9:40- "Waking up" 
13:12- Extremism vs. Alignment
18:04- Cultivating interest in different physical pursuits
22:44- Thoughts on learning and slowing down over time
38:23- Work vs. play
43:06- Things can just be normal
44:00- The reason we do things
46:00- Finding purpose
50:19- Male relationships
51:00- Finding role models
58:00- The Body seeks to heal
60:00- Experience in isolation
1:01:53- Acute and Chronic stressors
1:15:20- Stress control
1:19:50- Find a professional or coach
1:27:43- Having a right of passage
1:36:10- Give yourself the right of passage
1:40:29- Spiritualness