What if a more embodied masculinity begins by learning to listen again: to the body, to the earth, and to the parts of ourselves we were taught to ignore?
Cub (Chase) Bishov, MA, AMFT is a holistic psychotherapist, artist, musician, and facilitator based in Northern California. In this conversation, Cub shares his path from isolation, illness, and disconnection into a life shaped by somatic therapy, creative expression, nature connection, and relational healing. We explore his work at the Center for Embodiment Medicine, where he brings Gestalt, IFS, somatic, relational, and transpersonal approaches to communities often excluded from this kind of care.
Together, we discuss how patriarchal conditioning disconnects men from their bodies, emotions, needs, and capacity for intimacy. Cub offers a grounded critique of mind-over-body culture, biohacking, spiritual bypassing, and the ways modern life trains us to override our deepest intelligence. We also explore nature as a mirror, beauty as medicine, psychedelics as powerful tools requiring humility, and art as a way of bringing the soul into form.
This episode is an invitation to return to the wisdom of the body, cultivate deeper male friendship, and remember a more connected way of being with ourselves, each other, and the living world.
More about Cub:
His website: https://www.chasebishov.com/
His instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blucubred/
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