EVENTS
We have our first event at Herb Day at the WellSweep Herb Farm. Come see our booth! I will be doing Pay What You Want Healing, we have riddles, a raffle, stickers, shirts, and I will most likely be playing the HandPan or attempting a headstand to draw people in. Come see us. Say hi. We want to get to know you.
Our Mission
A podcast, platform, and community that offers education on meditation, nutrition, wellness, and to help you find a meaningful reason to embrace this chaotic world and grow. We want to teach people how to use anxiety as a tool, not to be scared of it. The world may be a mess, but when you find a purpose that excites you about the future, it shifts your perspective. Reaching this point means you have the power to change things—for yourself and those around you.
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We will be releasing all our content on YouTube, Spotify and other platforms during the website building process. Subscribers will receive some fun stuff like bloopers, gifts, and whatever else we think of for supporting even $1. We will eventually be running online workshops, meditation classes, and much more. Please check it out, I hope you chuckle at the descriptions as much as I did on the Patreon as I wrote them. There’s nothing up there yet, but you can expect more content in the near future. We have been busy working in the background building each project, creating pilots, and we are so excited that we are finally releasing them one by one.
We want to hear from you – get involved in the community on Patreon so we can communicate with you. We want feedback, and to know what you enjoy and what you don’t enjoy so we can focus our efforts. There are currently about 30 projects floating around in the back of my mind, some on paper that I believe will be the most beneficial to society as a whole – that doesn’t mean I know best.
If you want to support us in another way, we have a GoFundMe below, or contact us. We will be looking for volunteers for staff for events, workshops, and retreats as we grow, We would love to hear from you!
Our goal is to be fully self-sustainable within 2-3 years. We are going to do it either way, but help will get us there faster.
Now onto the content! You can read below about Bryan, the Founder of this platform, or just jump right to the projects for now.
These are some of the pilots/first pieces that are being released, and there is so much more in the works.
- YouTube: Pilot – Numbing the Noise: Addiction, Anxiety, and Escape
- YouTube: Pilot – Degrading Desire: How Hypersexuality was Programmed into Us (COMING SOON)
- Meditation: Good Morning – (Available on Spotify and Other Streaming Platforms)
- Meditation: The Ground of Being (Available on Spotify and Other Streaming Platforms)
- Meditation: Twin Flames (COMING SOON)
- Blog: Do You Have an Inner Voice?
- Podcast: Unravelling the Noise – Pilot Out Now! Episode 1 coming this week 4/30/2025
- Podcast: Everything’s a Story – Episode 1 Out Now!
- Podcast: The Hidden Tapestry – Pilot (COMING SOON)
Journeyman Shaman & Licensed Massage Therapist
B.A. Psychology
Contact: bryan@noteverythingsmatters.com
Greetings! My name is Bryan, but most people refer to me as the local “WooWooMan”
So a little bit about me, so I don’t bore everyone too much, is that I am someone who genuinely wants to see people grow, heal, and find purpose in life. I was an addict for 15 years where I lived in constant chaos, suicidal ideology, and was just trying to survive. The thing is that when you are in that mentality, you can’t see it yourself, and it certainly didn’t form overnight. Around the age of 25, after a pretty low point in my life, I had an experience that changed everything. I had a total breakdown, in a good way, and realized a core pattern that I was always helping everyone else around me to avoid trying to understand myself. I was working 90 hours a week in a job I hated and drinking/drugging away every single dime I had. After that “interesting” night (which I am sure I will share on one of the podcasts eventually) I quit my job, and realized I wanted to be in a field that helped people.
This platform is my way of sharing with the world the heart of what I do in my daily life, and what I have learned since that day. To learn to meditate was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I tried for years reading books, trying to sit and listen to guided meditations, and just trying to calm the storm that my mind was. Every time I got close to a point where I felt my eyelids relax, or facial muscles stop tensing I would get headaches, foot cramps, and just strange stuff – it was as if my body was trying to stop me in some way.
Through this practice, through training as a shaman, and through a lot of hard work, I finally hit a point where I really saw a future for myself. A shaman is one that acts as a catalyst to help other grow, where we put in equal work to a client, a friend, a family member, or a community. For me, this changed my life, and gave not a reason for what I went through, but a purpose to teach others and help others find purpose.
Please everyone check out our content, join our newsletter, follow us on social media and YouTube – and get involved with us. We want to hear from you, and look forward to sharing both online material and in person lectures, retreats, and events. Thanks everyone.
More about my journey …
I will never forget the day I heard on the Duncan Trussel Family Hour (Podcast), where Duncan was talking about how “no one ever tells you that like when you first start meditating, it gets so much worse! It’s hard man” or something along those lines. The phrase was so simple, yet it resonated very deeply with me – it made me actually get back into trying to learn meditation, I had all but given up. It just made things click.
Over the next 10 years I kept having moments like where I thought “if someone told me this in the beginning it would have changed everything.” Well low and behold, this is what led to creating this platform and inspired some people around me as well to assist.
Learning to meditate isn’t just about sitting down, quieting your mind, and checking a box that you meditated today – it’s about growth. It’s about finding purpose in your life. Just like each of us can find a different purpose, each of learns to meditate in a slightly different way – no two people are the same.
For me, learning to meditate meant that I first had to learn how to get back in touch with my body – a body that was so easy to disassociate from due to trauma. Now I didn’t know this at first, but oh boy if I had started there it would have helped. This platform is to help people learn how to reconnect with themselves, with community, and with the world itself. It doesn’t mean I have all the answers, but I can promise I am really good at helping people explore to find their own – and some of my answers tend to be quite helpful.
YOUTUBE
Pilot – Numbing the Noise – Anxiety, Addiction & Escape
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This is just the very beginning, I have about 5 channels in mind so far, but I feel the most important focus is on these topics first.
MEDITATIONS
Follow us on Spotify! I am in the process of creating playlists to put a meditation at the beginning of a playlist, and then an outro meditation to bring you back. Expect this soon!
The background music for all our meditations, podcasts, and projects is from Derek and Brandon Feichter. They make beautiful video game, fantasy, and other types of music. When I reached out to them to talk about using their music for our platform, they graciously told us to “go ahead, if you grow and start making money we can talk then.” So thank you, truly, to you wonderful brothers for letting me build this platform and use your music to grow. Please show them some support.
Here are a few of the ones I am working on now.
If you don’t have Spotify, it is available on most streaming apps, same artist name “Ease The Chaos” but for now here is a playable version on the website – I am unsure how the bandwidth is on this host so we will find out!
Good Morning [Guided Meditation]
Background Music “Forest of Secrets” – Derek and Brandon Feichter
Ground of Being [Guided Meditation]
Background Music “Viking Sleep” – Derek and Brandon Feichter
The next meditation is called “Twin Flames” and it should be released by May 3, 2025 – just in time for our first event.
PODCASTS
– Unravelling the Noise –
Where when one person talks, the other one LISTENS, and we seek to unravel the noise around various topics – some of which may be controversial. There are only friendly interruptions that promote constructive dialogue and growth between speaker and listener. This does not mean they have to agree, but it means they will have to be able to defend their position with real experience, research, and knowledge – not just feelings. No resume required, just a conversation. The best way to learn what someone knows is through conversation, not through arguing, and many people know A LOT of things that often never get the chance to speak. If you feel like you’d like to be a guest on here, please contact us.
We will be writing blogs and topics as part of our podcast and will be inviting listeners on to discuss them with us, whether they agree or disagree. If you feel that there is a topic that resonates strongly with you, and you have genuine knowledge or friendly debate to add to that topic, please reach out to us.
– Everything is a Story –
A podcast dedicated to bringing the stories that people hold dear alive. Sometimes that means we need to reframe the narrative, and sometimes it means we need to listen with an open mind. Join us as we share short story interviews from people that we meet on the road, online, or some other strange place that we haven’t thought of yet. Our first episode is with a dear friend of mine where I installed a “Bengstrom” on his land -listen to his firsthand experience over the next couple months, and his journey with meditation.
BLOG
Any blogs/topics that you find interesting you will be able to follow, and that way in the future if we do have a guest that joins us – even if it’s a year down the road – you can be notified!
Below is our first blog. Some of the blogs will be recorded as podcast episodes on applicable podcasts to invite guests down the road – bear with us, we are in the beginning stages.
Do You Have an Inner Voice?
What if I said that everyone has an inner dialogue, but sometimes you just can’t hear it? Maybe it’s because you can’t hear it, you don’t want to hear it, or maybe it’s because you don’t know how to hear it. Maybe you used to hear it, but you don’t have the best relationship with it because it always seems to sabotage you. Perhaps that dialogue eventually became nonverbal and communicates with you in a different way. Maybe it’s that knee that suddenly flares up whenever you’re around your mother-in-law. Maybe it’s how you start getting a headache every time you’re about to have a difficult conversation with someone you love. Perhaps this is your body’s way of trying to get in touch with you. Perhaps it’s trying to point out a conflict in the background that’s causing a flight or fight response that the situation in front of us is merely a trigger, not a cause. Maybe it’s not interpersonal and it just happens in certain places or settings, almost seeming with no reaction. What if this reaction is a version of one’s own inner dialogue? With this in mind, let’s take a look at the concept of an inner dialogue through this lens, and discuss what it means to talk to your body.
Now I want everyone to take a moment before reading further, and think about what this concept means to you. Does it resonate? Does anything come to mind suddenly as you read that introduction? Does it make you think of a situation where a part of your body tends to just hurt strangely and then go away – and then brush it off as nothing. Don’t over obsess, just note if something comes to mind organically. This is the key focus of talking to your body – do not force anything. Don’t over analyze or force yourself to have to have an answer. This is often the hardest automatic response that we have to learn to fight against.
We are trained in western culture to need to have an answer at the tip of our tongue, otherwise we will not be taken seriously and/or discredited. How could you possibly have an answer without taking a moment to apply critical thinking to a situation and to understand what it means logically, instead of just how it feels emotionally. Intuition and emotions are a beautiful thing! They act as a radar to protect us against those that wish us ill, and they allow us to connect to those that we have vetted as safe. Use them as a tool but always apply logic and reasoning. If there is a visceral reaction behind a response – this is when it’s time to think, and try to listen to that inner voice. Perhaps when we listen we hear nothing but instead we feel a response, and we begin to talk to that voice in a different way. Perhaps this voice has been ignored for so long that it’s been pushed down so deeply, that the body is acting as a theatre for the subconscious.
Perhaps if we start each day with an intention of giving our body something it needs, even if it’s small, we will get to know that inner voice better. Maybe that inner voice is in chaos and has been screaming so long it’s lost its voice, and now it’s doing its best to help you. Maybe its busy devoting all of its time to fueling the cortisol and stress response system to protect you. So maybe, just maybe, if we were to lower our cortisol levels…maybe we could hear that inner voice in a healthy way. This is what I thought, and so far, it’s worked pretty well.
What do you think?
Not EVERYTHING Matters
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Email us directly at the email for our first project “Ease the Chaos” at easethechaosnj@gmail.com