Lifted Conversations is a trauma-informed somatic coaching and education practice founded by Charles Collins, created to support the emotional liberation and embodied healing of Black and Brown men.

Rooted in somatic awareness, culturally grounded dialogue, and intentional cannabis education, Lifted Conversations offers spaces where men can slow down, soften inherited armor, and reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and truth. The work centers on understanding emotional “loops” patterns of anger, shutdown, reactivity, and disconnection and learning how to interrupt them with presence, compassion, and grounded regulation.

Charles Collins is a trauma-informed somatic coach, cannabis cultivator, and wellness educator with over a decade of experience supporting emotional growth and self-leadership. He has been a certified cannabis patient in Minnesota since 2015, bringing nearly a decade of lived experience with intentional, mindful cannabis use alongside formal education and cultural knowledge. His approach blends nervous-system awareness, lived cultural understanding, and practical tools that translate directly into real life relationships, communication, and self-trust.

Lifted Conversations is not therapy or medical care. It is coaching and education, designed to meet men where they are without judgment or pressure. Cannabis, when included, is always optional, bring-your-own, and approached as an educational tool for awareness never as a product, treatment, or requirement.

Through 1:1 coaching, group programs, and drop-in circles, Lifted Conversations invites men into a different way of being one rooted in presence rather than performance, softness rather than suppression, and embodiment rather than endurance.