VIDEO: Releasing Unhealthy Attachments: A Live Session with Charles on the Maria Menounos Show

In an episode of Heal Squad with Maria Menounos, Charles McChaughan joined the show for a powerful on-air session with Nick, one of the show’s producers. The segment offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at Charles’s process—using applied kinesiology (muscle testing) to uncover subconscious attachments and rewire long-held beliefs.

Nick entered the session carrying heavy emotional weight. He admitted he was in one of the darkest mental places he’d ever been—and yet, within minutes, things began to shift. Through Charles’s work, Nick was able to identify and release two deeply rooted unconscious attachments: a belief that he needed to be smarter than everyone else in order to be loved, and an equally charged attachment to being the center of attention.

Both patterns were rooted in early survival strategies—ways Nick had unconsciously tried to earn love and approval. Using Charles’s five-level attachment system (inspired in part by the work of Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.), the two explored where these patterns lived in Nick’s body and how deeply they were wired in. By working directly with the subconscious through kinesiology, Charles helped Nick release these beliefs not through willpower—but through insight and somatic reprogramming.

“It’s not magic,” Charles says in the episode. “It’s the brain recognizing what no longer serves you—and letting it go.”

By the end of the session, the charge around those patterns was gone. Nick’s energy shifted, and so did his outlook. “This is the first day of my new life,” he said—an emotional moment that moved the entire studio.

If you're curious what psychoenergetic transformation looks like in real time, this episode is a beautiful introduction.