You Are Not The Problem. You Are Awesome.

I have thought for a long time about the main message of Vitality Medicine, the one I do not want missed. That message is:

You are awesome. 

If you don’t read any further, my message is delivered. 

To elaborate: you are unique and essential. There has never been anyone quite like you in the past, and no one in the future will have this specific combination of you. You have everything you need inside of you: the tools and templates, the wisdom, the knowing of how to move forward on your path and live your fullest life.

This is not to say you currently have the mental cognition of it all, but if you keep seeking and listening and following, staying focused and true to yourself, it will all come. And I do not mean that you can or should do all this alone. You are a connected being, and through this connection, it is my wish that you will find and embody your innate wholeness. The wholeness and vitality that you were born with–  your birthright.

I hope you know how special you are. How important you are.

And if you don’t recognize how awesome you are, it is not your fault, it is what you have been taught, the result of a larger insidious system at work. 

What do I mean that it was taught? No one is born thinking they are unworthy. No child enters this world ashamed of their body or unsure of their voice, feeling deficient and unlovable. No baby is born thinking, “I am so bad! I am unworthy! I am wrong!” 

We arrive believing in our wholeness and our loveability.

Please take a moment to reflect on how you felt and imagined as a tiny one– did you want to follow a rainbow to the land of unicorns? Did you want to ride your dragon? Did you want to be a lead singer in your own band? Be a gold medalist in the Olympics? Be the president? Plan your first car as a Lamborghini red convertible? And why not? This wild belief in yourself and your capacity is something I wish we could hold onto our entire lives. How different would our world be? 

Slowly and steadily, these feelings of wholeness, capacity, and loveability were stripped away.

Not because it isn’t true—but because we are taught otherwise.

We are taught that we are not enough, that we need to strive, prove, win, and paradoxically to shrink, be quiet, fade into the background, “fit in”, not cause a stir, and even sometimes to apologize for our own existence. We are taught that our worth is conditional on our looks, our gender, our race, our wealth, our grades, our performance, our productivity, our abilities, and our perfection. Taught that if we just tried harder, were more disciplined, made better choices, we’d finally be enough. If we could just pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps, we would finally succeed. It is all on us individually.

And when we try and try and try and fail, when we feel exhausted, anxious, or unfulfilled, the culture around us quietly whispers—then shouts:
“It is your fault! You are the problem.”

When your body begins to struggle—when you feel anxious, depressed, inflamed, tired, sick, have hard periods, get migraines, gain weight, have digestive pains, heart burn, or develop chronic pain patterns—the default assumption is: I must be doing something wrong to cause my body to break down like this. There is something wrong with my body. My body is failing me.

When you seek professional help due to changes in your body or mental state, you're often met with well-meaning advice that centers around doing more, being better, or “fixing” yourself. Eat less. Exercise more. Take the right medications. Buy the latest supplement. Fix your mindset. Heal your childhood wounds. Get off your phone. Sleep more. Meditate. Try intermittent fasting. Go vegan. Reduce your stress. In other words, It is all on you. You hold the control, and you should be doing more and doing better. 

And if your blood work results and other testing come back normal, but you still do not feel like yourself? You may be told it’s “just stress,” “all in your head,” or what I was told at a teaching hospital, the docs and residents called “bad life syndrome”—a blatant way of saying (though not to the patient’s face!), we can’t find anything wrong, so it must be you.

To be clear: most practitioners are doing their best within a system that is limited by time, support, training, and scope. The structure of conventional medicine isn’t designed to explore the broader context of your life. It rarely considers or has the time to find answers for the systemic realities that shape our wellbeing—things like our industrialized food system, which fills our bodies with chemically treated, nutrient-depleted food; the relentless pace of modern life; chronic stress and overstimulation; economic inequality; or the deep social disconnection that leaves so many of us depleted and alone.

Vitality Medicine seeks to go beyond all of this. It asks different questions. It seeks a larger context for the human experience—one that looks not just at the individual in isolation, but at the cultural, environmental, systemic, emotional, and energetic ecosystems we were born into and continue to live within.

We don’t ask, “What’s wrong with you?”

We ask, “What are you at the effect of?” “What is your system responding to?” “What is the wisdom of your system working on?”

Vitality Medicine was born from my own personal lived experience. It emerged as a framework to help me understand not just what I was feeling, but why—on a moment-to-moment, day-to-day level. It gave me a map to make sense of my symptoms and sensations, and to interpret them as meaningful, rather than as signs of struggle or failure.

Because your symptoms aren’t the problem.
They’re the message. And Vitality Medicine offers a new framework within which to understand your symptoms and tend to your body. 

If all Vitality Medicine teaches you is that you are not the problem, that you are awesome, that is enough. 

Because you were never the problem. 

You are a human being reacting in a very intelligent way to a culture that does not honor life and connection. Your body and its messages are a canary in a coal mine, signalling that something is wrong in our environment that is largely hidden and undetectable. Your symptoms are not your failure; they are your body’s cry for reconnection, your system’s wisdom alerting you to the disconnection all around you.

Vitality Medicine reconnects you with your body as the source of healing and connection.
Come, let’s explore together and build a new system of reality that supports not only our wholeness and vitality, but also the health and vitality of our world.