My Philosophy and Intention
Chronic pain is the epidemic of our times. Most of us are living with recurring pain in our muscles, stomach problems, migraines, autoimmune conditions, or hormonal imbalances.
The systems we live in—patriarchal, capitalist, colonial systems that demand endless productivity while disconnecting us from nature, community, and our own bodies—treat this pain as something abnormal. But in truth, it is our body's very normal response to all that we are forced to carry.
Our bodies are always trying to protect us. And in a system where we are never truly safe, our nervous systems remain stuck in a state of hyperarousal or shutdown. Over time, this state can harden into the cycle of chronic pain or illness.
We are taught to silence our rage, bury our grief, and hide our shame. Disconnection is what keeps these systems alive. When we are truly connected to our bodies and emotions and feel healthy in our bodies, we are able to resist. And so, from a young age, we are conditioned to believe that the feelings we experience are dangerous. When those emotions have nowhere safe to go, the nervous system steps in to protect us the only way it knows how—by creating pain and making it so consuming that we are distracted from all that lies underneath.
But there is a way out. A way beyond the cycle. A way beyond the Western medical model that locks you into endless medication, treatments, surgeries, and bills.
This way is through the path of reclaiming your own healing power. Here, instead of silencing symptoms, we learn to listen to them as signals from the nervous system. Instead of fearing pain, we begin to understand it and to communicate with it —and with that, the cycle starts to loosen. By feeling what once felt so dangerous—we allow our nervous system to soften its defenses. In this path, healing does not come from battling the body, but from trusting its intelligence and giving it what it needs to do the healing work it is naturally gifted at.
I share this work because it took me out of a long cycle of chronic back pain that left me hopeless, exhausted, and believing something was irreparably wrong with my body. Through mind-body medicine, I discovered that my pain was a doorway back to myself and to the power I intrinsically carry.
Every time one of us reconnects to this, we loosen the hold of the systems that thrive on our disconnection. And it's from this place that I intend to share the work: to walk beside others in reclaiming their own healing, and to contribute to the wider liberation that becomes possible when we are no longer bound by pain.
