Wake up. We live in a society built on control and greed. Our current healthcare system is a monopoly built for billionaires—a system meant to mock, control, and exploit individuals. When America is sick and dying, feeble and poor, undernourished and over-medicated, we are easily governed. The day that Americans wake up to the reality of our healthcare system and step into their personal power, autonomy, and their collective disgrace for a system keeping us SICK, we will rise.
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Imagine this. You have been waking up every single morning with a headache—for years now. Nausea hits, your appetite fades, and irritability shadows your every interaction. Even simple moments—like showing affection to your children—feel heavy and difficult. These headaches make you feel stuck and powerless, leading you to work a job you dislike but can’t leave, making less money than you deserve.
You go to your doctor, and in a quick 15-minute appointment, they decide a daily dose of antidepressants and beta-blockers is appropriate, with a side of NSAIDs until the headaches subside. You leave with a bag full of medication and a feeling of defeat—almost more painful than the headaches themselves.
For several more months, you follow your doctor’s instructions and establish a new morning routine. You wake up in pain, reach over to your bedside table, and pull out three different bottles of medication. You feel numb. Mindlessly, you gulp each pill down and slowly get out of bed.
You feel nothing—no excitement for the day, no passion, no inspiration for the life you’re living. At least your headache is down to a six; it was a nine before.
You see your husband in the kitchen and give him a slight smile, but when he leans in to kiss you, you feel totally repulsed. Your sexual appetite was wiped out months ago, a side effect of the antidepressants. Oh well. You already feel terrible in your own skin—why would you want to have sex ever again?
You’ve gained twenty pounds in four months, haven’t had the energy to exercise in weeks, and barely recognize yourself in the mirror. This downward spiral continues for years.
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Now, imagine something different. You’ve been dealing with headaches for years, and that 15-minute appointment with your doctor felt practically worthless. You were in and out of the room before you even had the chance to say, “I feel…”
Though you leave the doctor’s office feeling underwhelmed and unseen, a spark of hope remains—you know there are other options. You begin to search for more holistic modes of healthcare and book an appointment for next week.
This time, rather than a sterile doctor’s office, you find yourself in a serene, peaceful, open-air space. The practitioner greets you with a warm smile and a hot cup of tea. You feel yourself exhale a sigh of relief.
Your appointment is two hours long. You can’t recall a single time when you were listened to so fully and completely, for such an expanse of time.
The time and space provided allow you to share your entire story leading up to your symptoms.
You share how you’ve been, how these headaches have affected every realm of your life, and how you feel like a bad mother and wife.
You recall the layoff five years ago, the way it shook your sense of security, the brief spark of hope you felt for something more, and how that hope faded under the weight of self-doubt.
Unemployment amplified every feeling of inadequacy and instability you’d ever felt. You eventually accepted the first job that hired you, and ever since, you’ve been waking up with a throbbing headache, taking medicine, and going to work at your office job that is more monotonous than counting grains of sand.
After work, too tired to cook dinner or do anything else fun, you pop a frozen pizza in the oven, turn on the television, and wait—filled with dread and anxiety—to do it all again the next day.
As you’re sharing, you start crying and feel the weight you’ve been carrying in your entire body. You notice how the pain stored in your head radiates down through your spine, into every bone and muscle, and even reaches its pointed claws into the depths of your heart and soul.
You identify three main emotions you’ve been carrying: inadequacy, shame, and powerlessness.
And in that moment, you finally admit that you are ready to feel something new.
You lay down on the massage table. It’s warm and soft, and a sense of relief washes over you—something you haven’t felt in years. Your entire being feels seen and witnessed for the first time.
Surrounded by the scent of fresh florals, palo santo, and ambient music, you begin to drift off to the sound of your practitioner’s voice. She guides you through a meditation, and you feel your awareness soften into every cell of your body. Gentle breathwork expands your lungs more fully than they have been in a long time.
You visualize yourself floating—completely weightless, fully supported—and leaving behind the stories that have held you hostage for so long. Stories that have made you question your purpose, your identity, and your direction.
As you sink deeper into your body, you notice where you’ve been holding these negative emotions. Shame contracts your stomach. Powerlessness makes your head squeeze inward. Inadequacy shrinks every cell in your being down to the size of your child self.
For the first time, you feel these sensations consciously. And as if shining a light on a shadow, you sense them dissolve—slowly, effortlessly—into thin air.
You are then guided through a powerful visualization of stepping into the version of you that feels capable and deserving. A version of you that takes up space, that wakes up feeling calm and energized, purposeful and fulfilled, beautiful and magnetic.
You leave your appointment feeling confident and excited for the next phase of life you’re stepping into. You leave with practical tools and steps to take after your session to continue moving towards the direction of your dreams. You feel well equipped to integrate your learnings from the session, and your energy feels renewed.
You wake up the next day, and for the first morning in years, you are headache-free. Instead of scrolling on your phone like usual, you kiss your husband, take your dog for a walk in the sun, say hello to every neighbor you pass by, and stop to smell the roses you never before realized were growing on your street. You feel a sense of aliveness that you forgot was possible—but more importantly, a sense that you are in the driver’s seat of your life and get to play it out however you most enjoy.
And you do. You remake your resume, this time without downplaying all your greatest strengths and achievements. You interview for your dream job and land it. It pays double what you were making before. You join a pickleball league and realize just how exhilarating it is to move your body.
You quickly return to a healthy weight, your joints no longer hurt, and you feel stronger than ever. Your spark in your relationship returns, and you feel sexy and desirable. You have the energy to run around with your kids, cook new recipes, and go out with old friends. All the while, your headaches haven’t once returned. Because all the while, it was never about just the headache.
This is the power of bringing spirit into healthcare. When we address the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—healing becomes more than just managing symptoms. It becomes the return of aliveness. Of joy. And of power.
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By reuniting individuals with their innate power, we can evolve as a collective. I understand that this is a threat to a society built on control and greed. However, I am truly hopeful that the modern-day healthcare system will one day take a more holistic, loving approach that prioritizes collective well-being over money and power. Until then, I urge individuals to maintain an open mind to the alternative health practices that have been celebrated in other cultures for millennia but have since been bought out by Western medicine.
Alternative avenues for healthcare, such as acupuncture, Reiki, Chinese medicine, herbalism, etc., might feel foreign to you. You might even discount them as placebo-like and extortionate. But these practices have been in place far longer than those of the Western medical system. It’s about time that we accept both as viable and useful options, and that we create accessible spaces for both Western science and holistic medicine to coexist together. To allow both the power of the mind and spirit and the power of innovative science and medicine to take root in our society and aid us in healing at our core, rather than at our surface.
Choosing a career that weaves energy and spirituality into it has presented many great hurdles and many moments of being misunderstood. I have learned to separate myself from this, knowing that the work I do is indeed “unusual” in today’s time—but powerful all the same. So remember, when something seems unconventional in today’s world, explore for yourself what “conventional” looks like. Because to me, it looks like inequity, expense, chronic pain, and a complete disregard for humanity. And it feels utterly embarrassing, totally laughable, and completely worthwhile to rebuild.
It’s due time we start imagining a richer future—in health, in wealth, and in happiness—for all.
Written by,
Tessa Lambert
