The path to true health often starts with a crisis

This applies not just to the body, but to our societies as well

Many of you have generously shared your health stories in comments on this Substack, and I find this deeply moving. It is especially beautiful to see how this small subscriber community shares hard-won health information and insight freely so that others can benefit. It is more than mere knowledge that you exchange in your comments, it is love and care – the hallmarks of a healthy and vibrant community. Thank you.

There is a common thread in many people’s journey to better health. Often, it begins with a crisis: a condition that flummoxes conventional medical doctors, forcing people to find their own way back to health. This was certainly the case for my next Tess Talks interviewee, Kim Knight.

Kim is a very experienced health practitioner trained in multiple modalities, and was one of our wonderful speakers at the Better Way Conference. She began her training in an effort to heal herself from clinical depression and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), before choosing to become a practitioner and help others.

Kim’s entire practice is rooted in the understanding that one’s physical health is greatly influenced by one’s emotional health and well-being. That, to get to the root of a physical issue, one has to look at the whole person’s life history going back to their birth. One has to understand what emotional baggage a person may be carrying with them and address that, for the body to then be able to heal. Where allopathic medicine sees the symptoms as the problem, in holistic modalities, physical symptoms can be the means by which we uncover the root cause of disease.

It is rather reflective of what is happening in the world right now: the maelstrom of ill health and systemic corruption within our societies has forced millions of us to wake up to what is really happening. So many of us are now recognising that things are not okay, that change is sorely needed. The pain of this awakening is forcing us to come together as a community and find better ways of doing things. Sharing wisdom with one another in the comments on this Substack is just one small example of this. It is in these small but significant acts of generosity and community spirit that we collectively heal.

What I find so encouraging about the holistic approach is that it’s possible for people to get well again: chronic disease does not have to be a life sentence. The dysfunction of our societies is not a given. Everywhere I look I see the conflagration of an old world but also tender green shoots of something beautiful and new. A Better Way.

Please join myself and Kim this Sunday morning for Tess Talks and let’s continue this exploration into what it really means to heal.