How do we do this?

I was sitting at my counselor’s office this afternoon and she asked me what I want to do in life? Over the six to seven years that I have been seeing her; I am still at a loss. My main drive is to change healthcare. I just don’t believe in it anymore. Now, yes, I am still employed, however my focus has changed. I go to work to be a beacon of hope for my peers and patients, but to tell you the truth, it’s becoming harder and harder to stay hopeful. More and more souls are getting shoved pill after pill. Short term band aids. WHAT people don’t realize is you have to take ownership of your own vessel. You have to ask the questions why or instead of a quick fix, how do I heal long term?

There it is……long term. No one likes to hear the words long term. Guess what? It took me eight long years to heal myself from my “triggers.” I am still healing because I am not perfect. Life has taught us short term is better. Well, it’s not. Because the short-term fixes add up. You start compiling them then your screwed because one thing after another goes wrong. The deep work is going within, realizing at what point you got lost, and fixing it. Years of not doing the work adds up. Therefore, your chronic dis-ease will haunt you for life, until you take the steps to heal it.

Most medications should be for short term use. However, when we have new experiences, we don’t like, or underlying stress that develops, we want a pill to fix it because, it is faster. I would know, I was on eighteen different ones. Not at one time, but over a course of time.

Did you know the average doctor gets one hour of education on nutrition? I am not blaming the doctors here folks. I am blaming the education system. We are mostly learning what pill will fix what condition. It is what I was taught in nursing school! I wasn’t taught on how to have crucial conversations with my patients. I was taught NOT to say, “sorry, we are short staffed today.” I was taught to apologize constantly to appease the patient. At what point should patient’s take control of their diagnoses and help themselves? Right in the beginning. You should be asking about exercise, diet, weightlifting, meditation, journaling, energy work, nervous system work. I would recommend going to a functional medicine professional for diet advice. Ones that don’t follow the food pyramid scheme.

At what point are you going to start standing up for yourself and start advocating for yourself? Why are you waiting? People with chronic disease have given up, it’s just easier. Prove me wrong chronic diseasers. Our motivation factor has been lost a long time ago. It’s time to get it back. You are your only advocate, my friend. If you are getting on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds, what are the side effects? Why are you getting on them? Because you can’t handle everyday stressors? You bring on your stressors. What you fear comes true. You instill fear into others because hope is a lot harder to instill. You were taught fear. Try teaching hope to yourself and your kids.

How do we change the current healthcare system? I know my writing is random and has a lot of thoughts. Welcome to my brain. But I know one thing to be true; and that is, I’m not a follower.