This website reflects my long standing interest in supporting personal, community, and global health.  

 

Health is multi-dimensional with roots deep in our ancestral past. Becoming healthy is challenging and demands we confront a modern life that contradicts much of our genetic and cultural inheritance. Sedentary lifestyles, environmental toxicities, stress, poor diets, economic inequality, and weak social bonds all contribute to ill health.  Combined, these things lead to the genetic expression of a host of unnecessary physical and mental illnesses and 

premature aging. 

 

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Systems Theory is the lens through which I've pursued this effort (see the Systems Theory page for details). Each of us lives within a bio/psycho/social matrix that serves as the conduit for change and as a catalyst for personal, social and global transformations. As individuals we can join the effort to foster greater health and healing by: 

 

• Personally adopting behaviors and attitudes that promote the expression of our genetic inheritance, foster human flourishing and robust health, mind/body integration, instinctive fitness, stress management, natural nutrition, social engagement and the fostering of loving kindness, compassion and forgiveness.

• Engaging in and supporting the creation of a salubrious society based on social and economic equality, health promotion and disease prevention, universal health care, and economic opportunity.

• Fostering current efforts to establish a holistic, bio/psycho/social natural health profession that moves beyond the current biomedical model. This profession will reflect a naturopathic and functional understanding of disease and healing that integrates health's  biological, emotional, and social dimensions. 

• Caring for the ecological health of the planet by addressing industrial and agricultural practices, GMOs, air and ground pollution, sustainable energy production, climate change, species diversity, etc. The health of the planet is intimately connected to the health of each of us individually and as a planetary society. If the planet is ill, we cannot be healthy.   

• Exploring new and expanded levels of consciousness that are transformative and connect us with our true nature, the universe, and God: minds and bodies free to express robust physicality, joy, compassion and deep respect for nature. 

• Redefining the body. Our bodies have been reduced to parts. We are no longer whole. We are broken. Regaining our integral wholeness is an essential quality of our original humanity and the gift of nature.