Dr. Christopher Stepien

Dr. Christopher Stepien I help spiritual people who are lost, anxious, and depressed "heal themselves" and wake up to joy, e

06/02/2026

A few months ago, Katie brought Bear and Koa to a new doctor.

Bear and Koa were asking lots of questions and exploring all of the models in the doctor’s room.

He asked Katie, “Most kids com in here in iPads. Why are they so curious?”

She told them about and how they spend 2-3 hours each day with nature teachers.

How they (mostly) only watch television for 30-45 minutes each day with Katie and I, as a family activity.

And how Katie keeps them busy with chores, legos, coloring, and playing with friends.

The doctor was fascinated that they wanted to know what everything is.

I was so grateful that our sons have gotten lost in the world of screens like so many other children.

I spent my days as a kid always outside, playing sports and bike-riding with my friends in Fairfield, NJ.

Katie did the same in Sparta, NJ.

It feels formative for who we are today.

That’s why we moved to White Meadow Lake in Rockaway.

We went to the beach 1 week before Memorial Day and there were probably 75 kids on the beach already.

We chose the community to prepare the boys to have friends and go away for the day to prevent the screen addiction.

As they get older, we won’t be able to choose who their friends are.

But we can choose what they spend their attention on as an 8 and 5 year old and ultimately, who their friend groups are by where we live and where the go to school.

And we cultivate good values and virtues in them by how we talk about our appreciation of nature, how they clean up their food and messes, how they say “Thank you” and “please”, and hopeful that they’ll choose friends with the same upbringing.

Curious kids will make mindful adults.

There’s no better school for curiosity cultivation than outside.

👉How did your time in nature when you were young shape you into the adult you’ve become?

06/01/2026

Men, we have a decision to make.

Who comes first?

1️⃣ Your partner and children
2️⃣ Yourself

For the first 5 years of my relationship with Katie, I came first.

I’d schedule things to do by myself without running by her.

I barely checked in on her.

I’d spend money on my personal wants and sacrifice our family needs.

Katie got massively sick after I knew about a water leak issue that I didn’t repair and our house got devastated by mold.

I nearly killed her and it’s taken her the last 3 years to recover and she’s still not 100% herself yet.

But somewhere along the way as she threatened to leave a handful of times, I realized that I didn’t know how to hold a woman or children.

To learn how, I was forced to make a decision.

Would I continue to stress my partner out and she leave me, or I leave her and have my sons experience the same trauma of divorce that I experienced at 10 years old?

Or would I put Katie and my boys first above all of my wants and needs?

In this way, I’m grateful I experienced my parents’ divorce because without it, I’d probably still be the same selfish self I was.

When I zoom out and think of the future of this country for the next 7 generations, I ask what makes a strong nation unit?

To me, it looks like a lot of strong family units that make strong community units.

While that might be overwhelming, we only need to start with one relationship.

That’s our partner.

I consider it my dharma to serve Katie like a queen.

I still mess up and I’m far from perfect, but I always remind myself that one of my paths to getting closer to Great Spirit is service to my family.

My hope is that more men make this decision.

I wonder how our country will shift if they do.

👉👉 What are your thoughts?

I am no chief. I struggle with mental health issues, chronic pains, and a shame that haunts me. But I walk the red road ...
05/27/2026

I am no chief.

I struggle with mental health issues, chronic pains, and a shame that haunts me.

But I walk the red road of our indigenous nations.

In pursuit of harmony and balance.

Social media is chock full of calamity and polarization that pushes people away from each other and the mutual appreciation that we are all destined to live.

Carl Jung’s “shadow”, the mind virus known as Wetiko, or the Christian “Satan” seeks to further repel us apart.

It’s all a sham.

Self-righteousness feels good.

But it’s not helping.

The Grandfather Chief archetype reminds me to look after “the people”, all creatures, and our land.

Because all parties are suffering.

I cry and grieve all that I haven’t done yet to bring us together.

Then, I force myself to remember that Great Spirit has a plan and to be gentle with how I hold my broken heart.

I wonder how the social media and political landscape would change if all of the colors of people remembered that we come from one consciousness and respected all relations as their sisters and brothers.

In the shadows is a seed of self-actualization where we can remember our true selves.

After all, without the mirror of our darkness, how could we know the light?

I see you.

Your judgement isn’t you.

The quiet whisper that accepts and loves all, no matter the differences, is the real you.

On your deathbed, you might ask yourself if you stood for truth or if you fed the darkness.

I don’t know about you, but I want to live in respect of the prior 7 generations and for the next 7 generations.

It’s the only way to set up our kids and grandkids for peace, joy, and love.

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Stop giving your power away. No one’s coming to save you. You have the divine force running through you. Sure, learn and...
05/23/2026

Stop giving your power away.

No one’s coming to save you.

You have the divine force running through you.

Sure, learn and team up with the innovators in the field where you need help or want to optimize.

But do not put them or anyone else on a pedestal.

Hold hands and walk the path together, side by side.

As a team.

The silence within you is the only authority you need.

No false idols.

You’ll push Great Spirit even further away if you do.

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I first saw the 13 minute “In-Shadow” by Lubomir Arsov in 2019. You can see it on YouTube or Vimeo. It spoke to a root p...
05/21/2026

I first saw the 13 minute “In-Shadow” by Lubomir Arsov in 2019. You can see it on YouTube or Vimeo.

It spoke to a root problem I saw in society that it appeared not many people were truly appreciating.

Wetiko.

An Algonquin term for the mind virus.

Similar to Carl Jung’s repressed “shadow”.

I’ve seen it in myself a handful of times.

1️⃣ Deep jealousy

From 2012-2014, a good friend of mine wanted to start a business with me. I dragged my feet.

He started that business without me and within a few years, was making $200k/month.

When I pointed the jealousy at myself, I realized I wasn’t taking action to express my potential.

The envy went away after I started taking action.

2️⃣ Gaslighting

I had an emotional affair with a woman.

My partner Katie pointed at it, told me I was.

I told her I wasn’t.

Only when she got extremely upset at me and threatened to leave, would I listen enough to look in the mirror and observe my own very hurtful behaviors.

3️⃣ Politics

I keep catching myself getting all swept up in what’s happening politically.

As if voting or studying the biased BS matters.

I have to continuously remind myself, “Focus on the Kamala in your psyche, Chris.

Focus on the Trump in your shadow, Chris.

Focus on the U.S. government leaders in your mind, Chris.”

Whenever I focus on my own mind instead of projecting out, all of my fears and “negative” emotions go away.

But you can’t stop pointing the finger outside until you become aware of Wetiko or the shadow.

To see how these entities are sucking us dry.

For that, please watch “In Shadow”. Consider it a form of red pill to wake us all up.

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I believe we should let our kids get as dirty as much and as often as possible. Most human adults I know have lost their...
05/19/2026

I believe we should let our kids get as dirty as much and as often as possible.

Most human adults I know have lost their wildness.

Without remembrance of our feral roots, we might conform so much that we let atrocities go.

It’s hard to get boys to shower nightly.

But it’s much easier to get them to shower when we can point at their clothes and skin and say, “You to sleep in that dirt?”

Then, Koa looks down and says, “I’ll shower.”

The good news is that Koa is dirty more days than he is clean, thanks to the dirt hole they have at .

Koa and the kids at school get the added benefit of lots of grounding and negative ion transfer to help his nervous system stay healthy.

Let our children get dirty.

Heck, you and I should be getting dirty too.

Stay wild folks.

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05/18/2026

My 7 year old Bear loves animals.

He asked me why I want to hunt.

Here’s what I told him.

Us Westerners are out of relations with our animals and the land they graze on, causing imbalance and disharmony.

They eat food they’re not meant to eat in habitats that are unnatural and scary to them and we take their lives like humans go up on a pedestal above it all.

The First Nations describe the most elite hunter, the wolf, doing a sacred act.

They believe that the predator and prey are in a holy relationship.

Each makes eye contact.

Prey may energetically tell wolf, “I will give my life to you so you can live strong.”

And wolf chase.

Or prey may tell wolf, “Not yet”, and stand up to wolf or simply go on grazing while the wolf simply walks away.

There are so many wolf behaviors that biologists can’t make sense of.

The First Nations understand, wolf is our “big brother”. He has patterns, but there’s so much we don’t know.

Wolf is conscious enough to know to never decimate an area of life or there will be no future food.

I want to hunt so I can be life the wolf, respecting the animal, its life, and bring balance back to our land.

Our world needs more sacred hunters to remember the old ways and to starve big agriculture, one animal at a time.

Our home, the Earth, depends on it.

I haven’t learned to hunt yet, but I hope you and I will.

Resource: “Of Wolves and Men” by Barry Lopez

05/17/2026

I want to help 50 million people get out of chronic pain.

I want to find 150 “pagans” to be a part of an Earth-based spiritual community food in First Nation culture.

I want to steward a large area of land to let the Earth know I will respect all of her creatures and resources.

I want to make sure my staff has all of their needs met.

I want Katie and my boys to have every opportunity to do whatever their heart calls them to.

All of my life, my goals and dreams have been very important to me.

And I’ve been conditioned to believe that I have to work insanely hard to get what I want.

After reading Vadim Zeland’s “Transurfing”, I’m realizing It doesn’t have to be this hard.

When visualizing you goals or dreams, focus on the intent to have it as if you’re having the intent to have it and going to get the mail.

You do the things you’re supposed to do because it’s your dharma and it’s Great Spirit’s will for you to have it.

Then, you put one foot in front of the other to get the mail.

When bad things happen to you, realize “everything happens for you, not to you” and own what the quantum field has destined is yours.

This “reducing importance” has been a game-changer for me over past two months, allowing me to live with less anxiety and more trust.

It’s also caused me to question whether the things I want are coming from my ego or Creator.

I hope it does the same for you.

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Our land, it’s textures, animals, plants, minerals, and Spirits, make us who we are. The language we speak not only show...
05/07/2026

Our land, it’s textures, animals, plants, minerals, and Spirits, make us who we are.

The language we speak not only shows our brain and worldview, but is rooted in where our DNA evolved.

When we r**e and pillage her for individual gain, we only drive the stake further into our own collective heart.

The book by brought me to tears 5-10 times.

What kind of world would my sons and grandkids grow up to knowing there was no longer the rich and wild Amazon.

I’m so grateful for Paul, his team, , , and all of the people who donated to help them raise funds to save the jungle in South American.

And …

I’m enraged at myself for all I haven’t done.

Between the humans suffering in pain, the homogenization of Western culture and lack of Native America in mainstream culture, and the disrespect for our land, I often get overwhelmed by the tiny impact I’ve had thus far.

But, if we love people and we love our Earth, what else is there to do but to wake up tomorrow and get to work? ❤️🐻🦅

If you don’t raise your kids well, then your kids won’t raise their kids well, and you’ll end up parenting your grandchi...
05/06/2026

If you don’t raise your kids well, then your kids won’t raise their kids well, and you’ll end up parenting your grandchildren instead of enjoying them.

Im grateful that my parents seemed to do a good job raising my sisters, brothers, and I.

My pop is getting old.

The first picture is Pop holding me. The second is me holding my first son, Bear.

I’ve been creating more time to be with him, talk with him, ask him questions about his life.

Last weekend, I stayed at his home and told him, “I know you said you didn’t have a great life. But you took care of Kyle, Steve, and I to the best of your ability.

You even dragged a guy screaming at me while I was treating a patient out of my office by his neck.

Thank you for being a great father.”

A true Old Polish man, never able to deeply receive words of praise, he said, “Thanks”, and kept watching TV.

I think a lot about what my ancestors gave up to let me grow up in NJ, without bombs blowing up overhead, with enough food to eat and shelter over my head, with opportunity to do whatever I want to do.

And what my sons will be able to do by the lifestyle Katie and I create for them.

What will their children have available to them?

How will Bear and Koa hold their children someday?

How will your kids hold your grandchildren someday?

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