Dr. Christopher Stepien

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

I think about this quote all of the time. Asking myself, “How can I create very deep bonds with the people around me to ...
02/12/2026

I think about this quote all of the time.

Asking myself, “How can I create very deep bonds with the people around me to assemble my tribe?”

“God forbid real travesty occurred in my life or someone I cared about, would we be close enough to be there for each other?”

To drink from the “blood of the covenant” is to do hard things with others.

I dream of doing runs, treks, hikes, or camping trips, but these are hard to organize and even harder on my aging body.

Psychedelic ceremonies have been my chosen covenant over the past 10 years.

Prior to that, it was football.

I still talk to my West Ess*x high school football team and Franklin & Marshall college football team.

My buddy Tim (Compton Ass Barry) from college just texted me and 10 of my other college brothers this image, which is by far one of my top 5 favorite pictures of all time.

We worked hard on the football field.

And we played hard off of it.

Championships were won and shenanigans were the norm.

While I don’t get to see them often, I hold those relationships dear to my heart. ❤️

Us adult human in 2026 need more covenants to drink from.

I’m desperate for more community, more tribe, to share life with.

I’m not alone, am I?

We are all going to die. The death process can be something that we are present and aware to, or not. I can’t think of a...
02/08/2026

We are all going to die.

The death process can be something that we are present and aware to, or not.

I can’t think of anything more important than to prepare well for our leaving.

In the party’s end, is how well we celebrated.

How awake we are to the precious gift we’ve been given will determine how much or how little we suffer.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve suffered enough.

The self hatred, the “I wish you were dead” letters to myself, the burns, the physical harm in football, the attempts to get shot by others, and the incessant negative self-talk.

I don’t want to suffer anymore in order to open up my eyes and heart.

That means that we can’t take on any false idols.

Money, safety, security, status, praise.

All lead to more suffering.

Instead, we can praise our Creator.

The quantum field.

The intelligence that governs all that is.

The more I pray each day, the more I ask “Great Spirit’s will? Not mine”, to be guided and led, the more peace I find.

I fake myself out …

“I need money to pay my bills”
“I need status to find patients to serve”
“I need validation so I keep walking a path of medical perfection”

… then I pray, “Show me the truth. Remind me who I am.”

I pray, to squeeze Death’s hand with a deepening sigh I’ve never known before.

I pray, to unite and connect with you, to the winged ones, 4 legged, 2 legged, insect nation, rock nation, and tree nation.

So separation may dissolve.

I let my life be a prayer.

For you and me.

That way, there is no death.

Only a return home.

Peace and love is guaranteed.

The only question is how much we will suffer on the way there.

That makes our prayer to live well and die even better, of vital importance.

mitakuye oyasin ❤️🐻🦅

02/05/2026

I don’t play enough with them.

I know it’s not only important for their connection to me, but it also helps me tap into my youth.

“Too much work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

That means that if I want to run the marathon of my mission to help 50 million people get out of chronic pain and do so at a high standard of performance, I need to break up the mundane to do what energizes me.

Without play, how can we stay wild?

Because it’s “staying wild” that leads to more authentic self-expression, deeper bonding with the kids and my partner Katie, better s*x, and a deeper dive into my work.

I define success as high performance across the board. Work, fun hobbies, relationship in family and community.

Play is one piece of my life that I’m committing to do more of.

👉What are you favorite ways to play with your kids?

It’s trite. But who you surround yourself with determines who you will become. I want to be world class, in the top 1% o...
01/29/2026

It’s trite.

But who you surround yourself with determines who you will become.

I want to be world class, in the top 1% of non-surgical chronic pain relief doctors.

That means that I need to do what great people do.

Dave Tate of is one of the greats in powerlifting. Having trained with Louie Simmons at Westside Barbell from 1993-2005, he learned the fundamentals that allowed him to excel above the average.

He didn’t consider himself a great athlete, so he had to make up for that with hard work and philosophy.

Reminded me of my adolescence with football.

His “Live, Learn, Pass On” philosophy was apparent as we discussed yesterday on his podcast our love for fitness and how pain gets in the way.

Dave is a forever student who asked me questions with curiosity and shared his 40ish years of wisdom with me, checking me on what “depression” is. I read the unspoken words he was saying, “Just keep showing up Chris.”

He spoke as a man in the arena who has taken his lumps and scars. It reminded me to always be willing to get “punched in the face” and fail on my path.

I’m so grateful for his trust to have me on his podcast and I only hope that my presence helps just one of his audience get out of chronic pain so they can keep lifting or one manual therapist become the top 1% of our field.

If you’re into no BS wisdom on lifting and life, I highly recommend you follow .

When you walk into the front door of our home, the first piece of art you see is Crazy Horse. He was in the Battle of L...
01/27/2026

When you walk into the front door of our home, the first piece of art you see is Crazy Horse.

He was in the Battle of Little Bighorn and helped to defeat Colonel Custer.

The land I live in has been under attack since Crazy Horse’s time.

It’s still under attack today.

The enemy is a people without relations and minimal respect for the dirt we tread upon.

And a government that seeks to “make progress”, extracting resources from, ra**ng and pillaging our land.

Crazy Horse defended his land and a way of life that made no decision without “consulting with Mother Earth.”

I fear this way of life could go extinct and leave us humans Grandfather-less and Grandmother-less, without our ancestors to guide us in the Spirit World.

100s to 1000s of years from now, our land will be developed and innovated.

The question I wonder about is whether we will sacrifice our earthly home or if we will develop her in a way that respects all of her 2 legged, 4 legged, and winged ones.

There’s magic, medicine and healing in our Earth.

We only have to reach back out and rekindle our prayer to her with frequency for her Spirits to speak to us again.

Crazy Horse reminds me to defend Great Spirit (God), Unci Maka (Mother Earth), and our ancient connection to all of life like it matters.

Even from so-called forces of “good”.

Because what else is more important than how we relate to all of life?

mitakuye oyasin ❤️🐻🦅

01/24/2026

Here’s how I conditioned myself between the ages of 9-19:

“I suck.”
“I hate myself.”
“I deserve to die.”
“I wish I was dead.”

And I didn’t really have the support to catch this negative conditioning I had begun to stop it and put a positive spin on it.

I’m 41 and I still have random “F**k you Chris. You should be dead” thoughts that interrupt my mind chatter in 1-2 week loops every few months.

The mind becomes what we train.

Having learned this lesson the hard way, Katie and I use every opportunity we can to condition their subconscious.

Because the seeds go deeper in these theta brain wave states.

The most common phrases I use are:

“You are strong.”
“You are healthy.”
“I love you no matter what.”
“Great Spirit loves you no matter what.”
“You must have worked very hard to do XYZ. How does it feel to sit so hard?”

We want them to trust their bodies.

To playful loved and accepted, no matter what they do.

If they do something wrong, we want them to be willing to share with us. That’s why the “always loved” statement matters.

There always sharing their creations or achievements. So we anchor them not to their natural gifts or skills, but to the effort they put in.

I don’t want them to feel like they get their value from hard work like the rest of us workaholics. But I still want them to work hard for the fun of it because that’s how they get what they want out of life.

That’s why the balance of “you are loved” and “hard work” comments seems to be an important one.

The coolest part about this is when I condition them, I’m reconditioning myself.

Hopefully by the time I’m 71, I’ll have put in 20,000 “I love you Chris’s” to counteract the 50k “F**k you Chris” statements I did as an adolescent.

👉What do you condition your kids and yourself with?

Our non-denominational ministry that respects all peoples religions and Gods is called the Bear Clan. We respect the big...
01/23/2026

Our non-denominational ministry that respects all peoples religions and Gods is called the Bear Clan.

We respect the big, primary religions, but also believe in the primitive animistic ways of the First Nations.

And we work with psychedelic medicines to develop our relationship with whoever we pray to, including all of the Spirit world.

Because as was discussed in “Original Thinking”, a discussion between quantum physicists and First Nations elders, the entire world is conscious.

What we observe changes our reality.

To the Lakota, the Bear Nation was actually considered 2 legged, not 4 legged, with humans.

Bear taught the Lakota the ways of the earth.

Bear medicine is about strength, fierce protection, and the ways of the Unci Maka, Grandmother Earth.

In nature, Bear self-medicated by knowing which herbs and plants can heal him.

My teacher comes from Bear Nation and our name is in homage to him.

A week before our son Bear was born, had a dream that our son came to her as a Bear and told her, “My name is Bear.”

In those same two days, a Bear had gone through our garbage, having never done that before.

The quantum world is always speaking to us.

Since that time, our community has had Bears visit them both in and outside of ceremonies.

I continue to pray to the Bear Nation each and every day. I feel protected and like they’re guiding my path so that their will drives my actions, not my own ego.

I believe that spiritual communities with animistic world views will make a huge come back over the next 10-20 years.

First-world society is malnourished without connection to our home, our Earth. She’s begging for us to “pick up the phone” and rekindle that communication.

To pray to the living organism that is our Earth alongside Jesus, Krishna, Allah, Yahweh, and Buddha.

But that can’t happen without a belief in her power.

The Lakota healers could heal people with her magic alone. They didn’t need our drugs and medical interventions.

But we need to believe.

Bear stands ready to reconnect us.

Only question is, will we pick up the phone?

Many thanks to for the picture that made me smile. ❤️🐻🙏🏼

01/19/2026

I used to think that the people who did amazing things:

👉 creating impact across the world
👉 climbing mountains or performing enormous physical feats
👉 making millions

… we’re “special” people.

Then, I met a few.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Predator, “If it bleeds, we can kill it.”

These people bleed, sweat, cry, and feel just like the rest of us.

So I thought, “If they’re doing it, why can’t I?”

To do enormous things that 10x God’s plan for you on Earth, you must take massive action.

What’s the best way to do that?

To become an Energy-Managing Ninja.

To cultivate high energy throughout your days at strategic times so that you can perform your tasks with relative ease and do them with subconscious certainty that you know it’s only a matter of time before you win.

I lose more than I win.

But here’s the trick.

My heart says, “Chris, you’ve already won — never stop. Fall 800x, get up 801x.”

So I go in the cold water 4-5x a week, I push my body with fitness as much as my aging joints will I allow, I seek to get at least 60 minutes of meditation a day in, and I prioritize as much outside time as possible.

And I pray to Great Spirit as many times a day as I can, asking for guidance and strength.

These things keep my energy high so I can perform with relative ease.

If you have a goal or dream in your heart, it’s not meant for someone you observe outside yourself who seems successful.

It’s meant for you.

You just have to realize that all of us humans will be dead in 100 years.

That means that we are all average women and men.

I believe in you.

01/14/2026

Do you ground your kids and give them an opportunity to process their emotions?

I had an amazing opportunity to watch and hold space for their daughter on the phone when she was going through it.

Their daughter could hardly breathe in between her tears.

I watched Chad and Melissa, in silence, allow their daughter to feel.

They helped her breathe and feel without trying to change her.

I left their call realizing I could do better holding my own sons.

I tend to try to stop them from crying or say too much that doesn’t allow them to be present in their big emotions.

It left me with so much promise for our kids’ generation knowing that parents like Chad and Melissa are out there.

Do you let your kids feel?

Do you teach them how to ground and process without trying to get them to stop their emotions?

👉What’s your experience like as a parent in these scenarios?

01/13/2026

How do you think about being authentic vs. being maximally accepted?

Especially if you’re trying to impact as many people as possible.

I really struggle with this.

Because I dealt with significant shame as a kid/teen, especially between ages 9-19, I learned that being true and loving myself was literally a strategy to stay alive.

By not loving all of me, I left the door open for shame, depression, self-hatred, and soon fantasies of destroying this individual because he seemed to cause more harm in the world than good.

So I learned to put myself out there in ways to see if I would be accept d or ostracized.

Well, I did it again this past weekend.

I don’t like triggering people.

I want to be accepted.

But my concern is that I won’t love myself if I don’t authentically share what’s on my heart.

There’s obvious nuance here.

I can be better about cursing less or reading the room more.

Still, I want to be both authentic and accepted.

Maybe it’s just finding my people.

The type that can still look at me for saying “I ate 33 grams of mushrooms.”

“And I’m a better man for it.”

👉How do you think about acceptance vs authenticity?

01/12/2026

🏔️🪶🦅WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE WARRIORS🦅🪶🏔️

Sounds like home.

❤️🐻🦅

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01/06/2026

Where do you go to share the things weighing your heart down?

Where do you go to lose your s**t?

We humans are social animals.

Evolution realized that we have better chances of survival when connected with other humans.

But in today’s western world, so many of us are without community and tribe.

We are barely even connected or feel safe with our family.

I heard talking about an incident in the Northwest U.S. where a white person was in a bus with some First Nation individuals.

Something happened to the bus where they all almost died.

Everyone survived.

The white person was all shook up and was about to go home.

One of the First Nations individuals said, “Where are you going? We need ceremony now.”

The white individual was able to work through and release the nervous system wounding with a new tribe.

Ceremony allows us to heal, to connect with other individuals and bring our pains, allowing all of our humanity to be embraced.

And we don’t always have to hold it all together.

To have a space where we can let it all go, for it to be OK, and to still be held and loved is to touch on the deepest layers of our spirituality.

What’s more important than to hold each other’s suffering and to let all of our shadow out of the darkness?

I hope to do more with our tribe over the next few years.

You don’t have to suffer alone.

You aren’t meant to.

I love you.

❤️🐻🦅

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“If you’re not naked, go back to sleep.”

Rumi said that.

It’s wise.

Why is it wise?

Most of us go through our days dealing with negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, shame, and sadness.