11/26/2025
When I began having grand mal seizures in my late teens, deep down I knew nothing was ‘wrong’ with me.
It always seemed strange that all of the attention given to my ‘disorder’ fundamentally & exclusively rested on something being defective within me - as a result, my brain was poked and prodded, measured and medicated for years.
Not a single doctor - and I had many - ever asked me what was going on at home, what was going on in life, what was happening outside the narrow confines of, quite literally, my skull.
Even as a child this felt off, that as humans we’d immerse ourselves in our life experiences but they never seemed relevant to western medicine... as if the body & brain were these solitary, singular organs sputtering & malfunctioning all on their own rather than an exquisitely complex miniature galaxy doing their valiant best to process on our behalf.
The fatal flaw - at least one of them - in our modern western frameworks is our treatment of symptoms as the source point when in reality they are - nearly always - the body & spirit’s highly intelligent form of communication. When we dismiss or ignore the wider eco-system a being is living within - their larger life-experience beyond the symptom - we miss so much.
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