There are a few threads that have been really present in my awareness lately: 

* The metabolic health crisis we are currently experiencing in the US and a lot of western countries. 

* The importance of reverence for family as a key to humanity’s legacy. 

* Healing as the expansion of our range of consciousness

These three things have been swirling around me non stop for the last month. It seems like every podcast, conversation, work meeting and discussion I have somehow brings one of these subjects up and what I’m really sitting with is the place where each of these meet. 

Number 1: The Metabolic Health Crisis 

Processed food has been available for about two to three generations now. I believe the harrowing statistics we are seeing like soaring infertility rates, chronic illness, autoimmune diseases, decline in quality of life and mental health, etc indicate we are very much in the midst of a public health crisis.

We can look at all these health conditions as mysterious separate occurances or we can ask, what is the root here? What is the thing at the bottom of all of these seemingly unrelated collective health concerns.

The answer is: Metabolic health. 

What is metabolic health you may ask? 

Metabolic health comes down to bioavailable energy. Every single cell in our body needs energy to do its job. When the energy is not there, then the body has to triage and jobs that may not be necessary to short term survival, do not get done.

For example, our body will always prioritize making stress hormones before sex hormones because if we need to run away from the proverbial tiger, it doesn’t matter if we can procreate later.

Chronic low energy states create chronic illness eg our body goes into survival mode vs thrival mode. Whether this low energy state results in a mental health condition or infertility has more to do with the individual and their constitutional weakneses, environment, genetics, all the more variable pieces, but the root cause of all of it is this ability or inability to create and utilize energy well. 

Where do we get energy from?

We get it from electrons. We get electrons from food, natural light, and the earth’s magnetic field. I wrote more about this in my article The Electric Body and Evolutionary Mismatch.

There are all sorts of things we need to utilize these electrons well and efficiently. 

Two of them are totally free and very much intuitive: grouding and sunlight.

Grounding requires you to touch the earth, trees, and plants with your bare skin or through natural fibers or conductive material. You can even gahter electrons by sitting in waterfall spray or the rain.

Getting electrons from sunlight also requires that natural light from the sun or moon touch your bare skin or eyes (without glasses or contacts or lasik surgery).

We get the most electrons from food that is closest to its natural form and local, eg fresh. Our bodies are wise and they know when we eat an avocado in Montana something isn’t quite natural about that. 

Water is also important. The water we consume from cities has been piped in from the aquifer or somewhere else, with added chemicals like fluoride and chloride etc. The water we drink and cook with and use should be alive as much as possible, not treated and battered and stored in plastic or pipes. When water is structured, mineralized and clean, it supports more efficient electron transport throughout our body and therefore greater energy availability and utilization. 

Some really good resources on this subject for a deeper dive are: 

* Energy | An Interview with Dr. Paul Eck

* A series of Rooted in Resilience podcast interviews with Kathleen Stewart discussing the Minnesota Starvation Experiments and what happens to our bodies in a low energy state. 

* Tucker Carlson Podcast with Calley and Casey Means 

Number 2: Reverence for Family 

I am very much rooted in the Truth that my purpose in this lifetime (and probably other lifetimes as well) is to be in service to the frequency that I call The Mother. The Mother is a mature feminine frequency that I experience as living within the body and cells.

It’s the place where my work with my physical body and with nutrition overlaps with my spiritual teachings and understanding of Life itself. 

The Mother is a frequency and presence that I see as very much needed in the world right now. 

In the mainstream collective culture of our times women, mothers, children and family are not intrinsically valued. There is some sort of optical valuing of  “the perfect life/family,” eg that white picket fence, nice home, and luxury car in the driveway with cute blonde kids, but there is not an innate valuing of Mother and Child. We see this by how little mothers value themselves and how little mothers are supported in the greater collective culture. 

We are told that mothering is a side plate and not the main course of our lives. (I wrote more about this here..) “Women can do anything men can do!!” we are told, and then we are expected to do all the things men do and raise our children without help and take care of our home.

‘Women can do everything men can do’ isn’t actually true. And men can obviously, not do everything women can do. We are perfectly different and entirely complementary, and each equally important, but definitely not the same. 

When a man and a woman understand this about each other, they are in flow.

When we do not try to put one below the other, we are in right relationship, equal and opposite in a lot ways. The yin yang symbol comes to mind.

When a woman and a man come together in deep love and reverence, creation happens. That creation is sometimes a child. These two create a family. And family is a representation of their and God’s love. These two opposites coming together, supporting each other in equal, but different ways. 

It is perfection and it is a legacy. Family and legacy are one in the same. Not in some sort of masculinized “I must procreate and spread my seed” way, but in a way that the thread of love is expanded upon and widened. 

Life wants to extend itself. This is creation. Creation wants to stretch and grow and actualize. it is the point of Life. 

That is why, I am seeing more clearly recently that I don’t only serve The Mother, I serve Family.

Family is the vehicle through which the grace and love of humanity is passed down. It is the center point of Creation and all that the manifestation of love is.

You don’t have to create a family of your own in the traditional sense to participate in family in the way I am speaking of it here. We all have family, given and chosen, you simply must revere the relationships you have and recognize the reciproicity and love you are being invited to participate in through them.

Just as I aim to be an example and beacon of permission for Mothers to claim their innate worthiness, value, and power because it is of service to do so, I also aim to be a Mother who puts her family at the center, because family is the highest form creation. 

Now, I am a human with flaws, patterns, triggers, and s**t I’m carrying, so I am not the perfect mother and I do not have the perfect family. 

I still struggle with rejection, pain, lashing out, feeling victimized, acting out of malice and frustration. I am the first to admit not every day is easy. I am stretched on a daily basis by my life. Mostly to recieve its beauty fully but also to hold steady in the pain of it.

However, I am clear that my reverence and full participation as the Matriarch of my family is my highest honor and practice. 

I was on a call with Nicole Parker today and she said, “Mothers are born and matriarchs are made.”

Meaning, there are lots of women who became mothers through the birth of a child, and that is no small thing. But to become the Matriarch, the woman who Knows her worth and the power of her presence and claims the responsibility of the leadership of her family, is a process that you must consciously participate in. 

Every single human being on this planet is deeply affected by dynamics between themselves and their mother. There is no human being on this planet that didn’t come through the portal between worlds that is a woman’s cervix and pussy. This is the level of reverence we need to have for Mothers and families, because it is the legacy of humanity and that from which all humanity springs forth. 

The continuation of humanity requires women and families. The culture we create and live in will be created by the mothers of the children of the future. This is the influence that every mother holds in her hands. May they know it and revere it and participate with it consciously and intentionally. 

Number 3: Healing is abo