From Unvaccinated to Vaccinated: My Reckoning with The Wellness World

While I deeply appreciate growing up with alternative approaches to healing, I also owe my life to doctors.

At 5 months old I was helicoptered to Denver because my organs were failing and I was going into septic shock. I had contracted bacterial spinal meningitis and it took 4 days for me to stabilize and another week before I was released from the hospital - only to then go home with a new set of challenges to overcome.

My story was always told as a win for alternative healing, but in 2020 I realized that had I been vaccinated as a child, my life might have looked a whole lot different.

I now hold medical science and wellness practices with a balanced perspective, whereas during my childhood I was told to distrust the doctors who saved my life…

Cracks in the Wellness World

Recently I created a series of videos on Instagram which I called "Cracks in the Wellness World", where I share my experience of the harm in the wellness industry and how I now advocate for a community-centered approach to wellness that includes the benefits of medical science, and I hope you’ll take a look.

I grew up unvaccinated in the white wellness world. I LOVED (and still love much of) the tools and support I experienced in that world. And yet, as my life experience began to include diverse perspectives, the harm of the wellness industry became unavoidable.

I’ve mentioned some of this in previous posts, but this is the most I’ve spoken directly about the harm that I not only witnessed, but caused…

Expectation versus Acceptance: Pregnancy & Covid-19

About a month ago I had this entire post prepared about expectation versus acceptance - and then Covid-19 arrived to the United States and life as we knew it changed.

In my original post I talked specifically about expectation versus acceptance in my pregnancy journey.

As I moved into my second trimester I had an expectation that I would “feel better” only to be constantly hit with the reality of, “I don’t feel better,” and the following week, “Nope, not better yet!”

After a great deal of resistance I finally stopped berating myself for not meeting my expectation of wellness and fully accepted that I didn’t feel better and that was okay.

My self-acceptance was not an invitation to dwell or wallow in my awful state, but rather an invitation to stay present in my current reality and in turn, take loving actions to honor that reality and improve my state with love.

This was a big shift from what I had been doing which was running into walls of self-judgment and brute psychological force. AKA: “You will feel better because you are supposed to feel better!” Which was followed by: “What is wrong with you? Why don’t you feel better yet?”

Self-acceptance and loving action was a much kinder route as you can see.

The reason I’m giving you a shortened version of my original post is because life has changed and this lesson of expectation versus acceptance has expanded in light of our current new reality.

We live at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic here in NYC, which is a strange sensation to say the least…

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