Hope Unfiltered: Just the Basics

Let's be real - fear is unavoidable in this life. It is an innate mechanism designed to help as a survival skill. However, that is not the fear I am talking about today. The fear I am talking about is the completely irrational, the fear that forces us to imprison ourselves keeping us from every becoming who we were born to be. It is incredibly easy in today's social media drive culture to encounte...

The western world want's to sell you a life from outside in. Bigger, better, more. It is my belief that this is the exact reason why we have cases spiking of anxiety, depression and chronic disease. The world wants to sell you all the solutions. However, I want to challenge that paradigm with the construct that you are simply out of alignment with your spiritual health. Many of us are seeking purp...

Can you imagine what it would be like in America if we eliminate chronic disease? Can you imagine what it would be like if cancer was a thing of the past? If we no longer had heart disease? Diabetes? Strokes? This is a topic that man of us hope for one day. We hope for it from the medical community and we hope for the miracle cure to be presented. What if I were to propose to you that we already h...

One of the most frequently used statements in chiropractic is "align the spine." However, when I think of the term "alignment," I recognize that the word nor the definition is unique to the field of chiropractic. You hear the term in mechanic shops, spiritual seminars, business seminars and even family life. However, a better question about alignment would be: how do you actually apply alignment t...

What is the first thing that comes to mind when I say traumatic brain injury? For most people, it would be the big hits we see on NFL Sunday in the fall - which is just a result of the media consumption. However, for those of us who are part of the traumatic brain injury field, we know that this is just a small percentage of reasons why people suffer from a traumatic brain injury. On today's show...

There is a subtle part of my soul that is yearning for the peace and solitude that we had in the year 2020. If you missed it, it was an opportunity you may not get again and one that provided so much growth for the spirit. Unfortunately, In the recent months, I have observed the slow and steady restoration of the chaos that was life before COVID. More distractions. More activities. Just being more...

"Where the mind leads, the body follows, lead your mind to victory that you can see, feel, and believe and your body will follow you to hell and back." "Prepare your mind to be an ally, rather than an enemy." Too often we surrender our mental health to the narrative that the western pharmaceutical industry has engineered. Whether it be a commercial, your doctor, or your therapists, they have you b...

We all live and breathe a story that holds us back from getting what we truly want in life. This story has the potential to impact, limit, and reduce our growth in marriage, self development and even our own health journey. As a result, when the opportunity for growth smacks you upside the head like a 2x4, 95% of us will shy away out of fear. This is a result of past experiences, previous failures...

How often do you take an assessment of what you have created lately? Do you do it on a weekly basis? A monthly basis? In the course of the last month, I have had the freedom to explore creation, not only as a biblical principle, but as an avenue of health. You see, in life, we are given opportunities to create health in the 5 pillars of our life: spiritual, mental, physical, emotional and relation...

Recently, it has occurred to me that there is an 800lb gorilla in the room that so many of us avoid talking about. This gorilla impacts our businesses, our faith, our marriages, and our health. This gorilla is so big that we as a society have suddenly started to not only demand it, but expect it. The gorilla I am talking about is perfection in everything we do. Perfection in our marriages. Perfect...

Too often, in our health journey, we engage in what is called "The Pedestal Effect." It is a state of mental health in which we find ourselves continually comparing who we are and where our health is to everyone around us, especially those we want to be just like. Said in another way, comparison is a deadly sin. Just know, that in your journey, you are not alone. Every single day I discuss with pe...

The challenges we face in today's society may seem unique to us. However, over the course of the last 123 days of listening to the Bible in the Year podcast, I have been blessed with the opportunity to learn that this is absolutely not the case. The challenges we face today are the same challenges Adam and Eve faced, the same challenges Cain and Able Faced, even the same challenges that Noah faced...

The average American gets home at night from work and plugs in to 3 hours of binge watching bliss on Netflix. I cannot imagine a more unfulfilling life. Punching a clock from 8-5. Sitting in traffic for an hour. Punching the remote for 3 hours. Going to sleep. Rinse and repeat for 30 years. Wake up and wonder why my health is in the gutter and my life is not full of joy and passion. On today's epi...

It has been two weeks since I recorded a podcast. To be honest, I really didn't have anything to say. I was stuck in a state of self-reflection and didn't really feel like the words I was sharing on the podcast were making a difference in anyone's life. I quickly found that I was out of alignment with my purpose in the content I was creating. I had given into the media narrative and the fear and w...

I have seen a recurring theme starting to emerge in today's society for people who choose to red pill themselves and break away from the Western Medicine approach to health. For many of you, you are young in your journey - meaning this is just the start. I want you to know that it is perfectly okay and it is never to late to start this journey in your life, to shift your health habits to improve y...

Over the last year we have been inundated with non-sense politicized mandates all in the name of Health. But were they truly for health? Were they truly designed to help YOU set up your health? In my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth. When we are incentivized by Krispy Kreme with free donuts for a year when we have a Vaccine card, something is wrong. Obesity is the number 1 co-morbi...

What is it about milestones that cause you to stop and reflect on life? This phenomenon is absolutely interesting to me. Whether it is a major birthday or the end of a quarter in business, each of these milestones tend to cause us to reflect on where we have been and where we are going. They are opportunities to pause and to ask questions. "Did I achieve my goals?" "What would I change about the l...

True healing must go beyond treating symptoms to reach the underlying issue. In this weeks episode I use an illustration of an apple and an apple tree to help us further grasp and understanding of how we obtain health. Keep in mind that the western approach to medicine is outside in focused - continually chasing symptoms and never really getting to the root cause of the problem. However, when we c...

I had a first happen to me in practice this week. I had a patient who was under my care die. While attending his funeral I had the opportunity for grace to be given in a statement that was made during the Eulogy given by his daughter. She started with telling a story about her dad and how about a year ago they were having a conversation and he asked her "have I done enough to warrant this life?" A...

What does that even mean? Over the last year it is one of the most common used phrases from not only our media, but also from our politicians. When I hear this, I ask myself, "so did you not follow the science before Covid?" Ultimately, I believe this phrase has been indoctrinated into our daily lives as a fear generating mechanism. It is used to divide us over issues and to keep us from actually...

Many of us have had an opportunity to encounter a challenge in our life. These challenges come in many shapes and sizes but each one of them has a few unique principles that will either all us to succeed or to fail in the face of them. The first is what does your process look like for deciding which path to take when you reach the metaphorical fork in the road? The second is how well did you prepa...

For the last 10 years I have been on a journey of self awakening. Finding purpose, discovering strengths, and evaluating what talents I have and how I can best apply them. For the most part I have lived a life in fear of judgement stemming from early childhood bullying that I have never truly processed. It was just this week that something finally culminated in my life and I realized that there wa...

75,000,000 people were absolutely distraught on Wednesday last week. They found themselves asking questions such as "how is this happening?" or making statements like "this is the end of America." Which happens to be not so different from the same statements the other team made when Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States of America. However, in the context of both of these sce...

How you choose to show up in the world will dictate your reality. Too often we choose to show up as a victim. We rarely take responsibility for our actions and want someone else to fix our problems. You see, playing a victim is when you focus on a problem and don't take responsibility for the habit that got you there. And when you are stuck focusing on problem for long enough, you begin to build a...

In the present day addicted and triggered society we live in, comparison is number one on my list for the reason you do not have the health lifestyle you desire. Too often you are caught up in comparing yourself to other people's results. As a result, you are defeated and believe that you are not taking the right steps or actions to achieve their results. The issue is, when you start playing in th...