Your first benefit of working with me is awareness that self-care is no longer an entertaining luxury for a selected privileged people, rather it is a core of resilience, survival and also radical healing for all of us.

The second benefit is your realization of why you are choosing to learn and practice self-healing care as the core of your healthcare.

Down on this page I listed some “whys” which motivated my former patients.

General “whys” for assuming proactive role in your care by learning and practicing self-healing care for yourself and in your interactions with healthcare:

• Covid-19 and other pandemic carry especially high risk for people with chronic disease and or/ advanced age.
• In spite of sophisticate conventional medicine, 6 in 10 adults in the US have a chronic disease and 4 in 10 have two or more chronic diseases. These numbers have been getting worse over the last decades and are dramatically increasing as the consequence of patients neglecting their healthcare while in Covid-19 related social isolation.
• Chronic stress of collective trauma of response to Covid-19 already creates an avalanche of psychosomatic diseases (most of chronic diseases are in this category) which along with Covid-19 overwhelm already dysfunctional healthcare
• Even before the pandemic medical errors were listed and #3 cause of mortality in the USA

The third group of  benefits emerges from our work as a partnership of two experts:

• You know everything about your unique experience of your health condition, life situation, the past memories, support from your family, friends and community
• You know your expectations for your health and the extend of commitment you are willing to put into the self-healing work.
• You likely have in depth knowledge of your health condition as you learned from your doctors and from other sources, including Dr. Google.
• I will offer my widely diversified expertise (see the credential page) in the conventional and alternative medicine, physiology, pharmacology, science and spiritual/intuitive healing. The most important qualification to working with you is what I learned from my patients and experienced in my own self-healing, which certainly continues.
• I will teach and coach you in self-healing care and you will be able to use this basic skill to towards healing your chronic disease along with healing your life as the two components depend on each other
• You will then be able to translate your interactions with your doctors and other caregivers into process of self-healing care, which means that you will assume coordination, facilitate communication and contribute your unique expertise of being a patient. This coordination is crucial when multiple specialists, non-medical healers and your self-administration of supplements.
• You will acquire curiosity and methodology of acquiring information about managing your health condition. In this era of information, patients often need to educate doctors in the newest information on your condition which may improve their treatments.
• I will help to make sense of your medications, diagnoses, supplements so you can give fair chance to your treatments, identify and discuss with you doctors potential risks of drug interactions

The fourth group of benefits include the following realizations:

• It is your life, your health, and you are the captain of your ship. Fortunately, it a marvelous vessel even though may have some dents on its body and some leaks of energy as expected with chronic diseases
• You are the ultimate expert on your own body, on your unique experience of the disease on your unique inner healing resources, therefore you are the essential partner to the healthcare experts on your healing team
• Your memories, feelings and experiences are instrumental to discovering the root causes of your disease
• Your curiosity of using multiple sources of information about your condition is essential for healing
• You are responsible for arranging and managing your healing team; including cross-communication, hiring and firing members
• You can also decide on the members and their role in your support team; spouses, partner, family friends, community. You have the power and wisdom to surrender yourself with people who support you healing from disease rather than complying with the disease
• Self-care cannot be outsourced
• Only you can know yourself; only you can heal yourself which may require selective, targeted use of the healthcare resources

A partial list, as reported by my former patients, of issues that motivated them to seek alternative medicine:

• Searching for advice on how to safely navigate the ocean of confusing health information regarding what to eat, how to exercise, and how to manage chronic stress.
• Pondering a medical diagnosis, yet feeling that you do not actually have that disease. Your intuition tells you that the real diagnosis is actually missing.
• Frustrated with your doctor. Perhaps you suggested that something was wrong with a particular organ, but you had to wait a long time until it showed up on “their” test — and then the situation became urgent.
• Tired of submit in to an endless parade of screening tests only to hear later that some of them are “stained “with commercial bias or conflicts of interest.
• Told that the cause of your disease is unknown, yet urged to take this medicine for life, though even that won’t prevent your disease from getting worse with time.
• You feel as if you’re almost under a spell of the medical diagnosis, yet you are afraid to voice your concerns because, after all, you are not a doctor!
• Listening and following all your doctor’s medical recommendations for a long time and, while your symptoms seem better, seeing no change with your disease.
• You have that feeling that you have been accommodating to the demands of the disease rather than healing it.
• Experiencing continuous pain so severe that you wish that your life was over.
• Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
• Afraid of aging and losing your physical and mental independence.
• Suffering a “closet disease” for which there is no treatment, or the treatment is worse than the disease.
• Suspicious of alternative healers and their “magic,” especially when they seem to believe that their particular methods are the answer to everything.
• Completely confused as to when and why to take medicine and when to take dietary supplements.
• Angry with institutions and systems to whom you entrusted your healing, who used your trust for their profit.
• Spending money on personal health coaches, nutritionists, exercise trainers, sophisticated medical specialists and as a result becoming more and more confused by their conflicting opinions. You are becoming suspicious that they are more interested in your wallet rather than your health!
• Surrounded by conflicting health-related information so that you feel increasingly scared to make any decisions on you own, yet knowing that you cannot outsource that decision to any other person or institution.
• Believing that health, joy and a purpose in life are reserved only for the few lucky ones.
• Scared of aging alone.
• Desperately navigating your way through conflicting recommendations offered by Dr. Google, in this “post-truth era” of fake news.
• Like most of us, simply confused, scared and angry as we watch the world spinning faster and faster to the brink of self-destruction, as we humans insanely poison our own well, our environment.