If you’re honest about what you’re feeling, you know that your feelings tell you what you want and need at any given moment – what to fear and what to have faith in, what to grieve and what to give thanks for, what to fight for and what to surrender to. Our emotions evolved over millennia. They’re part of our intelligence. They helped get us this far. And they will help us find our way now through a chronic disease epidemic that is threatening our personal and collective wellbeing.

Whatever ails us physically, emotionally or spiritually, whether it’s a health challenge, a diagnosis, a divorce, or losing a loved one, I believe the best healing starts and ends in the family. And that’s the way it should be. Whether a doctor or a therapist is involved, families can weigh in to make a special difference in our wellbeing.

The problem is not just shooter games that invite players to shoot humans and see it as a game, and thus become over time desensitized to violence. That’s just one problem, though reason enough for any parent to be concerned. But there’s another problem: online games are haunted by a network of hate mongering, alt right, white supremacist trolls. This online extremist discourse attracts at-risk people with a propensity towards violence, and inundates them, inculcates them and imprints their nervous system with virtual bullying. For everyone involved, online bullying and hate-mongering may be virtual, but the emotions, thought forms and somatic behaviors it evokes are real.

Think of how many conversations you’ve personally had with struggling spouses, family members, friends and colleagues who say “I don’t know,” when you ask them why they don’t take care of themselves. “I don’t know” is a mantra we hear too often when we ask hard questions about personal health and wellbeing. Maybe we do it ourselves when in reality we’re concerned about our health.

Things are not what they seem on the internet, in the news or in social media threads rife with misinformation. Everywhere you look you’ll see fake news, fake friends, fake gaming avatars and fake comments. Google bombs and censorship surround the communications of some of the best alternative health practitioners. Who can we trust?

This DDT publicity stunt was shot at Jones Beach State Park, New York in 1948. It was intended to convince the American public that DDT spraying was safe. It wasn’t safe at all. DDT is linked to increased risk of both breast cancer and Alzheimer’s dementia.

When we get sick, any of us, we get sick in mind and body and emotions and spirit—all at the same time. Because they’re all connected. This explains why the chronic illness epidemic affecting more than 50% of Americans parallels a spike in the divorce rate, which has doubled since the 1990s.

We’ve all heard the common phrase “It’s just old age” when the topic of dementia comes up, as if cognitive impairment and neurological degeneration are a natural consequence of aging. But is that true? Learn about neurotoxins in our environment that increase the risk of neurological degenerative illnesses among people of all ages.

Healing is a process of detoxifying, recycling and regrowing cells and tissues into the healthy whole state we were designed to embody. A healing crisis happens when we are injured or sickoned and our body phagocytices damaged tissue, eliminates the waste and creates scar tissue to prepare for regeneration.