Solving a Functional Problem in the Brain
Your pain, your emotions, your identity—they all emerge from the same organ: the brain. What if healing wasn’t about masking symptoms, but learning a new language of neural signals? In this story, we journey through the hidden terrain where emotional trauma, lifestyle habits, and physical suffering converge—and explore how biomimicry offers a map to re-pattern, re-sense, and regenerate.
When traditional medicine says “there’s nothing wrong,” the real work begins. Read to uncover how nature’s wisdom helps us unlearn suffering and sculpt a brain that thrives.
Your Pain is Real
Your pain—whether physical, emotional, or somewhere in between—is not a lie. You are not broken. This story peers into how the same neural circuits that respond to injury also process fear, trauma, and heartbreak. The brain, ever vigilant, can learn to treat everyday moments as threats long after danger has passed.
We follow a thread from ancestral programming to modern suffering: how emotional wounds become etched into flesh, how old hurts echo in new patterns, and how distinguishing structural issues from neural ones can shift the path toward healing. Here, you’ll find language for your invisible pain—and a roadmap for unlearning fear, one neuron at a time.
A Nature-Inspired Approach to Healing Using Biomimicry
Explore biomimicry and its opportunity to influence healing. Biomimicry is a design framework that studies how biological organisms, processes, and systems functioning on Earth today have adapted strategies to solve problems related to those we experience in our human designs. It’s a methodological and philosophical approach, a way of perceiving the world around us and our collective interconnectedness.
Journey to Year 33
This is a tender, unflinching account of the years that shaped me—an honest arc from survival through brokenness to the fragile work of repair. It holds difficult truths about emotional and physical abuse and touches on suicidal ideation; reader discretion is advised. If you want a candid witness to resilience and the slow alchemy of healing, this story meets you there.
Video: Mind-Body Syndrome and healing chronic pain
After over six years of relentless pain following a back injury, I learned something profound: pain isn’t just an alarm system—it’s a narrative. This story traces how structural injury, emotional turmoil, and unhealed stories collide in the brain, and how nature’s logic and mind-body awareness helped me reclaim rhythm, integrity, and possibility.
For anyone who’s been told “it’s all in your head” while feeling every bit of it—this explores how to validate pain and transform it from inside out.