Chuck (Age 50)

A middle-aged surgeon seeking a fresh outlook on life and work.

Imagine arriving to age 50 and realizing that everything you've spent your entire professional life working towards is not what you thought it would be?! Imagine then finding someone to help you see that with clarity and to navigate a new path. This is the story of Chuck.

When Chuck came to me, he had a recent diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and it was very clear that he was somewhat disillusioned by the career he had built for himself. He had worked very hard to get to this point in life only to find that it was not satisfying anymore. Together we began exploring various dimensions of his life.

On the health front, we began looking at his recent diagnosis and at options for healing versus treating. Chuck is a physician so he was very well-versed in the way that the current medical system keeps people sick. This was a considerable part of his feeling disillusioned.  He did not want to be a victim of the modern sickcare system in this particular respect. So we introduced him to the healing benefit and power of a whole foods plant-based diet. He shifted immediately and wholeheartedly and in due time his family shifted, too. He was tested again about a year after his initial diagnosis and there were no signs at all of Hashimoto's thyroiditis!

Another dimension we looked at was his beliefs and emotional blockages. We discovered that he had many beliefs around ‘hard work’, specifically that he was only allowed to have abundant financial success through arduous labor and hard work. This suited him well through his young life in college, medical school, and residency as a new, young doctor because he had the energy for it.

However, he eventually arrived at this point in his life where he could not hold up to that same amount of arduous work on a continual basis. I supported him in examining these outmoded beliefs that held his life in place and to shift away from a mindset that required him to be working long hours in order to be considered a valuable member of society.

We began dissolving emotional blockages that were wrapped up in his mindset. He had suffered a tremendous loss in early life and he was discovering emotional blockages from that experience.

Chuck also had many physical complaints all of which were along the right side of his body from his shoulder all the way down to his foot. He was fascinated to learn the connection between our emotions, our beliefs, and the physical manifestations that show up in our body. He began to work with this concept and to be experience shifting and relief in his physical body. After working together for only six months, he came to the decision to leave his position as a surgeon–one which he had held for over 20 years. He mustered up the courage to set off on his own.

Through our journey together, he discovered that he’s a very creative man who enjoys dreaming up new ideas, networking with people, and is comfortable with quite a level of risk-taking. He decided it was time to leave the operating room, the grind, the politics of a medical practice, and also the security of the medical practice he had built to set off on his own and use his God-given creativity to build sustainable solutions for wellness care around the world. Which he is now doing with great joy!