Feb 26, 2021
Philippe came to see me in relation to a stubborn symptom after having resolved a number of symptoms through the work of Dr. Sarno. He had heard me on Eddy Lindenstein’s The Mind and Fitness Podcast and felt that I could be a particularly good fit for him in working things through. As it turns out, we hit it off right away, bonding over one of my core ideas in power.
In this discussion, Philippe and I look back on his history of feeling boxed in and overly responsible to authority figures in his life, yearning to break free and blaze his own trail. I enjoyed this update on his life and thinking about power very much, but you’ll hear how these ideas inspired him to make some real and large changes in his life that are moving him towards greater fulfillment and realization of his true self.
Included on this new path of power is his new podcast, Hunter Gatherers, which takes an anthropological look at ‘developed’ societies versus ones more ‘in the wild’ that have radically different values.
We connected this way of thinking to power and noted together how so many in different cultures can often live happier lives because of the freedoms that come with their values. We made plans to talk again to continue tracking this fascinating example of a young adult coming into his own power and sense of self — all driven by his original symptoms and the body telling him not to betray his core being.
Stories like these can bring hope and inspiration and I hope that by sharing them I can give the people who got better a platform in which to feel heard and valued, while giving others a number of examples of the pathway to symptom relief.