How to Heal to freedom

While most people here in Belgium were celebrating Easter with their family and eating an abundance of chocolate and Belgian bakery, I was going on a solo keto diet. And my dad—he was going on a 10-day Vipassana retreat. I guess the apple doesn’t fall that far from the tree.

I lost 8 kilos in 9 days and I feel I found a solution for one of my hidden addictions—my food. 

I found a psychiatrist on youtube who helps people get on a keto diet and who knows how to heal schizophrenia, adhd, depression, and other mental diseases. There is a huge correlation between diet and health. 

Being back in Belgium, I gained a lot of weight. Yes, we have the best tasting food in the world, but everything comes with a price.

I started developing several health problems—itching on my belly and chest, frequent urination, and poor sleep. So I did what any other normal citizen would do—I went to my doctor.

She examined me and wanted to prescribe two kinds of medication to suppress my symptoms, along with cortisone moisture. But instead of blindly accepting it, I asked her a simple question: What if I need a detox, instead of something that just suppresses the symptoms?

She told me that wasn’t necessary. And right there, I decided to take my fate into my own hands—just like I did when I wanted to get off my antipsychotics.

I’m now four years free from my antipsychotics, after having taken them for over 13 years. That journey taught me something powerful: no one can heal you the way you can heal yourself.

I know we’re currently living in a system that is broken—a system that’s desperately searching for a new way to heal. For the last 10 years, I’ve been developing that new way for myself and others. A holistic approach that includes spiritual, mental, emotional, material (time, money, and energy), physical, and sexual healing.

I’m not just building a way to heal myself. I’m building a way to help others heal, too.

The more distractions I remove from my environment, the more happiness I begin to feel. Real healing doesn’t come from adding more—it comes from removing what no longer serves us. That includes… Carbs… :D

And already in a couple of days I saw my symptoms improve.

I’ve come to realize that the cure to freedom is both a cheap cure and an expensive one.

It’s cheap in the sense that it doesn’t require a lot of money. But it’s expensive in the sense that it demands everything from you. It asks you to sacrifice all short-term dopamine hits in order to gain a life that gives long-term peace, clarity, and joy.

But the deeper you walk this path of self-development, the more you realize—you’re not sacrificing anything. You’re freeing yourself. You’re shedding everything that has been obstructing you from living the life you deserve to live.

If you don’t heal your body, you will become a prisoner of your body. And this applies to any area in your life where you are currently struggling.

We weren’t meant to survive—we were meant to thrive.

Love and Light, Niek