Introduction

This course introduction, and much of the behavior related thinking through the course, was provided by Jamie Wright D.O., MS, FACOOG, ABAARM who has over 20 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from Michigan State University / College of Osteopathic Medicine medical school in 2001. He is Double Board Certified with a Master's Degree in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine.

While we hope you find the content helpful, none of the information is intended to replace your relationship with your healthcare provider(s). Nothing should be considered medical advice. The information, knowledge, and experience shared on this website are the opinions of SupplementRelief.com. This site and its content are intended to enhance your knowledge base as YOU MAKE YOUR OWN HEALTHCARE DECISIONS in partnership with your qualified health professional.

The Principles

1. There is NO secret. Our culture, its stressors, and the way of life we've created in our modern times are the OBSTACLES keeping us from seeing and doing what will self-evidently lead us toward a more fulfilling and healthier life.
2. There are 4-Pillars that support the foundation of Wellbeing.
3. You already know most of what you will be taught... it is somewhat self-evident and intuitively obvious.
4. Making the change is the real challenge and this course is designed to help you make these changes... over time and PERMANENTLY!

My Style

It's important for you to know how I think about health and how we change. People tend to make changes because of two primary forces in their life:

1. Overwhelming pain, or
2. Overwhelming desire.

Why do I say "overwhelming? Because the pain or desire must be potent enough in its ENERGY to cause or force change in the current lifestyle, belief, and HABIT structure. Habits are powerful; there's pretty good evidence in the behavioral sciences that we do NOT actually ever change a habit. We REPLACE A HABIT.

We replace a habit with another behavior; this alternative behavior pushes against the powerful force of the established habit. If the new behavior persists long enough, and is powerful enough, it will establish itself as the new habit. But, many of us have experienced a change that did not last. Maybe the new behavior worked for a few days or even a couple of weeks; but then, its power seemed to weaken and the old habit exerted its power once again.

One way to think about "why" this happens is power. Some combination of a weakening of the power of the new habit, or the overwhelming and persistent power of the old habit caused the full establishment of the new behavior to fail. We often say that we "lost our willpower". No we did not lose our willpower. We simply stopped believing in, or seeing or feeling, the overwhelming benefits of the new habit. Maybe the pain lessened; or maybe the desire for something different and better lessened. Either way, the new behavior and habit was not powerful enough to overcome the old.

So the question becomes, "How do we maintain and strengthen the desire for something new and better?" How to we feed the power of the new habit?

Since I don't know where you are at: overwhelming pain or overwhelming desire... I've built this Wellness Course to bolster your power for something better. The information is designed to educate, inform, and inspire you in ways that will help your brain believe that you can create a brighter future for yourself and your family. CHANGE WILL COME WHEN YOU BELIEVE THAT A BRIGHTER FUTURE IS POSSIBLE AND WITHIN YOUR REACH.

The course is organized to help you know that there is scientific evidence to support what you probably already know or believe: "It is NORMAL to be WELL!"

The course will also follow my personal path of discovery. As a physician with a scientific background in biology and genetics, I faced a dilemma early in my medical career: the fact was that I did not KNOW what was actually causing all of the symptoms and disease, the dis-ease and pain that I was "treating". I could figure out the diagnosis (symptoms and signs of disease), but I did not understand what was behind these symptoms, driving the problem and perpetuating the problem.

I had a sense that the signs and symptoms of disease were connected in some way... after all, how could so many people have a very similar mix of problems with their blood work, pain, fatigue, and brain fog, libido or menstrual problems, etc. etc.

Then, in 2008, my wife fell into what I can only call a mysterious chronic disease state. She exhibited a shocking array of neurological, pain, and fatigue symptoms that neither I nor her other doctors could make any rational sense of what was going on.

How could one person, a young woman, have such a wide array of severe symptoms? How could one person have so many seemingly different diagnoses?

Maybe you can relate...

Each diagnosis brought a temporary hope that we have "figured it out". But treatment benefits were short lived and generally yet another problem cropped up. Another new diagnosis...

So, my personal journey began from a point of extreme pain. And honestly fear and suffering. I had a young wife and four small children and a very questionable future.

To find a real answer, we needed a better way to think about the problem... and a strong desire to NOT live a life of pain, suffering, and disability.

I want to share this with you because progress and change will come in part from HOW you think about the problem you face... and WHAT you believe to be true.

How you choose to think about the problem will help or hinder you from discovering your solution.

The first concept is to shift your thinking from the "disease" (the name your problem may have been given) to a question: "What could be preventing my body from healing and functioning in a state of wellbeing?" What is holding your body back from performing the way it was designed to perform?

Think about your overall health and wellbeing as a balance of stressors. Every day, naturally, your body is placed under stress. Stress is essential to a vibrant and health body and mind. The body is designed to mount responses to stress, to adapt, and overcome. Stress can make our body and mind stronger.

But, too much stress and too little nourishment for the body and mind can prevent the body from adapting... and so the body moves into a dis-ease state. The longer and stronger the negative stressors persist greater than the good stressors, the more our body's ability to adapt will be compromised.

As we move forward, much of this course content is designed to help you understand WHAT the various stressors are, where they can be coming from, what to do to reduce them, and how to implement new healthier behaviors.