Environmental Healing

My Journey with Diabetes: Understanding the Blood Sugar Cycle In the first part of my journey, I learned that I have type 2 diabetes — and more importantly, how my body reacts to my lifestyle. From day one, I had no time to deny or regret. It was time to plan. With the support of my doctors, I committed to modifying my lifestyle and adopting a healthy, balanced, active, and proactive approach to my health. To do that, I needed to understand exactly what type 2 diabetes is and how the blood sugar cycle works — from the moment we eat, to how food becomes energy, or sometimes, fat. I started to see type 2 diabetes as an air conditioner with a faulty thermostat. The system is still there, the machinery is still working, but the controller — the part that keeps everything in balance — isn’t responding the way it should. In my case, I inherited a gene that made this thermostat weaker. Something in my lifes...

Environmental Healing and Type 2 Diabetes — The Journey My journey with type 2 diabetes began more than 32 years ago. I was not yet 40 — younger than the screening age recommended at the time — and I had no real understanding of what diabetes was. Yes, I had the gene: my grandmother was diagnosed at 85. And looking back, I likely had insulin resistance since childhood. But it was my busy, stressful lifestyle that finally triggered it. I remember the moment clearly. My A1c was 5.9, but my random glucose was 26 mmol/L (about 468 mg/dl). My vision was blurry. I had lost almost 45 pounds in a few weeks. I went from feeling like Superman to feeling like a shadow of myself. I was fortunate to have a dedicated family physician who immediately referred me to an exceptional endocrinologist, Dr. Haggis (now retired). Her professionalism — and her mastery of motivational interviewing, a skill still missing in much of...

The History of Environmental Healing: Rediscovering an Ancient Science for a Modern World Before we explore Environmental Healing through the lens of modern science, we must first understand its history — where it began, how it evolved, and why it matters today. Environmental Healing is not a trend, a wellness movement, or a modern invention. It is one of humanity’s oldest sciences — a way of understanding how environments shape physiology, emotion, resilience, and long term well being. For thousands of years, cultures around the world recognized that healing is not only internal; it is relational. It emerges from the interaction between human beings and the environments that hold them. Yet somewhere along the way, this knowledge was fragmented, commercialized, and in many cases, forgotten. To reclaim Environmental Healing as a legitimate scientific field, we must return to...

لماذا نحتاج إلى الشفاء البيئي؟ الصحة هي العلاقة مع البيئة على الرغم من التقدم الكبير الذي حققناه في الطب الحديث—وخاصة في علاج الأمراض المعقدة مثل السرطان—لا يزال هناك فجوة متزايدة في كيفية فهمنا وإدارتنا لحالات مثل السكري من النوع الثاني. ما زلنا نتعامل معه كمرض جسدي فقط، بينما هو في الحقيقة يتشكل من عوامل تتجاوز البيولوجيا. إنه يتأثر بالبيئات التي نعيش فيها، والإيقاعات التي نتبعها، والضغوط التي نحملها، والضوء الذي نتعرض له، وأنظمة الغذاء التي نعتمد عليها، والمعنى الذي نصنعه لحياتنا. لهذا نحتاج إلى فهم أعمق للشفاء البيئي: لأن العديد من الأمراض المزمنة اليوم لا يمكن حلها بالأدوية وحدها. إنها تتطلب منا النظر إلى ما وراء الحبة الدوائية وفحص العلاقة بين الجسد والعقل والروح والبيئة. أنا لا أقول هذا كمراقب، بل كشخص عاش مع السكري من النوع الثاني لمدة 32 عاماً. نعم، أتناول دواءً واحداً—لكن استقراري الطويل لم يأتِ من وصفة طبية فقط. لقد جاء من البيئة التي أعيش فيها، والإيقاعات التي ألتزم بها، والضوء الذي أستقبله، وا...

Why do we need Environmental Healing Health is a relationship with the environment For all our remarkable progress in modern medicine—especially in treating complex diseases like cancer—there remains a widening gap in how we understand and manage conditions such as type 2 diabetes. We continue to approach it as a disease of the body alone, when in reality it is shaped by far more than biology. It is influenced by the environments we live in, the rhythms we follow, the stress we carry, the light we receive, the food systems we depend on, and the meaning we make of our lives. This is why we need to learn more about Environmental Healing: because many of today’s chronic conditions cannot be solved by medication alone. They require us to look beyond the pill and examine the relationship between body, mind, soul, and environment. I say this not as an observer, but as someone who has lived with type 2 ...