The Hidden History of Medicine That Changed How We Heal

For thousands of years, ancient healing traditions understood something we’ve been taught to forget; that the body, mind, and spirit are not separate, but one.

In indigenous cultures, Eastern philosophies, and traditional healing systems across the globe, health wasn’t only defined by the absence of disease, but also by harmony. When symptoms appeared, whether it be physical discomfort, emotional pain, or mental unrest, they weren’t seen as problems to silence, but as sacred messages from within. Messages that something in your life, your energy, your choices, or your soul was out of balance.

Healers didn't work to suppress symptoms, but to understand them. They would trace the thread back to its source and bring the entire being, body, heart, mind, and spirit, back into alignment with nature, community, and ultimately, truth.

But then, in the western world, that all started to change.

In the early 1900s, something massive shifted, something most people don’t realize still shapes our medical system today.

In 1910, a document called the Flexner Report was published, funded by industrialists like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. At face value, it was positioned as a reform of medical education. But underneath, it was a calculated restructuring of medicine to serve a new kind of agenda: profit over people. (Psychologytoday)

Rockefeller, who had made his fortune in oil, saw an opportunity in medicine. His pharmaceutical companies could manufacture chemical-based drugs on a massive scale.

But here’s the deeper truth: many of these drugs were derived from the petrochemicals left over as waste from oil refining. (NLM)

What was once industrial byproduct was now turned into medicine, and an entire population was trained to depend on it. Now this doesn't mean it's all bad, but it does show the truth of where it comes from.

 But in order to make that profitable, he needed to eliminate competition from holistic and herbal medicine, which couldn’t be patented or monopolized.

So, he funded medical schools, but only if they agreed to adopt a biology-based, pharmaceutical-focused model. This became the gold standard in medicine. Schools that prioritized holistic, indigenous, or energetic healing? Shut down. Over half of all medical schools in the U.S. and Canada were closed, especially those that served women, people of color, and marginalized communities.

The schools that remained were required to follow a standardized curriculum centered around germ theory, disease diagnosis, and pharmaceutical treatment. Medical textbooks were rewritten. Energetic and spiritual perspectives were erased and labeled as pseudoscience.

From this point on, students were taught that the body was a machine. That symptoms were malfunctions. That emotions were irrelevant. That nature held little to no intelligence worth implementing into medicine. That the human being could be reduced to chemicals and code, and that healing could only come from outside interventions, not from within.

This changed everything.

In my opinion, this was the moment the soul was removed from medicine. We were taught to see ourselves as machines and through that lens we were taught to believe that if something was wrong, we were broken and needed to be fixed.

If you felt depressed, anxious, fatigued, or in pain… you weren’t seen as someone out of sync with your environment, your body, or your spirit. You were seen as broken. And what do you do with something that’s broken?

This shift, from wholeness to fragmentation, from wisdom to control, has shaped generations. Most of us were raised in a world where the default answer to suffering is a prescription. Where anything that cannot be measured in a lab is dismissed. Where being disconnected from yourself is considered normal. It seems to lead us towards disregarding our own inner wisdom because we have been shamed into trusting only the experts.

But I believe this worldview is starting to crumble. Because it was never rooted in truth, it was rooted in illusion. And all illusions eventually come crumbling down.

Now I’m not saying that there should be no prescription medications as there are many medical situations that absolutely need pharmaceutical intervention to help navigate the symptoms. And many of these experts have dedicated their lives to helping people with no ill intent whatsoever. But what if the foundation that all of these experts stand on is rooted in something intentionally meant to keep us in the system specifically for profit and not for true healing?

With that being said, I don’t believe that this narrow view of medicine is the whole picture. I don't think that seeing the answer as either this or that will bring us where we need to be. I believe that true medicine will come as a combination between holistic healing and conscious innovation, where ancient wisdom and modern knowledge work together to support real, lasting transformation.

What I’ve come to see, through my own journey, and through the people I work with, is that most often we’re not actually broken. We’re just out of balance. We’re disconnected from our truth, from our emotions, and our natural state of being. Our nervous systems are stuck in survival mode, we’re programmed into fear, and stuck in a place where we only look at the symptoms and then look outside of ourselves for solutions instead of inside at the root cause.

Rarely do primary care doctors look at nutrition, exercise, emotional well-being, or the underlying stress patterns that may be driving the symptoms in the first place. To discuss those topics you have to speak with a specialist and spend hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars to explore them. This shows the truth that the soul has been rejected, dysregulation ignored, and the body's cries for help have been silenced with quick fixes and most importantly, easy to prescribe medications.

But with all of that being said, if you look closely you can see that we’re slowly coming back to what we once knew. That healing doesn’t come from fixing yourself, but from reconnecting to your body, your energy, your awareness, and letting that inner intelligence lead you back to harmony.

In my work, I help people clear the noise and reconnect with their truth, not through labels or diagnoses, but through presence, awareness, and the deep art of learning how to feel again.

This is why I love what I do. As a self-mastery coach, I gently guide you back to your own inner wisdom, so you can create a life that feels real, aligned, and authentically yours.

I believe that it’s time for us to start tapping back into our own unique truths. To begin seeing through the illusions that have been pushed upon us and reclaim our health and integrity.

Because in my opinion, healing isn’t about becoming someone new, it’s about stepping into who you truly are. When you reconnect with your body, your emotions, and your inner wisdom, you return to a life that feels aligned, alive, and whole. This the work I’m here to support, the work that I believe will change the world from the inside, out.