How to Live Better in Our Broken Society

Rebuilding Our Fractured Souls in a Toxic Environment

These words have been said so often they have lost their meaning. They have become cliché and empty. They have a nauseating effect that involuntarily induces eye rolling.

The cloud of despair burying our country is so thick it is sapping our energy and stealing our will to survive. Our priorities have run amuck.

We are driven toward power, success, and money and have lost sight of community, harmony, and peace. We have become emboldened narcissists that assume we know better than the planet that has sustained us. We think we have more knowledge in our infancy than the Earth has in its infinite eternity.

We drill, dig, and frack our way to more unsustainable toxic sources of energy. We deplete the ocean of fish and crustaceans while dumping our toxic plastics and trash to kill any sea life that dares to remain. We till, forest, and clear the land only to poison our crops with pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics. We fill our farm animals with hormones and GMO’s rendering them not only nutrient deficient but also harmful to us when we consume them. We pollute the air and water with heavy metals, carcinogens, and fossil fuels. We distort and corrode the magnetic and electrical frequencies with ever-increasing cell phone towers, wireless signals, and electrical power lines.

We do this all in the name of what? Convenience? Advancement? Progress?Rather than taking steps toward more sustainable, cleaner living, our country is worsening these problems under our current administration. These are global-scale problems that are threatening the future of our children and grandchildren.

Yet, in order to elicit change or enact reform, it first begins with the individual.

And this is where we suffer the most.

People everywhere are feeling overwhelmed with outrage and helpless to know where to begin to change the deluge of problems. We’ve become so obsessed with striving and achieving that we don’t have time to tend to our declining mental, physical, and spiritual health. We’ve created a lifestyle so demanding and dependent upon grinding through 10,12…

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