I honestly never realized how rewarding this would be

There are a growing number of recovery stories in the community and I love hearing them.

This morning I had a call with a young guy who was in his 20’s and had been through a very rough ride with his health.

He’d spent a lot of money on expensive dentists that did the wrong thing.

And instead of focusing on developing his career and life he was going in circles with this dental shit.

It was a story I knew all too well.

Why?

Because it was more or less my story back in 2014.

Luckily, however I was 37 at the time and already had a lot of great years under my belt that were spent relatively healthy. And i’d had time to develop a career, a family, and all the other basics.

He hadn’t had a chance to do these basics yet. Because he was stuck in this evil cycle with his health.

And hopefully he will take the advice I gave him and get out of this cycle.

I see a lot of others that are well on their way to recovery

When I got off the call I did my morning check of our Skool community. And a guy had posted that sounded a lot like the guy I had just spoken with.

Almost always triggered by orthodontics or extractions earlier in life.

But while this guy’s background story sounded very similar, he was already several months into the Reviv process. And he talked about how he was healing.

Not just physically but also mentally and emotionally.

He was at the beginning of a process of putting back together his life. And hopefully one day seeing what a normal, healthy life looks like again.

An opportunity that was stolen from him by some ignorant dentist.

And there’s a growing number of other stories in the community like his. All with their own twists but the general plot always remains the same.

Hearing others recover really impacts me

When I hear others’ stories as they recover I often get emotional almost automatically. It’s like this instinctive thing i can’t control.

Kind of like when you smell something and it reminds you of an old memory.

And i’m not an emotional guy at all.

If you asked my parents or friends most of them will tell you that I almost lack emotions to a fault.

But when I hear stories of folks healing with this stuff it’s almost like I can’t control it.

Because I start remembering what it felt like back in mid-2014 when all shit was breaking loose after a dentist had drilled my back teeth flatter.

I had my first kid on the way and wasn’t sure how I was going to take care of him. How i was going to do my basic duty of being a father.

I was also only married to my wife for less than a year and felt like I was breaking my side of the deal. I was essentially becoming an invalid whereas she had hoped to spend her life with a strong, healthy partner.

And that all hurt. A lot.

In fact it changed me.

It’s really rewarding to see this play out for others

When I hear others’ recovery stories it helps make it all seem worthwhile.

Like these ten years i spent on this puzzle will be put towards good use. Helping others get out of the same predicament i did.

And starting a snowball that i think will one day lead to many people avoiding the type of suffering that these biomechanics can wreak.

It makes me feel proud.

Proud almost like an old parent who is watching their kid hit their first homerun. Or win their first award at school.

Kind of like you’re passing the torch. To a new generation of people who are gonna bring the same kind of passion i had to their own recovery.

And then use those learnings to help others.

I already get lots of message from folks like this everyday now. Some via the Skool community, others via Substack or Youtube or other channels.

I love the X-men analogy

The X-men analogy is one i’ve used in a number of blog posts in the past because I really like it.

We’re gathering a very diverse group of folks who are united in one main thing…our suffering.

I see folks in our group with stories of all kinds of suffering. Their illness bankrupted them. Their life partners left them. They were kicked out of their careers. And on and on.

When I hear these stories I realize how lucky I actually was that things had never gotten as bad as some of them.

And together we’re fixing ourselves. We’re getting stronger, healthier, more functional.

At some point, if folks stick with it, they will cross over from being much less healthy than the average person to being more healthy.

And we will start to surpass the people that were lucky enough to have never suffered because they had relatively good structure.

We’ll go from the ‘broken’ to the ‘unbreakable’. The ones who seem like they’re made of steel because nothing seems to affect us.

We’ll become modern day X-men.

So thank you

That is perhaps the main point with this article.

Just thank you.

Thank you for your trust in this crazy guy from Substack.

Thank you for believing me when some of the people I loved and who knew me the most did not.

Thank you for your openness to think different.

Thank you for your courage in taking on this journey.

I hope to get to know as many of you as I can in the months and years ahead.

Closing thoughts

As we recover and re-enter that battle we call life with a full set of armor and a powerful sword…

…lets remember our goals in life. You know the ones we had to forget about along the way.

…lets leave our suffering in the past and focus on the future again.

…and lets charge right at the folks that had written us off.

Yelling like a viking as we do.

So that they all know… “we were never totally out of the fight. And now we’re back.”

P.S. This quote right here kept me company on many dark nights back in 2014. And now i share it with all of you out there who are just starting your own journey.