This article has been on hold for a while, I was just waiting for the right pieces to come together. A couple days ago I started watching Eli Stone on Disney+ Canada. I find it interesting how so many people are interested in seeing that everything is connected, we see what we need to see when we need to see it, in order to find our life path, and heal our unresolved wounds. And unfortunately, like Eli Stone, I seem to experience learning through pain, in order to know how to

Why it is not on the list Dan Siegel's The Developing Mind is frequently cited as clinical proof for the importance of laterality — the idea that unresolved trauma in childhood causes the brain to develop unevenly, with one hemisphere compensating for what the other cannot process. This is not wrong, but I excluded it from the list of books that inspired Esogetic Medicine . This article explains why, in addition to what this book still has to offer. The problem is the framin

Two years ago (April, 2024), shortly after getting my Kirlian camera, I took my son to see Master Yan with his 7th kirlian photo: How I would read this photo now differs from what I knew then. Now I can see that his mental health and self-care were not in place, he was coping by dissociating, and he didn't have sufficient hormonal regulation to pump garbage out of his body, and sleep might be a challenge. If he were an adult, and not my child, I would have started trying to r

There is a scene in a medical drama where a surgeon says: "I'm a surgeon. I don't do prevention." That's the difference between what mainstream medicine offers and what I do. But like a surgeon, I also assess risk before choosing a path forward. Why I can't always start with physical healing When someone comes to me with serious physical symptoms — cancer relapse, serious systemic illness, debilitating accident — my first question is not "what is wrong with the body?" It is "

Peter Mandel, founder of Esogetic Medicine Peter Mandel, the founder of Esogetic Medicine, passed away in February 2026. The quotes in this article are drawn from his 2025 Update Seminar — the last one that he taught. His clarity about what treatment is and what it is not, and his acceptance of his own harvest at the end of his life, are as instructive as anything in his clinical work. I've been questioning the negative reactions some clients experience after treatment. Liste

At the 2025 Esogetic Medicine Update — the last Update Seminar taught by Peter Mandel before his recent passing — a case was presented from his clinic in Germany: Twenty-four rounds of prenatal treatment is not a small thing. It is a serious, sustained effort to address what a child carried into the world from the womb. And it worked — partially. The lungs cleared. The weight dropped. The child grew taller. But the headaches remained. And she still had no friends. This is the

I've been listening to this podcast series on the various aspects of felt safety: → Inside Felt Safety — Robyn Gobbel → Outside Felt Safety — Robyn Gobbel → Between Felt Safety — Robyn Gobbel ...and I realized that the tools I use map directly onto the three layers Robyn describes. Inside felt safety A Kirlian photo is a direct measure of a person's inside felt safety. It shows which organ systems are under strain, which brainwave patterns are dysregulated, and whether the pe

This is me healing our youngest with RestoreChi — the purple belt around her waist has a Bluetooth speaker playing Liver Gallbladder Pancreas Enhance, Liver Detox, Phlegmatic, Spleen Dampness, and Belt Meridian: I selected these tracks because she has cellulite on her belly — a sign that she has excess hormones she is unable to detox. She also engages in behaviours that tell me her hormones are not balanced. What her earliest photos showed Here are her initial photos from May

In January 2024 I finally got the medical imaging device for Esogetic Medicine. I quickly took some photos just to see if the camera worked, but didn't analyze them until March 2024. When I did, I was scared — a sign for potential heart attack risk showed up in my husband's photo: If you are new to Kirlian photography, the short version is this: a Kirlian photo captures the energy coming off the fingertips and toes, and maps it to the organ systems of the body. Things tend to

It's easy to assume the worst about why people behave the way they do — including our kids. Nonviolent Communication and tools from ROCK offer a different lens: what thoughts and emotions are driving the behaviour, and what does that tell us about what is actually needed?

If you are here to step into your power, you have to step into it — even when the people around you are not ready. This 2019 reflection on living outside the expected path is as relevant now as it was then. Some lessons take years to fully arrive.