Hello Community,
The other day, my dad sent me a YouTube link and suggested I watch it.
The video was fun, whimsical, and unexpectedly uplifting. It made me feel happy in that simple, easy way that can sometimes be hard to come by.
Then, as often happens on YouTube, a commercial came on.
A man with a very excitable voice began telling me how I could create videos that would go viral. I stayed with it longer than I care to admit, and before long, I noticed something shifting in me.
I felt pressured. Unsettled. My mind started darting in all kinds of directions.
Should I do it?
Is this a scam?
What if it works?
What if it doesn’t?
Is this just one more bright shiny object that will end up gathering dust?
What struck me most was how quickly it all happened.
Just moments before, I’d been feeling light and free, enjoying something my dad had sent me. And now, in less than fifteen minutes, I felt disconnected from myself.
So I paused.
I X’d out of the ad, went back to the original video, and almost instantly, I felt better.
Happy again.
Peaceful again.
And I remembered something I said years ago to my very first client when she asked, “How will I know if this works?”
I told her, “You’ll know because you’ll feel better.”
This time, those words came back to me in a deeper way.
I can trust what feels nourishing.
I can trust what leaves me feeling more grounded.
And I can also trust what does not feel right.
That knowing came over me like something steady and familiar.
What felt right was going back to the original video — the one with the man who looked more like a playful conductor than a marketer, doing little things that delighted the audience.
And me.
What I loved even more was that it connected me to my dad.
He had sent it because he thought I’d enjoy it, and I did.
And what stayed with me afterward was something simple, but important:
Health lives in these moments too.
Not only in supplements and protocols.
Not only in lab work and treatment plans.
Not only in doing everything “right.”
Sometimes health lives in the quiet recognition of what brings us back to ourselves.
What opens us.
What softens us.
What restores us.
Sometimes it’s as simple as noticing, this feels good.
Or, this doesn’t.
And being willing to trust that.
The more we learn to listen to that inner knowing — the part of us that has our back, that does not lie, that keeps gently guiding us toward what’s true — the richer life becomes.
This is where health lives.
Wishing you all good things,
Dr. Kat
Infinite Health and Wellness • Naturopathic Wellness & Nervous System Support • www.kathleenogar.com