Whether natural and holistic living are new to you or have been with you since birth, we created this organization for you. No matter where you are on the health journey, wisdm is designed to be a supportive tool you can use each step of the way, and I hope you do.

Hello, my name is Shad Groverland and I am the President/CEO of wisdm, as well as its co-founder, along with Del Bigtree and Tracy Diaz. We created this platform because as we see it, our country is sick and something has to be done about it. There are dozens of metrics we could use to show how sick we have become from diabetes, heart disease, and depression, to cancer, autism, and so much more. I don’t need to dive into the statistics because I bet you already know some of them and are familiar with the crisis we are in. Which is actually less of a health crisis and more of an information crisis. Which begs the question:

First we might need to address why we are sick and how we have gotten sicker over time, even though our medical system has advanced drastically over the last hundred years and financial investment in that system has also drastically increased.

Fundamentally it all comes back to one root issue, which is this; the medical-pharmaceutical-surgical-hospital system sees you more like a machine than a person! And, it is driven by a financial incentive to keep you, the machine, constantly needing repair and never quite getting fixed.

When you are seen as a machine, you are reduced down to a collection of parts. Heart, brain, joints, lungs, bones, thyroid, bladder...and on and on. Parts break and parts need repair. This is how you maintain and keep a machine running, but the reality is that you are not a machine, you are a whole being that is much more than just a collection of physical parts. 

They see parts and not a whole, a physical chemical structure and not a complex person, personality, and being.

Imagine various types of mechanics are working on a car that won’t drive. One specializes in suspension, another in transmission, another in engines, another in electrical - each one works on the car, fixing the issues they are trained to fix in their particular area of expertise. Everything checks out for them according to each individual part but still the car won’t drive. That is the medical system.

Now imagine someone comes into the garage who steps back and looks at the entire vehicle, not just parts. They see it for all that it is and understand the totality of what makes it drive. Finally they announce, “There is no driver behind the wheel, that is why it won’t drive.” That is natural and holistic healing and how the various practitioners in this field work. They look at a whole person and do their best to find the “root cause” of the issue, which in this example was a missing driver. 

Now this car example will begin to fall apart here but try to hang on with me as we go a bit deeper.

This car, representing you, is something special because it was designed with its own mechanic already built in, which we will call Bob. Bob knows everything about the car because he is inside the car and is part of the car. The mechanic specialists outside the car couldn’t possibly know everything Bob knows because they can only look at certain parts from the outside. Its not their fault, its just where they are and how they were trained.

Now, not only does Bob already know exactly everything that is going on with the car but he also knows exactly what needs to be done to fix it and keep it running smooth. Nobody on the planet knows more about this car than Bob and nobody could. 

In this somewhat over-extended automotive example, the built-in mechanic Bob represents the innate wisdom within each of us that already knows how to take care of and heal the body - the immune system is one example. The natural and holistic practitioner is fully aware of this innate wisdom, works with it, and supports it doing what it already knows how to do. On the other side, the medical-pharma-surgical-hospital doctor mostly denies the existence of this wisdom, or ignores it, suppresses it, or even battles against it. 

Going back to the car example, imagine the hospital system is like the four mechanics trying to diagnose and repair the vehicle all at once, fully unaware that Bob is already built into the vehicle. Their lack of awareness causes them to work against Bob who already knows the issues and has already started trying to fix it from the inside out. The scene plays out like a Keystone Cops episode where nobody knows what the other is doing and everyone is working against the other.

Well, if you have not caught on yet, that is why we called our company wisdm, referring to the innate wisdom of the body to heal itself. Each of our specialties are based on a similar understanding that the body already knows how to heal itself and the practitioner is a facilitator of that healing, not the healer itself. This is an entirely different approach to healing and this fundamental difference is why we are in a world today dominated by illness instead of health.

So why were we not taught this growing up?

Why have we all been going to the medical-pharma-surgical-hospital doctors for everything if they are so off course? 

That is where the information crisis comes in. We have been fed the wrong information our entire lives in order to keep us in this system, funding the system, so it dominates all other health options as the most rich and powerful one. It owns our media, politicians, schools, science, and food systems, ensuring that its narrative on health, its story, is the only one anyone gets to hear. And if someone happens to hear a bit about natural and holistic health as an option, it launches a disinformation campaign to make us believe that these “alternative health” options don’t work or might even be dangerous.

This system owns the information pipeline from start to finish and until something disrupts that pipeline, or even better yet, builds a new one, it will continue to be the only voice the vast majority of people get to hear. That is why wisdm is also a media company with the aim of disrupting the current mainstream media pipeline while also building a new alternative media pipeline to replace it.

We are sharing the information of our ancestors, their understanding of the body and how it heals, with thousands of years of experience and wisdom behind it. We are also sharing the information of today, modern tools and techniques that facilitate, support, and even amplify the innate wisdom of the body, because wisdom is timeless.

So read the articles, watch the videos, review the science, listen to the podcasts, see what’s in the news, and enjoy new information-rich content everyday. But most importantly I ask you to do three things:

Okay, let me wrap this up by saying once again, thank you for finding us and I am truly grateful you are here. I look forward to the next post I will share with you as we walk this journey in wisdm together.