The Wellness Trap - Why Healing Doesn't Have To Be Expensive
- brookecannoot
- Sep 1
- 2 min read
When Did Wellness Become So Complicated… and So Expensive?
We now live in a billion-dollar wellness industry—overflowing with supplements, lab tests, “superfoods,” gadgets, bio-hacks, trendy workouts, and lifestyle prescriptions.
Scroll through social media, and you'll find thousands of influencers selling their version of health:
Fasting or not fasting?
Electrolytes or just water?
Ashwagandha—should you be taking it?
Vegan? Gluten-free and vegan?
Sauna or cold plunge—or both?
The questions are endless. And the most honest answer to most of them is: it depends.
Yes, there’s a time and place for testing, supplements, and personalized support. But they should enhance your healing—not define it. For many, these solutions become an endless loop—searching for relief while increasing stress, confusion, and disconnection. And in the process, we overlook a simple, science-backed truth:
Your body knows how to care for you—if you learn how to care for it.

Well-being isn’t something external. It’s already within you. You have the most powerful medicine cabinet known to humanity—your brain and nervous system.
Your Nervous System Is How You Feel and How You Heal.
It is living, intelligent, and highly responsive. It senses, defends, remembers, moves, feeds, and feels.
And when it becomes dysregulated—through stress, trauma, heartbreak, anxiety, or chronic pressure—it impacts every aspect of your health. Yes, even chronic pain and illness are often rooted in a nervous system that's trying to protect you, but has lost its sense of safety.
But when you begin to understand how your system has developed… what overwhelms it… and what helps restore it…something powerful begins to shift.
You realize you already have what you need. To feel better. To feel whole. To feel alive.
You become your own best healer. Your own wisest clinician. And it really is that simple.
A New Kind of Revolution
Let’s build a new path to wellness. One not led by products, programs, or perfection—but by awareness, regulation, and self-trust.
This is the mission of my work, and the heart of Inner Silence.
I believe that this knowledge—this deep, foundational understanding of your body and nervous system—should not be a luxury. It should be available to everyone.
That’s why Inner Silence offers a Pay What You Can Afford model. Because feeling good, living fully, and finding balance in your body, mind, and spirit should never be out of reach.
You are not broken.You are not your symptoms, your diagnosis, or your past.
You are a whole, living human being—capable of healing, resilience, and transformation.
Welcome to a new way forward.
Welcome back to yourself.

Love this! A good word.