Dr. Christopher Stepien

Dr. Christopher Stepien I help spiritual people who are lost, anxious, and depressed "heal themselves" and wake up to joy, e

04/26/2026

I’m at my pop’s house and he’s still sleeping, hence, my low volume.

The old man needs his beauty sleep.

In ceremony yesterday, I picked the “cradleboard” card.

I didn’t get a chance to read the meaning until now.

It feels like a I do a relative good job in being mindful of what’s best for my sons.

Between sending them to in Stanhope, having Katie not work to be present for them, the chores they do with the pay they get, the co-sleeping …

… where I can do better is working less at work.

We’ve created a cash-flow situation where I don’t have much space to work less.

But our teams are working to create that space for me so I can be more present, especially as Bear turns 8 soon and will likely need more daddy time than mommy time.

The cradleboard is also reminding me how my heart craves to learn more of the old ways.

How to pray to the Earth, farming, cultivate herbs and plants, raising animals, being handy around the homestead …

I feel very handicapped in these realms.

This card reminds me to have the courage to overcome these fears for 7 generations down the line.

👉If you have white skin but a red heart, what is one thing that you need to mindful of for the well-being of our people?

Today’s Earth Day, 2026.I find myself asking what holiday is more important than celebrating our home? With religious fe...
04/22/2026

Today’s Earth Day, 2026.

I find myself asking what holiday is more important than celebrating our home?

With religious fervor, we have an opportunity to honor the land the building we live in floats on.

100 years ago, our ancestors populated the frontier in a raw terrain.

I imagine the farmers and cowboys looking into the future with concern.

What would happen to our beautiful land as the Western virus that made NYC back then spreads to the opposite ocean?

I worry for my children, grandchildren and 7 generations down the line as our people seek to extract more resources and money from our planet.

I grieve over the species we’ve already lost to civilization and the animals that will continue to give their lives for larger bank accounts.

I meditate and try to let our waters, mountain, stones, and trees that not all of us seek to r**e and pillage her the way the collective does.

Will our great grand children still have trees to climb on and streams to catch frogs?

What point is there in celebrating the rising of a Messiah over Easter if we don’t have a planet to call home anymore?

The Spirits in the land we reside in patiently wait for us to become still enough to hear their whispers.

Can you take a moment today to send our planet which has given us so much some gratitude?

The 2-legged Bear patiently waits until we are ready to re-cultivate our connection to the Earth and all of her 4-legged, 2-legged, insect, and winged ones.

Meet Josh, who is holding my son, Koa. Josh lived with our family for 2 years. He was with us the day Koa was born, remi...
04/21/2026

Meet Josh, who is holding my son, Koa.

Josh lived with our family for 2 years.

He was with us the day Koa was born, remind Koa this morning that he held him the night we brought him home.

Bear was 2 or 3 years old when he started randomly calling Josh, “Dragon”, which has deep meaning to us in the spiritual community.

Someone who has immense power, deep connection to the Earth, and brings magic into the world.

Josh is someone who wants to be a better man, focused on healing his wounds and traumas, wants to grow, and live with virtue.

He’s the exact type of man who I love to surround myself and my family with.

And he’s willing to hold my boys, loving up on them, and willing to tell them “yes” or “no” the way I imagine elders would in an indigenous community.

So many of us in the West are not only without community, but without family too.

We go through life in very small groups, only with our immediate family, and then we wonder why we suffer with so much mental health issues and suffering.

In community, each and every relationship acts as scaffolding to hold the well-being of every individual.

One’s suffering is everyone’s suffering.

I don’t know of many things more important than finding your people and holding them tightly.

Our children’s well-being depends on it.

For those of you in the North Jersey area who have a strong Earth-based spirituality and are called, whether you’ve ever done them or not before, psychedelic medicines …

… the Bear Clan is open to finding more of our people.

We are a people who seek to live in the Old Ways, led by our Spirit Brother Bear, to be in congruence with natural ways, heal ourselves, and remember our relationship to each other, our food, the dirt under our feet, Great Spirit, and most importantly, our selves.

👉👉 Reach out if this calls you.

❤️🐻

04/16/2026

Humans, especially males, need a “bone to chew on.”

We need a purpose.

Just like a dog.

We let our dog, Ninja, roam in the back yard. She’s a hunter, so she hunts chipmunks and squirrels.

Because we let her do the thing her DNA is meant to do, people always tell us how calm, relaxed, and healthy she seems.

Spiritually, we all have a unique soul imprint and path to walk (our dharma).

The better our actions align with this imprint, the more ease we will feel and the more life will feel like a never-ending vacation.

Boys have a lot of energy.

Katie and I have begun to give our sons chores That they’ll check off and they’ll receive the reward of cash based on their performance.

50% of their income goes towards a savings and investment account so they develop this habit early on.

50% goes into a savings account.

Bear has the expensive habit of liking legoes.

We are no longer buying the legoes for him. It’s his responsibility to track his numbers and plan when he will purchase his next Lego set.

Last week, he bought a toy and didn’t like it.

He cried to katie to bring him back to exchange it.

She said, “Nope, this is a part of the discernment you need to make with your money.”

This chore and reward practice have created cleaning monsters.

We watch 30-60 minutes of Bob’s Burgers at night and they don’t ask for a screen any other time cuz we keep them busy.

They’re now looking to help Katie with anything she is doing, whether they’re paid or not.

Bear told Katie, “I love helping. I love cleaning.”

Contributing in the household builds their self-esteem and creates a work ethic that will serve Bear and Koa when they find the imprint that their souls are meant to walk.

When an adult hasn’t found their bone to chew on, it causes malaise, anxiety, and depression.

The answer is to listen to your heart to see what you feel like you’d enjoy.

Or to remember what you liked as a child or wanted to be as an adult.

The deeper you listen to who you are, the more life will become that never-ending vacation.

👉 What’s your bone to chew on?

04/14/2026

Once you’ve sighed, it’s too late.

Your nervous system is overloaded and is dissipating CO2 to calm it self down.

I always want me nervous system fresh and ready to go.

So I proactively do 5x10 physiologic signs throughout the day.

It proactively dumps a lot of CO2 so you stay running on a low gear so you can go 120 mph when necessary.

Traditionally, scientists and healthcare providers usually say we can’t consciously change our autonomic system.

But with the breath, we get the keys to the system.

I love you.

Boop

04/13/2026

More than 1 out of 5 kids are actually abused before age 8. (Snyder 2000).

1 in 4 girls are sexually abused before age 18.

1 in 6 boys. (Dube et al. 2005)

If we want the child trafficking and sexual abuse to stop, we need to create safe spaces where people who were sexually abused can share what happened to them.

So they can heal it in tribe.

Because that’s what we’ve done since the beginning of time.

When someone doesn’t share the trauma that happened to them or the dark thoughts or compulsions, it gets buried in the shadow of the subconscious.

Then, when someone is stressed out or emotionally volatile, the stage is set to go unconscious and the trauma monster will take over.

The comedian Whitney Cummings has said that it’s more societally accepted to be an alcoholic and go to AA than to be sexually abused.

Because where is the virgin of sexual abuse supposed to go?

Most of them bury it.

If they’re lucky, some will make it into therapy or ceremonies where they can begin to do healing work.

If the people in those spaces or communities are coming from a heart-centered place, the wounds can be exposed.

But this doesn’t happen unless all people can see that we all have our own shadows.

Maybe if I was sexually abused as a kid, I would be sexually abusing other children.

We are all human trying to do the best they can.

Don’t get me wrong — when I hear of this abuse, my blood boils.

But I know that if I truly want to leave this world a better place for my sons when I die, I have to be willing to hold space for those who have good hearts and want the abuse to stop.

I know many people will say, “Burn them all.”

But what if your child gets sexual abused.

Do you burn them too knowing they might have urges when they’re older?

It’s a painful path for all of us.

But the only way out is with an open heart.

❤️🐻✊

When you feel triggers, emotional, or uncomfortable with something you’re experiencing and you immediately need to share...
04/10/2026

When you feel triggers, emotional, or uncomfortable with something you’re experiencing and you immediately need to share with others or project onto someone else, you’re missing an opportunity.

I’m not an “elder”, but I want to be one.

If you crave the peace of “Spirit”, becoming an elder is a necessity.

To walk the path of the elder, we must digest the pain we experience.

What I do is I have a 2-3 day refractory period anytime I’m upset where I don’t share or say anything to anyone.

I let my body run through the full emotional cycle of what it’s experiencing.

At the end of the cycle, 95% of the time, I realize that my discomfort and pain was about me, not about the other person.

And I don’t say anything to the person who irritated me anyway.

This allows me to gain the wisdom of I why I was upset and cleanup karma as I develop my emotional and spiritual bodies to receive the discomfort of life.

Because when we don’t digest the pain and we immediately project, we miss the opportunity to develop these bodies.

And someone else gets the opportunity to digest the pain.

Sharing without projection can be helpful if someone needs support processing what’s going on, if the truly don’t have an intent to leave their “stuff” in someone else’s burden basket.

We then need to share very mindfully if at all.

My conditioning makes it easy for me to process alone, internally, because this is what I always did.

When you’re able to go into the darkness of your psyche alone knowing no one else is coming to save you, you’ll find a level of sovereignty and heart-centeredness that is impossible to find when you lean too much on others.

The more pain we digest and wisdom we accumulate, the more elders we will create in the next 30-50 years.

What greater gift is there for our younger generations?

❤️🐻✊

You might not be conscious of it, but chronic pain sufferers’ subconscious knows who they can trust. Who the pain doctor...
04/04/2026

You might not be conscious of it, but chronic pain sufferers’ subconscious knows who they can trust.

Who the pain doctors and therapists are that are:

⭐️ very skilled at fixing chronic pain.
❤️ have a huge heart.
🔥 who can give them their lives back.

Our people are suffering, immensely.

Chronic musculoskeletal pain continues to become a worsening epidemic with no real end in sight.

seeks to be the solution people are desperate for.

There seems to be a common pattern so far.

Our ARM providers REALLY CARE about people.

They want to make a difference.

And they have their own stores of suffering…

Like you, in your darkest hour.

Maybe thinking of leaving this earth.

Maybe, raging with fists flying.

Or maybe, a river of tears that just wouldn’t seem to stop.

How did you get through?

Somehow, you did.

And now, you have an opportunity to help others …

My life is so blessed.

Sometimes, I forget how much I suffered.

How I fantasized about dying for a decade as an adolescent.

Trying to destroy myself with football, alcohol, people on the street who just might shoot me.

Thankfully, I have marks on my body to remember.

Scars from self mutilation.

Yes, definitely to get other people’s attention.

Even to sexualize myself.

All so that I could feel something.

Because I didn’t know how to get the years of torment to stop.

Physical pain to take away the emotional & spiritual pain at least for a few hours. Or in the case of burns, for a few months.

This scar is on my chest.

You can see the old scars dying off & the newer ones still raised.

I must’ve burned this one over my heart 6-7 times.

🔥 Evidence of why this mission of revolutionizing chronic pain matters so fu***ng much to me.

Because you, yes you reading this, can do something about someone’s suffering.

And I will do anything in my power to help one more person suffer less & experience the peace, joy, & love that I continue to discover.

But I can’t do it without you. Because not everyone can fly to New Jersey for treatment.

❤️❤️If you’re a manual therapist who resonates, comment “train” and let’s talk about saving lives.

04/03/2026

On Easter, kids do Easter egg hunts.

Why eggs?

Eggs symbolize “life coming from the lifeless.”

Winter is a season of death or dormancy.

But with Spring, we start to see new life bloom.

The trees bud, the flowers sprout, and the birds become more active.

We start seeing more life as the days become longer and warmer.

Im reminded that while an egg may look dead or dormant, there’s still life inside.

While parts of me may feel like I’m failing, making mistakes, or dying, Spirit reminds me that there are still glowing embers burning.

What do I need to breathe life into to rekindle the life of that ancient fire in my chest?

For me, it’s remaining vigilant of who I am, a spiritual being inside of a physical meat suit.

Surrendering to Great Spirit’s will, not my own.

👉 How about you this Easter or Spring?

I wish beautiful golden eggs for you, leave the diarrhea eggs to my boys. 🤮

The more I open myself up to and look for synchronicities and signs that I’m being communicated with from the spiritual,...
04/02/2026

The more I open myself up to and look for synchronicities and signs that I’m being communicated with from the spiritual, quantum world, the more messages I seem to get.

At ceremony last weekend, Lauren picked the card.

She intuitively said to herself, “This isn’t for me.”

At the end of ceremony, she gave it to me and said, “This is for you.”

At the surface level, she said she saw shapeshifting.

After all, that’s one of the attributes of “bear medicine”.

But I remember seeing “mitragynia” before.

I googled it. It’s Kratom.

The substance I’ve been abusing for the past 2 years before stopping 4-6 weeks ago.

I laughed out loud due to face slap Great Spirit gave me.

Reminding me, “we are always held.”

I read about this medicine — The shadow side of this plan is addiction, self-abandonment, and failure to grow.

Which is why I’ve disrespected this medicine and have experienced these things over the past 2 years.

I’m curious if in the future, I can have a proper relationship and experience the light side of this plant medicine: subconscious healing, synchronizing Spirit and earth, time travel, and transcending illusion.

But I was told not to explore that light side right now.

So I’ll see if I can develop the relationship without consumption.

👉 Do you pay attention to signs? What’s the last one you’ve had?

❤️🐻🦅

When we don’t live in community, we don’t know how our people are doing. We need to be seeing and feeling each other all...
03/31/2026

When we don’t live in community, we don’t know how our people are doing.

We need to be seeing and feeling each other all day, every day, to truly be there for our tribe.

Most people in today’s day and age are good at hiding things if they feel they need to.

I’ll take myself.

When I’ve been really depressed, most people around me didn’t know.

Or if they did know, they didn’t say anything to me.

Through no fault of their own.

If we don’t live cultivating presence, then we are missing signals from our environments.

When one of my best friends, Rice, killed himself, his friend who he lived with from the time his parents did at age 14 till college had no idea he was suicidal.

And he had spoken to Rice the day before he did it.

Until we can live as a tribe again, it’s vitally important you check on the people you care about.

You never know when you won’t have a chance to tell them you love them.

❤️✊🐻

03/24/2026

The earth is one of the most natural expressions of God or Creator.

I defined “the land” as the expression of Earth in our immediate vicinity, losing connection in a growing radius outside of our location on her surface.

Wherever we are, the land has specific qualities with specific wisdom to it.

Near the oceans, people have relations with the seagulls, fish, whales, dolphins, wind, and sand.

In the mountains, people have relations with the trees, wolves, bears, ticks, and rivers.

In the Amazon, primitive healers know exactly which plants heal which conditions.

Most of us have lost this connection to the land.

Evidence is observed in our lack of respect for the seasons.

We don’t get enough sunlight. Get too much blue light.

Don’t put our feet in the soil.

Can’t hear the birds during the day or the crickets at night, despite science proving that these sounds regulate our brain waves.

And we wonder why we are so depressed and sick?

Seems to me that if we truly wanted to be at peace, connect with Creator, be healthy and happy, we would resume that relationship with a consciousness that is literally always reaching out to us.

All you have to do is go outside and become present to the sun on your skin and the birds whistling in your ear.

And say “thank you.”

She’s not going anywhere.

Unless we create NYC on all land masses or kill her.

Then, she will be gone.

❤️🙏🏼🐻🦅

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Rumi said that.

It’s wise.

Why is it wise?

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