Technology and Your Health

Why the Right Time Is Always Now

On 21st June, my clinic will be fully open again, in person. 🎉
I don’t like to wish time away, but it really cannot come quickly enough.

Until then, I’m grateful for the technology that has kept us connected. Zoom has been a lifeline and a challenge. It enables us to meet, but it also reminds us of what is missing: true human presence.

“No matter where you are on the health spectrum, prevention is never too late.”

Technology vs Presence

Technology absolutely has its place, and medicine has benefited enormously from it. But the less-talked-about aspects of being human, the emotional, spiritual, and social sides of health, often get set aside.

Try mentioning your personal challenges to a surgeon. Watch their eyebrows lift slightly north, or their eyes glaze over. It is not that they are not human, it is simply a different perspective on health.

My approach is holistic. You cannot separate mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. Each plays a role, and their importance shifts throughout life.

Prevention and Timing

“Prevention” is often the advice given for staying healthy. While true, it also tends to favour people who already appear “healthy” by society’s standards. Many people I see believe it is too late for them.

It is never too late. I am living proof of that, and I will not be argued out of it.

“When you notice time passing, feeling like you are not really living it, that is your perfect time to act.”

Timing matters. At different points in your day, or your life, you think about your health. Too often, that thought is pushed aside: “Another time will be better.”

But the moment you feel it, that is the right time. The right time to understand why you are where you are, right now. Living with constant stress or anxiety wastes valuable, irreplaceable time.

A Personal Note

Recently, I met a lady at exactly the right time for her. It was her turning point. And that is what I hope for everyone who walks through my door when the clinic reopens: to find their right time.