May 12, 2026
Over the years, my work has been guided by a simple question: what truly helps people heal, regulate, and feel more fully alive?
This question has shaped my path through integrative psychiatry, peak performance medicine and broader work in human transformation. I’ve spent much of my career helping people move through trauma, depletion, disconnection and stress into greater clarity, resilience, vitality, and wellbeing.
This is a major reason why I said yes to Walk With Life and SANNAS.
What drew me in was a combination of the product itself, the team and their mission. I’ve always gravitated to approaches that support the nervous system and emotional wellbeing in ways that are natural, responsible, and genuinely life-giving. SANNAS is just this kind of support. It is built around Sceletium tortuosum, also known as kanna, a South African botanical with a long history of traditional use by the San and Khoisan bush people of the Kalahari Desert, who have used it as their walking medicine to support energy, mood, clarity and stress resilience.
In my world and work, I’m not looking for hype. I’m looking for alignment. I care about tools that can fit into a larger healing process with integrity. I care about whether something is thoughtfully formulated. I care about whether it respects both the intelligence of the body and the complexity of the human experience. And I care about whether it can be brought to people in a way that feels safe, clean, and grounded.
This is what I found with Walk With Life.
My role with Walk With Life is to serve as the Medical Architect, helping guide formulation development and brand standards. For me, this means asking deeper questions: Is it well made? Is it responsibly positioned? Does it reflect the kind of care I would want for the people I serve? Does it honor the place and people of its origin? Because if I’m going to put my name behind something, it must be in full alignment with my values.
What I appreciate about SANNAS is that it lives in a space I believe more people are looking for: tangible support that does not come at the expense of their long-term wellbeing. So many people want help with mood, stress, connection, presence and vitality, and they do not want to feel dulled out, dependent, or further disconnected from themselves. They want something that supports them without taking too much in return.
This matters to me clinically and therapeutically.
In my work, healing doesn’t come from a savior or silver bullet. It is about creating the right conditions for change, which includes greater: responsibility, regulation, capacity, steadiness, clarity, and access to deep presence. When someone feels even a little more resourced in their own body and mind, it positively affects everything else, including therapy, recovery, relationships, purpose and performance. This is where I see thoughtful plant-based tools having value. Not as a substitute for deeper work, but as something that nourishes the terrain where deeper work occurs. This is the general architecture of the whole-person focus I prescribe across my clinical, educational and transformational work.
I’m also drawn to the spirit of collaboration behind this project. I’ve written about how meaningful works best when people come together and work towards a shared goal, each bringing their role in service of something larger than themselves. That spirit of united purpose matters, and it is part of what makes projects like this worth doing. I’ve found this with the team at WWL – each member has been affected in some way by the downsides of recreational substances or pharmaceuticals and is committed to addressing it with alignment and integrity.
At this stage in my life, I’m increasingly interested in helping build bridges between ancient wisdom, modern science, and everyday practical wellness. I choose to aid in the cocreation of a world where people have more options and ability to access products that are consciously sourced, skillfully made and catalysts of positive fundamental change. My involvement with Walk With Life and SANNAS comes from this ethos.
For me, this is not about chasing trends. It is about supporting people with greater care. My purpose is always the same: to help people suffer less, heal more deeply, and live with greater presence, purpose, vitality, and faith. My work with Walk With Life and SANNAS is one expression of this larger mission.