This Father's Day, we're sharing a conversation with Dr. Bradley Campbell, a natural health practitioner and new father, about trusting your inner wisdom—something we deeply believe in here at Honeybee Hippie.
- As someone immersed in ten different natural health disciplines (wow!), how has this broader view revealed blind spots many of us have when thinking about our health? I think I’ve realized that there is always hope. You learn about hundreds of different ways to fix any one problem, so no one has ever exhausted all their options, even though many people like “they’ve tried everything”.
- How can deepening self-trust lead to improved health outcomes? Do you have an example you could share? We often look externally to authority figures for truth, wisdom, and validation. In truth, we have almost all answers inside of us, and when we hear truth externally, the reason we know and feel it to be true is because it resonates profoundly in the inner core of our being, which knows truth. Every single patient starts with wanting me to tell them what is wrong and what to do, and most of my job is figuring out how quickly I can teach them to solve their own problems, tap into their intuition, and be in charge of their health. I had one patient who wanted to lose weight. She had gone to 30 different doctors, paid a fortune to try different diets, but no one had asked her what she thought she would have to do lose weight. I gave her the homework to go home, think about it, and come back, and she never came back. She messaged me a year later—she lost 60 lb easily by just trusting herself and doing what she knew to be right.
- Congrats on recently welcoming your baby boy! Which natural health practices have become most non-negotiable for your family since becoming a father? Prioritizing sleep is now #1, and saying NO to more demands of our time so we can enjoy each precious day.
- In a world filled with constant advice, trends, and outside opinions, how do you distinguish between external noise and your inner wisdom? Shut off your phone and go outside. Keep walking until you figure it out. Forget what anyone or any screen has told you, and focus on what God/Nature/Your inner nature are saying to you. Just ask- it will come.
- We'd love to hear about your favorite Honeybee Hippie products and why. Magnesium butter because rubbing it into my wife’s feet helps her sleep better and be her best self.