Environmental Illness Recovery Journey: From Breaking to Rebuilding with Align Well Energetics
- Reggie Palma
- Mar 10
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 18

"What poisons can also purify. Our journey from toxic sanctuary to sacred healing began with this fundamental truth: sometimes the greatest dangers hide in plain sight, while the most powerful medicines remain invisible to conventional eyes. This is where breaking becomes rebuilding."
Let's cut through the usual wellness narrative. We didn't start this because we had some enlightened vision while meditating on a mountaintop. We started because we got sick really sick and the systems that were supposed to help us failed spectacularly.
Foundations That Actually Matter
My path began in martial arts Kali Silat specifically. Not the sanitized studio version, but the Filipino stick and blade system that teaches you how bodies really move and adapt. This wasn't just training; it was rewiring my understanding of physical response.
I took this body knowledge further through metalworking, sculpture, and performing as a cirque straps artist. When you're suspended twenty feet up, you develop a relationship with physics that textbooks can't teach you.
Meanwhile, my wife had spent her formative years as an elite level gymnast training her entire life and competing through college. This created a profound body awareness that would later let her detect what conventional testing misses entirely. Her subsequent career as a nurse practitioner added clinical understanding while showing her exactly where modern medicine falls short.
Between us, we had the academic credentials (kinesiology, anatomy, physiology) and the lived experience. Yet none of it prepared us for what came next.
Home Sweet Hazard
Our sanctuary had become our poison. Not metaphorically literally.
Despite our combined knowledge, we found ourselves battling debilitating fatigue, brain fog, pain, and a laundry list of symptoms. The doctors? They weren't confused. They just didn't believe us. When simple dismissal didn't work, they switched to full on gaslighting the medical equivalent of "it's not me, it's you." The real kicker? Labs often showed nothing. That's the problem most doctors won't admit conventional testing isn't sensitive enough to detect what's happening when your organs are too compromised to properly filter toxins into blood or urine where tests can find them. All while our intuition was powerfully telling us something was very wrong.
The answer wasn't in better doctors or more supplements. It was in our walls. Our neighbor's pipe had ruptured, leaking into our unit and unleashing a nightmare of hidden mold and mycotoxins. We cycled through all the classics anger, denial, and a particularly unproductive stint in victimhood.
But here's the thing about catastrophes: they force awakening. Once the mold crisis shattered our worldview, we started questioning everything. That's when we discovered the compounding effects of off gassing building materials and the largely ignored impact of uncorrected, detrimental electromagnetic fields and electrosmog invisible assailants that had been silently attacking our bodies' systems all along.
This led us down a path few in modern medicine dare to tread: rediscovering ancient wisdom about the ether and our etheric fields. The same invisible matrix that Nikola Tesla understood and indigenous healers have worked with for millennia. It turns out that what we can't see with conventional tools is often what's most powerfully affecting our wellbeing. This understanding would later become the foundation of our work with radiesthesia and biogeometry but that's a story for another chapter.
Here's the uncomfortable truth most wellness professionals won't tell you: Sometimes the environment you live in overrides everything else you're doing right. And sometimes, the best thing that happens to you starts as the worst.
What we've discovered through this journey is even more fundamental: energy medicine is ultimately the primal approach to fixing root causes. The true foundation of health isn't just removing toxins it's developing a strong, coherent energy body that creates resilience against everything life throws at you.
The challenge? Most people today are so physically dense and calcified from modern living that we have to start with the physical body before effective energetic work becomes possible. It's like trying to tune a radio that's been buried under concrete first, you have to clear away the density before the signal comes through clearly.
Beyond Recovery to Revolution
Our healing journey wasn't just about getting better. It was about completely reimagining what healing should look like.
We've merged seemingly disparate approaches movement arts, bodywork, nursing, radiesthesia, sound therapy, and environmental medicine into something that actually addresses the whole person and the spaces they inhabit.
Align Well Energetics isn't offering incremental improvements to the broken system that failed us. We're offering an alternative built from the ground up.
Our flagship sessions don't separate body from energy or environment because your body doesn't. The myofascial work, biofield sound therapy, QHHT techniques, and radiesthesia assessments are delivered as one coherent experience addressing what's actually happening in your body right now.
Our apothecary exists for the same reason: we needed remedies that supported actual healing without becoming another burden on an already overtaxed system.
No Dependency Model Here
We're not interested in becoming your permanent wellness solution. That's just another form of dependency.
Instead, we're committed to showing you how to recognize and trust your body's internal wisdom. You become the primary author of your healing journey. We're just providing better tools and clearer maps than we had when we started.
The transformation we've experienced wasn't optional for us it was survival. What we offer now is the approach we wish we'd found when our own health was collapsing.
Your body already knows how to heal. Let's remove what's in its way.