Western medicine became what it is today: a system grounded in reproducibility, built on proof, and refined by failure.

And while the intent might be genuine—wellness, nutrition, mental health, balance—the machinery behind it is not just about care.

There’s a new kind of nurse making rounds—not in hospitals, but on Instagram. They don't wear scrubs or a badge. Instead, they don flowy linen, sip matcha, and speak in pastel affirmations about “energy alignment” and “leaving the bedside to live in abundance.” Their charting system? Canva. Their rounds? Reels. Their message? You too can have it all—autonomy, freedom, six figures—if you just learn the system. (AKA - Buy my course on sale for only $129) This is the era of Soft

Why the Instagram Dream of Economic Freedom— Wine Glass, Beach Photo, Luxury Car — Isn’t the Whole Story. I n the age of polished Instagram reels and TikTok sound-bites, it’s too easy for nurses (and all professionals) to be swept up in the aesthetics of hustle culture. You see the young, tattooed “functional nurse” on a beach in Bali, sipping coconut water, typing on a Mac with an exotic car in the background, and you think: Maybe I too could escape the bedside, build a lucr

Scroll your feed and you’ll see it everywhere: wellness influencers, supplement brands, and self-styled “functional practitioners” promising to “address the root cause.” The phrase has become the rallying cry of modern health marketing — a moral indictment of “traditional medicine,” as if every physician, nurse, or pharmacist were conspiring to suppress the truth beneath a pile of prescription pads. But here’s the irony: “root cause” isn’t new. It’s not the property of welln

This week, a post slid through my feed—the kind that makes you pause somewhere between disbelief and despair. A self-described “concerned citizen” claimed to have witnessed a healthcare worker receiving a flu vaccine. What caught their attention wasn’t the injection itself, but what they claimed to see : “I could see the heavy metals in her eyes.” It would almost be funny if it weren’t so effective. Because this is the modern ecosystem of misinformation—where a sentence like

It often starts with a personal health crisis. A nurse—burned out, disillusioned, or broken by a system that rewards resilience over recovery—steps away from the bedside. After years of twelve-hour shifts, short staffing, and moral injury, they reach the edge. Some find solace in therapy, others in yoga or supplements or quiet. And some—armed with lived experience, professional knowledge, and a smartphone—rebrand themselves. They become “functional nurses.” Part clinician, p