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A Common Sense Approach to Wellbeing

John Ege
6 min readJul 9, 2021

You don’t have to be a health nut to be healthy. You don’t have to do anything extravagant. Is there a time to be radical? Sure. During a crisis, it is sometimes necessary to be radical in order to get your ‘car back on the road.” Then again, sometimes jerking the wheel puts you in an unrecoverable spin. Slow, stop, recalibrate, begin again. Whether it’s physical, emotional, or mental, you need nothing more than modest measures and activity. Let’s break some myths and stereotypes together.

I am not the health guru anyone is going to pay to see. I am a counselor. I am actually knowledgeable about some things. And so, let’s discuss a few items I enjoy talking about.

Ego or not to ego, that is the question

Seriously, ego gets a lot of bad wrap. If you come to me, I am not going to tell you to kill your ego. If you want to go to Tibet and live on a mountain, yeah, maybe you don’t need an ego. Most the people who show up at my office could use some ego reinforcement. Ego is functional. Are there people who could stand to lose some ego? Sure. Health gurus. Motivational speakers. Snake oil salespeople. Politicians. Lawyers.

Think of it this way. You’re a soul. You’re visiting earth and you chose an avatar. A character. Without that…

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John Ege
John Ege

Written by John Ege

LPC-S, Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.

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