Square Peg Healers in a Round Hole System

One of the greatest challenges holistic healers face right now is not that we don’t have the skill to help people heal—it’s that we don’t fit the current cosmology of healthcare.

Western medicine is extraordinarily good at acute problems and physical emergencies, but it struggles with the layered terrain of identity, meaning, purpose, spirituality, sexuality, social belonging, and worldview. Psychedelics are a perfect example: the outcomes are real and promising, but they refuse to confine themselves to a purely biochemical paradigm. They insist on bringing wonder, existential reflection, and consciousness into the treatment room. It’s a square peg in a round hole—not because the science isn’t there, but because the cosmology isn’t big enough yet.

Energetic healers face a similar tension. Many of us feel like mutants in the X-Men sense—aware that our gifts are real and useful, but operating without a shared framework to quantify, qualify, or articulate them. There is not yet a Francis Xavier to tell us we are important, to train us, to certify our gifts, and to give us the language that the culture can metabolize. So we shrink. We grasp for words. We apologize for the lack of a dictionary that simply hasn’t been written yet.

That linguistic gap is not a failure—it’s evidence that we are mid-cosmology creation.

The work many of us are doing is paradigm shifting not just in content, but in power dynamics. Our modality doesn’t say “I heal you.” It says, “You heal you, and I hold exquisite space for the innate intelligence of your body, psyche, and soul to reorganize.” That orientation alone breaks the hierarchy that defines our current healthcare system—where expertise flows downward, patients are acted upon, and value is measured in extractable procedures.

The cosmology emerging through consciousness-oriented healing doesn’t include hierarchy or extraction. It includes relationship, reciprocity, self-agency, curiosity, pleasure, embodiment, and meaning-making. It asks us to update our understanding of what health actually is—beyond symptom suppression and into sovereignty, alignment, and authorship.

Of course that’s hard to market in the current economy. It’s not built for that terrain yet. But institutions are already wobbling under the pressure of the future—healthcare, education, and the economy are all in metamorphosis. The old scaffolding is cracking; the new scaffolding has not yet been built.

This liminal space is uncomfortable, but it is also rich with possibility. It asks for visionaries, bridge-builders, and healers who are willing to do the inside-out work of cosmology creation—naming what has not been named, mapping what has not been mapped, and practicing new forms of power that do not replicate the old.

We are not behind. We are not failing. We are early.

The language, the frameworks, and the structures are coming. And we will build them faster—and better—if we remember that world-building is not meant to be a solo sport. We do better when we do it together.

If you identify with this moment in the timeline, or you are a healer, practitioner, artist, or visionary who feels like a square peg in the old system, I invite you to join us in the Liberated Healers Collective—where we are actively co-creating the future of healing, narrative, and care.