Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

How the pandemic sparked his book #substack #shorts

23 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker explains how the COVID‑19 pandemic forced a transition from in‑person to telehealth therapy, leading to an overwhelming surge of client appointments—up to eight or nine per day, three days a week. The sheer volume of demand made the work unsustainable, prompting the speaker to reflect on the experience. This reflection became the seed for a book that frames health and wellness as both an artistic practice and a scientific discipline, exploring the factors that contribute to well‑being while emphasizing the synergy between personal lifestyle choices and measurable health metrics.

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activities kind of with some synergy in regard to how you live things out is kind of what the book kind of runs you through looking at it kind of more of an art form. But I also kind of look at the science in terms of, you know, what are the factors that are out there that kind of say, hey, this is kind of what contributes to your health and wellness. But it started, the idea kind of started during the pandemic and at that point I could no longer go into the office. Like, like I'm in my office right now, no longer come to the office. And so I started to have to do kind of therapy, kind of telehealth online, which was kind of new for me. Quickly what happened is I had such an inundation with people wanting to come see me that I couldn't see anybody anymore. It just got so much that I was seeing like 8, 9 people a day, 3 days a week. And it just, it just became too much.