About me

Hi, I’m Robo (it’s Albanian).  This society literally makes us sick and I will explain here how I’ve suffered in my own way as a result. I now live to serve as an antidote. I have been through a lot and my healing journey has armed me with tools to help others. Below I summarize some of my story. For my educational background click here.

Initially I majored in psychology. Instead I studied the system, via politics/economics, that underlies most suffering in the world. I then pivoted into wellness.

I was a gifted student, and being bored became a class clown outspoken to the hypocrisy I perceived. I was subjected to an array of psychiatric drugs, inpatient and outpatient institutionalization. Being a Navy brat subjected me to different doctors with a variety of diagnoses which subjected me to even more diverse drugs. Eventually I refused the medications which caused obesity, addiction, and organ failure in order to “make me better.” My blood was drawn at every weekend. I’d get violently ill missing doses. 

Despite the drugs I still got in trouble and was sometimes beaten. Refusing medications in eight grade led to legal intervention by my parents which lead to juvie, probation, and was in a detention center, Boys Home, for my freshman year. I befriended a kid who I fought that year who became my weight lifting partner and I got fit before moving back home.

I still didn’t get along with my folks and moved in to care for my newly widowed grandmother. I got expelled from two schools and hung out with kids involved in gangs. After charges of GTA, driving without a license, possession of cannabis, and a curfew violation I spent most of my junior year of high school locked up also including my seventeenth birthday. Upon release I moved back with my family. Despite being on parole I repeated the eleventh grade, graduated high school with honors, and earned multiple AP credits.

As an adult I have learned about how our society exacerbates the problems it professes to solve and suppresses, marginalizes, even demonizes actual solutions. Knowing this I’ve come to terms with my childhood. One silver-lining is never wanting to take drugs after being subject to big pharma meddling with my mind.

With great difficulty I persisted to graduate college. Afterwards I avoided the dismal abstraction called the “real world.” I never got a regular job, lived close to nature, and have travelled a decent amount. I’ve eaten organic, plant-based and unprocessed foods. Increased fitness habits allowed me to complete half and full marathons, also enabling me to see many sites such as trail running around beautiful places like national parks. The lessons I’ve learned over these years and the eclectic education gained over that time have put me in a position to help others. I believe in the healing power of time in nature, entheogens, self-determination, diet, physical activity, and being treated with respect as instrumental to facilitate functional freedom and for us to be our true selves.

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