Enter the Looking Glass Where Your Health Comes into Focus
- Jun 2
- 8 min read
Written by Debi Wimberley, Medical Cannabis Educator
Debi Wimberley is a TEDx speaker, author, Medical Cannabis educator, and quality health advocate redefining the conversation around wellness. She empowers others through science-backed insights, lived experience, and bold conversations that challenge the status quo.
In 'How to Put Yourself Back Together When the Health System Couldn't', Humpty taught you about reassembly. You discovered the pieces were never lost, they were just waiting for you to bring them back into conversation. You learned that your internal blueprint was always there. Now comes the part that changes everything, actually seeing who you are in the process of putting yourself back together. To do that, you have to be willing to enter the Looking Glass.
A mirror that reflects the truth
A Looking Glass appears in stories across cultures and centuries. Sometimes it's magical. Sometimes it's just glass. But it always serves the same purpose. It shows you what's actually there.
Not what you wish to see. Not what others tell you is there. But what's really reflected back. A Looking Glass doesn't care about your shame or your self-judgment. It doesn't respond to your fears or your doubts. It simply reflects truth. Without distortion. Without bias.
Your inner Looking Glass works the same way. When you're willing to look into it with genuine curiosity, it shows you the truth about yourself that no one else can see. Not because it's hidden. But because you're the only one who lives inside your own body 24 hours a day. You have access to data no one else has. Are you brave enough to look?
The moment before you look
You’re standing at the threshold. Behind you are years of other people’s opinions about your health, their labels about your condition, their expectations about what’s possible for your healing, their versions of who you should be. In front of you is the Looking Glass, clear, reflective, waiting.
But underneath all of that noise, you’ve sensed things they don’t see. Perhaps you’ve sensed what’s “just right” for your body, that knowing that lives inside you, even if you’ve talked yourself out of trusting it. Perhaps you’ve had questions rise up, “What if there’s more?” even if you learned to push them down. Perhaps you’ve felt your body trying to tell you something, even if you overrode it.
You might sense places inside you that feel disconnected, parts that learned to shut down, a rhythm that got interrupted. These signals are what invite you to look deeper into your reflection.
But none of that matters if you can’t see it, if you can’t witness what you’re becoming, if you can’t trust your own reflection.
You stand at the threshold. Behind you, the noise. In front of you, the glass. This is the moment. Will you reach your hand toward the glass? Will you take a breath? Look!
What happens when you step through
The moment you step through, something happens. The fog of everyone else's opinions and definitions about your health starts to clear.
All the voices that told you who you should be, what was possible for your health, how dependent you had to be on the system begin to fade. But something shifts. You begin to hear your own voice underneath them. Quieter at first. But yours.
This is playful curiosity at work. Not the desperate searching of Alice, first falling down the rabbit hole. But the grounded, centered curiosity of someone who's on the path to becoming aware.
You get to explore your own reflection with wonder. "What do I actually see when I look at myself without shame? Who have I become? What's really true about me?"
These are questions only you can answer. Your Looking Glass, your inner mirror, is ready to show you.
Finding your inner guides
Here's something remarkable that happens when you look in the mirror of your healing. You start to recognize patterns. Teachings. Wisdom that's waiting to guide you.
Throughout this series, characters have shown you different ways of approaching health. But now comes the real work. Discovering which of these teachings you already recognize in yourself.
Where does curiosity show up in your healing? Where do you ask questions about your body? Where do you experiment instead of just accepting what you've been told? That's your Alice or whichever character you find to relate to.
Where have you already found what's "just right" for you? Where do you know, without anyone telling you, that something works? Where have you rejected the one size fits all and trusted your own knowing? That's your Goldilocks moment.
Where does your sensitivity serve you in healing? Where can you feel what others miss? Where do you notice signals in your body that guide you toward what helps? That's your Princess and the Pea, that finely tuned awareness that's actually your superpower.
Where are you putting pieces back together? Where are you learning to reconnect with parts of yourself you've been hiding from? Where are you discovering harmony? That's your Humpty Dumpty at work, the reassembly that's already happening.
These aren't someone else's characters. They're reflections of wisdom you're already discovering about your own healing.
So as you face the Looking Glass, stay curious. Where do I see myself in these discoveries? What am I already noticing? What characters are guiding my healing? The answers are already there. You just have to be willing to acknowledge them.
Through the fog of others' opinions
One of the most powerful things the Looking Glass shows you is how much of what you believed about yourself came from someone else. The doctors' version. Your family's version. Society's version. Your own internalized version.
The fog was never confusion. It was the natural result of trusting systems that were never designed to see all of you. When you're willing to look in the mirror, the fog begins to lift. Once it does, you can't unsee what's there.
The expertise you didn't know you had
Here’s what shifts everything. The moment you realize you are your best health partner. Not the doctors. Not the protocols. Not the experts who studied thousands of people but have never lived inside your body. You!
Because you have something no one else has. Direct access to your own experience. Real time feedback from your nervous system. Immediate data about what works and what doesn't. The ability to notice patterns that only you can see and feel because you're the only one living this life.
Your Looking Glass shows you you've been gathering evidence of your own wisdom all along. Every time you notice something about your body. Every time you asked a question. Every time you experimented and observed what happened. Every time you trusted your sensitivity, even when others dismissed it. That's expertise. Your expertise.
Yes, there will be times when collaboration makes sense. When working with a trauma informed therapist, a somatic practitioner, or a Cannabis educator who understands the Endocannabinoid System (ECS). These partnerships can accelerate your healing. But you're not waiting for them to save you. You're inviting them to walk alongside you. You are the lead guide on your own health journey. Always.
Curiosity as your compass
Your Looking Glass also shows you something else. Curiosity has become your compass. Not the desperate, frantic questioning of someone trying to fix oneself. But grounded, centered curiosity. The kind that comes from self-trust.
You ask questions like. What is my body actually telling me right now? What does this signal mean? What happens when I listen instead of override? Who am I becoming as I honor my own wisdom?
These questions don't have right or wrong answers. They're open ended invitations to know yourself more deeply. Your Looking Glass responds. It shows you truth with every answer you discover.
This is curiosity as navigation. It points you toward your own path. It shows you what's true for you, not what's true for others.
The ECS doesn't lie
There's one mirror inside you that never distorts reality. Your Endocannabinoid System. It doesn't care what you think you should feel. It doesn't respond to your self-judgment or shame. It simply reflects what's actually happening in your body, moment to moment. When you're in balance, your ECS shows you ease, clarity, connection, flow.
When you're out of balance, it shows you signals, inflammation, anxiety, brain fog, pain, disconnection. These aren't failures. They're your ECS speaking truth, reflecting what's actually happening so you can respond accordingly.
The ECS doesn't lie. It can't. It's simply the system that coordinates your whole being, constantly asking, are we in balance, are we safe, what do we need.
Your job is to learn to read it, to trust its reflections, to honor what it's telling you, especially when it contradicts what you've been told.
This is the deepest magic of the Looking Glass. It shows you that the truth you're looking for isn't external, it's inside you, in your body, in your ECS, in the wisdom you've been gathering all along.
Sometimes transformation lands as quietly as a butterfly. You only see it when you're still enough to look in the mirror.
What comes next
You've seen what the Looking Glass can reveal. You may have started to recognize your characters. You may be discovering your own wisdom. But there's one more piece. These characters aren't meant to work alone. They're meant to work together.
In Article 7, you'll discover how these teachings come together in Health in Wiserland, the Curious Questioner. This is where the integration deepens. Where you discover what it means to become your own guide.
But first, keep looking in your mirror. The reflections are just beginning to reveal who you really are. Your Looking Glass doesn't lie. Trust what it shows you.
Curious to capable when healing has direction
Now you've seen what reassembling looks like. The Looking Glass lets you witness what starts to take shape when the pieces begin talking to each other again.
Your Looking Glass is waiting. It's not asking you to be someone else. It's not comparing you to anyone else. It's simply reflecting back what's true. You may be wiser than you thought. Stronger than you believed. More capable of guiding your own health than any external authority.
All you have to do is look. Your next step can be as simple as staying connected. For the truly curious healers. Follow on Instagram for daily reflections, mirror work prompts, and invitations to see yourself clearly.
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Debi Wimberley, Medical Cannabis Educator
Debi Wimberley is a trailblazer in the Medical Cannabis space, blending lived experience with clinical insight. After surviving decades of chronic pain and lung disease, she transformed her journey into a mission to educate and empower. With a background in medical technology and oncology and certifications in Cannabis applications and patient care, she brings science and compassion together with a focus on health and improving quality of life. As founder of Effective Cannabis and the global EC Newsletter, Debi unites certified educators, coaches, and professionals to deliver fact-based, stigma-free education that inspires real change.
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