Is 2025 the Year of Sovereignty?

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2025 may well be the year MAHA—Make America Healthy Again—goes global. The dominance of governments, Big Pharma, and food giants in shaping our health and well-being is finally being questioned. And that’s great news.

But here’s the sticking point: governments can legislate, but can’t make us healthy.

Only we can do that.

And that’s always been the tricky part.

There’s a gap.

The Energetic Gap

A space between where we are now and where we want to be—the version of us that feels vital, strong, and well. This is the version that is in command of ourselves. Even when we know what would make us healthier, crossing that gap is harder than it looks. For a long time, I misunderstood why.

I spent years searching outside myself—diets, supplements, superfoods, therapies, meditation. All of it had value, but in the end, these were satellites orbiting the core issue. Each offered a piece in the puzzle, but none filled the blank space at the centre— The Command Centre. See what I did there?!

What was invisible to me for decades was this: I lacked personal sovereignty.

Sovereignty

We rarely use that word when talking about ourselves. We don’t define ourselves as sovereign. We don’t routinely live from that core inner place, radiating personal strength and self-direction outwards. I think, for many, it still sounds a bit woo-woo. But in truth, it’s anything but. Sovereignty is foundational. It underpins everything we are, everything we do, and shapes everything we’re becoming.

I was born in the ‘70s. Sovereignty wasn’t part of my upbringing. It wasn't a thing.

It was never discussed at the dinner table. I doubt it was on my parents’ radar—and likely not their parents’ either. It wasn’t taught in school. If anything, we were steered toward conformity, toward blending into the homogenous whole.

Economics

But consider this: if we now all begin to move through life as truly sovereign beings—if that became our baseline—the entire economic system would look unrecognisable.

If we saw ourselves as sovereign souls and fiercely guarded what entered our physical, mental, and emotional systems—what we ate, absorbed, and believed—the marketplace would have to shift. It would reflect our standards, not shape them.

Right now, we buy products assuming someone else has made them with our well-being in mind. We accept major compromises to our natural rhythms as part of modern life. We often choose convenience over deep self-consideration. And sometimes, we convince ourselves that youth makes us immune to the consequences of neglect.

But if we were raised to see ourselves as sovereign—and held that responsibility with maturity and care—our spending would become strategic. Intentional. Industry would have no choice but to respond.

However...

Sovereignty isn’t just about power—it’s fundamentally about responsibility. Primarily, the responsibility we have to ourselves.

To act with free will.

Directing choice.

To live as independent souls, not outsourced ones.

That’s the real weight of sovereignty: it demands that we lead ourselves.

And here’s where I land on it—I'm all for individual choice. Drink, smoke, eat what you like. But that choice must rest on a foundation of truth.

The government's role isn't to parent us. Its job is to ensure transparency.

My hope is that this will be the true legacy of MAHA: clean food, non-toxic ingredients, and real data.

Because sovereignty means the freedom to choose, but only when we fully understand what we’re choosing.

Informed consent isn’t just a medical term. It applies to every label, every additive, every hidden risk. Sovereignty demands disclosure. Then, we decide.

In my view, sovereignty is the missing link. It’s why so many struggle to bridge the gap between their current reality and their Desired State. Without personal sovereignty, we lack the grounding to make lasting change and cross the Energetic Gap.