It’s Your Responsiblity, Not Your Fault

This is the sixth in a series of posts about lessons I’ve learned from my authors.

TL;DR: The lesson I learned while ghostwriting Eric and Ruben’s book Post-Diabetic: Blame accomplishes nothing. We have both agency and responsibility to make things better in our lives and our world. 

Health coach Eric Edmeades and physician Ruben Ruiz have a simple and powerful prescription in their book Post-Diabetic. More and more Americans are suffering from Type 2 diabetes—it truly is a pandemic of slow-motion illness. Yet these people are not at fault; they—we—are victims of a food and medical system that has been stacked against our maintaining optimal health for more than half a century. This is not a conspiracy theory book—quite the opposite. The research and history the authors brought to the project builds a solid case for why Americans today confront a world that seems committed to making them unhealthy and keeping them that way.

What I like about their message is that the issue of fault isn’t an issue at all. The situation exists; now it’s up to us to deal with it. In Post-Diabetic, they show readers how to stop or reverse adult onset Type 2 diabetes, an approach that is at the cutting edge of contemporary medicine. 

Eric and Ruben’s worldview lends itself to many areas of our public and private lives: Climate change. Social justice. Toxic media. Political disenchantment. The list of ailments our society faces goes on. We as a culture spend an enormous amount of energy pointing fingers at each other. Yes, there should be accountability, but that’s the sound of one hand clapping. The situation is what it is; it’s up to us to change it.

Post-Diabetic: An Easy-to-Follow 9-Week Guide to Reversing Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes