I have been where you are. There is a way through this — and you come out of it stronger, healthier and more whole.
I am Christopher Scipio — Registered Herbalist, Holistic Viral Specialist, and the most experienced practitioner in the holistic management of herpes. Thirty-six years living and thriving with the virus. Twenty-three years of clinical practice helping people with herpes strengthen their immune systems, change their diets and lifestyles, learn to have “the talk” in an empowering way, and do the emotional and spiritual work that makes keeping the virus dormant possible.
We are living in a Herpes Nation.
At least 60 per cent of the population carries herpes above or below the waist — some scientists put that number at 80 to 90 per cent. The majority of people who have herpes do not know it. All animals with backbones get herpes — cats, horses, elephants, salmon. Most animals without a backbone get herpes, including worms. This is one of the oldest forms of life on the planet.
And yet the fear and stigma around it have been blown completely out of proportion.
Why? Why is herpes feared and scorned like almost no other condition in modern times? It is a sexually transmitted skin infection classified as a minor disease in dermatological textbooks. It is milder than its own relatives — chickenpox, shingles, mono. But it is sexually transmitted, and anything to do with sex in this sexually conflicted world comes under fire.
The stigma causes more suffering than the virus. The jokes that are not funny. The cruelty. The silence. The shame that millions of people carry alone, sometimes for decades, afraid to say the word out loud.
Whether you were diagnosed last week or you have been living with this for years — you were born with the right to be happy, to enjoy your health, to love and to be loved, and to have a full and satisfying sex life. Having herpes changes none of that.
I did not come to this work from the outside.
Ten generations of African-Caribbean herbalists. Born in Trinidad. Practising herbal medicine since 1986. Diagnosed with herpes in my mid-twenties. It took years, but I found my way to peace — I stopped my recurring outbreaks, I stopped being at war with my body, and I built the holistic approach to herpes that I have now been sharing with people from around the world for 23 years.
In 2006 I wrote Making Peace With Herpes — the first holistic herpes guide ever written. The 20th Anniversary Edition is a complete rewrite with twenty more years of clinical experience in it.
Start with the book. Then ask me anything.
I wrote this book to help myself as much as anyone else. Twenty years ago I was still in the thick of it. Today I am at peace with the virus and the virus is at peace with me. That peace — and the path I took to get there — is what this book is about.
Making Peace With Herpes is not just about how to have fewer outbreaks. Just doing that is not enough to be healthy. This book is about the diet, the supplements, the lifestyle — and equally about the shame, the grief of diagnosis, the fear of disclosure, the damage done to self-image and sexual confidence. It is about learning to have the talk in a way that is empowered and drama-free. It is about forgiveness — of the person who gave you herpes, and more importantly of yourself. It is about learning to be in love and harmony with your body, with nature, with the virus itself.
Healing is a return to balance, to equilibrium, to a state of grace. You can achieve all of this with the virus still in your body.
This was the first holistic herpes guide when I wrote it in 2006. The 20th Anniversary Edition is a complete rewrite with twenty more years of clinical experience in it.
Ebook — $4.99 | Paperback — $9.95 | Audiobook — $7.99
How the Initial Consultation Works
Nobody else in the world has herpes the same way you do. Your immune system, your nervous system, your history, your diet, your relationships, your stress, your spiritual life — all of it shapes how this virus expresses itself in your body and what it will respond to.
This is why every person I work with begins with a conversation.
The Initial Consultation is 60 minutes, one-on-one with me. I ask questions. I listen. We go deep. Based on that conversation I make specific, carefully selected recommendations — for diet, for herbal medicine, for lifestyle, and for the emotional and spiritual dimensions of the work. Every recommendation is tailored to you as an individual, not to herpes as a category.
Sometimes what people need most is a relationship with a sympathetic, supportive, non-judgmental, no-bullshit practitioner who has been there. That in itself can be the strongest medicine there is.
Initial Consultation — $200 USD