Newsletter #63: ✨ Introducing: Good Energy Stewards
A membership committed to health, growth, and positive impact
📣 To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, click here.
Over the past year, as I stepped away from public life and professional commitments during my nomination process for Surgeon General, I had the opportunity to think deeply about my work and the kind of future I want to help create.
The longer I’ve spent studying and educating on health, the more I’ve come to believe that the overwhelming health issues we face are a symptom of a deeper set of challenges we must address to truly thrive. These challenges include isolation from nature and community, loss of meaning and purpose, technology addiction, chronic overwhelm and busyness, devastation of the natural world through pollution and extraction, and the growing cultural tendency to dismiss the sacred and mysterious aspects of life in favor of a worldview that values only what can be measured.
Despite living in a world of unprecedented abundance and convenience, there is a pervasive sense that something essential is missing.
I think many of us feel that gap... It’s painful.
It can cause us to feel stuck and discouraged on our own health journeys.
I know many of you want to be part of the solution — you write to me each week to share this! — and so do I.
As my thinking evolved, I found myself wanting every part of my work—including the business model behind this newsletter—to reflect those values more fully, and to develop offerings that help all of us meaningfully translate our health intentions into reality.
Over the first year and a half of this newsletter, I worked with sponsors I deeply admire and am so proud to support. These mission-driven founders and teams are advancing many of the values I care about most: regenerative agriculture, sustainability, transparency, scientific rigor, and greater agency in health. They made this newsletter possible, and I am profoundly grateful.
Over time, I have found myself drawn less to recommending products—even ones I love and use daily—as the foundation for how the newsletter is supported, and more to building a new chapter of my work centered on helping us rise toward the healthier, more purposeful, and more generative version of ourselves that many of us long to embody — the fullest expression of who we are.
All of this led me to create something new.
Today, I’m THRILLED to announce the launch of Good Energy Stewards, a membership for everyone committed to cultivating more health, growth, and positive impact in their lives and communities.
Importantly, my weekly Tuesday newsletter will remain completely free, as it always has been.
Good Energy Stewards is a new frontier of my work, bringing together research, daily actionable inspiration, gentle accountability, art, and community to cultivate the conditions that turn health information into real embodiment and lasting transformation.
🌱 Why a Steward?
I have become increasingly drawn to the concept of humans as stewards, and I believe embracing this identity can be a powerful force for healing—both within ourselves and in the world around us. I’ve been thinking about it especially as a new parent, being entrusted with caretaking the precious gift of life.
A steward is someone who ethically and responsibly cares for and cultivates something entrusted to them. The concept carries the spirit of:
Care over control
Long-term flourishing over short-term extraction
Service over expectation
Authenticity over ego
In many ways, I believe identifying as a steward may help us reclaim a sense of purpose that is deeply human—and in doing so, can bring greater meaning, fulfillment, and satisfaction to our lives… and provide a big, positive reframe to our health journeys.
Health → we are stewards of our cells and bodies.
Purpose → we are stewards of our gifts and attention.
Nature → we are stewards of the Earth and the web of life.
Parenthood → we are stewards of the next generation.
Community → we are stewards of the systems and communities we participate in.
Good Energy → we are stewards of our energy and how we direct it into the world.
What is a Good Energy Steward?
A Good Energy Steward is someone committed to generating more health—starting within themselves and extending outward into their families, communities, and the natural world.
By joining this membership, you are taking a conscious step to put these values into practice, supported by resources designed to transform positive intention into action.
✍️ The Good Energy Steward Manifesto
This is certainly how I want to show up in the world! I have a long way to go to fully embody this, but it’s the goal.
How about you? Are you on this journey as well?
💪 The Good Energy Stewards Mission
Generate better health within ourselves → live with greater energy, joy, and purpose → bring more good energy into the world → help build a healthier, more harmonious future for all beings
Or said another way:
🦠 Cell
Support the fundamental processes that create metabolic energy in our cells: Food, movement, sleep, relationships, light, stress, and environment all influence how effectively our cells produce energy.
🏃 Self
When our cells function well, our bodies function well, and we increase our capacity to think clearly, feel positively, learn, create, connect, and live with greater purpose and integrity.
🧘♂️ Spirit
As we feel more energy and become more aligned with our values and purpose, we may have more capacity to cultivate gratitude, meaning, courage, curiosity, compassion, and awe.
🌍️ World
We bring that energy outward—into our families, communities, work, culture, and the natural world. By embodying thriving in ourselves, we have the energy and inspiration to work on systems-level change from a place of grounding and wholeness, which feeds into helping others live well.
This membership aims to support your ability to engage with health at each of these levels.
🛠️ The Steward's Toolkit: Membership Offerings
A daily reminder. A community committed to growth. Ideas worth wrestling with. Research worth understanding. Small actions repeated consistently.
The Good Energy Stewards membership offers a collection of ideas, practices, conversations, and community designed to help us consistently move toward our best selves.
(Frankly, this membership is exactly what I’m looking for in my own life right now as I navigate the full and intoxicating early days of motherhood, restoring fitness post-partum, and also re-entering the professional world… and what many of you have been asking for for years!)
As a Steward, you’ll receive the following offerings to inspire your health journey:
🎙️ Weekly Audio Editions
Weekly audio recordings of the newsletter read by me, designed to make it easier to weave these ideas into daily life—on a walk, during a workout, or in a quiet moment of reflection.
As a sample, you can listen to this newsletter on YouTube here.
❓️ Monthly Q&A
Each month, I'll select several member questions to answer in depth, creating a space for shared inquiry around health, growth, purpose, and the challenges of living well.
(Note: I cannot ever answer questions about personal medical conditions or provide individual medical recommendations.)
🕯️ Daily Good Energy Spark
One thought delivered each morning. Sometimes it will be a simple healthy habit. Sometimes a mindset shift, spiritual inquiry, quote, reflection, or challenge. A small daily spark to help cultivate a day filled with good energy and keep this journey front of mind.
👩🔬 Monthly Research Roundup
A guide to recently published research shaping our understanding of health — and why it matters.
This is a curated list of important papers I’ve been reading across metabolic health, nutrition, longevity, environmental health, regenerative agriculture, microbiome science, neuroscience, spirituality, and emerging technology—along with my reflections on the bigger picture of how it fits in.
✍️ Poem of the Month
Facts inform us, but beauty can transform us. A poem and reflection to reconnect us with meaning, wonder, and awe, from my personal collection of favorite poems I’ve been compiling for over 20 years (!).
🫂 Community
A place to be witnessed in your growth, to make commitments, celebrate consistency, and remember that we're not doing this work alone. This Facebook group of Stewards will help you stay motivated not to 'break the chain' of consistent daily action, and be celebrated by the community.
➕ Additional Member Experiences
Occasional conversations, interviews, special features, and opportunities to continue learning and growing together.
This membership is regularly priced at $7.77/month or $77.77/year but as a welcome offer and to show my appreciation to this community, I am offering a huge discount to the first 1,000 Good Energy Stewards: for a limited time, become a member for only $4.44/month or $44.44/year for the first 12 months.
Promo lasts until all 1,000 slots are filled or until July 21st, 2026 11:59 PDT, whichever comes first. After the promo ends, membership pricing will return to $7.77/month or $77.77/year.
Many of you are already living this philosophy and certainly don’t need a membership to begin or continue!
But, if this offering feels like it would support your journey, I would be honored to welcome you as a Good Energy Steward.
Joining the membership is also a way to support my work and helps me continue to be able to create and write for this community, and for that I am very grateful.
Let’s create more good energy in ourselves—so we can create more good energy in the world.
Dr. Casey
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