I Am the Solution Volume 2 of the I Am Salutogenesis Series By Frank Hunkler I used to think I had to wait for someone else to fix me. That healing would come from the outside. That if I followed the right program, or said the right things, or kept quiet long enough, I might finally feel whole. But I was wrong. I am not separate from the answer—I am the solution. This volume is the moment I stop outsourcing my healing. It is the breath where I turn inward and remember that my needs, my instincts, and my voice were never the problem. They were the map. In this second book of the I Am Salutogenesis series, I go deeper—not into diagnosis, but into definition. I redefine myself in the language of wholeness. I stop asking “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking, “What was needed? What is still possible? What do I already know, deep down?” This volume invites me to speak “I am” not as performance—but as presence. I say: I am not a broken thing waiting to be fixed. - I am a body remembering how to trust. - I am a mind learning how to soften. - I am a spirit reclaiming its voice. - I am the solution I’ve been seeking. I explore over 100 essential needs across body, mind, history, and heart—and learn how to meet them without shame. I unpack emotional patterns, survival strategies, and the “small betrayals” I made just to get by. And then I start choosing differently. This book isn’t linear. It’s alive. It’s circular, spacious, trauma-informed, and honest. It lets me be messy and magnificent at the same time. It doesn’t ask me to be perfect. It asks me to be real. The “I am” statements are not affirmations to memorize. They are invitations to embody. I read them aloud. I speak them in places where I’ve stayed silent. I let them become mine—one at a time. This book is also part of a licensed program titled: “I Was Born Well. Somewhere Along the Way I Got Confused.” That sentence began in Volume 1 and continues here—not as a slogan, but as a return. I was born well. I got confused. Now I remember. In this book, I meet myself again—not as a file, a condition, or a label, but as a living, breathing, capable human who has every right to name their needs and speak their truth. I say no when I mean no. I say yes when it’s safe to soften. I let my pain point me toward coherence. I stop pretending. I start participating. I stop waiting. I start reclaiming. This is not self-help. It’s self-trust. It’s a healing relationship with myself, in my own words, on my own terms. I am the solution. Not because I know everything. But because I finally believe that I can begin again—without shame.