I’ve worked with tens of thousands of patients and this is the single most effective, life changing treatment in my medicine bag

If you’re following my work because you like the spiritual component to it, I think it’s important to remember that the role of spirituality in health is not about ascending or abandoning your body. My priority when discussing the role of spirituality in health is to help us remember that it is a soul’s greatest honor to be born into a body. While our day to day lives might feel ordinary and mundane, the sensory experience that the body provides is truly extraordinary. Pause for a moment and think about the scent of a rose, the taste of a mango, the feel of your lovers lips against your skin. You didn’t incarnate in a body simply to leave the body. To living spiritually is to embrace the body. Spiritual health is about remembering the divinity in your bones, nature’s currents in your blood and walking through life with the knowing that you are an absolute miracle. 

As a practitioner of many things, my medicine bag is overflowing. I had completed a series of herbal medicine classes and a Reiki Master certification at 19 years old. I was a student at Oberlin College, pre-med on the weekdays, seeing clients for energy work on the weekends. I went on to become a massage therapist and then a naturopathic doctor. In naturopathic medical school, in addition to the the basic sciences and clinical diagnosis classes, we do 3 years of botanical medicine training, homeopathy, and therapeutic nutrition. We do 2 years of naturopathic manipulation techniques (similar to chiropractic and osteopathy), nutrient therapy (IV and oral) and counseling. Then I went on to do a post doc nurse practitioner certification so I also work confidently with hundreds of prescription medications. I use yoga, breath work and divination as therapeutic interventions. I’ve also studied in the Amazon jungle and I have plant medicine allies that I work with in numerous ways. I could go on about all the tools in this medicine bag I carry within me. But my point is not to tell you about all of my tools- it’s to tell you that when I single out one of them as the most effective, life changing intervention I work with, it’s saying A LOT. 

Over the last 15 years I’ve worked with tens of thousands of people struggling with a wide range of diagnoses, and this particular intervention has been effective with more consistency than anything I’ve ever seen. This doesn’t mean I haven’t seen profound, near miraculous results with other therapeutics. I absolutely have. But as a clinician, consistent results support the kind of safety and confidence we need in the exam room. So before I dive into why this one thing works so well and how you can apply it, let me tell you what it is …