You are a whole person

So often we are told to look at ourselves and our lives as parts. There’s divisions everywhere. Work life, home life, church life, social life, recreation time, educational time, down time…. The list goes on and on….

But we’re really not designed to compartmentalize everything that goes on in our lives. Our home life impacts work, our social life bleeds into home life. Who decides what’s educational versus recreational?!

Our bodies work the same way. Mental health, physical health, spiritual well being—these can’t be compartmentalized either. Our gut makes many of our hormones. Our emotions and how we express them are greatly impacted by MANY body processes including hormonal regulation. Our outlook, even our tendency towards optimism or pessimism is impacted by the health of our bodies.

We are whole people. Complex and nuanced and amazing.

This is why modern western healthcare has problems.

There are specialist for every part of the person— Psychiatrists, cardiologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists… Too often the specialists have a very myopic view of the issue.

We need to pull back the lens.

Skin issues often are rooted in gut health. Gut imbalances can be caused by MANY things from what and when you eat to stress. Stress can be exacerbated by diet, sleep, and the lack of a mediative routine.

Specialists in medicine have their place of course! And nutritional therapy (and other holistic modalities) doesn’t necessarily take the place of your physician. But we must return to a place where we don’t lose the forest for the trees.

Holistic health practitioners do NOT separate the person into little compartments. We look at the whole person, Body, Mind, and Soul.

Get in touch to talk more about what that kind of care can look like for you!