The traditional healthcare model left me feeling more and more broken, often in ways that I didn’t think I could heal from. So I walked away from what wasn’t working for me and stepped into the world of holistic health.

Psalm 139:14 told me I was beautiful, for I was fearfully and wonderfully made.

Yet, mere days before my twentieth birthday, I found myself on the bathroom floor in my military dorm room more sick than I had ever felt in my life. That night will forever hold a place on my personal calendar of events. If you asked me, as many doctors have, that was “when my symptoms began”, a marker I have designated simply because that was my very first night of many in the hospital. This answer stemmed from what the traditional healthcare model taught me about my health. That is, your health is “great” right up until your first physical manifestation of illness. However, an intense healing journey into the wild and vast world of Me has taught me that my illness- which I will just define as “less than optimal health” began far before that.

What I didn’t understand was that my illness was a culmination of every experience I had from conception to that time. I chased every individual symptom endlessly. At any given time, I was seeing three specialists and my primary care manager and playing healthcare “whack-a-mole” with my symptoms. To sum it up, I felt hopeless. I felt as though I had begun a long life sentence with pain, illness, and anxiety. That was, until I stepped back from the “one size fits all” approaches that don’t seem to actually fit anyone. My life and my health changed when I approached things from a bio-individual position and began addressing root causes rather than individual symptoms.

I wish I knew exactly where on my personal calendar of events to place “Disembarks From Traditional Healthcare Model Completely”. Maybe it doesn’t have a place because it isn’t entirely true. I believe in the power of modern medicine (under the right circumstances), just as I believe in the power of alternative and holistic healthcare.

Welcome to the intersection of modalities. Welcome to bio-individual healthcare. My name is Jessica McPherson. I am a certified integrative nutrition health coach and I would love to help you on your journey from Hell to Healed.