MY HEALTH MY JOURNEY
AND WHAT I LEARNED
I’ve always been a health nut since I was a teenager. But what began as pursuit for health and wellness became the very stress that was wrecking my vitality. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition and faced many flares and battles that I finally realize what I’ve been missing in my health endeavors.
I’ve tried every kinda diet, exercise, meditation, holistic treatments from both eastern and western and nothing was effective until I owned my own health.
The key to your health and wellness is not about finding the right diet, supplement, or exercise and keeping up with them, it’s more about finally seeking well BEING especially when your body is shouting at you to listen through the “symptoms”.
Symptoms are nothing more than your body communicating to you that your body is out of balance. So healing isn’t about chasing after dogmatic ways of DOING all t he things, it’s more about tuning INWARD.
Experience and Integration
I’ve pursued higher education through formal education as I believed that’s where the answers lie. I achieved didactic certifications and sought out knowledge that would provide me with the answers I desperately needed.
But the more I learned, the more I realized theoretical knowledge doesn’t heal you, it’s the experience and the integration of it all in your own life that allows us to heal yourself.
I began to be obsessed with a deeper understanding of how our emotions play a role in our health and sickness. I noticed patterns in my patients as well as in myself.
My work is in integrates Psychology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Emotions, and Spirituality into a complete system that you can live every day to achieve your optimal life and health.
I believe we are WHOLE beings and tearing the human body into parts or dogmatic ways will never allow one to achieve optimal health and wellness.
That’s why I created Functional Yoga Medicine, the ultimate Self Healthcare System to allow you to live the solution everyday grounded in science, energy, and healing to finally have the foundation to heal yourselves everyday through the practice of Functional Yoga Medicine.
REDEFINING HEALTH
I believe health is a state of balance and alignment between your inner self with the external self. Too often we hide behind the made-up version of ourselves shaped by the world around us. When we are defined by our external environment, it’s a matter of time before our body breaks down to a point of struggling with various symptoms. Common symptoms are gut symptoms which include fatigue, aches/pains, weight gain, gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and rashes or skin irritation.
Stress is the culprit to all diseases and it’s one that is not taken into consideration in the context of holistic or conventional medicine.
Stress can often be caused by your relationship with others, your health, your sickness, your finances, your diet, and most importantly with yourself.
Uncovering the culprit of your stress often involves habitual thought patterns that trigger emotions that elicit certain behaviors to create the results in your life.
After three decades in the health and wellness industry, I’ve learned that health is only possible when we can enlist the person who is seeking it.
I too had to learn the hard way what healthy truly means. Healthy is:
Harmony
Ease
Awareness
Love
Truth
Healing
You
THE MEDICAL SYSTEM IS BROKEN
Our medical system is focused on sickness and it perpetuates disease
The conventional medical system is focused on the cause and effect of the symptom. It then provides medications to eliminate those symptoms, however, such medications further create an imbalance in the body that ultimately causes disease in other parts of the body. It’s not sustainable and it’s not a long-term answer.
We must challenge the medical model by changing our premise for health. That healing is an inside job. Only you can heal yourself.
This is the truth that I’ve learned after three decades of pursuing health and healing both as a practitioner and a patient.
Self Healthcare System is about being self-aware of one’s thoughts, emotions, actions, and results and taking ownership of it to shift the body back into balance through mind work, movement, nourishment, and spiritual expansion.
It’s about recognizing the body and mind as the WHOLE vs the sum of its parts.
REBEL WITH A CAUSE
All my life I’ve lived with the belief that my self-worth is dependent on my achievements. I’ve always known that I was missing something as I furthered my education by studying Psychology, Nutrition, Physical Medicine, Functional Medicine, Yoga, Pilates, and more.
More than the dogmatic ways of DOING things, I knew that it was more about the experience and application of this sacred knowledge in a way that integrates this knowledge into the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual elements so that one can truly live the solution.
I’ve had to defy the odds in any discipline of my studies to fight to integrate my knowledge into an integrated system to make people WHOLE.
MY MISSION
I’ve not been satisfied with the way things were in all my fields of study which include Psychology, Nutrition, Physical Medicine, Functional Medicine, Yoga, and Pilates.
At the end of the day we all have to be nourished, we must move, manage stress, and be mindful of our emotions to thrive in our lives.
To that end, I have the vision to create the ultimate Self Healthcare System through the practice of Functional Yoga Medicine ™ to help as many of you as possible find your way back to yourselves so that you can finally be whole and HEALTHY!
Thanks for taking the time to get to know me, can’t wait to meet you one day.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
After being shuffled from specialist to specialist, Dr. Connie not only helped me to feel understood, but also got me on a clear plan that not only got all my issues resolved, but allowed me to improve my relationship with my husband and my kids.
CARIN J
PATIENT
Being humiliated for years and Doctors brushing off my pain as post partum blues, Dr. Connie made me feel so comfortable and understood that I broke out in tears. I am not only pain free, but I am a better wife, mom and full of hope. She is a true gift to all her patients.
LINDSAY L
PATIENT
I came to Dr. Connie hopeless, scared, and frustrated. All the Doctors prior to coming to Dr. Connie ( at least 5 specialists) gave me a growing list of medications as the only viable solution. Dr. Connie not only helped me with a new way to eat and move, but also got me off of all my medications.
JULIE M
PATIENT
READY TO RESTORE YOUR HEALTH?
THE THREE ESSENTIAL PILLARS TO HEALTH
PHYSICAL HEALTH
Movement is fundamental to optimal health. It helps to detoxify, energize, and vitality to our lives.
GUT HEALTH
Our gut controls every system in our body. It’s complex ability to protect against toxins, absorb nutrients, and fuel our brains is simply miraculous and one to pay attention to.
BRAIN HEALTH
Our brains are the control switch board for everything that we do, say, and think. Master your mind and you’ll be in full control over your life and health.