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Hi!
At SAFM we teach our students to be both confident and highly skilled at “puzzle piecing” and finding the interconnectedness between pieces of each patient’s unique case. In this presentation, I’ll share a few staples but also some unexpected connections which might surprise you!
Could community actually be the key to your patients’ and clients’ wellness? Learn practical ways to leverage this powerful (and necessary!) approach to wellness in your practice.
- Why community may be The ultimate driver of health for most
- Can the status of our social life really cause inflammation?
- Has the immune system evolved to listen to our social environment?
- Getting well vs. Staying well: the Difference that matters most
- Isolation as a true root cause of disease?
- Practitioner community as a critical tool to prevent burn-out
Thank you very much for joining in the fun and learning!
With warmth, love, and gratitude to you for sharing your gifts with so many –
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Wow, COMMUNITY!!!! I loved how you stated that our entire life is affecting our health and that isolation/rejection, etc is a toxin that can seriously negatively impact our health and how Love, Joy and Happiness have such a strong biochemical impact on the body!! Those are really powerful truths!!
Hello there ???? I found everything to be quite fascinating and validating! Community I believe is the unsung Invisible hero that goes unrecognized in conventional methods. I loved everything Tracy shard.. I believe the example regarding the small community in England that reorganized its community practices and thereby reducing ER visits is proof and very inspiring. What I loved the most was the idea that created a buddy system. Checking on neighbors etc. is absolutely brilliant! I wish to implement this idea wherever I may go in this life. I truly believe isolation and loneliness harm us greatly.. and the society suffers due to this lack of understanding. It’s truly tragic. Thank you!
I love the idea of building community which give the members a sense of belonging, support, care, encouragement, love, hope, connection, and joy. AS usual, the talk was inspiring, insightful, empowering, and encouraging. Patients need a community; we being practitioners need a community too. I am trying to building up some support groups such as cancer group, diabetes group, obesity group, autoimmune group., senior widow group, walking group, meditation group, mindful and healthy meal group…
Tracy you are an inspiration. I would like to follow your footstep. Looking forward to the semester of Jan. 2019!!! Can not wait!! Thanks a lot!!
Question: early sign up to get a Dive-in course free, eh?? When?? Please advise!!
First, I would like to thank you for another great webinar. To be honest, I wasn’t sure how informational it would be, as I’ve been of late primarily just looking for pearls to collect. But I want to tell you your call to impact your community has given me an idea for something to do in my own. It is when we become part of something greater than just ourselves that the magic happens. Hopefully, at a later point I’ll be able to tell you your own ripple effect. Thanks Tracy, as always.
Being in a small mid-western city…the idea of having other like minded practitioners to engage with is inspiring. This gives me the desire to try to reach out more to find those who might be willing to partner with me. Thank you for your encouragement.
Dear Tracy, thank you for bringing up such crucial point of the effect community has on maintaining one’s health. Prior to your talk I don’t think I realized that what I was feeling all these years had a name, deviant it is, always into nutrition, deficiencies, etc. So thanks for this confirmation. I would love the free seat at your endo course since my entire family is effected by endocrine issues and I am determined to get to the bottom of it to help. As a PhD prepared NP I am only waiting to pay off my edu loans to then dive into the actual course work. For now I am studying anything I can get my hands on to increase my knowledge of FM so that when it is time to sign up, I not only know FM language but also understand many basic and complex concepts it is based on. Thanks for spreading the word on FM! Amazing job!
This was fantastic. I’ve been helping many people at my church because they are so gifted but need the health to utilize their gifting’s more effectively. It’s created community and boy it makes a difference when people feel connected. I feel like I’m high after listening to this. This has confirmed so much of what I’ve been saying but felt crazy saying too. Tracy, I’m so dang grateful for you!!! God bless you!
The topic in total rang out to me. I was let go from a FNP position for being different and treating differently then the Md. it is such a hard pill to swallow! I am passionate about functional medicine as I learn more. And I want to just keep learning. In my small community it’s hard to know where to start but your words of wisdom have inspired me to try.
Thank you so much for today’s Facebook live video! For some reason I thought you would have to take a whole course on auto immunity in order to learn about thyroid and the adrenals. I am so interested in learning more about this as this is the niche I’d like to help being that I have suffered with thyroid issues for the last 24 years.
I am not one to typically get lonely, feeling lack of support, or feeling persecuted for my beliefs even though I am self-employed and it’s a one man show (me) like many others out there doing what we do. However, I do believe that even I can benefit from community with like-minded individuals in this health arena. I am a part of a small group community with my faith and just “doing life together” and it makes sense that I would do the same for the work I do for which I am also passionate about. I am a part of numerous forums on FB for which I engage with frequently relating to what we specifically love to do. I rarely connect consistently, though, with any one person or small group specifically for those of us who love to help others with their health outside the scope of what conventional/traditional medicine provides. I most definitely believe this can be beneficial. Thank you for this great reminder Dr Tracy
Thank you so much! I cannot wait to pursue functional medicine with your school!!!
Great and important topic that was brought up to us today! Our success and inspiration is so much dependent on our professional relationships and our community. So, keep going, continue inspiring more practitioners and growing that community further. Thank you.
I loved this, especially about the research/impact of social support in long term wellness. I will use this info – very important and often ignored! Thank you! I am working at a local wellness center and teaching a wellness course for my city. How can I bring in the Functional Medicine folks in my area?
This is so me right now….your message of being alone in this business is really ringing true….in my scurry of trying to establish myself in a new area of the country, I realize, through your live today, that I need to quit focusing so much on “getting clients” and “making money”, but on sincerely helping those who need health education. I need to surround myself with like-minded people. Thank you for your encouragement, and thank you for considering me for the course.
I love love love that Tracy encourages us to embrace our “weirdness” (“deviantness”) and step out “anyway”. It can be a lonely, scary and isolating world being involved in this “alternative” world…. to encourage us to show up, show up, show up, because someone is waiting to hear our voice and reinforcing that we need to honour our calling, helping to change the health of the world. That someone will remember your message and that ripple we create may last many many years….
We need to find our support network…or create it…..
Tracy at her best. It’s not just about the knowledge and education. Sometimes it’s about knowing you have a “family” to go home to (God Bless the SAFM) who “gets you” … <3
Being a part of a family and community of shared experiences and knowledge with that respectful give and take is essential for growing in a rich supportive environment which translates to the deep relationships we develop with our clients and patients. I am inspired by energetic, knowledgeable, preceptors which I am finding at SAFM. Love being a part of the group.
My motivation to want to enter the contest is multifold…….
As a physician, I have been blown away by the brilliance and true scientific basis of all Tracey has taught me. I’m so energized and excited to help patients on a whole new level, and I know how valuable functional medicine knowledge of the thyroid and adrenal gland will be to my practice! I’m all in! This medicine is a true expression of my best and authentic self, despite the resistance I feel with my conventional colleagues! Knowledge is power. I’m ready.
Thank you Tracy for your monthly FB lives! Always great.
Love everything you do Tracy. And I agree community is so important. I always encourage my clients to find friends and family members that want to go on this healthy journey with them. It’s especially great when I’m working with multiple family members and they share healthy product finds, recipes and other tips they got from me with each other. I recently had great success with a client and she referred her sister, her best friend and her best friend’s daughter and it’s so cool how they are all helping each other succeed.
The knowledge that having a community of like-minded people helps you succeed in your health goals inspires me. It’s hard to go it alone!