Dr. Ruth Will

What does healing mean to you?

I'm amazed every time I interact with the body with my hands, how it knows what it needs and is eager to have help. And also how it wants to be better adapted to challenge. Health to the body means the ability to take on a challenge and recuperate from that.

I have spent the majority of my post graduate years continuing the education of being a body worker that applies functionally relevant treatment - aka addresses the questions that I had about my health, and my patients would have about theirs - and developing the skillset to think outside the box to answer those questions. The questions are all related to healing. But everyone has different expectations of what that means for their life! Part of that skillset involved developing hands on assessment techniques, but also learning to ask questions that help the person reflect on what their body means to them.

Frustrated with the lack of education and guidance I had related to an autoimmune diagnosis at a time when I thought I was doing all the right healthy things, I started researching myself what could I do to support what was clearly off balance. I learned about functional medicine, and how there are many answers to my questions that weren’t provided because the system wasn’t in place for the amount of question asking, problem solving required for the non evidence based approach of treating systems in a chronic dysfunctional pattern. I learned over the next 12 years that the support I was looking for my thyroid was more than what even functional medicine could provide. I was able to put it into remission with functional medicine and dietary changes, but flare ups continued, which taught me that health is more than the science of calories (itself a specific measure of energy) but also the non-objective energies from each specific cell to organ systems, and their relationship with me, that contributed to the layers of function under the symptoms I was experiencing.

The modalities of functional medicine, Functional Manual therapy(R), visceral manipulation, craniosacral therapy are my professional toolkit, with personal experience in the tools of homeopathy,  acupuncture/eastern medicine, yoga, Internal Family Systems, and emotion code have helped me get to the place where I am now.

I have been so impressed at the concept of homeopathy - treating according to the law of similars - and the parallel themes from the techniques of visceral manipulation and cranio-sacral therapy that I will be studying to be a professional homeopath in the fall of 2025 with the Academy of Homeopathy Education.

Are you ready to be curious about your body, and learn how to be in relationship with it?

“"The healer you have been looking for is your own courage to know and love yourself completely" Yung Pueblo