I wonder if we ever talked about the whole story…

The career switch was precipitated by the moment my children’s pediatrician told me there was nothing she could do about their diagnosis of autism.

I was the mom who swore by conventional medicine and thought the doctor’s word was gospel.

The pediatrician’s inability to help my children taught me that we must find our own answers to most things, especially our health challenges. That’s when I decided to go to Naturopathic Medical School and get certified in Functional Medicine.

Challenges galore… and burnout!

When I was in grad school, I went through a cross-country move, a contentious divorce while parenting special needs young children and the need for rigorous academic work. That brought me to burnout, and then to sudden menopause to breast cancer to a brain that simply couldn’t formulate thoughts…

This journey isn’t special to me. Many of you are or have been in a similar situation. Nobody prepared me for all the challenges that midlife brought and it is my guess that you have been caught off-guard as well. 

Part of the problem is that no one tells us about what to expect at midlife.

Not mothers, not older sisters, not friends. We go into it, blind, shocked at what is happening to our mind and body. I swore I was going to address everything the moment things slowed down a bit. But they never did. Only when my body was in complete meltdown after the cancer diagnosis and treatment, did I take a break.

I worked on my own health, mind and body, nurturing and nourishing it back to health.

And now, for the last several years, first through working for other doctors and practices and then starting my own, I’ve been honing my craft, learning from and training with many Functional Medicine doctors and mentors. 

Today, I am proud to share with you my vision of an ideal practice of medicine: The Aruna Method^TM to create true health and wellness, not just manage disease.

The Method has five integral components:

• A caring, compassionate and competent doctor
• A systems-biology based understanding of the human body and various organ systems
• Right investigation into the root cause of illness, including subjective evaluations and assessments, genomic, blood and functional lab testing
• An effective and precise treatment plan that evolves as the symptom picture changes
• Expert guidance and health coaching from the first moment until your health goals are achieved  

My focus is on Midlife Health and all the challenges that this stage of life brings such as menopause, andropause, brain fog, heart disease, osteoporosis, mood changes, body composition changes, cancer, autoimmune illnesses and many other chronic diseases. 

Thank you for reading my letter to you thus far.

May I share a guide with you? I’d love to share the work I do with my patients today. It is called Your Ultimate Wellness Guide to Midlife Health Challenges and How to Overcome Them. Please sign up below so we can be connected and stay in touch.

Going forward, I will publish a blog on a different topic on Midlife Health every week and I’d love to be able to share those with you as well. 

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