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Karyn Shanks MD

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08/19/2025

Love,
Karyn

08/07/2025

What do we lose when we’re persistently traumatized and feel unsafe? Beyond the energy and resources to support our healing, we lose ourselves. We lose our potential and possibilities. We may suffer from persistent fatigue, chronic illness, addictions, and mental illness, misconstruing them as “diseases” that happened to us because of unfortunate genetics or circumstances outside our control. The science is clear: all chronic human problems have their roots in trauma.

Love,
Karyn

08/05/2025

Earth’s growing toxicity and loss of protection of human communities has catapulted us into a global crisis of chronic disease and suffering.

It’s hard to see a way back to what we’ve lost.

Could this happen if we trusted our connection to planet Earth? Trusted our connection to ourselves? If we felt safe?

Love,
Karyn

07/29/2025

We all have our stories of trauma, though we may not call it that. It can stem from growing up in emotional chaos, as I did. Or, for me and so many of my clients, trauma can be rooted in being sick and in pain for years and put in the wrong diagnostic-therapeutic box. While perhaps not the intent of our docs, they did not see or understand our needs. That’s trauma.

Love,
Karyn

07/24/2025

Your body’s feelings, sensations, and energy states are your wisdom, yearning to be heard, their needs known. Your body is never wrong.

Love,
Karyn

07/22/2025

My clients are simply asking medicine to see them. To see how they and their lives matter. How everything they lose beneath the gaze of a medical paradigm that reduces them to broken parts is essential wisdom they need to reclaim.

Love,
Karyn

07/18/2025

I’m so excited for the release of my new book, UnBroken: Reclaim Your Wholeness! Print, e-book, and audio versions land 11-11-2025. I’ll keep you posted!

Love,
Karyn

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Functional Medicine and Self Care

“I just want to be myself again.”

“I want my daughter to know the real me.”

“I want my life back.”

“I want my joy back.”

From academic, to CEO, to Iowa farmer, all of my clients say some version of the same thing as we begin our work together. This is what I’ve wanted during my own tough times. These words are at the very heart of what’s at stake when confronted with the myriad health challenges we all face… and what we seek in our healthcare and healing strategies: to reclaim our energy, vitality, and who we truly are. In essence, all that makes life worth living.

We all possess the innate ability to heal, to recover our precious energy, and to create the resilience that allows us feel our best, be our best, and prevent future problems. Through personalized tools, education, and support I put the power back where it belongs—in your hands, hearts, and minds.

The work we do together is all about YOU—your story, your goals, your needs, your inner wisdom (you know yourself best), and your innate potential to heal.

My approach is inspired by the revolutionary science of Functional Medicine, body-mind principles, and wisdom gleaned from the transformational journeys of thousands of clients over my twenty-six year career as a physician.

Our journey promises to be a whole-person exploration of your problems and needs, offering solutions that go straight to the cause, and to the heart of healing—to recover your physical, mental, and spiritual energy.

The Nine Domains of Healing—the backbone of my work—will guide us as we take this journey of your health and healing together.