Dr. Alethea

07/22/2025

Are you intentionally doing things that bring you joy?

I took this pic in an extremely hot barn today after a very sweaty horse ride 🔥🥵
and yet when I was driving home, I was thinking how fun that was!

Fire deficiency is a health expression we look at deeply in traditional Chinese medicine. When we lack fire energy it affects our mental state. Thoughts become more depressive and confusion can accompany this as well.

Unsupported, the heart will take the stress and we may begin seeing functional labs like blood vessel inflammation, blood pressure changes and neurotransmitter imbalances

One of my favorite questions to ask a patient is, “What are you doing that brings you joy?”
This can reveal fire element deficiency

Is life feeling robotic? Are you on auto pilot just getting through your tasks and getting through the day?

if you felt a little more alive in your life, what would you be doing?

What might you integrate to experience higher levels of joy?

07/21/2025

07/14/2025

I created a few openings this week for free consult with me 💫

If you’ve been wondering if working together, could help your health issue or what care would look like for you, please reach out

Give my office a text/call

07/08/2025

This is healing y’all 🙌🏻
For years I could not eat any dairy without GI upset and a corresponding inflammatory backlash of bloating for at least the next day

But here I am totally enjoying Greek yogurt again (as well as a periodic charcuterie & cheese spread 😋)

This is healing.

Healing is not staying on restricted diets forever.

Healing is all about allowing your body the support it needs to actually repair.

And the proof of your healing…

It’s in your new level of resilience
of tolerance

Removing more and more foods from your lifestyle, may help you feel better.
But here’s what it’s not doing.
It’s not doing the deeper pattern work to address why you became so reactive in the first place

When you pair your healthy lifestyle with deeper healing work, that’s where resilience happens

Are you losing balance and joy in your life all in efforts to be healthy
Reach out to me
I can help 💜

07/05/2025

You did the labs. You changed your diet. You followed the plan.
And yet… something is still off and your symptoms remain.

Healing isn’t just about what’s wrong.
It’s about why it hasn’t shifted.

Functional medicine is fantastic to tell you what’s going on.
The deeper pattern work addresses what your body still holds onto — and why healing won’t fully land until that part is seen, felt, and reorganized in the body

Protective patterns in the body often create undesired symptoms that will not resolve until the deeper work is done with them.

Have you ever felt like you were doing all the things but your body wasn’t getting “better”
Let me know below.

06/26/2025

Your
Nervous System
Will
ALWAYS
Prefer
Familiarity
Over
Change

Get more ok in your own discomfort or you will be living in autopilot in a nervous system that won’t let you change, grow and expand into versions of yourself you actually desire

You’ve got this 💜

06/21/2025

As you embrace the shifting into our summer months on the longest day of the year

This transition moves us more into our Fire elemental energy in our body

Fire element houses your passion.

Today get clear on what gives you passion?
What is the reason you serve in the way you do?
What really lights you up in your life?

06/17/2025

Functional medicine + deep healing somatic work

Functional medicine works so good, it feels like a no-brainer to engage in this proactive lab driven personalized healthcare philosophy

However, an interesting thing often occurs… that even when someone’s physical body is supported into a higher state of functioning, often times people spiral backwards and cannot sustain it on their own.

This highlights that there is an internal operating system issue that doesn’t support the upgrade.

When you think of operating system in your body, think nervous system.

Your nervous system’s ability to receive new information, data, and adapt to a new way of being is either the reason for long-term transformational change or
A repeat pattern of reliving and undesired experience in your body over and over again with frustration and struggle.

The most efficient way to achieve higher levels of vitality in and through your body
is by working your hardware (your cellular level function)
&
Your software, (your internal operating system: your bio energetic imprints & your neurological responses)

When you are ready to receive more of what you want, do the deeper work of shifting your internal operating system.

I’m happy to help you with this through one on one work with you
or check out my group body wise somatic strengthening class.

-Dr Alethea

05/30/2025

Bring on all the summer salads!

More plants + more often

‘Cute’cumbers
Red onion
Braggs ginger sesame dressing

05/28/2025

A beautiful quote by one of my favorite authors, Fr. Richard Rohr

suppressing, shoving down, pretending like it’s not there.
Only makes the pattern bigger, louder, and often more destructive in our body.

One of the first most pivotal and powerful steps towards any healing is to face what’s there
Can you just be with what is ?

Resisting the urge to fight it, judge it.

Can you just be with it?

It sounds so simple, but it actually takes a considerable shift in the amount of safety in your own internal system to allow this to occur.

We spend so much energy in the act of resistance and suppression.

It exhausts our mind, body and spirit.

FACE it.
& FEEL it.
To FREE it

You’ve got this 💜

05/22/2025

The powerful synergy of functional medicine + traditional Chinese medicine & somatic work

I love how when these are done together, it’s so EASY for the body to change even where there used to be much struggle

Your body never wanted to fight you or make your life more difficult!

Subconscious patterns
Shift when you feel safe 💜

03/04/2025

Symptoms in your body are a sign of misalignment, sometimes at the physical level and almost always in the emotional body as well.
In 25 years of working on the body and with the body, I’m convinced that physical symptoms rarely occur without an emotional misalignment underpinning it.

As annoying as they can be, your symptoms are a very sacred messenger.

They’re telling you that something‘s off.

In our culture, we are inconvenienced by this and we look to get rid of, override and often avoid listening to the deeper message that our own body is trying to communicate to us.

I know, I know!
It may be a message that we don’t really want to hear, like slowing down or releasing a bad habit or picking up a new habit that we know would be in our best interest.

Your body is guiding you to where there’s a more vital experience for you
It’s trustable.
It knows what will bring you into a higher level of joy than the things that your mind is currently attached to in the misalignment.

There is great wisdom in your body