Rita Brewer has already set her eyes on the medical field at a very young age. She enjoyed her job as a surgical physician's assistant (PA) and she loves surgery, but as a lifelong learner, she continuously finds ways to grow more.
After going through all the conventional treatments for her autoimmune disease, she began her search for integrative therapies through energy medicine, lifestyle medicine, and functional medicine. That is where she found healing.
Being tired of a system that doesn't allow flexibility, she transitioned out of conventional medicine and started her health coaching practice incorporating the different integrative therapies she learned along the way. In this conversation, Rita discusses her life as someone who has a foot in both allopathic medicine and integrative practices, the limitations of conventional medicine, and her hopes to provide a holistic health environment.
Episode quick guide:
01:21 Guest’s background
02:40 Going beyond conventional medicine
05:21 The experience of energy medicine
07:26 The move to integrative practice
13:05 Discovering different practices and starting her own health coaching
20:34 From lifestyle medicine to functional medicine
28:21 Dealing with the diagnosis of palindromic rheumatism through functional medicine
32:49 How energy medicine works
44:59 The challenge of wanting to be in an integrative health environment
47:40 Breaking out from the system
50:20 Find the right practitioner
Get to know our guest:
Rita Brewer is committed to empowering men and women to achieve optimal health and live their lives free of chronic diseases. She has over 30 years of experience in surgery, weight loss, conventional, integrative, and energy medicine.
“Our conventional medicine only focuses on our physical body, and it doesn't incorporate our emotions and these other factors that are really important for our total healing.” - Rita Brewer
Connect with her:
Website: https://ritabrewer.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ritabrewerconsulting/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-brewer-consulting-84137412a/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/ritabrewerconsulting
Episode snippets:
5:59 - 7:19 - The interest in holistic health and wellness
7:26 - 7:45 - We are mind, body, and spirit
17:36 - 18:56 - To teach people who want to hear
21:34 - 22:48 - When lifestyle medicine doesn’t help
25:52 - 26:57 - Hashimoto’s as a response to the leaky gut
29:22 - 30:29 - What they do in functional medicine
33:52 - 35:15 - The practice of energy medicine
44:02 - 44:57 - Customizing the healing session
50:23 - 51:19 - Search for the right practition
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S2E20: Rita Brewer - Medicine Should Heal People, not Treat Symptoms