What Medical School Never Prepared Me For—But Every Patient Needed

(Ten-year-old Laurie)

A Childhood Dream to Heal

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor. The decision hit me like a lightning bolt when I was just 10 years old, sitting in a hospital waiting room. My little sister, just four years old, was always sick—fevers, crying, no energy. Then she had surgery, and suddenly, she transformed. She went from sickly to thriving, and I knew in that moment I wanted to help people feel that kind of transformation.

But the path to becoming a doctor wasn’t easy. I grew up in a home where money was tight, food was scarce, and no one had graduated from college, let alone medical school. Still, I worked relentlessly, climbing over every obstacle. I wanted to be the kind of doctor who made people feel seen, cared for, and truly healed.

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(Deployed to the Middle East with USAF, checking out Flat Stanley sent to me by youngest.)

The Illusion: Medicine as the Answer

When I finally became a physician, I thought I had reached my dream. I followed the protocols I had been trained to follow—diagnose, prescribe, repeat. But something didn’t feel right.

Patients came into my office desperate for solutions, and I gave them medications. Some improved temporarily, but many returned with more symptoms, more prescriptions, and more frustration. Deep down, I knew I wasn’t truly helping them—I was simply managing their decline. The transformation I had dreamed of delivering felt out of reach.

I asked myself: Was this really the best I could offer?

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The Moment That Changed Everything

Then one day, everything changed. A single patient cracked open my entire understanding of health.

She mentioned that meat and dairy upset her stomach, so I suggested she try removing them. When she returned a month later, she was glowing. Her digestion improved, her energy skyrocketed, and her teenage daughter—who had joined her in changing her diet—was able to stop her ADD medications.

I was stunned. Could something as simple as food have this much power?

I dove into the research and devoured The China Study in two days. Suddenly, everything I thought I knew about health shifted. The idea that whole, plant-based foods could not only prevent but reverse chronic disease made so much sense.

Within weeks, I went plant-based. So did my husband. So did my three teenagers. I started sharing this with my patients, and I saw transformations I had only dreamed of before.

A type 2 diabetic on 60 units of insulin a day called me three days after adopting this way of eating. She was shaky and nervous. When we adjusted her insulin, she no longer needed it—60 units of insulin gone in 72 hours.

I had finally found what I had been searching for: the power to create true healing.

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Healing is More Than Just Food

At first, I thought simply telling people to eat plants would solve everything. But I quickly realized healing wasn’t that simple.

Some patients struggled, feeling hungry and tired. Others couldn’t stay consistent, slipping back into old habits. I realized that knowledge alone wasn’t enough—people needed a system, a framework, a way to rewire their daily choices so that health became effortless.

I had spent years as a doctor prescribing medications. Now, I needed to become something more—I needed to teach people how to heal their habits.

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The Epiphany: It’s All About Habits

Through this journey, I realized something profound: healing isn’t just about food.

It’s about habits.

Healing isn’t one giant change—it’s a series of micro shifts, small choices that build momentum, creating macro habits that define our health and our lives.

I started looking deeper, not just at what my patients were eating, but why they made certain choices. I studied human behavior, habit formation, and the psychology of change. I saw the patterns clearly—most people didn’t fail because they lacked motivation. They failed because their habits weren’t designed for success.

That’s when everything clicked.

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Creating The Habit Healer Method

I wasn’t just a doctor anymore. I was an architect of health, guiding people to design the habits that would allow them to heal.

I developed The Habit Healer Method, a step-by-step process that makes healing effortless by rewiring habits at their root.

Here’s how it works:

Harness Identity: Your identity drives your behavior. We shift your identity from "I’m trying to be healthy" to "I AM a Habit Healer."

Architect Your Environment: We don’t rely on willpower—we make healthy choices the easy choices.

Build Metabolic Health: Instead of focusing on weight loss, we build 7 core metabolic habits that create lasting energy and health.

Investigate & Reflect: Tracking without judgment—data over emotion.

Teach & Support: We reinforce habits through community and accountability—because healing doesn’t happen in isolation.

Sustain & Scale: Habits grow in small steps, so success becomes inevitable.

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I began implementing this habit-based healing system with my patients. The results were unlike anything I had ever seen.

People who had struggled for decades with their weight, metabolism, and chronic disease were suddenly experiencing real, lasting change. Not from another diet, not from another workout plan, but from habit healing at the identity level.

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The Habit Healer Movement

It wasn’t just about helping people anymore. It was about starting a movement.

Because when you change your habits, you don’t just change your weight or reverse chronic disease—you change your life.

That’s why I created The Habit Healer Method—to empower people to take their healing into their own hands.

Because you are always ONE healing habit away…

From feeling stuck to making progress.
From willpower struggles to effortless change.
From frustration to transformation.

I invite you to become a Habit Healer. Not just someone who tries another diet or program, but someone who rewires their habits for lasting change.

This isn’t just about me. This is about YOU.

Will you take the first step?