Revealing Oneself as a Route to Health: Incorporating Human Design and Gene Keys into my Healthcare Practice

There is a complexity to my history which I haven’t openly discussed to this point in my professional work. There are myriad reasons for this, which will actually form a thread weaving through the memoir I have decided to write: putting an account of my history on permanent record which includes all of the process which took me to today. This will be released in the coming months via e-book initially.

Covered in Part Two of the memoir is the journey which led me to what I have, until now, labelled “Mindset Medicine”. Anyone reading this who has consulted with me will understand what I have used that phrase to mean: using changes in headspace, perspective, self-awareness and the recalibration of patterns and one’s inner world (and our relationship to the outer world) to transform the physical body.

I prioritise this because it works. Because health issues which are chronic in nature reflect a lack of ability for our body to adapt to its environment. And because our thoughts, emotions, inner feelings, perspectives, beliefs and patterns are deep influences on the function, state and efficacy of the nervous system, which then controls how we interface with the world around us.

Part of my personal health struggles have revolved around truly understanding the role and relationship of physiological tools and psychological/emotional ones. Watching the role of inner work on very physical processes - digestion, immune reactivity, inflammation, brain fog, irritation, skin rashes and more - was what taught me how important this realm is.

This inner world cannot be controlled by supplements or nutrition. Tests to uncover biochemical roots are only ever going to reveal flaws in the systems: not the reasons for those flaws.

And whilst the foundations of Functional Medicine can support understanding of physiology and biochemistry, the protocols we have to support the issues found stop at the remit of the physical body. Sometimes, for some people, this is enough and all that is wanted. Because of who I am and what I believe, I have always attracted the type of patient who needs more; whose inner conflicts are contributing to their physical systems’ compromises.

I have felt a degree of imposter syndrome around my psychological and emotional work. Whilst I never claim to be a psychotherapist, or even a therapist, I do work in the realm of the mindset - and have never felt truly able to speak about my qualifications to do so. They do exist, I have completed years upon years of training; both immersion in actual information/qualifications AND the self-work that this immersion demanded. But I have been reticent to speak of specifics. I have hidden behind the more ‘legitimate’ titles of “Functional Medicine Practitioner and Nutritionist”. Because the world kind of understands those.

But the world is changing. The crises that we have faced during 2020 have changed perspectives. Moreover, in the almost two decades since I began in this work systems such as meditation, plant-medicine assisted therapies and the basic notion of working with one’s mind have become mainstream.

My work in Integrative Medicine has always held one underlying motivation: to explain someone’s body to themselves such that they understand the very biochemical and physical reasons for why they feel the way they feel. In recent years this has moved more and more towards describing this in the context of the nervous system. This has allowed me to layer in the Mindset Medicine work, expanding my patients’ awareness that thoughts and inner wounds affect physiology.

For me, it is clear that this is not me in my full integrity. There are systems and wisdoms that I have been lucky enough to learn and witness which offer explanations of who each individual is as a blueprint, into which their life experiences are layered. I have been trained in the skills that can lend coaching and interpretation to that. Much like my explanations of physiology to resolve fear and uncertainty, the systems of which I speak offer explanations of personality, behaviour, energy and interrelating which can resolve the fear and uncertainty inherent in the deepest of human questions: “who am I?”

Therefore, I am beginning to offer consultations based on and around these systems of information. I will also be layering their explanations into my work with Integrative Medicine for those who are interested and want to explore further.

To learn more about these systems and my history with them, please visit the dedicated pages which are now live on my website: Human Design is the first, and Gene Keys the second. These systems can be interwoven, or seen separately - as is explained by the pages linked here.

It is difficult to explain the layers which I see myself working at going forwards. Mostly, because they are still evolving. It is always appropriate to focus on physiology and to support the vehicle in which we live our lives. But I will always know that to do this requires bottom-up solutions - those that add into the body to support it in its current symptom map - and top-down solutions, which support the body by changing the software that programs the nervous system responses to life. Both things have to be nurtured - and my current plan is to focus more and more on the mental and emotional, or ‘inner’ work, that can support health and healing as this year (2020) progresses.

If you are interested in anything included in this blog, please reach out to me.

I will have initial offers available throughout August and September for existing clients who wish to dive into their Human Design or Gene Keys, so do get in touch if that is you and you are interested in learning more.