About Dr. Ruth Will

What does health mean to you?

My definition of healthy was based on a number on a scale, and a flat abdomen. When I was doing all the healthy things including being vegetarian and training for marathons, I was diagnosed with autoimmune thyroiditis. I knew there was increased likelihood of developing more autoimmunity, but I also knew that autoimmunity was not the norm I wanted to continue in my body!

Frustrated with the lack of education and guidance around putting autoimmune dynamics in remission, I learned about some lifestyle changes I could implement, and about the term functional medicine. I learned over the next 12 years that the support I was looking for my thyroid was more than what even functional medicine could provide. I was able to put it into remission with functional medicine and dietary changes, but flare ups continued, which taught me that health is more than the science of calories (itself a specific measure of energy) but also the non-objective energies from each specific cell to organ systems, and their relationship with me, to create the symptom of weight gain.

The modalities of functional medicine, Functional Manual therapy(R), visceral manipulation, craniosacral therapy are my professional toolkit, with personal experience in the tools of homeopathy,  acupuncture/eastern medicine, yoga, Internal Family Systems, and emotion code have helped me get to the place where I am now.

I'm amazed every time I treat the body with my hands, how it knows what it needs and is eager to have help. The greatest change I made was to relate to my body like it is just another person. It just wants me to pay attention and give it support so it can do what it knows best how to do - which is support me.

Are you ready to be curious about your body, and learn how to be in relationship with it?

“"The healer you have been looking for is your own courage to know and love yourself completely" Yung Pueblo