Elizabeth serves as educational partner for Dr. Andrew Weil’s Weil Baby and proudly shares his commitment to advance integrative medicine. Her role is to educate mothers on how to create a natural healthy lifestyle for themselves, their babies, and generations to come.
Welcome! I am so glad that you are here. As part of the Weil Lifestyle team and new Weil Baby educational partner, I am thrilled for the opportunity to connect with you. I proudly share Dr Weil’s commitment to advance integrative medicine. My role as educational partner for Weil Baby is to educate mothers on how to create a natural healthy lifestyle for yourself, your baby, and generations to come.
A healthier, happier way
Through my experience as an ICU nurse, mother of three, yoga instructor and author, I have learned as mothers we can create a healthier, happier way of being from the inside out and raise families who care—about themselves, about each other, and about the world around them.
I have admired Dr Weil’s work for decades and when I received the invitation to work with Weil Baby I was delighted. I have spoken of Dr Weil’s good work for a long time through my own writing, including this excerpt from my new book: Healthy Mother Healthy Child: Creating Whole Families from the Inside Out that describes this belief.
Sam’s Story: The Body Can Heal Itself
My initial journey in discovering the body’s ability to self-heal began in London with a sick baby. While my family was living in England, our baby son Sam developed severe allergies that led me to search for a wider knowledge, a deeper understanding of the roots of disease. The top medical experts had told me that Sam’s condition was unfixable, and that the only treatment was to try and ease the symptoms and keep him comfortable. Even with my background as a registered nurse I was scared, as the prescribed treatments were not helping. As an educated health professional, I understood the language of conventional medicine; as a mother, I knew this answer was unacceptable. Over the years, Sam and I learned about a more natural way of living—simple but powerful tools of food, yoga, relaxation, and myriad other ways of allowing the body to self-heal. Through Sam’s recovery, I learned to walk a new, gray line that accepts both conventional medicine and complementary medicine as helpful and necessary. My son’s challenge became my portal that led me to a place of new possibilities and the discovery of a new way of caring for his precious little body, and my own.
Dr. Andrew Weil
Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., graduate of Harvard Medical School, director of integrative medicine at the University of Arizona, and probably one of America’s best-known doctors, says so accurately in his book Spontaneous Healing, “I have titled my book Spontaneous Healing because I want to call attention to the innate, intrinsic nature of the healing process. The body can heal itself. It can do so because it has a healing system. At every level of biological organization, from DNA up, self-repair and regeneration exists in us.”
A trusted source
Let’s face it, as wonderful as it is, motherhood can leave you feeling overwhelmed and clueless in how to care for yourself and your baby in a natural, healthy way. I know because I have been there. Let me help. I am here to guide you through the abundance of information and advice that’s out there on being a new mom. Through Weil Baby.com let me, along with support from Dr. Weil, be your “go to” trusted source of information, comfort and re-assurance–a good friend who brings you knowledge, experience, answers your questions, and eases your mind in how to create a lifestyle for yourself and your baby that’s healthy and nurturing. I’m excited to begin this journey with you. Please reply to me with your questions and concerns as we begin this time together.
My first job out of college was in an overwhelming place of intensity, working as a nurse in a large hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the heart-wrenching section of the hospital that houses critically-ill infants.
