Dr karyn shanks’ nine domains of healing roadmap
Karyn Shanks, MD, is a physician, teacher, and author of Heal—A Nine-Stage Roadmap and The Wisdom of COVID-19. Dr. Shanks received her medical degree from the University of Chicago and completed her training in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Functional Medicine, she is also a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine.
Karyn is the founder and director of The Center for Medicine and Healing Arts in Iowa City. Karyn believes that health and vitality are essential for the highest expression of our human potential and that the bones of healing are in what we do for ourselves. During over twenty-eight-years of medical practice she has helped thousands of clients with chronic illness to heal, and to regain their hope, their energy, and their life’s potential. Listening passionately to their stories while fully engaged with her own life-school of learning, Dr. Shanks has developed The Nine Domains of Healing roadmap that synthesizes what she has learned to be true: that healing is always possible, that it is within everyone’s grasp, and that it ultimately comes from within.
“You need to be super militant about what you put on your schedule for self care [...] otherwise you wont get it done [...] Scheduling is important, schedule what you care about and schedule what you value.”
Dr. Karyn Shanks, MD shares her expertise and wisdom about how to get through COVID-19 with resilience. Learn how to work on yourself using her 9 stage roadmap, including, nutrition, balance and letting go. Dr. Shanks was sick and the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with her. She was burned out and exhausted. This period of struggle led her to intensive exploration of Functional Medicine, nutritional biochemistry, core systems biology, and body-mind healing. Gradually she healed herself. With this knowledge she helped her clients heal themselves