About Alexis

Becoming the Architect & the Alchemist

I have been practicing diverse primary care since 2006, after completing my training as a family doctor.

After my own burnout in 2012, I began seeking. I wanted to understand how my physical body had become so sensitive. I hoped to quiet my incessant overthinking and rumination. I had a deep knowing that there was something bigger, something I was missing at the center of myself and my medicine, that my training had not taught me. That my childhood and upbringing had not taught me.

I believed there was something more. I was committed to learning, and the deeper I looked, it seemed the less and less I knew.

It was through my own health journey and recovery that I became fascinated with the endless dynamics of our humanness, of the wholeness I did not know I had, and the incredible capacity we have for this wild experience we call life.

I have had the gift- the actual privilege- to work with thousands of patients over the past seventeen years. I continue to learn from their stories, their responses, their limits and their expansions. By observing, we can recognize patterns, associations, and tendencies. By becoming the curious witness, we can become aware of our own limits.

By repeated small action, compassion, gentle discipline, inviting things in, letting other things go, tending to the body, optimizing our nutrition, and reducing our toxins (in all forms) we can prepare and invite the body/mind to change, and become new. With each change, and allowance, we make more room for authenticity, creativity, expansion, connection and ultimately for love: the highest order of healing.

By dropping out of our minds and into what can be called heart centred awareness, we are in our centres, as our grounded selves. Here, we sit on our thrones, connected within ourselves, as above so below, and as within so without.

Here, we can become the architects and alchemists of our human experience.