Dr. Tiffany Lester - The Holistic Healthcare Provider
Dr. Tiffany Lester - The Holistic Healthcare Provider
Dr. Tiffany Lester is a physician at Parsley Health where she takes a functional approach to chronic disease to get to the root cause of illness. She is also the National Clinical Director of Community at Parsley Health where she focuses on elevating the national conversation on healthcare with industry leaders. Trained in internal medicine with additional education in functional medicine and acupuncture, for the last 10 years she has combined the best of conventional and alternative medicine to treat the whole person in clinical practice. And yes she is still accepting new patients (for now)!
What is your definition of freedom? What does it look and feel like to you? And how do you cultivate it daily?
Freedom to me is relaxing into my most authentic self. It feels like there is a certain flow to my life. The best way for me to currently cultivate it is to drop into my body and get out of my head. I do this in some form daily - yoga, dancing, or deep breathing.
How have your thoughts, perception, and understanding of freedom evolved with time? What was it before and what is it now?
I encourage you to check-in quarterly or yearly with your personal definition of freedom. As we become more conscious as a community, our understanding of life is evolving at a rapid rate. Often I find we get attached to our past story of what freedom looks like that doesn't fit our current state of being. So check-in with your spirit and see what still resonates while discarding what no longer fits to continually evolve into our most free selves.
Freedom can feel like something we’re all seeking, but may have trouble grasping. What's one piece of advice or some words of wisdom you can offer to this community as they look to "get free"?
The first step is listening to someone's story. Like actually mindfully listening with full presence. I believe I am not actually anyone's healer, only a facilitator to help connect the dots of someone's health journey and guide them towards healing. Which is very different from our typical patriarchal-focused, more conventional type of medicine. When you help someone re-activate their own intuition towards their health, it is empowering and allows them to trust themselves. That is freedom.