About Tammy Grime
My passion is for reducing the suffering of others in any way that I can. My passion is connecting with others in a way that is true and genuine. This is what gives me meaning and purpose. Being “of service” is important to me. Biology, physiology and psychology are endlessly interesting to me. Understanding what life is, how living things work, and what healing is, is what I am most interested in. I am always learning; the learning will never stop. This is important to me as well and defines for me, a life well lived.
I feel blessed to play such a privileged roll to my patients; to know truly who they are and to help people heal and overcome. To you to live your life, reach your potential, and so that you can affect the world with the fullness of your individual gifts. This can only happen without obstructive health issues - in mind and body.
This profession is not an easy one. It comes at great sacrifice to those that choose this particular path of service to others. Though the study of Naturopathic medicine is as academically gruelling, as expensive, and requires endless learning, endless hoops to jump through and obstacles to overcome, practicing conventional medicine comes with acceptance, power, financial reward, academic respect, and many, many open doors. But, it also comes with restricted connection to others, and little ability to help heal the root causes of chronic disease. There is very little study of this. More and more I am seeing GP’s and specialists in weekend workshops and continuing education classess in functional medicine who feel the same.
Our health care system is incredibly limited to what it can provide our population. For chronic disease, It provides disease management with medication and very limited solutions. It does not provide care to actually get people healthier. Much more is needed, much more is possible. The rates of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, and dementias are sky rocketing. There is simply much more that is needed in health care beyond medicated symptom management. We have to prevent people from developing these conditions and we need to help people resolve them or lower the severity of symptoms. Much of chronic disease can be prevented or healed using strategies that work with the body to regulate, normalize and “clean up” toxic, deficient and stressed out systems.
I am impossibly idealistic. I chose a harder, less sexy path. I chose to roll up my sleeves, get into trench and help you navigate your way out, because this has far more meaning to me. I value this more than society’s current uneducated valuation of the two professions. To be clear, we absolutely need both kinds of medicine of course. It’s just that for me personally, naturopathic medicine is a more rewarding and interesting vocation.
I look forward to meeting you.
