Dr. Tabatha Barber, a functional medicine practitioner, says true healing requires faith in Jesus Christ and knowing your identity as beloved, not just medical treatment. Negative beliefs about yourself—that you're not enough or unlovable—keep you stuck like a record player. Loving your body as it is now, she argues, opens the door to healing medicine alone cannot reach.
More than ever, I've been doing functional root cause medicine for over 20 years. And again, as you mentioned, all my own health crises. But more than ever before, I realize like it is us going to God and and feeling safe in our bodies and seeking wisdom in these things that is the most powerful than any IV supplements. All these things I use and they're effective. But if you're feeling at the end of your rope or you're stuck, often it is the record player in our head that's telling us false stories, or it is our belief that we're not enough. Or that we're too much, or it's our belief that we're not lovable. And I find that in Jesus Christ and in my faith in God, it is— that is the foundation of knowing our identity, becoming embodied in ourselves and in our bodies and loving all the parts that, like, puffy stomach or swollen legs or all those things. And I've been through all of that.
