What I am trying to create at Pando is a "Better way to feel better". By this, I mean a true way to be better not a band-aid solution. I find many of the pharmacologic solutions to chronic medical problems to be band-aids and NOT real solutions. This is, of course, not always true (i.e. antibiotics for acute infections). However, in the case of treating chronic heart disease, the wide variety of neurologic conditions, chronic pain of all varieties, depression, chronic insomnia and many of the other challenges in the modern medical world, we are not creating healing with our usual "pharmacologic-only"solutions if they are done in isolation. The following NY Times article clearly addresses and clarifies this major issue in regard to treating depression.
So what does "going deeper" look like? How do we help people in a more profound, more healing manner? First, we have to know and understand them. What do they believe? What hits their buttons? Are they helped by talking or going in through the body? Do they like to work things out by themselves (through exercise, yoga, meditation or prayer) or do they get to answers through relationship (with a doctor, talk or body therapist, or dear friend). Do they feel most comfortable in a one-on-one relationship or a supportive group of peers? These are critical to assess and know as different people have different paths to making healing shifts.
At Pando, we are attempting to arm ourselves with a full plate of options so we can meet the needs of all of our beloved clients. This is my vision of the new primary care: knowing each person and their challenge fully and holistically, then providing the specific path to healing that is appropriate for each individual. Being able to offer hands-on body approaches, movement and restorative exercise solutions, meditation AND supportive one-on-one and group talking, I can meet each person where they live and breathe and take them where they want to go. This is "going deeper" and what makes Pando different than "usual" care.
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