When I first got into osteopathy, I was all about the science.
If I could just memorize the names of every nerve, muscle, tissue, and joint—and master the exact angles of assessment—I believed I’d be successful. If I were accurate enough, scientific enough, specific enough with my anatomy, then I could solve any problem that came my way.
And to be honest, that approach fit me perfectly at the time. I was the classic “science girl”, a University of Waterloo grad from a family of medical professionals. Osteopathy appealed to me because it felt concrete: structure, function, mechanics. Learn the anatomy, fix the problem. Simple.
But then I started noticing something strange in my practice.
For a period of time, I had a whole string of patients come in with foot pain. Different ages, different backgrounds, different presentations… yet when I listened to their stories, there was always a common thread. Each one of them was struggling with dissatisfaction in their professional life.
That got my attention. Could all this “foot pain” really be about more than feet?
That realization cracked something open in me. It sent me down a whole new path—studying Ayurvedic medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and looking for the patterns my patients’ bodies were showing me. Anatomy wasn’t enough anymore. Their stories, their emotions, their lived experience—it was all woven into what I was palpating under my hands.
And that’s really where The Body Oracle began.
Because the truth is, the body doesn’t just speak through fascia or posture—it tells us the truth about how we’re living, what we’re carrying, and what needs to shift.
🎧 This week on The Body Oracle...
I’m sharing the full origin story: how those early patients with “just” foot pain led me into a whole new way of practicing, teaching, and understanding the body.
With curiosity (and always a bit of science 😉),
Gen
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