From Doctor to Healer: The Mountain Lion’s Gift

If you have ever been dismissed by a doctor, told your symptoms are not real, or left without answers after years of searching, this book was written for you.

At the age of 23, a mountain lion spared her life. Decades later, Dr. Erica Elliott would come to understand that encounter as the beginning of a journey that would carry her far beyond conventional medicine.

From Doctor to Healer is the final volume of the memoir trilogy of Erica M. Elliott, MD. Trained in Western medicine, Dr. Elliott began to notice that her patients' chronic conditions were not being resolved by conventional care, that something essential was being missed. The search for what was missing had begun years earlier, when she was a young schoolteacher on the Navajo Reservation, long before medical school. It would be shaped by a prophecy spoken by a Navajo grandmother and tested by health crises of her own that medicine could not explain.

As Andrew Weil, MD, Founder of the Andrew Weil University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, writes: "Dr. Erica Elliott's memoir is a powerful story of transformation that shows how adversity can be a doorway to healing, for both doctor and patient."

In From Doctor to Healer, Dr. Elliott takes you behind the curtain of modern healthcare, into the intimate stories of patients who were dismissed, misdiagnosed, or failed by the system, and into her own hardest years. With the mind of a scientist and the intuition of a seasoned healer, she becomes a medical detective, uncovering root causes where others saw dead ends.

This book is for anyone who has felt failed by modern medicine, anyone drawn to memoirs of resilience and spiritual awakening, and anyone who senses there is more to healing than a prescription can offer.

This final book in the Erica Elliott Memoir Trilogy is preceded by Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert: My Life Among the Navajo People and From Mountains to Medicine: Scaling the Heights in Search of My Calling.