Defying the Odds: Surviving the Unsurvivable

15 years ago, I made a decision that forever changed my life…

I left a corporate career with leading global corporations, Nintendo France, Mattel USA, Esquire Communications, to found a forensic and clinical center dedicated to helping others to survive the unsurvivable and transform their circumstances.

After all, I had survived multiple traumatic brain injuries, a fractured skull, broken neck, and spiral fractures of my skeleton. I had been reconstructed through complex surgeries. Spent a year in a neck brace. Disfigured. Told I was about to die. Told I would never function again. I had lived through such terrifying attacks on my life, I was left with debilitating complex post-traumatic symptoms. Along the journey, medical teams and emergency response personnel often stated it was a miracle I was alive, let alone what they called ‘high functioning.’

I specialized in trauma and emergency medicine first response, as well as wilderness first response. I traveled and spoke in front of audiences of all sizes, wrote books, produced educational series, created events, while receiving a crash course in resilience, perseverance and what it takes to succeed. I thought I’d found my calling. Then fate delivered a plot twist!

Working in close collaboration with medical and mental health providers for decades, I discovered the healthcare system functioned primarily as a sick care system. Issues were systematically addressed symptomatically. Practically no one addressed their cause. Unresolved root causes are a driving force behind our physical, mental and emotional imbalances. They often result in harmful patterns of behavior that can become extremely resistant to change.

From a brain plasticity perspective, patients discussing their issues endlessly with their providers only deepen the reinforcement of neural pathways of distress, despair, disempowerment and hopelessness. It is the basis upon which we learn and master anything, from playing an instrument to driving a car, becoming an athlete and everything else in between. Neurons which fire together wire together. Exactly like a wheel digging a track in mud or snow, the greater the repetition, the deeper the groove, the more difficult it becomes to exit the track.

The clinical director of a large mental health group put it plainly: “Genvièv, facilitating rapid and lasting relief, as you do in a few weeks with even the most chronic symptoms, is simply not a viable business model.” He continued: “When patients lose their battles, we can’t be blamed any more than when cancer patients lose their life during treatment.” I was speechless.

At their core, chronic health and mental health issues are symptoms. They are responses to situations and experiences our brain and central nervous system were unable to process, integrate, and release. For decades, our team partnered with professionals in the medical field to research, study, and develop evidence-based approaches allowing us to address and resolve the root causes of chronic conditions. Our results consistently show that when underlying causes are properly identified and resolved, rapid and lasting relief from symptoms often follows.

As a result, I embarked on the next chapter of my journey by founding the Academy of Integrative Wellness. We teach these proven methodologies to medical and mental health providers eager to shift from a symptom-focused model to a wellness-driven approach, empowering them to offer rapid and lasting relief to their patients.

By collaborating with dedicated providers, we are working to transform healthcare from sick care to well care. Together, we are paving the way for a future where feeling better isn’t just possible—it’s inevitable!

I look forward to welcoming you to the team!

P.S. You don’t need to be a medical provider to join, we also teach day-to-day individuals to become self-empowered and have a tremendous impact on their health, wellness and quality of life.

Interested in joining the team? Learning more about our programs? Helping YOU with your goals, wellness and success?

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