CHANGE?! It sucks! Or does it?

By this time, most of you have received the letter about Insight Family Health Center no longer accepting insurance as of December 18, 2014 and officially closing.  Rest assured, we are staying open as Restore Health & Wellness Center and forging ahead with helping people change their futures by changing their health.

This closing and reinventing of a medical practice is a HUGE CHANGE for all of us.  I do not like change any more than the next person, but I know it is vital for life and growth.  A pond that has no water flowing in or out stagnates.  That’s how life is.  If we stay in the same spot doing the same thing over and over again never changing never growing, our lives stagnate; and we die before our time.  And we all know, I am all about living healthily and fully until the day we die!  I personally don’t want to stagnate, and I don’t want that for any of you.

I have fought this change for a long time knowing it would be difficult for all of us.  But, I’ve finally been backed into a corner where I either have to change things or it all dies.  I 100% believe that what we have been doing at Insight to help people change their health and lives is worth saving.  Even if it has to take on a different form.  No matter how difficult that change may be.  I hope you believe the same thing.

I originally started this practice as a self pay practice.  I had no restrictions and could help people however I thought might best help them.  I then decided to start accepting insurance in order to help even more people.  At the time, I had no clue what that would mean to this practice and how it would eventually come to this point:  being in a completely broken health care/insurance system that is trying to control the amount of time I spend with patients and how I choose to treat them with lifestyle change and natural treatments.

I don’t believe staying in this country’s broken health care/insurance system is the best care that I can provide for my patients.  I really don’t believe any of us should ever be trapped in that system.  This past year, I have been urging patients to get as healthy as they can be and stay that way so that they never need or become dependent on the health care system in this country.  I believe things are only going to get worse, and it behooves all of us to get healthy and stay healthy and only use the system in an emergency!  I’m always looking for ways to optimize my health and your health in natural ways so that we aren’t dependent on the system.

I urge each of you to evaluate your current health status.  Are you on synthetic prescription medications that are treating conditions that you could heal with lifestyle change?  For instance, are you on a blood pressure medication but are overweight and don’t exercise routinely?  Could you lose weight and exercise and work towards getting off of your synthetic medication?  Would these changes more likely help you live and age healthy?

NOW is the time to make some personal changes with your life and health.  I urge you to quit gambling with your health and hoping any synthetic prescription drug will help you feel good and age healthy and prevent the repercussions of not eating right, losing weight, sleeping well, stress reducing, drinking water or exercising.  I urge you to start investing in your health now.  It is NEVER too late to make health changes that will alter the course of your future and how you age.

We are still here to help each of you make better health choices that lead to life and healthy aging.  We are stepping out of a system that truly leads to death and poor health as we age.  I hope you understand that this change must be made.  The very mission of Insight and Restore is about life and helping people prevent disease and maintain optimal health until the day they die.  We choose to CHANGE rather than be forced to rush with you and prescribe synthetic prescription medications for each issue you have. 

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe

I love that quote!  Insight was a really good thing.  It has helped a lot of people.  Its time has come to an end.  But better things are coming with Restore and with your personal health if you decide today to go in a different direction and CHANGE.

Sincerely,

Tabetha L. Smith, FNP-C

Relinquisher of Control, Investor in Change