Bringing Soul & Health to Sustainability

An Interview with Soul Doctoring Author Dr. Gayle Randall

- Robert Yehling

When Dr. Gayle Randall first set out to write Soul Doctoring: Heal Yourself, Heal the Planet 25 years ago, she envisioned a book focused on self-care and the many underlying causes of disease. She sought to merge her many years of training from a number of American Indian teachers with her longstanding practice as a medical doctor and integrative medicine pioneer to present a 360-degree view of what causes disease, and how we can recognize our own ailments and how to care for ourselves better.

Things have changed. With the planet and climate in a crisis state, endangering everything from our health to the future course of our environment, businesses and nations, she switched gears. She completely overhauled her original manuscript and brought together the core aspects of personal physical and mental health, diet, sustainable living and business, lifestyle and work choices to arrive at a book that has never tackled sustainability, health , and the future of the planet so care, directly.

In so doing, she began spreading the word through her influential Soul Stories podcast, weekly fireside chats on health, wellness and sustainability on Instagram TV, and a social media platform growing as rapidly as the regenerative farms and next-gen food operations with which she is deeply involved. Our careers often take many turns, and become more purposeful as we gain experience, but few can argue with the uniqueness of a trained gastroenterologist and co-founder of one of the nation's first integrative medicine centers mixing her work with the Regeneration Generation that is beginning to take sustainability to the next level.

Innovation & Tech Today caught up with Dr. Randall on the eve of the May 31 launch of Soul Doctoring (Transformation Media Press) in traditional and online booksellers nationwide.