My Philosophy Concerning Your Health: Three Levels of Care

1. Relief Care

This is where we address your immediate concerns surrounding symptoms: you

don’t feel well and you have very specific complaints that need to be addressed

in order to improve the quality of your life. I will provide every means at my

disposal to relieve your symptoms as fast as possible. However, I draw a clear

line between symptom relief and symptom suppression. Symptom suppression

merely turns the “signal” off or covers it up without addressing underlying

imbalances. This approach is often effective in the short term but can many times

lead to different and even more complicated symptoms in the future.

2. Corrective Care

Health is about more than how we feel. Even if your symptoms are quickly

relieved, symptom free does not necessarily mean illness free. Other than in

acute conditions, symptoms do not suddenly appear. The underlying imbalances

that lead to symptoms most often develop over long periods of time. Symptoms

are terminal indicators or final warning signs that an imbalanced state has

persisted for a longer period of time than that to which the body was capable of

adapting. Symptoms are simply the last resort the body has in telling you that you

are either not properly caring for yourself or something has gone wrong.

Corrective care additionally takes into account underlying imbalances in the form

of signs and bioenergetic markers which help explain the reasons for not feeling

well. Your attention to these imbalances needs to continue even after symptoms

are relieved if long term success is to be achieved. In some cases initial efforts at

relief care will not succeed until underlying imbalances are addressed. There are

times symptoms cannot be alleviated until corrective measures are taken as well.

You did not become sick overnight and therefore patience is required.

3. Wellness Care

Maintaining your health and maximizing your preventive capabilities are goals we

share in common. Therefore, I provide periodic, ongoing measurement of key

bioenergetic and bio terrain markers that do not require office visits to implement.

By re-testing once or twice a year you can help you maintain your health long

term by attending to imbalances in their early stages when symptoms are minor

or have not yet surfaced.

To your health,

Elizabeth Pemberton TND, CMH

Education Provided for Clients of Island Holistic Wellness LLC