More than a half-century after a Navajo grandmother offered a prophecy about her life, Erica fulfills that prophecy in ways she never could have imagined.

Erica Elliott, MD, is a rare kind of healer–a true medical detective. Guided by the spirit of a mountain lion who came to her in a remote wilderness long before she began her medical training, Erica weaves impeccable scientific knowledge together with deep listening to uncover the roots of her patients’ suffering. With breathtaking clarity and fierce authenticity, Erica reveals the tenderness forged in the fires of her own trials, and the unshakable love that anchors her work. This is more than a story; it is a transmission of hope-a luminous reminder that pain, when met with courage, becomes a doorway to rebirth.

–Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.– author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

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. I found it to be insightful and inspirational. 

–Andrew Weil, MD —Founder of Andrew Weil University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

In From Doctor to Healer, the third in Dr. Erica Eliott’s memoir trilogy, we are invited to join her intrepid journey into exploring her life’s sacred mystery and emerging as a true healer. Her approach is brilliantly cinematic, whether she’s recounting her death-defying ascent of Denali as a medical student, or delving into the intricacies of her brain injury. Her hard-won, uncanny ability to help patients with maladies that are routinely misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated by conventional medicine has won her a worldwide reputation. Elliott does not merely recount a life; she transmits the medicine of it-bold, raw, and luminous.

–Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D. –co-author of Your Soul’s Compass and Yes to Change