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You Are The Healer: How A Doctor Combines Science And Energy To Guide Lasting Change

• Charlyce Davis MD Reiki Practitioner

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What if the most important shift in your health starts with a better question? Dr. Charlyce opens up about her journey from internal medicine to Reiki Master, showing how science and energy can coexist to serve the same goal: helping you become the leader of your own healing. No fluff, no false promises—just grounded tools that meet you where you are and guide you toward root causes.


We walk through what a functional medicine path looks like when it’s done thoughtfully: comprehensive labs, nutrition coaching powered by an advanced platform, lifestyle design, and plans that respect your history and goals. Then we explore the energy side—how distance Reiki calms the nervous system, reveals patterns, and supports integration with clinical-level notes and next steps so you don’t drift after a powerful session. You’ll hear how these approaches work independently or together, and why listening to your intuition can sit comfortably alongside data-driven care.

You’ll also get a clear map of options: 

Throughout, we return to a simple idea: you are the healer, and small, consistent steps can change the story your body is telling.


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SPEAKER_00:

Thank you so much for joining me for the Art of Healing podcast. I'm Dr. Charlize. If this is our first time to meet, it is wonderful to meet you. If we've met before, it's good to see you again. We are doing a live Art of Healing podcast taping, and we'll actually be doing several episodes, meaning we'll be here for a while. So for anyone that signs on, feel free to jump in and listen, jump on, jump off, because we'll be here for a few hours. And then everything will go live on the Art of Healing podcast within the next one to four weeks. I wanted to start this session with a brief introduction and just an overview of me and what it's like to work with me. And then we'll launch into the rest of our topics, which is basically going to center around the chakras and our hormonal health. It's going to be really cool, some of my favorites to talk about. But as far as working with me, one of the services I offer is a connection call, which allows people to book a call with me to find out if my approach, which is combining the precepts of functional medicine with the healing concepts of Reiki, works for them. So for the next few minutes, I wanted to go over a lot of the information that clients will experience when they're in the call with me. So I am Dr. Charlize, and my background is I've been practicing medicine for somewhere around 20 years, when you include my training in residency. And I've practiced in a variety of settings from public clinics to prisons to hospitals. And currently I work with senior citizens in a clinic during my day job. And then I also became a Reiki healer, working my way up to Reiki Master about eight years ago. And as a result of that, I ended up offering Reiki sessions, aside from my medical practice from what I thought would be a hobby, has turned into a really wonderful service offering that's part of my regular services now. So is clients find me. Sometimes they find me because they're looking for functional medicine or they're looking for Reiki or looking for black female doctor, they end up finding me. And sometimes these are new for them to hear about. Sometimes these are something that they've heard about before. But in either case, it is good to hear this information. And the key thing I want you to take away from this brief session is that no matter where you end up on your journey, you are completely in control. And from the moment a client meets me, I want them to know that they are already on their path. So whether it's if they continue on to work with me, if they sign up for one of my courses, the key is that by looking and asking questions, you're already in control. The key with people that I am so blessed to meet that cross my path is that they are asking questions and they're asking powerful questions. When someone gets to that point of asking questions, it can be uncomfortable, especially if you're working with one or several physicians, if you're working with a group of people who are hoping to heal you, it can be extremely uncomfortable when you start to ask why and how and why me. These are powerful questions that you do need to ask, but that's where working with me can be just especially helpful because we do combine the biological concepts of functional medicine with the holistic concepts of Reiki and energy medicine, we can create a container where you can ask those questions and work your way towards those answers. So as people come to work with me, the things I want them to think about is what's making them look for a holistic approach. This is important because if someone starts to look and they're thinking they want a quick fix or they just want a prescription, or they really don't want to reflect or talk about where they are in their journey. Not that the doors are close to working with me, but to take this holistic approach, you do have to be thinking a little bit differently. You've got to be willing to slow down. You've really got to be willing to ask questions about who you are, where you're from, and what you've been through and how you got here. And although it is my role to help in that process for patients and clients to get the most out of working with me, it's good for them to be thinking that way. So when I schedule those connection calls, I will make sure that patients understand this isn't just appeal for an ill. It's a process and it may take time. But luckily, a lot of the people who come to me have already started to think this way. They're already asking those questions. And then we happen to cross paths at the time when it's time to take the next steps and get those answers. One of the things that I ask my clients when they are working with me is to make deep observations about themselves, about their bodies, about their life. And I ask them to start to use the power of their own intuition to figure out what feels out of balance for them. I am absolutely there to help. But the thing that a lot of patients haven't been taught and are afraid to realize is that they are their own healer. They will actually be the ones to heal themselves. Your doctors and your therapists and everyone around you are really assistants, but it's really going to be you that heals whatever has gone awry in your body. It's a big concept, but it doesn't have to be when you see that little steps can get you there. And then envisioning the future and looking at what could be holding you back. So it doesn't need to be scary, really not scary at all, but as you start to think about your next steps, it's good to take a deep breath, envision where you are now, feel where you'd want to be, envision where you'd want to be, and understand that no matter where your path takes you, you don't need to figure everything out right now. That's really not your job. Just knowing that you ask the questions, you wound up with working or you know, interacting with someone like me, and your next steps, you are taking them and you are learning all along the way. As I mentioned before, my background is internal medicine. So that meant my undergraduate college and then my residency training. After completing three years of residency, I moved on to become a practicing physician. And I practiced for many years before I even knew about holistic remedies. They hadn't even really crossed my path, other than patients mentioning them to me as I was interacting with them. And I'd have a little time to look here and there. This is back in the dark ages, so there really wasn't Google first started. So finding this information wasn't so easy. But eventually my path helped assist me to becoming a Reiki healer when I joined a friend that was attending a class. And so I thought it would be fun to attend as well, didn't know what it was. And it ended up changing my life. And later I began learning about functional medicine. I had patients asking me about their gut microbiome. My own patients were asking me about toxin exposure and reducing their exposure to toxins. And my own patients were asking me about their hormonal health and if the labs I was ordering were the most helpful. So eventually that led me to the Institutes of Functional Medicine where now I'm working to become certified. The coursework's just really valuable. And it's really been quite eye-opening, especially because I've practiced medicine for so long to have these biological explanations of what our bodies are experiencing as we live in this world. So working with me means that we can approach your health from either direction. Some people come and it's their intuition guiding them. They are much more in their feelings and their intuitions high, and they really just want the energy healing. They want some insight onto their energy blockages or even things to do with past lives or something like that. And so for those folks, Reiki sessions are what's most powerful. Now, from those Reiki sessions, we can start to explore things like what's happening in their physical body and how that's showing up in their energetic body and in their biofield, which over the coming weeks we'll talk more about those terms bioenergy and bioenergetic field. So for those people, one or a few Reiki sessions. And with those Reiki sessions, I do provide clinical level documentation. That's very important to me that everything I've done is documented. So from those Reiki sessions, they leave with a note that will tell them about any insights that came up, tell them about what we discussed. And my Reiki clients leave with recommendations just like my functional medicine patients. Now, those recommendations might look different, but they are still very much recommendations. I'm a firm believer that after you complete a Reiki session, it is such a big thing that you can't just float off by yourself. You need to know the next steps, especially the first few days where you can be in a delicate state because you've opened yourself up to this. My functional medicine patients come in with typically more structure. They typically are coming in knowing of a diagnosis or fearing a diagnosis or dealing with one or several chronic illnesses that they are really wanting to get to the next step. Their intuition is telling them that it is time to do something else, that something in their life or their environment is leading to this, and they want some guidance on how to eliminate this. A pretty common reason to come to me is someone who's taking several prescription medications, and they have discovered correctly that taking more prescriptions might be relieving the symptoms, but it's not getting to the root of the problem. With my functional medicine services, we've got great offerings from comprehensive lab testing to nutrition coaching, which I do rely on an advanced platform to provide highly personalized nutritional advice as well as lifestyle. And then the combination together means for powerful coaching. I have a few patients who are working with me on essentially a very individual coaching plan because what they've come to me with, what we've decided to do, may take more than a month or two months. And during those connection calls, although this is a type of connection call, I'm able to come up with an individual plan for each person. So for instance, after if during our call we discover these are big, serious problems and they can't be fixed with just one consult, we'll work out a way to do several consultations, combining that with labs or any other modalities needed to help and to start moving this person in the right direction. Additionally, and I didn't have time to add it to the slide, I've recently partnered with a powerful company, NES, which is Energy for Life, to become one of their practitioners. And with this combination, it unlocks a powerful healing modality, which is using the power of bioenergetics. There'll be more to come on that. I'm really excited to take this step and to share with you all what that looks like. It includes a voice scan, which I had done on myself, which is amazing. And then a really specifically tailored plan after that. But it'll be more to come on that partnership here in a little bit. The services that I offer right now, functional medicine consultations are a medical service, meaning that they are considered just like when you walk into a clinic. Functional medicine consultations take several minutes. They take at least 90 minutes. So for someone that books those, I will give you plenty of guidance and advice to prepare for that consultation because it is a medical service. It's not available everywhere. So I can only see functional medicine patients in the states that I'm licensed. And those are California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. So if you don't reside in one of those states, I'm unable to see you as a functional medicine patient. We can absolutely still work together, however. My Reiki sessions, which are also distance, and my Reiki studio is a virtual studio, is available to anyone. So, same thing with those. All of the Reiki sessions don't need to take as long. But if you sign up for one of those sessions, you'll get guidance on how to create a nice environment in the comfort of your home so that you can experience a distance Reiki session stress-free. The biggest risk with the distance Reiki sessions is someone that drifts really deeply into the healing energy and making sure that I can wake them up. Because some for some people, they come into the session so tired that they fall asleep. So that's always kind of a fun side effect that they sink so deeply into the healing energy. But is distance, and those sessions run anywhere from 20 minutes all the way up to 90 minutes. The most popular is the 45-minute session, which is plenty of time for a good Reiki session for us to interact and for you to leave with a clinical level note and recommendations. Working with me is not the only route, not directly. So I have programs that are available online and enrollments open at any time. My personal favorite is the self-guided Reiki Journey. This is an all-in-one package program in which you can essentially have your own Reiki studio program at home. Included in it are three powerful guided Reiki sessions. So you simply plug and play. They are Reiki sessions, so you want to be somewhere comfortable and safe in your bed, on your couch, somewhere that you would typically deeply, deeply relax. And then there's also several lessons about your physical body and your energy body. So within those lessons, you learn about each major energy center or chakra. You also learn about the physical attributes of each one of those. And then you finish up with each of the sections with various integrative techniques and meditations. And most all of them are actually downloadable. Once you enroll in the course, your access to the course is lifelong. There's also ebooks and printables all within this course. It's essentially everything I could package up and a client that I would have in my in-person studio that I'd work with over a three-month period. So my self-guided Reiki Journey, I highly recommend is one of my favorites all-in-one program. And if you are looking to heal something really big like grief, depression, chronic pain, this is a great place to start. The self-guided Reiki Journey. I have a few shorter mini courses, and one of those is channeling your negative emotions. This is a short program that teaches you how to use a meditative practice to not run from emotions that we normally don't like, like grief, sorrow, anger, anxiety. You actually learn to invite them, embrace them, and use a combination of meditation, mindfulness, and energy medicine to make it a positive experience. And I forgot to list it, but I also have a nine-minute Reiki reset, a mini course. So because I'm talking, I can't really get into all of the chat right now, but I will make sure to put those links to those courses in the chat. And then if you're listening to the podcast later, I'll make sure to put those links in your show notes. So all of my programs are open enrollment anytime you like. And what I really like about that is you don't have to wait for my schedule, and you'll have access to these assets for the rest of your life. You download them and you can use them whenever. But of course, I'm always available if you do need me. So my one-to-one connection calls are$60. However, once again, I wanted to make this brief show so that you could hear from me. You don't necessarily have to schedule a connection call, just so you could understand what it's like working with me. So if you are here now, thank you so much. The Art of Healing podcast goes live about once a week, but coming in the next few weeks, we'll be together a little bit more often, probably a couple times a week. I have a YouTube channel. If you just search the term at Dr. Charlize, you should be able to find it. And then I have a few resources, including a beginner's guide to Reiki, and on my site, drchharlice.com, there's a place for frequently asked questions. I will wrap up this session and hope this is helpful. The biggest thing I wanted for a takeaway is that no matter where you are in your journey, if it's you come, you work with me, I'm pleased, you meet me and you end up finding another functional medicine doctor. I am so happy to somehow have helped you get to where you needed to be. If you come through and decide you just want to do a course, I'm very happy because in your coursework, I'll be alongside you to see how it's going and I'm there for support. So no matter where you are, I'm happy you are there, happy to meet you. In your show notes of the podcast, you'll see ways that we can connect. The podcast is probably the easiest to find me, but in my websites as well. So we'll wrap up this show with a note of gratitude to you. Thank you so much. If you are listening on the podcast, I would love for you to leave a review and let me know how I'm doing. And also in your podcasting app, you have a way you can send me a message. So if you're listening to this, you're busy, you're commuting, and you didn't catch all those resources, you should see somewhere in all the popular podcasting apps that there's a way to send a message to me and I can message back with anything that you might have missed.

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