I’ve been aching to provide the functional medicine care that has been given to the veterans we serve at the Veterans Integrative Pain Clinic to the general public for some time now. With some rocky steps and nervous steps, I feel we’ve finally reached a point to start. What a climb so far!

Intent Wellness is more of an ongoing project than just a solo practice. Eventually there will be more to it than a rehab physician turned integrative medicine provider. But, dreams aside, it is wonderful just to even be here.

Health is more achievable than people think, but it can also be like “perfect” – just out of reach. So, it’s the aim, the direction, the movement toward that picture of health that becomes the most important part. Wellness, then, happens not by accident, but by intention. Hence the tag line!

What is your intention, then? Is it to feel better? To not struggle? To live a more full life? Name it and that is what we can work on. Sometimes what we name can be too broad, so we may need to narrow it down. Sometimes what we name is not broad enough, so we need to widen our view. This happens with movement, though, so we all have to start somewhere. And sometimes it isn’t just a start, but a re-start – and that is fine too. Movement with intention is the key.

That’s what I’ve learned, and now my intention is to bring it to anyone wanting to move to a better place.

Salud! – Tim