Dr. Kyle Gillett

I want to talk about the sixth pillar, spirit.

Yeah, it is surprisingly well received.

You wouldn't think at first glance that a patient really wants to talk about their spiritual health with their doctor.

But the way I think about it and the way that it really is, is it's like a Venn diagram and you have a body and a mind and a soul.

And you can't have one healthy without the other healthy.

Even if your mental health is,

and even if your physical health is phenomenal, the mental aspect of spirituality, if that piece is not there, then that's gonna affect your body physiologically as well.

And regardless if someone's an atheist or regardless of what someone believes as far as religion or the origin of the species,

they can know that their spirituality is going to have a profound effect on their mental and physical health as well.

People like to compartmentalize it.

So they like to talk to their doctor only about the physical health, because it's comfortable to do that.

They only talk to their pastor or a mom or Reiki healer for their spiritual health, and they just talk to their therapist or psychiatrist about their mental health.

but you need to bring all three of those things together.

It's well known that interdisciplinary clinics lead to improved patient outcomes, and that's just disciplines within medicine.

So that's just doctors that are specializing in this or this.

So this takes a step back in the upper part of that tree before you reach those dichotomies or the split-offs.

You have your body and your mind and your soul, so your spiritual health and your mental health and your physical health.

So if you're in line in all three of those things, that builds the cornerstone for the rest of your health and the rest of your life.

So I hope that everybody does find what they truly believe in as far as their own spirituality.

But yeah, that's a personal journey.