Life On Purpose: Reflections: Volume 1

What if you took some time each week to focus on a question, topic, or change in your life? Life On Purpose: Reflections offers 52 insightful and illuminating stories. Each story guides you to spend the week ahead with attention to an intention on a gentle journey through life. Life On Purpose is divided into three parts - Lessons From Kids, Lessons From Others and Lessons From Life. Each section contains thought provoking and often life changing insights on our everyday interactions with others and our inner selves. One week at a time we find a gentle transformation happening as we live and walk with the stories of hope, encouragement, and faith. Teresa Moore is a physician, teacher, healer, mother, writer, and artist. From an early age, she has labored to integrate western medicine with holistic healing, believing that health encompasses the “wholeness” of body, mind, and energy. With a gift of seeing the world slightly differently than most, she brings a fascinating, funny, touching, and timeless world of wonder to her work.

Teresa Moore is a physician, teacher, healer, mother, writer and artist. From an early age, she has labored to integrate western medicine with holistic healing, believing that health encompasses the “wholeness” of body, mind, and energy. With a gift of seeing the world slightly differently than most, she brings a fascinating, funny, touching, and timeless world of wonder to her work. Teresa has practiced allopathic medicine for over twenty years in rural Virginia while including many holistic approaches in her healing practice. She is level one certified in Reiki and has completed coursework in medical intuition in addition to her medical degree. She has personally practiced aromatherapy and various types of meditation for over thirty years and is fascinated by the mind-emotional-physical-spiritual body connections in health, wellness, and disease. She has been on the faculty of Edward Via School of Osteopathic Medicine, associated with Virginia Tech, for over 10 years serving as a preceptor for underserved care. Twice she has received the award for Clinical Educator of the year-Southside area, presented by the classes of 2015 and 2016, and has individually precepted over 80 medical, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant students through her position with Virginia Tech and other institutions. Teresa wrote a philosophical column “Life on Purpose,” for The Southside Messenger from 2006-2011, as well as having many articles published in ECHO. In addition, she wrote a healthcare column for Footnotes, a towing and recovery trade magazine for a couple of years. Having had many experiences for growth in her lifetime, she has used these experiences to help others especially in times of transition. She has presented workshops, seminars, and keynotes at the local, state, and national level focusing on personal empowerment and how our beliefs shape our lives, as well as how to survive the curve balls that life sometimes throws us.