Hi, I’m Dr. Sonny Miles .
My name is Sonny Miles. I am a healer on my journey to heal, to understand healing, to know myself, and to learn how I can best help others access their own healing. I am a mother of two young boys, a wife, a caretaker of dogs and horses, and a lover of the beauty of the outdoors. I, too, have spent most of my life being busy and doing too much and am learning a new way of deep connection and intentional living.
I fell in love with the mystery of the human body and healing when I was young. I read and listened to those in complementary medicine and to physicians who bridged the world of conventional medicine with these other ways of healing, such as Andrew Weil, MD, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, and others. I understood that healing was both science and art and required intention and participation and that the body could sometimes heal in amazing ways.
I was a Peace Corps volunteer and saw what a lack of modern healthcare meant and how important and necessary it is (and miraculous at times) but also witnessed spiritual healers and people using all sorts of indigenous plants for common ailments which helped them live better. When I returned from my Peace Corps service, I started medical school and then completed residency in Internal Medicine. I started my medical career as a hospitalist, taking care of patients sick enough to be admitted to the hospital. I became disillusioned with what I called, the “revolving door” where we would get someone well enough to go home but then days or weeks or months later, they were back with the same problem.
I also felt called to take care of people who were very sick or dying. So, I returned to my earlier interest in integrative medicine and completed the fellowship in integrative medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and I returned to medical training to do a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. I spent several years caring for those with serious illness, talking to them about what mattered and how they lived their best possible moments with illness, and sometimes about the challenges of living when a person knows they are dying. In the next part of my journey, my aim is to bring all of these together – conventional medicine with the important conversations of palliative care and the tools and understanding of integrative medicine – in order to assist you on your own journey of healing and living what matters most.
My Approach
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