What’s it like to work with Otis?

On this page I’ll tell you what kind of results my clients have reported and also give you a sense of my guiding beliefs, approach to coaching clients, and how I’m different from other health coaches.

When you consult with me I will listen carefully to what you tell me.

You have knowledge of your body that I will never have. If I am to be of maximum service to you I must gain some of that knowledge that you and only you possess. My clients find it remarkably encouraging and freeing when I totally listen to them. In fact, when I’m listening with my full attention they hear themselves speaking wisdom that they did not know they knew.

My health was steadily declining. I had been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, had recurring yeast infections, developed food allergies, severe lack of energy and felt my body thermostat wasn’t working properly.  In a quest to find answers, I saw 12 different types of doctors.  The medications they gave all made me worse. Dr. Woodard was the first doctor that truly listened.  He was also the only one to find the root cause. I greatly appreciate Dr. Woodard’s iron-clad will to help me heal. I also appreciate that it’s okay to disagree with him. –Connie, Georgia

We will search tirelessly for the root causes of your health issues.

I’m not into just masking symptoms with drugs or anything else. Doing that is like taking the batteries out of you smoke alarm because it waked you up at night and going back to sleep. Tracking down the root causes takes good detective work in which you have s many essential clues. Many clients find our cooperative detective work fascinating and fun. It isn’t unusual for us to be laughing together. Part of the reason is that you get satisfying answers to questions that had baffled you for years.

I had had 4 surgeries: removal of endometriosis, hysterectomy, cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal), and an appendectomy. I was down for at least 3 years. No one knew what was wrong with me. An acquaintance gave me Dr. Woodard’s name. He started me immediately on natural thyroid hormone that definitely boosted me up.  Then he started me on cortisol (a bioidentical adrenal hormone).  Within 2 months I was a different person. I would say my quality of life increased 99.9%. What means the most to me is feeling like a human being again. I feel as if I have rejoined the human race. I just thank God that I found him. –Judy, North Carolina

I will teach you how to be specialist in your own health care.

This empowers you to take charge of your health to the fullest possible degree. It will give you a huge margin of safety, security, and satisfaction as you feel your dependency on a broken healthcare system decreasing.

Dr. Woodard respected and valued my experience and insights regarding the symptoms I was having. He understands that a mutual physician-patient partnership is vital in facilitating the best possible outcomes. No, I am not a physician, but Dr. Woodard understands that as the patient I have access to information that is invaluable to his diagnostic and intervention methods. It is important to me to be an active participant in the medical decision making process. Before I consulted with Dr. Woodard I felt as though physicians were treating me, but I was an outside participant. With Dr. Woodard, not only did I have a “say,” but I actually understood my condition, why I was on the medications I was on, and what I could expect in terms of my recovery. That empowered me because I could be proactive in my health. And because I understood what was causing the problem, I could actually prevent future problems because I was addressing the root cause. –Dorothy, Georgia

I will tell you about the safest, most effective, simplest, and least expensive natural remedies.

We will use mostly orthomolecular substances, which are normally present in your body and necessary for your health. We work to get the right concentration of each of them. There is a fascinating way to do that without a lot of lab testing.

I will tell you powerful things you can take and practical things you can do to greatly improve your chances of keeping your mind sharp and clear until your last breath.

Senility and debility are not mandatory. I love to teach people how to extend vitality and creativity out toward the end of physical life. Many of my clients actually decrease their biological age (what they can do compared with most people of a particular age) as they get chronologically older.

I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t eat, I was physically, mentally and emotionally depleted. The techniques you have given me not only healed my body but allowed me to expand my awareness of who I am and most importantly what I am here to accomplish. I enjoy my life and my body. I can do what I need to do and what I choose to do. –Maria, Alabama

Guiding Beliefs and Values

• I believe that the single most powerful thing you can do for powerful healing, great vitality, and remarkable longevity is to have clarity about your life purpose and take action every day to fulfill that purpose. For people who do this, life takes on a magical quality and help and health come in the most amazing ways while challenges abound.

• I believe in the awesome healing power of the human body-mind-spirit balanced and working in harmony. I believe because of what I have consistently seen and experienced over the course of 50 years of medical practice. I have found that healing is often possible after conventional medicine has declared it impossible.

• I believe in the power of co-creative effort of client and coach to improve the quality of the client’s life. And it’s not just powerful; it is often fun and exhilarating. It can also be hard work.

• I value the determination, courage, and action to fully use one’s talents and resources to fulfill the purpose for which one came into this life. When my client is showing these qualities, I am inspired to push myself to my limits to put in my very best. And I highly value the joy and fulfillment that results from doing so.

My Approach

• Each person is unique. No two are alike. I must get a feel for each personality and life history so as to fit my recommendations appropriately to each client.

• Life was meant to be a treat, not a treatment. Humor helps. My clients and I often have fun with our serious work and laugh together. Patients sometimes say to me, “I never imagined I’d look forward to and enjoy learning to take charge of my health but here I do.”

• Find the simplest, safest, least expensive, most effective and most comfortable way to get the job done. In 50 years I’ve learned several ways to do most things so I can pick and choose. That’s part of the fun of having practiced medicine for such a long time.

My Uniqueness

• I came to Take Charge of Your Health coaching from a 30-year career as a holistic physician. I brought with me a wealth of knowledge and experience in helping people take effective action on all three dimensions of life (body, mind, spirit) to improve their health and quality of life. These same things work for taking charge of your health.
• I practiced medicine longer than any other holistic physician I know and longer than most physicians of any kind. I’ve never stopped learning. Now I have a wealth of knowledge and experience in how my clients can take charge of their health.
• My coaching is truly holistic: body, mind, and spirit. I have learned that one or two of these dimensions won’t unlock your full healing power any more than dialing one or two numbers on your combination lock will open your locker at the gym.
• I have found a practical way you can use all three and still live your full, busy life. Working this out has been the hardest part of the whole process and it took nearly 30 years but it is now in place and working. People are actually doing it. See an illustrative case history.

Let’s explore!

Now that you have a better idea about the results you can expect by working with me and my approach and philosophy of working with you, I invite you to call 706.782.1219 or email me for an appointment or to schedule a free 20-minute telephone consultation to explore further whether the holistic approach is for you. I’ll ask you what your health concerns are, tell you whether I think I can help you, and then you decide if you wish to schedule an evaluation with me.