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Meet Doctor Selassie
I had eczema for as long as I can remember…
I spent a lot of my childhood nights itching and scratching — it was always worse at night. The eczema was on my face, neck, insides of my elbows and behind my knees, but it would come and go on other parts of my body as well.
My father was a medical doctor and so I was prescribed numerous anti-itch, anti-fungal, antibiotic, and steroid cream. All of them would work for a while and then stop and I would have to move to a different medication.
By the time I was twelve years old, I was diagnosed as having steroid-induced asthma. At that point, even as a tween, I knew that drugs and medication were not for me and at the time, I thought that was what being a doctor was all about.
A couple of years later, on the first day of my freshman year of high school, my father died.
He had been recently diagnosed with colon cancer only 67 days prior and right after my father celebrated his 20th year medical school reunion. My mother said to me, “be prepared, a lot of your father’s classmates are in shock as they just saw him happy and well at the reunion. The funeral will be crowded, some will be flying in from the Philippines and from all over the United States”.
The funeral was indeed crowded. The police had to come to control the traffic in our Baltimore suburb.
However, when we went to the funeral, what we discovered was, yes his classmates were there and to this day I am so grateful for their support, but the hundreds of people who came for the funeral were his patients. I remember some of their words:
“your father was such a kind and caring doctor”
“my mother lost her memory, but she always remembered your father — he was her favorite doctor”
“when I was sick your father could cheer me up with his sense of humor.”
It was then that I made the distinction that the pharmaceutical drugs and creams independent of the healer who was my father.
Fast forward a decade later:
I began Naturopathic Medical School. It was there that I learned how to cultivate the healer within me, that I had inherited from my father. And it was also where I learned about healing without having to rely solely on pharmaceuticals.
I have personally lived through everything that I have taught in my Aging Brilliantly Signature Method: diet changes, stress management, homeopathy, emotional processing, cultivating my spirituality, working on sleep, and exercise, and movement, using, making, and ingesting herbal remedies.
Through the application of what I learned, my twenty plus year history of eczema was healed.
About five years ago, I was asked to teach a class at the New York Open center called, “Beautiful Skin, Naturally!”. Never would I ever imagine in my past that I would be asked to be an expert on skin and represent “beautiful skin”.
With the healing nature of my medical doctor father, and my own healing and knowledge of Naturopathic Medicine, I hope to serve you.
If you can relate to my story, and you find it inspiring, sign up for your Aging Brilliantly Breakthrough Consultation.
Dr. Patricia Pimentel Selassie is a third generation physician who received her Naturopathic Doctorate degree from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington.
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and lives with her husband, their five daughters, and her mother-in-law in Brooklyn, New York. She joins her husband in collecting archival materials pertaining to Ethiopian and Rastafari Art and Culture for the Haile Selassie I International University Museum and Research Library Center. She enjoys cooking, going to the park with her family, journaling, and loves books about many topics from personal growth and development and mindset, to business and marketing, and, of course, health.
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Dr. Selassie: The Stats
Dr. Selassie founded the New Flower Center for Naturopathic Medicine in Brooklyn, New York and has two decades of clinical experience.
A life-long eczema sufferer, Dr. Selassie attributes her complete healing to Naturopathic Medicine.
Known by her patients as “a doctor you can talk to”, Dr. Selassie blends evidence-based Naturopathic Medicine with an intuitive coaching style so people can be their healthiest best and live their life’s purpose.
To assist in healing the world, Dr. Selassie knows that education, especially that which relates to health, is a priority. She has hosted over 500 live call-in radio shows, broadcasting to 22,000 listeners.
Dr. Selassie has presented lectures on the Naturopathic Medical Profession at Columbia, Howard, Princeton, Drexel, James Madison, Long Island Universities, and the University of Virginia.
A popular instructor at the New York Open Center, Dr. Selassie has taught on topics such as detox, skin, gut inflammation, thyroid, brain health, and CBD.
In addition, she is on the Medical Review Board for the School of Applied Functional Medicine.
Most recently, Dr. Selassie authored Aging Brilliantly, a book on the Amazon Best Seller’s list for Longevity.
