Dr. Tracy Jackson is board certified in both pain and addiction medicine. She completed her pain fellowship training at Stanford and was previously associate professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Vanderbilt University, where she created their pain fellowship training program and provided care at both the Interventional Pain Clinic and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is also a RYT-200 yoga instructor and level II reiki practitioner, with additional certification in medical acupuncture. She helped draft the opioid prescribing guidelines for Tennessee and has lectured extensively on opioid issues both here and abroad. Her clinical interests involve development of holistic integrative rehabilitation options to reduce opioid use and improve chronic pain outcomes, as described in her TEDxNashville talk, “The Hardest Pill to Swallow.” She left Vanderbilt in August of 2018 to focus on her role as founder and CEO of Relief Retreats, a functional rehabilitation program for chronic pain. She also joined Opos Solutions, to develop educational curricula for empowerment of patients on chronic opioid therapy. She has also been a long-time provider of compassionate treatment for the disease of opioid use disorder with Groups Recover Together.

Unfortunately, she noticed over time that burnout began to limit her ability to care for both herself and her patients. Stuck, struggling, and seeking more practical solutions based in the science of behavioral change, she became board-certified in health and wellness coaching through the NBC-HWC. This changed everything. Receiving coaching herself allowed her to see clearly that the neuroscience of suffering was also the neuroscience of healing and transformation. It opened up a empowered path for her to leave behind what was no longer serving her, and move forward with clarity and inspiration.

These were the same principles that revolutionized the lives of those who attended the retreat that prompted her departure from the traditional health care system. (Read more about that here.)

Armed with this knowledge and experience, she created the TRUST Pathway™: Evidence-Based, Values-Aligned, and Custom-Tailored to support those stuck and struggling, like she had once been.

She now identifies primarily as a coach/educator/translator working with people to understand and navigate their own unique approach to healing, rather than a medical expert giving diagnostic answers to people.

She has been living the full-time gypsy nomad #vanlife since 2018. Core values: Learning and authenticity. Never married, no kids, no makeup, no hair dryer. You’ll find her wherever the warm wind is blowing, wing foiling, running, doing yoga, listening to live music, leading retreats, and just generally seeking adventure with her extended and much adored tribe of friends and family all over the world.