Heal from your roots – and rise with community.
The Roots Program is an 8-week lifestyle medicine program that helps you address the root causes of illness, grow stronger health, and reduce your reliance on medication — with community support by your side. You’ll feel empowered — with knowledge, skills, and confidence to take charge of your health. You’ll gain:
Clarity on your health goals and a personalized path to achieving them.
Evidence-based tools across the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine
Confidence to nourish, move and connect with others for lasting change
A supportive community to help you celebrate (and maintain) your growth
Step 1:
Plant the Seed (Individual Assessment and Goal-Setting), 60-Minute Session
We’ll explore your personal goals, assess your lifestyle, review medical history and medications, and gather key health data. Understanding where you are today builds a plan that fits your life and supports lasting change. We’ll uncover what matters most to you and map your growth.
Step 2:
Nurture Your Roots (Weekly Group Sessions), 90-Minute Sessions
Following the Full Plate Living curriculum and pillar focused education, we’ll address:
Week 1: Discover Lifestyle Medicine
Week 2: Filling Your Plate with Nourishment
Week 3: Unlocking Your Metabolic Health
Week 4: Moving With Joy in Nature*
Week 5: Mastering Restorative Sleep
Week 6: Build Stress-Resilient Habits
Week 7: Eating Out, Stay Connected
Week 8: Creating Lasting Change
*Optional Midpoint Check-In (Week 4): We’ll review your progress, adjust medications and problem solve any challenges you may be facing.
Step 3:
Harvest Your Growth (Final Visit)
Let’s assess your health improvements, create a maintenance plan and explore any ongoing support you may benefit from, such as ongoing one-to-one care and participation in group educational events.
We offer both insurance and self-pay options. We accept most commercial insurance plans and New Mexico Medicaid. Please note that because Medicare does not recognize pharmacists as providers, we are unable to bill Medicare at this time. The following self-pay options are available:
Roots Program (all components): $750
See pricing for our One-on-One Program
Note: If you are self-pay and experiencing financial hardship, please ask about our sliding scale program. Individuals who qualify for SNAP benefits may be eligible.
Why Dropseed?
Our world faces rising chronic disease, unsustainable healthcare costs and planetary strain – relying solely on medications isn’t enough. Dropseed was founded to treat root causes of illness using the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine, so you can improve health, safely reduce medications, and even achieve remission of conditions like type 2 diabetes.
Simplify Treatment. Transform Your Health.
Drawing on the expertise of Davena Norris – a pharmacist clinician and board-certified lifestyle medicine professional – with over a decade of experience in primary care and hospital settings, Dropseed Lifestyle Medicine helps clients improve their health while simplifying treatment and collaborating closely with existing care teams. Dr. Norris work with individuals who are ready to:
Treat or reverse chronic conditions, like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and more.
Optimize health and prevent conditions due to family history, etc.