How my journey began

Dr. Dixie Wall: Your health and wellness expert

Greetings, my name is Dr. Dixie Wall, DAOM, L.Ac., HHP, and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to share my passion with you in this way. Your health and well being is my passion.

 Greetings, my name is Dr. Dixie Wall, DAOM, L.Ac., HHP, and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to share my passion with you in this way.  Your health and well being is my passion.

With over 25 years of experience in natural healing techniques, I specialise in infertility and pre and post natal health, menopause, and thyroid disorders.  Using Chinese and integrative medicine, I formulate programs, to create harmony amongst the chaos of the modern world.  To get to the root of the problem, we must look, listen and ask a lot of questions.  We must look beyond symptoms to other dimensions. We must bring awareness to our environment. We must encompass one’s physical, biochemical, emotional health, as well as family systems one may have inherited.

My Personal Journey 

 At 25, I found  myself utterly beaten. I was exhausted and overwhelmed. My hormones were completely whacked (I had not had a period in a year) and my insomnia was terrible. My fatigue and anxiety were so bad I couldn’t keep up with my work and school schedule. On top of all this I had chronic constipation.  

I barely knew myself.  I had always had a ton of energy, working my way through college, busy with outdoor sports, gym and travel.  I tried moving and seeing different doctors. I tried herbs, medications, drugs, tai chi, massage, you name it!  Nothing seemed to help and my addictions were pouring gasoline on the fire.  I moved home and back in with my Mom, she suggested I see her Acupuncturist, Dr.Sam. He was a very old (but looked young) man from China. His office smelled like a strong herbal tea and was covered in Rooster statues. He took a long case history, and even looked at my tongue! He made specific customised changes to my diet, (which I strongly resisted as I was vegan at the time) and put me on Chinese herbs.  Reluctantly, I decided to change my diet and take the herbs religiously. Within three months, my insomnia and fatigue were nearly gone. Every visit I saw him I would learn more about how to take care of myself, based on my individual needs. He made diet recommendations unique to me not following a strict diet with a label. He encourage me to find balance in my life and spend more time nourishing (yin) rather than running around (yang).  Ultimately, what he was doing was restoring my postnatal qi and encouraging the perseverance of my kidney essence (prenatal qi) for fertility and longevity.  Not just a one shot approach like many preach from the social media high tops these days. I fell in love with the intricacy and beauty of this philosophy and medicine. One day after my treatment one day in his office I noticed a wall filled with baby announcements. I asked his office staff why there were so many newborn pictures on the wall? Apparently, these were sent from all the parents of babies whom Dr. Sam treated for infertility.  That’s when I really started to get very interested in the power of Chinese Medicine. 

Around the same time, a dear friend of mine suggested I see her integrative doctor Dr. Green in Los Angeles. I had never heard of a functional, integrative medicine. Functional medicine determines the how and why and restores function by treating the specific root cause of that disease in that individual. Dr.Green ran extensive labs on me to get to the core root of my imbalances.  Through extensive lab tests, I was diagnosed with a thyroid condition that had been missed by other doctors. He also ran a gut panel to access my gut health and microbiome. It was so great to actually see a quantitative result and make a plan based on the findings. Testing not just guessing! It was truly customised medicine getting to the root of the problem, not just masking symptoms with drugs. Like Dr.Sam he was focused on the WHY, getting and treating the root cause of my problems.

For over twenty-five years now,  I have been a student of natural healing.  I started in high school assisting an herbalist making salves and tinctures, three years later I started my Holistic Health Practitioner certification. In 2005, I started acupuncture school and worked as a Holistic Health Practitioner through the program graduating in 2009. I started taking seminars on the weekends from the top functional medicine doctors in Los Angeles and learned how to read and interpret blood work. Realising the importance of emotional health, I obtained additional certifications in Nueroemotional Technique (NET) and finished my doctorate in 2019. In 2022, I started a Clinical Mentorship Program with one of the top Functional Medicine doctors in the United States. 

In 2016, at the age of 38, I started to feel the clock ticking. I had supported many through their fertility journeys and wanted to focus on my own.  I absolutely loved my work and was fulfilled to a certain extent but was lonely deep down. Using manifestation work and NET to clear subconscious blocks, in March 2016, I met my soulmate and partner Dr. Nick Wignell, at a massive wellness seminar in California. We did long distance for almost two years, and we were married in October 2018. We decided to have children right away and we spent a year preparing our bodies (especially mine), our minds and souls to create a perfect tiny human naturally.  It was a difficult journey as I had never been pregnant and had very irregular periods for decades, thyroid problems since my 20’sHashimoto’s, and was in the 90 percentile for Mercury poisoning.  After a year of nourishing and balancing myself with Chinese medicine and detoxifying myself of metals, I was ready.  I fell pregnant on our Honeymoon at 40 years old.  I had a perfect pregnancy, studying, working,and travelling from the US to Australia.  I had a beautiful baby girl naturally at 41 years old.

In 2021, our daughter was 18 months, we felt passionately that we wanted a second child. I saw one of the best fertility doctors in Melbourne who told me my hormones were very low and that I would need an egg donor. When I told him that’s how low my hormones were when I conceived my first, he said “well go and do that”. I tried to get in alignment with buying an egg or asking for one but never felt 100% congruent with the whole process.  I had supported so many of my clients through this process and I knew how taxing it could be.  I decided to double down on Chinese Medicine.  Acupuncture, herbs, cleanses, ceremonial work, you name it I’ve done it! Through additional testing I realised I had mould toxicity, SIBO and histamine issues. I addressed each one of these issues systematically with integrative medicine. My house smelled like an herbal shop. I did three water fasts. My partner and I put intention into our daily prayer and meditation everyday to invite our next child to join us. I never gave up, but when I turned 44, I was beginning to lose hope.

One month later, in July 2022, at 44 years old I conceived my second child, without any western medical drug or intervention.  My husband and I were so happy, but the happiest was my first daughter, who started talking about their “baby brother/sister”, before we even got a positive pregnancy test. It was like she knew. We started to plan our birth story. We took birthing courses and read several books and planned the exact birth we wanted. I used Chinese Medicine throughout my whole pregnancy and even induced myself using acupuncture after being over a week overdue. That evening, Elsie Ren was born without any intervention. She was perfect and I went into my 40 day sitting period. This is the only chance a woman gets to strengthen her prenatal constitution, so I took it very seriously this time and it has paid off ten-fold.

Now, my main passion is to carry the wisdom of Chinese medicine and data-driven medicine to create a happy, healthy baby for others. Now entering a perimenopausal state my passion is to continue to double down on extending the length and quality of my life so I can be around to enjoy my grandchildren

Some of my various studies and certifications:

• Holistic Health Practitioner (2006)

• Master’s Degree in Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture (2009)

• Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique www.naet.org (2013)

• NeuroEmotional Technique Certification Level 2 www.netmindbody.com (2014- present)htt

• Doctorate of Evidence based Chinese Medicine (2019)

• Yoga Teacher Training (200 hours) (2019)

• Functional Medicine Clinician Mentorship under Dr. Datis Kharazzian (2011-present)

• Functional Lab Work Analysis and Coaching with Dr. Marcus Ettinger (2010-present)

• Over hundreds of hours of weekend seminars

Health IS MY PASSION!  I believe in getting to the “root”cause of your symptoms or obstacles. Not just merely cutting “branches” symptoms that may come back as something more deadly. True well-being is not just symptom relief it is thriving at your highest potential. My passion is supporting, educating and holding space for my clients to live a longer fulfilled life.