This episode features the High Leverage Practice of Bio You with Jessica Morrell, CNP. A true expert in women’s health, she digs deep into how the body responds to stress and what choices are best to stay in balance. Jessica shares “If you don’t have any energy and you can’t think clearly, there is no way you are going to be effective at whatever you try to do” highlighting how important balanced body health is to being truly influential.
Jessica Morrell is a Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner with Avera Medical Group Functional Medicine in Sioux Falls, SD. She was in the first cohort in the world to become a Certified Provider from the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFMCP, 2015). She has extensive experience caring for women, providing a safe respectful place for healing and the ability to achieve optimum health. Her approach is one of digging deeper into each person’s history, genetic risk, exposures, life influences, and situations to determine causation/correlation. Taking into account hormonal imbalances no matter what the stage of life, she helps women establish long term lifestyle management interventions to achieve a fulfilling life.
Jessica’s background includes being a Captain in the Air Force serving the United States at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB) and Sheppard AFB both in Texas, at Eielson AFB in Arkansas and Osan AFB in the Republic of Korea. Additionally she has been a Gastrointestinal Navigator at the Avera Cancer Institute, worked with Emerald Coast Gastroenterology in Crestview, FL and as an RN at the Eglin AFB OB/Gyn clinic.
Jessica achieved her MS in Nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and her BS in Nursing from South Dakota State University. She and her husband Mark have three growing daughters.
