My little Heartfelt Healthcare initiative with Becoming Hero Charities (BhC) operates a tiny free telehealth and home visits clinic in Virginia and Texas (with health coaching and self-care education worldwide) for people who want to make the world better by turning their pain into power.
In addition to standard telehealth consultations for primary care lab and medication orders, I offer:
–Trauma recovery advocacy for those who want evidence-based treatment or, if not able to pursue an official patient-doctor relationship, self-care support and coaching based on the scientific realities of neurobiological injury. In addition to my experience and qualification as a sexual assault care provider in the military, where I was credentialed for primary behavioral health, I have accredited training in WET and similar modalities. (Most people who want an educated peer to walk alongside them, rather than a physician, will see me under HEALTH COACHING for this instead below).
–Health research coaching with a Certified Integrative Mental Health Practitioner for those who feel stuck with their health, ignored by their physician, or want to understand the myths and science about new research or herbals. I dig through the literature to find lifestyle changes and new treatments you can bring to your primary care provider, and I’ll help you navigate the healthcare system while advocating for you to your providers. Email healthcare (at) healthcare.byjenfinelli.com with the subject line HEALTH COACHING to see if you’re a good fit. Limited spots available.
–Travel medicine consultations (I have a Fellowship of Advanced Wilderness Medicine!)
–Sexual health consultations for couples and individuals struggling with sexual dysfunction, with lab-work and medication as needed.
Because of my own health limitations, I am only accepting a few patients a week, I DO NOT offer clinic visits–home and telehealth only–and at this time I do not prescribe controlled medications. I want to use the limited energy I have to give 100 percent to the patients I can help.
Who qualifies for free care?
Heartfelt Healthcare is free for everyone, but all my patients or coachees regardless of income level will be asked to keep up with a personal detailed weekly “hero project” to enrich their lives and others’. We define a hero project as a sustained, ongoing effort and sacrifice for the benefit of someone else’s practical needs (“social good”). Everyone’s hero journey is different, and this project doesn’t have to be with a formal organization; examples of activities that would qualify could include:
-volunteering weekly at a local food bank
-educating and feeding small children daily as a single parent in a low-income neighborhood
-weekly fundraising for a charity that fights human trafficking
-weekly litter pick-up at your local park
-setting aside a meal each week to share with a houseless person
-making colorful, friendly cards every week for dementia patients at your local nursing home
-sending weekly letters to airlines on behalf of people who need nontraditional support animals
-programming focus-aid software for people with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders
…or any other nonpolitical effort that directly provides for an otherwise vulnerable human’s physical safety, food, healthcare, or cognitive enrichment such that the success and failure of the project posits a measurable gain and loss to a person’s wellbeing. We don’t want social media “awareness”–we want real people served that we can literally ask for receipts. Nature-centered projects, in order to qualify, must demonstrate a measurable change in life expectancy for the organisms served plus a direct benefit to a specific human group other than the family of the person undertaking the project (this is to avoid pet hoarding situations qualifying as rescues, or tweeting about climate change from qualifying the way actually cleaning up your local estuary does; you can demonstrate expected lifespan benefit with a letter from a veterinarian or other certified zoological professional). Artistic or academic projects must demonstrate a practical, physical benefit to someone’s health or safety (selling paintings to fundraise for housing for cancer patients, for example–not just painting), with the exception of historical translation or transcription (which provides a practical benefit to past peoples by preventing their disappearance) and primary healthcare research and development (for obvious reasons). All projects need to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound.
Why do we expect hero projects of our patients?
This “hero project” serves three purposes. It:
1. Fosters independence and empowerment for the mental well-being of patients and coachees (suicide risk goes down when you have a cause relying on you)
2. Exponentially expands BhC’s potential impact despite our very limited resources by leveraging each person served as a unique human resource themself
3. Improves patient compliance and provider accountability by creating ownership (people are more likely to take their healthcare seriously if they “own” it somehow)
A few health coaching clients worldwide do choose to donate to BhC initiatives like medications for indigenous people, or our orphanage in Liberia as part of their personal hero journey. This is not a requirement for receiving care, nor is it payment for care–we don’t accept any payment for our work, and donors cannot claim preferential treatment status compared to folks who choose a different hero project. Jen does not receive any pay, per diem, or salary for heartfelt healthcare out of these donations; any donations should always be paid to BhC via the becominghero.byjenfinelli.com website and never directly to any BhC provider.
What about Wellness Workshops?
As a free clinic, we will never charge for medical diagnosis and treatment.
Occasionally I’ll hold fundraising events like Wellness Workshops: pampering-heavy spa-style healthcare education classes to support our initiatives to bring meds to the needy in Paraguay and Liberia. These Wellness Workshops are literally anonymized fundraisers with no doctor/patient relationship and will usually have a fairly high ticket price. That said, we want these events to be accessible, too, so if you see a Wellness Workshop you would like to attend that you cannot afford, email healthcare at healthcare.byjenfinelli.com at least a week in advance and we will allow you to exchange volunteering for the ticket price. Volunteering must be completed before the event to qualify. Many of these health workshops exist to help you regain control of your health for specific, often-overlooked issues like sexual dysfunction, how to research herbal health claims, and advanced relaxation and pain management. I came up with these because I’ve had a lot of requests for help and information, but because of my health limitations I can’t take everyone as patients. Each workshop is limited and personalized to your questions, so that we can find life-changing solutions that put power back into your hands with knowledge usually hidden behind the medical profession.
100 percent of any proceeds from my medical practice or coaching work go back into providing healthcare and trauma advocacy for those who can’t access it in impoverished areas.
So email me at healthcare at healthcare.byjenfinelli dot com for more information. Let’s talk and see if we’re a good match. Questions? Here’s my CV.