Bloomington Holistic Health Summit

05/29/2026

Registration is now open! Wellness Clarity Program - 4 week program starting July 23, 2026

Your symptoms aren't the problem, they're signals from your body in the language of your body. Headaches, fatigue, constipation, brain fog, anxiety and more. These are common, yes, but they're not actually "normal" - they're signals.

Your body is doing exactly what a system does when it's been asked to carry more than it can hold. There's a name for this: allostatic load.

If you're ready to do root cause mapping of why your body is giving signals - not suppress the voice of your body - this 4 week program is for you.

Over the last few months, I've gave a talk to HR leaders in DC called "The Hidden Cost of Load", and was a guest on the Trissential 1% Better podcast. We discussed that 8 in 10 working-age Americans now have at least one chronic condition (and 4 in 10 have at least two), why healthcare spend keeps increasing (it's outpacing inflation by 6:1), and why the wellness industry isn't moving that number.

The answer is the same whether I'm talking to a burned-out VP or a parent managing a child with a complex chronic illness or someone sitting with labs that look good but with persistent symptoms.

You can't "cope" your way out of an overloaded environment. We can't "cope harder" to offset the load our body can't handle. The load has to come down. The body's capacity to process the load has to go up. And we have to rebalance our internal systems that have gotten stuck. That's the trifecta. And we can do all of those things.

I lived it personally, I've seen versions of it in the 100+ clients with kids with complex and chronic conditions conditions, and I've seen the research that backs it up.

The Wellness Clarity Program is a guide. In four weeks, with a small group, with real tools and an individualized personal roadmap to continue the work.

Week 1: Why your body makes sense - the load/capacity model
Week 2: Map your load and your capacity - with actual inventories
Week 3: Match the right tool to your state (the reason most practices don't stick)
Week 4: Build your personal 90-day roadmap for what comes next

It's education, nervous system practice, and a framework, not another list of things to add to your plate. If you're an individual who's tired of being handed coping strategies for a system problem, this is for you.

To HR leaders, if this resonates for you, come see it from the inside. Then let's talk about what it looks like at scale.

Two ways in:
📥 Start with the free guide — "The Hidden Load Inventory - Starter Edition" — it gives you a tool to help you see your own load picture clearly. Link here: https://wellnesssystemroadmap.com/load

📅 Or if you're ready to talk — intro call link is in the first comment.

Sue McKinley, LHP, CCH
Systems Health Strategist · Homeopath · Founder, Wellness System Roadmap™

05/11/2026

We measure turnover. We measure sick days. We track retention risk. We understand employer healthcare spend. And we're watching them all increase and health outcomes worsen. We do not measure the thing driving all of it: systemic load.

8 in 10 working-age adults in the US have at least one ongoing health condition. 40% have two or more. We keep pouring into wellness programs that help who shows up keep their head above water, but never actually regain their health. The environment, the actual conditions people are working and living in, stays the same.

I was recently on the Trissential 1% Better podcast with Craig Thielen talking about this. I talk about the load bucket we all have, and why the body eventually sends a bill. About what actually has to change before anything else can.

If you're struggling with a health condition or know someone that is, this is a conversation I want you to hear.

And if you're a 50-something woman who is high-performing and exhausted and has tried everything, this one's really for you.

Link is in the comments.

05/02/2026

Introducing the Wellness System Roadmap™ - And What It Means for You

About 18 months ago, I wrote a series of blog posts that tried to answer a question I kept running into in clinical practice: why are so many people - and so many children - getting sick in ways that conventional medicine can't fully explain or resolve? You can read the whole series beginning here.

What I found was a pattern. Complex and chronic conditions like PANS/PANDAS, autism, chronic Lyme, autoimmune issues, and so many others are almost never caused by a single thing. They're the result of accumulated load: trauma and generational trauma, modern living factors, and toxins, layering quietly over time until the body reaches a tipping point. What looks like a sudden onset is actually the end stage of a much longer process.

Homeopathy is uniquely suited to address this because it works at the energetic level, where the real disruption originates and continues. That's something I believe deeply and have seen clinically, over and over.

But here's what I also observed: for many people, the ongoing load is simply too high and the conditions for healing are too compromised for any single modality, including homeopathy, to do its best work. Unprocessed trauma, mold exposure, glyphosate and other toxins in our food sources, plastics in our water and food, and more.

I spoke about this pattern in a keynote I gave at the Bloomington Holistic Health Summit in October ‘25, kept going and built a program to guide people through the process of addressing the root causes of load in their daily lives. The result is the Wellness System Roadmap™.

The Wellness System Roadmap™ is the umbrella for all of this work. At the organizational level, it brings a framework to workplaces and institutions ready to think differently about employee wellbeing - work that draws on my background leading large-scale change initiatives long before I became a homeopath. At the individual level, it becomes the Wellness Personal Roadmap™ - bringing that same systems thinking directly into your healing journey. The two offerings are distinct, but built on the same foundation.

The first offering under the Wellness Personal Roadmap™ is the 8-Week Guided Reset - a guided group program designed to help people understand their individual sources of load, reduce total load, increase individual capacity, and rebalance with the support of homeopathy and other gentle healing modalities. Homeopathy sits at the center of that vision - the Wellness Personal Roadmap provides the surrounding structure that helps it work better. The program culminates in a personalized 90-day plan you can actually follow.

Think of it this way: homeopathy supports the body's intelligence - the healing force and ability to rebalance itself. Wellness Personal Roadmap™ creates better conditions in which that intelligence does its job. Homeopathy is woven throughout, and it always will be central to how I work. For many people, homeopathy works best when it's part of something larger.

I built this for people like you, my homeopathy clients, as well as anyone else that is ready to invest in their health and ready to go deeper. I’ve run a pilot cohort and the results confirmed what I suspected: when the load comes down, everything else works better. I'm genuinely excited to offer it to this community now!

If you've been doing the work - the remedies, the awareness, the effort - and still feel like something systemic is missing, this was built for you.

I'd love to have you in this first community cohort. It's a small group and I'm personally invested in every person in it. Please reach out to learn more.

→ Learn more at www.wellnesssystemroadmap.com/individuals → Reach out directly: [email protected]

"We create the conditions for healing when load decreases, capacity increases, and the body rebalances."

P.S. Do you work for or know an organization ready to think differently about employee wellbeing? The Wellness System Roadmap™ works at that level too - I'd love an introduction.

04/27/2026

was recently featured on the 1% Better Improvement Podcast by Craig Thielen at Trissential.

We talked about homeopathy and modern chronic illness, and we talked a lot about load. The idea that we're living in a time of more cognitive, emotional, and environmental load than any human body was designed to sustainably carry, and that the rising tide of modern chronic illness - including burnout, anxiety, depression, autoimmune, and inflammatory conditions - is in large part a predictable output of that.

This is the foundation of my work, whether I'm working with an individual navigating burnout and mysterious symptoms, or with an organization trying to understand why their employee health expenses keep rising despite investment.

The framework is the same across them all: load > capacity for too long = signals from the body. And the fix is the same, too: reduce load, increase capacity, rebalance the system.

In this conversation I talked about:
- How my son's illness led me to homeopathy - and then to a second career
- Why modern chronic illness rarely responds to a single remedy (and what actually works)
- The role of the nervous system in recovery - and why regulation comes before everything else
- The bucket analogy - why smart, motivated people that are doing everything right are staying sick
- Sequencing - why throwing supplement at a stressed system often makes things worse

I work at the intersection of three things: holistic wellness, the Wellness Personalized Roadmap (for individuals and groups), and systemic wellness consulting for organizations.

The thread connecting all of it is that when load consistently exceeds capacity, the body signals distress. When it happens at scale, we have to look at system changes to recover.

Listen to the full conversation here:

1 like. "We’re Approaching Health the Wrong Way - Podcast with Sue McKinley"

12/26/2025

Healing starts with a regulated immune system! Join me for some holistic support for regulating your nervous system. It feels good, and has amazing health benefits to boot. Details are below, see you there!

12/20/2025

Join me for some holistic care! A regulated nervous system is at the foundation of good health. Come learn tools to identify when your nervous system is in hyperdrive, and tools to help calm it down. It's going to be amazing!

12/13/2025

Join me for another amazing in-person holistic course this winter!

Are you experiencing stress and overwhelm? These two in-person courses are for you! Join me to learn about the effects of stress on your body, and tools you can use right now to regulate your own nervous system. These are 6 week courses designed to share and integrate healthy stress-busting habits together to increase your wellness and vitality. Get ready to calm and restore.

From Frazzled to Grounded - for anyone experiencing stress and overwhelm
Care for the Caregiver - for caregivers experiencing stress and overwhelm

https://online.flippingbook.com/link/798188/29/

The courses are on the right side page, you can follow the link at the bottom to register.

11/10/2025

A great big thank you to evetyone that joined us at the Summit on Saturday! The speakers, the vendors, the attendees - it was impactful and inspiring start to finish. Please spread the word - to anyone that you know that may be interested or benefit from some holistic support. Isnt that…everyone? ❤️
Also, please share pictures from the event! I’m collating and trying to get pics from all the speakers and vendors, etc. either send to me directly or post here. Thank you!

Bloomington Community Education
Glenda RobicheauSerenity Farm and StablesVika's Essentials Organic SkincareThe Chef's WifeMichele RaeWendy SwansonSue McKinley HomeopathyWomb To World Minnesota, Birth Doula ServicesNorthwestern Academy of HomeopathyThe Center Within with Michele RaeAlicea SnowSue Sawyer McKinley

11/07/2025

So excited! The Summit is TOMORROW!! It's not too late to register and join us.
Speakers ~ Vendors ~ Conversations ~ Lunch
It'll be cold outside, but it'll be warm, connected, and engaging inside at the Bloomington Holistic Health Summit!

Register here: https://tce.me/jaiXZU

9:30am - 3:30pm
Valley View Middle School
8900 Portland Av South in Bloomington

Come early and visit with our vendors!

11/06/2025

Day after tomorrow! Can't wait! It's going to be AMAZING! And it's not too late to join - register here: https://tce.me/jaiXZU
The speakers, the vendors, the community, and the lunch - A+, highest caliber day possible. A day for YOU. A day to come relax, restore, rejuvenate, be in your community, to SIMPLIFY and to ground yourself in some tools you can use for yourself to further elevate your own good health. If you're ready to feel GOOD, join us!

Bloomington Community Education
Serenity Farm and Stables
Glenda RobicheauVika's Essentials Organic SkincareThe Chef's WifeMichele RaeWendy SwansonSue McKinley HomeopathyNina Roberts SalvesonAlicea Snow
Sue Sawyer McKinley

Your good health is one of your greatest assets. Join us for a day expanding our understanding of health and the resources available to support healthy living. This summit brings together expert practitioners, heart-centered discussions, and hands-on experiences to support your journey. Whether you....