A woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, wearing a white blazer, sitting on a white armchair in a bright, minimalistic room with white walls. She is facing the camera with a slight smile.

I have sat across from thousands of women who were told their symptoms were normal.

symptoms that may be common but they are never normal.

Book cover titled "Where Faith Meets Medicine" by Courtney Garner, featuring a woman in a white suit sitting on a beige sofa, holding a stethoscope, with a bouquet of white roses on the floor in front of her.

Where Faith Meets Medicine: A Woman's Guide to Health, Hormones, and Longevity

Releasing August 28th, 2026

This book is for the Christian woman who is exhausted and ready to ask better questions. It is not anti-medicine. It is not anti-faith. It is the bridge between the two.

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This work started long before I had a title for it.

I'm Courtney Garner, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. I trained at the University of Oklahoma and the University of South Alabama, and I'm board certified in functional medicine and anti-aging methods from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. For nearly two decades, I have worked in healthcare. For more than ten years, I have practiced functional medicine — the kind that asks why, not just what.

But credentials are not what shaped this work. My own story did.

I have walked through gut health issues that confused every specialist I saw. I have walked through infertility. I have walked through high stress, low thyroid and hormonal shifts that left me depleted. Every season of struggle pushed me deeper into the questions modern medicine wasn't asking. And every answer I found made my faith deeper, not smaller.

The more I have come to understand hormones, metabolism, cellular biology, and stress physiology, the more convinced I am that God is an extraordinary Creator. My job as a clinician is not to override biology. It is to help women realign with it.

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I kept seeing two extremes in my practice. Neither was working.

On one side were believers with deep faith who avoided medical care altogether. They prayed, but they never investigated. They watched their parents do the same. They ignored warning signs. And too often, the story ended badly.

On the other side were believers who said they trusted God, but placed more faith in a prescription than in obedience. They collected diagnoses. They collected medications. They never changed the patterns that created the problem in the first place. Root causes were ignored. Symptoms were managed. Health slowly declined.

Both approaches missed the invitation to partnership. A diagnosis is not a final verdict. It is information. My job is to help women name what is happening in the body. Once we name it, we can pray over it, and then take responsibility for the changes required to steward our healing.

That intersection is where faith meets medicine. It is also where this book was born.

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Training, experience, and ongoing study

✓ Board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner (APRN, CNP)

✓ University of Oklahoma — alumna

✓ University of South Alabama — alumna

✓ Active member, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine

✓ Nearly two decades in healthcare

✓ More than a decade practicing functional medicine

✓ Extensive training in hormone replacement therapy and clinical endocrinology

✓ Founder of WellSpot Functional Medicine and WellSpot IV, where she sees patients clinically

Courtney's clinical practice has given her a front-row seat to what is actually going wrong for women — from chronic fatigue, autoimmune disease, cancer, to thyroid dysfunction, insulin resistance, and the metabolic shifts of perimenopause and menopause.

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Wife. Mother. Believer.

Outside of clinical work, Courtney is married to her husband and is the mother of three children. Her family is her first ministry. Her faith is the lens through which she sees every patient, every chapter, and every conversation.

She also leads with a clear conviction: the same God who designed the human body is the God who invites us to steward it. That conviction is what fuels her practice, her writing, and the message she carries to every audience she speaks to.