UnBroken

UnBroken Editorial Reviews

“Every chapter serves as a profound guide, aligning your internal compass no matter where you find yourself on life’s map, illuminating the trails of healing you are meant to explore right now. This is more than a book, it is a transformative journey brimming with wisdom, love and raw, unapologetic truth. It gently validates and meticulously unpacks the wrinkled stories of your very soul.”

-Jane Bourgeois, DC

“Unbroken is a much-needed guide for an exhausted human race’s quest to understand the innate power in unifying mind, body, and heart. After a lifetime of experience, Dr. Shanks’s courage, dedication, and deep insights affords her a special perspective not only as a doctor, but also as a patient, as she leads us onto a new health path that certainly is the future of the human race: to not just survive but to thrive.”

-Shari Rhoads, internationally acclaimed pianist, conductor, artistic director, and teacher.

“This transformative book is beautifully written and well-researched. It is an expertly laid-out guide to becoming your healthiest and most vibrant self. The author blends science and personal insight as she leads readers through the nine UnBroken Core Resilience Steppingstones towards becoming what she calls our TGO-TotalGloriousOneness. These steppingstones are the practices that help shift our biology, genetics, stories, and actions. The book shows us where Western medicine falls short in treating the whole person. I earmarked countless pages and will return to this book again and again as a lifelong reference. Just WOW!”

-Beth Dosland Mullan, RN

“Karyn’s book feels like a breath of relief. She takes the overwhelming, confusing, and often shaming world of medicine and makes it human. She invites us not to somewhere new, but to a wisdom and self so many of us have lost.”

-Kevin Goldwater, trauma-informed licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), adjunct professor NYU

“UnBroken is a formula for transformation but there are no rules or prescriptions to be found here. Dr. Shanks’ genius lies in her compassionate determination to transform you into yourself. She does this by revealing where harmful influences have taught you to limit your thinking, ultimately delivering not a conclusion but a fresh start. This book will leave you permanently equipped to manifest your own unique version of a healthy and happy life.”

-Robin Stephen, Author

Karyn Shanks MD is a physician, author, and pioneer in the field of root-cause healing, with over forty years of experience helping clients recover their lives from chronic, complex illness. She is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Functional Medicine, and a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine. She is also trained in trauma-informed psychotherapy through Dr. Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training Program.

Karyn brings together the sciences of directable human potential—epigenetics, neuroplasticity, core functional systems biology, and transformational psychology—with the deep wisdom of lived experience, spiritual inquiry, and narrative transformation. Her work centers on the belief that people are not broken, but wise and whole, and that sustainable healing begins with reclaiming that truth. Her private practice, teaching, and writing are deeply influenced by her own journey through illness and recovery.

Karyn is the founder of the Unbroken Academy, an online educational platform for healing through story, self-trust, and embodied resilience. She is the author of two previous books—Heal: A Nine-Stage Roadmap to Recover Energy, Reverse Chronic Illness, and Claim the Potential of a Vibrant New You and The Wisdom of COVID-19. Her voice is known for its clarity, warmth, and fierce compassion.

Through her work, writing, and lived wisdom, Karyn is trusted by both patients and professionals alike—as a guide, mentor, and visionary voice in a new healing paradigm. Karyn is also an author, teacher, wife, mother of two sons, dog lover, and avid enthusiast of nature.

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