Dr. Deborah Chong is a holistic physician and formally trained as an OB/GYN. She believes that true health exists when mind, body and spirit are all balanced and healthy. She understands how trauma affects health and can cause both physical and mental disease.

Deborah was born in Jamaica and grew up both in Toronto, Canada and Kingston Jamaica. She went to undergrad at Columbia University, medical school at Boston University and residency at University of Miami. She then moved to Northern California in 2003. Her first job was as assistant clinical professor at UC Davis. Her love for travel and adventure resulted in work in Tanzania and Jamaica.

She eventually moved to Oakland CA in 2008 where she became Chief of GYN at the safety net Hospital in Oakland. While mothering young twins, her own childhood traumas started surfacing. As she started the work on healing these traumas, she now had the resources to integrate these tools into her own practice of medicine to help other women do deep healing work. Along with her Western Medical training, she has further training in nutrition, lifestyle medicine, herbal medicine, psychedelics and death and dying.

Separating from the father of her children and seeking a peaceful life, she moved to GV in 2020 with her twins. She has been practicing medicine now for 25 years and has developed her own unique style focusing on deeper healing and how trauma affects health. She still practices acute care OB/GYN and delivers babies. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, yoga and evenings out with her partner. She is active in the community supporting both kids programs and women’s health.

Tonight, on The Sages Among Us, host Kimberly Ewing chats with Executive Director of North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center Aubrey Puetz about her journey in leadership on the Ridge and life as a mother, a teacher, a dancer, and an involved community member of Nevada County.

Host Keith Porter guides us through the life and times of Howard Wilson, someone with a wide variety of involvements in our Western Nevada County community. A retired trust and estate attorney and long-time Rotarian, Howard is currently Vice President of the board of Foothill Compassionate Care, formerly Hospice of the Foothills.