SOURCE FORCE

Cobwebs must have blanketed Christie Jordan’s tennis racket when she decided to free the stick from its gauzy prison four years ago.

The North Shore resident and founder of Source Healing—an inspired, holistic wellness clinic that recently opened a third location in Lake Forest—hadn’t wielded the racket since her senior year in high school.

“I needed an outlet, an activity that would allow me to relieve some stress and focus on something other than work,” recalls Jordan, who signed up to play in a park district tennis league in 2020 and now strikes winners on doubles courts for several women’s teams each week.

“Tennis became my passionate escape then, and it still is today,” adds the mother of a 19-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son. “I love zoning in on nothing but the ball and executing shots in matches.”

But Jordan’s off-the-court service game, also known as her career, hasn’t waned a bit since she returned to tennis as a highly competitive netter who regularly punches crisp, finishing volleys. In fact, it has prospered. A licensed and national board certified acupuncturist and herbalist, with 25 years of experience as a teacher and a healer in the field, she and her Source Healing team of board certified and licensed practitioners are committed to helping patients during their healing journeys. Source Healing’s top-tier services— at welcoming spaces in Chicago’s River North neighborhood (established in 1999; incorporated in 2003), in Winnetka (2016), and now in Lake Forest—include Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bodywork and Massage, Intuitive Energy Guidance, Naturopathic Medicine, Nutrition, Lymphatic Detox, and Online Consultations.

“I love treating patients and guiding them back to themselves,” says Jordan, who exudes positivity and an unshakeable joie de vivre. “I consider myself an intuitive guide, as well as a life guide. Our bodies tell stories, with each of us becoming an author of a research paper on how to live in our own bodies. At Source Healing, we encourage people to listen to their body, to pay attention to any unusual symptom, and to make fundamental changes that create more balance, energy, and strength on a number of levels, from the physical to the mental to the spiritual.

“True healing,” she continues, “is about reclaiming yourself and your wholeness.”

Source Healing specializes in treating anything pain- and stress-related, along with women’s health and fertility. Its team works collaboratively so that any practitioner a patient sees will be fully informed about their case, enabling them to provide continuity of care. Jordan uses intuitive energy work to connect a patient back to their body, as most physical symptoms can be a call to connect more deeply into the self.

“A deeper connection to your body works as a guide than can activate great wisdom, inner knowing, intuition, and awareness to how you interact with the world around you,” says Jordan, who, after majoring in History at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, earned a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine and studied acupuncture in Japan under the direction of Nakao Sunsae. “One of the many rewards of my profession is when people find strength and harmony in themselves after working with us. It lights me up every time, knowing a patient has developed the belief that he or she can maneuver through any challenge in life.”

Jordan’s late father’s response to his cancer diagnosis essentially spurred Christie to pursue a career in holistic health. The Korean patriarch refused to undergo chemotherapy.

“He focused instead on quality of life in his last years by choosing a holistic approach, by being mindful of the health of his mind, body, spirit, and emotions,” Jordan says. “My father, who was one of my biggest influences, underwent acupuncture and herbal therapy, and he meditated. I jumped right into this with him. Qi, or chi, is the life force in traditional Chinese medicine. It’s the language of energy. It reached the point where my father and I were speaking the same language.”

A little more than 10 years after opening the first Source Healing in Chicago, Jordan “hit a wall in my business,” but, like a resilient tennis player after a tough first set, she formulated a sound game plan to survive and advance. Jordan applied to and got accepted into Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program in 2013 and the Accelerator program of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in Goldman Sachs’ program sets up participants to engage in collaborative classroom discussions and peer-learning exercises with world-class educators and business advisors, while EO is a global, peer-to-peer network of influential business owners dedicated to professional growth and building lasting relationships.

“It helped me considerably, just being able to talk with business owners,” Jordan says. “At EO, business owners I met became my mentors and valuable resources. I learned how important elements such as Human Resources, marketing, and strategic planning are to a business, with the knowledge convincing me to hire specialists.”

Three years later, in 2016, Source Healing in Winnetka opened. Eight years after that, Source Healing expanded again with the launch of the Lake Forest location.

“In addition to being an acupuncturist and a herbalist at Source Healing, I’m a teacher,” Jordan says. “I thought I’d become a writer after my time at the University of Illinois, and I might still become one someday. But I do get to teach while working at Source Healing. They’re messages that empower people in their health and well-being.

“I love doing that.”

She’s fond of traveling, too.

“Visiting other countries makes the planet smaller,” Jordan says. “People all over the world—and it’s such a divided, chaotic world right now, unfortunately—are going through the same things. Traveling has taught me that most of us, no matter where we are from, want the basics of human connection and love. Those things can ease any hardship.”

Source Healing has three locations—723 Elm Street, #26, in Winnetka; 222 East Wisconsin Avenue in Lake Forest; and 650 North Dearborn Street, Suite 800, in Chicago. For more information, visit sourcehealing.com or call 312-335-9330.