Photo taken by Dr Kelly Rothe on the Blue Ridge Parkway near her home
At Cultivating Remedies, healing begins with knowledge, connection, and the wisdom deeply rooted within each of us.
With over 25 years of experience in integrative family medicine — and a lifelong foundation in farming, food, community, and spiritual practice — we’re here to empower you to make informed choices about your health and well-being.
Through virtual mentorship and online courses, we help you:
- Navigate healthcare with confidence
- Learn therapies and practices that support your unique needs
- Cultivate wellness of body, mind, and spirit
- Become your own strongest health advocate
This is an affordable, accessible space for learning, healing, and community.
More than an online course platform, we create a mentorship and community where you can learn how to advocate for your body, mind, and spirit.
Welcome to Cultivating Remedies
Wellness RX: Weight Loss & New Habits Program
Introduction Video (2.5 Minutes)
Wellness Rx is the first course in our Optimal Health series
a six-module guided journey to help you discover what optimal health feels like in your daily life
an integrative wellness program designed to help you feel better and work toward ideal weight without shame, extremes, or burnout
create lasting change
Program Format: Six modules to work through at your own pace
Released every 30 days, starting when you enroll.
- Expert-led education: Recorded lectures, online and printable pdf resources
- Real-life tools and strategies from clinicians and peers: monthly live enrichment (virtual option)
Kelly Rothe, DO
Integrative Osteopathic Family Physician
Kelly Sue Rothe is an Integrative Osteopathic Physician crafting seeds of thought through Cultivating Remedies, where she hopes to inspire and empower people to imagine life as a creative practice. She founded Mountain Medical Arts in Burnsville in 2003, where she continues to practice full-time. As of January 1, 2026, she retired her nearly twenty-five-year board certifications and academy memberships to pursue a more expansive learning, teaching, and writing career that more fully weaves together her experiences in culinary arts, yoga instruction, thirty-three years of parenting, twenty-five years of marriage, and a lifelong commitment to gardening, community, and spiritual practice.
In these challenging times, she hopes her stories of healing and resilience illuminate how beauty can emerge from suffering and offer support to others navigating challenges toward tolerance, connection, and renewal.
I encourage my patients to take a hopeful and proactive approach to wellness and frequently suggest lifestyle, exercise, and nutritional changes to support the body’s natural healing process. Medicines, when prescribed, are carefully researched, and their benefits and limitations are explained along with alternative treatments, when available.
AAFP Winter Conference Grove Park Inn Asheville,
Writing Cultivating Remedies from her porch is the Pisgah Mountains, NC
Seeing patients at Mountain Medical Arts
My ongoing training in psychotherapy evaluation and management helps me identify unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors that may complicate and exacerbate physical symptoms and disease management.
Having seen the benefits of this holistic approach, I could never practice any other way.
Ginkgo biloba, an ancient
deciduous tree.
This youngster, 20 years old, thrives in
the side yard of Mountain Medical Arts
A living fossil; the last remaining
species of a primitive family of plants.
Mission Statement
At Cultivating Remedies, our mission is to empower individuals to take charge of their health. We offer a compassionate virtual mentorship model that supports people in navigating healthcare choices, cultivating sustainable wellness, and aligning body, mind, and spirit.
This is an affordable, accessible, and patient-empowered learning platform — a gift of knowledge, connection, and healing. Here, you can explore therapies and practices uniquely suited to your well-being, supported by a team of caring educators and colleagues who not only advocate for you but teach you how to advocate for yourself.
Our courses cover a wide range of topics — from plant-based nutrition, movement, and mental health to chronic disease management and reimagining your personal well-being story. Each lesson combines diverse learning styles: video lectures, written transcripts, reflection questions, quizzes, curated resources, and an invitation to engage with others in a supportive online community.
While Cultivating Remedies is not a substitute for in-person medical care and should never be used in emergencies, we are here to offer a healing language and foundational knowledge — tools to help you co-create your path to wellness with your healthcare team.
Together, we cultivate the remedies already within you.