There is a moment in medicine where the charts and the probabilities stop offering comfort. In those instances, a patient is no longer looking at a diagnosis but at a binary outcome. For a woman standing in a doctor’s office in March of 1991, that moment arrived with a stark ultimatum. Diagnosed with a condition requiring an emergency hysterectomy, she told her physician she refused to be just another number in a medical log. His reply was blunt. He offered her a choice. She could be a statistic above the ground or one below it.
That woman was Dr. Linda Salvin. She was not a stranger to the mechanics of the human body. Her background was in Health Education and Epidemiology, disciplines built on data, patterns, and tangible evidence. Yet, as she stood facing a surgery that would change her life, she was already carrying a history that science struggled to explain. She was that sick. But she was also surviving a decade of trauma that had quietly dismantled her reliance on the physical world and replaced it with something far less predictable.
A Decade of Impact
The surgery in 1991 was not the beginning of the trouble. It was the culmination of ten years of survival that tested the limits of luck and resilience. The sequence began on February 17, 1981. Salvin was a passenger on a commercial airplane that crashed. In the chaos of that event, she experienced an out-of-body phenomenon, a moment where consciousness detached from the physical vessel.
Survival did not bring safety. Just a year later, in 1982, she was struck by a fire truck. Two years after that, in 1984, she totaled a car in a wreck so severe that she saw a white light and felt she was given a distinct choice to live or to die. She chose to live. But the woman who emerged from the wreckage was not the same person who had entered it. She had endured tremendous spiritual changes. By the time the hysterectomy arrived in 1991, dealing with yet another health crisis felt like the breaking point after a decade of struggle and conflict.
The Unwanted Gift
For Dr. Salvin, the transition from epidemiologist to metaphysical clinician was neither planned nor welcome. In the early 1980s, the cultural conversation around holistic healing, near-death experiences, and spiritual awakenings was virtually non-existent. There was no internet to connect with others who had seen the white light. There were no forums for support.
Dr. Salvin found herself in a position that felt isolating. She possessed a background in public health, industrial health, and environmental health. Yet she began to experience energy pouring from her hands. It happened without practice, warning, or training. For a professional grounded in science, this unbidden ability was embarrassing and humiliating. She felt she was evolving in a highly misunderstood world where such gifts were often shunned.
Despite the fear of judgment, she followed the pull. It felt as if she were being led to evolve. People needed the work she could do, even if she did not yet understand it herself. She realized the shift was permanent shortly after healing from her surgery. She assisted a woman with multiple personalities to return to a unified self, a feat that traditional therapists and institutions had failed to achieve. When the woman’s mother flew in from Arizona to thank her, Salvin knew this was a career calling.
Metaphysics as Mechanism
To the skeptical eye, metaphysical healing can look like magic. Salvin describes it as a precise mechanism. She defines metaphysics simply as the combination of spirituality and psychology. Her method is not about vague gestures. It is about targeting specific frequencies. She directs words and colors into the body, focusing on every bone, cell, organ, and tissue.
She works at the cellular level using the energy she believes is a God-given gift. Interestingly, this work does not require physical proximity. In fact, 99% of her practice takes place over the phone. She requires a quiet space, uninterrupted. The client lays down while she begins the process. The session lasts about 40 minutes, often leaving the client relaxed enough to fall asleep.
The results are not always immediate. Salvin notes that there is usually a seven-day waiting period after the session. During this time, the client integrates the work and often breaks free from the confines of the issue that brought them to her, whether it was emotional trauma, grief, PTSD, or physical pain. She is careful to clarify the boundaries of her practice. She tells clients she is not a medical doctor and not a faith healer. She caters to the individual need, using various techniques and ideologies.
The Frequency of Connection
Salvin did not keep this practice hidden in a private office. She took it to the airwaves. She became the original radio psychic in Los Angeles, eventually hosting a nationally syndicated show that established a format many spiritual programs follow today. For over 20 years on broadcast radio, and later through internet streaming and podcasts, she built a brand that reached hundreds of people.
Her outreach expanded beyond the voice. She developed a product line called Wicks of Wisdom to help people remove blocks and enhance health using candle power alongside her energy work. Today, the reach is global. She has traveled to Dubai as a keynote speaker and award winner, and she shares her life through a docuseries on YouTube titled Life with Linda. She views herself not as a guru but as a flashlight on the path, helping people navigate relationships, careers, and relocations.
The Definition of Whole
At the core of Dr. Salvin’s work remains the logic of her early training. She cites the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s definition of health. It is the state of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, not merely the absence of disease. Her journey has been an effort to restore that missing spiritual quadrant to the equation.
She advises those who are struggling to find their own meaning of God. It does not have to be religious. It can be found in the trees, the stars, or the synchronicity of life. The lesson she carries from three near-death experiences is one of trust. She believes that we can trust our intuition and that there is a master plan.
For Linda Salvin, the transition from a statistic to a healer was a long, often painful road. But it led to a clear conviction. When we take responsibility for our actions and allow life to happen, we can let go. We can stop fighting the current and start trusting the light that guides us through it.
You can contact Dr. Linda via:
Website: www.lindasalvin.com
Email: drlinda@lindasalvin.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/linda.salvin.1/
IG: @drlindasalvinmphphd
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-linda-salvin-mph-phd-85009411/
