Hi, I'm Lara Salyer.

Let's redesign healthcare. 🤓

I was that kid in school who wrote detailed, organized notes (and drew cartoons all over the pages!). Everything was color-coded, and you couldn't believe someone could be this excited about learning.

Fast forward, decades later, and my efficient note-taking skills paid off as I resigned from family medicine to build my own functional medicine micropractice rural Wisconsin town.

I've kept notes on what works, what doesn't, and made everything as automated, streamlined, and colorful as possible.

As I grew in wisdom and training, I came to see that true healing lives far beyond the limits of conventional medicine. Now, I help practitioners integrate all their modalities—clinical, creative, somatic, spiritual—into a cohesive signature offering that reflects their unique brilliance as a healer.

As your Chief Creativity Catalyst™, I help you create their own flow-channeled medical practice that optimizes your unique gifts.

The Catalyst Way Podcast

This is your weekly dose of practical strategies to help you flourish inside and outside the exam room. Whether you’re drowning in admin work, feeling creatively stifled, or building a Functional Medicine practice from scratch, you’ll find real, actionable solutions in every episode.

✨ What You’ll Learn: ️

✔️ How to beat burnout and reclaim time & energy with better organization, essential tools, and flow science ️

✔️ Why creativity is a clinical intervention (and how to harness it!) ️

✔️ Mindset shifts, intuition, and self-expression for a sustainable career

Expect short solo episodes packed with high-impact tips, plus occasional guest experts sharing their wisdom. Each episode ends with a ”Catalyst Question” to spark reflection and action.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts




Which Catalyst Archetype Are You?


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@creativity.doctor 🙋🏻‍♀️ resulote rock here (with a lot of fervent flame). Mentoring doctors, NPs, and PAs is fun because we work with all our creative elements. Expressing the strengths and improving the weaknesses is how we bring balance. Find your Catalyst archetype and get your blueprint in my IG bio! #balance #elements #worklife #creativity #archetypes #catalyst ♬ Nice and Easy - Louis Adrien

Uncover your unique archetype and learn how to channel creativity and flow back into your work/life. Each result matches you to a customized archetype guide. It's like a User Manual for your inner creative muse! You'll identify your strengths, vulnerabilities, likely cause of burnout, most efficient time management tips and ideal play activity!


This is how you find your muse.


As children, creativity is our effortless language. We play games and explore our world with delight. In the journey to adulthood, our innate brilliance is insidiously tarnished by responsibilities to be dutiful partners, coworkers, friends, and citizens.

We tell ourselves to be grateful. Don’t complain. But what if you’re given the gift of a near-death experience that forces your eyes wide open to the beauty of a creative life again?

This is what happened to me, a burned-out, family “doctor mom” in the rural Midwest who rediscovered my dormant creativity and saved my career. Just when I wanted to quit medicine entirely, this experience inspired my grassroots mission to incorporate art and creativity back into medical care. 

Candid and sassy, expressive and fearless, Right Brain Rescue is both a touching memoir and a call to action for all of us to color outside the lines and reinvent life on our own terms. 

This is my story of how I did everything “right” to enjoy a triumphant career as a family physician, but crumbled under the same pressure as many others in conventional “factory medicine.”

It’s a story about how I bravely walked away from a stable, profitable career into a blank canvas of the unknown in order to live a fully authentic and awake life.

This is not a self-help book or a how-to book, but you might recognize some self and help in these pages. Right Brain Rescue is a literary “creativity prescription” that will inspire you to think differently about how you use your energy, explore your values, and care for your body and mind so you can become the most sparkly version of yourself.