Meet Dr. Kristin Tallent
Hello! I am so glad that you are here perusing the website. Stay as long as you wish! I hope you find tons of information here that makes your heart and soul feel at home.
I am Dr. Kristin Tallent. I am conventionally trained as a pharmacist with many years of experience in community pharmacy as a staff pharmacist, pharmacy manager, lead compounding pharmacist, and bio-identical hormone replacement specialist. The last several years have been primarily focused on integrative wellness practices & collaboration with other healthcare practitioners.
In case you’re wondering, the pharmacy that you go to for prescription medication is a community pharmacy. I loved working in that setting because I truly believe that the heart of our healthcare system is the independent pharmacy, but I needed to step out a build something bigger. Something that could truly change peoples’ lives and how they feel. That’s where Shore Integrative Health came into the picture.
I’ve spent years practicing functional medicine and am working on a certification through The School of Applied Functional Medicine. I currently live in Maryland on the east coast with my family. If you speak with me and hear my voice, you might realize that I’m not a Maryland native, and that is because I am originally from western Pennsylvania. We apparently bleed black and yellow, but I usually went to the football games for socialization. I might get disowned if you tell anyone though… so shhh!
How my journey into functional medicine began? Let’s just say that a little bit of knowledge sparked a flame that will never be put out.
You know how sometimes you see something that you cannot unsee, and it changes your perspective? That was my experience. I went to a seminar on Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, and it exposed a whole other world of health and wellness that I didn’t know existed.
And so I jumped two feet in.
I’ve spent hundreds if not thousands of hours researching, studying, listening, and practicing. I just got engulfed in it, and I absolutely love it. During that time, I couldn’t help but wonder how much all of the medications were helping. People seemed to be on so many. Yet, diabetes continues to increase. Alzheimer’s continues to increase. ADHD, obesity, depression - all increasing. It just seemed counterintuitive. Once I realized that I wouldn’t put the majority of the medications I was dispensing into my own body, I knew it was time to focus my career helping others understand how they can get well and stay well using a more integrative approach.
So, I started seeing patients and helping them figure out what was causing their health issues. I started to see people get better. I saw symptoms reduce and subside entirely. I heard people telling me that they felt better.
And I felt better! There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone get their life back and actually enjoy living it!
So, here I am. CEO of Shore Integrative Health. Trying to help as many people as possible feel better and realize that they have so much control over how they feel.
There is so much that can be done without prescription medication that will actually help you feel better.
Outside of work:
I love to travel! If I could spend every free moment exploring another part of this earth, I would.
I also enjoy crocheting because it brings me peace. When I can actually sit my body down long enough to do it during the hours of when my toddler is not climbing all over me, I enjoy the repetition of the weaves. Kind of like math: you do the same process every time to get your answer. I’m secretly a math lover. Don’t judge me.
I also love going to the beach probably because it’s a quiet, warm place to just sit back and do nothing. Not many places left in the world like that it seems. My skin doesn’t exactly welcome the beach but with a whole sh*tload of sunscreen and an umbrella, I could sit there all day.
I just enjoy life! Please don’t mistake that and assume life is perfect over here.
Life has its ups and downs. It’s ebbs and flows. It seems as though the older I get and the more “life” (or death for that matter) that happens, it just continues to put more things into perspective.
I’m a realist and am truly learning to enjoy the positive rides that life takes me on because there are not-so-great times either. I aim to navigate those in the healthiest way possible and help my clients to do the same.
We all have the highs and lows. We’re all trying to navigate this thing called life and the overwhelming, overly filtered social media that has seemed to engulf us. But nevertheless, I am on my own journey as you are on yours. My goal is to make it through as unscathed as possible while enjoying as much of it as physically possible and helping those around me to do just the same in the way that fits them best.
So, with that said, I hope you got a little glimpse of who I am. I would love to learn more about you! Please, send me an email to share a bit about yourself or something that I said that resonated with you. I’d love to hear it!
As always…
In health and a whole bunch of happiness,
Kristin
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Dr. Kristin Tallent, PharmD
(443) 339-9713
kristin@shoreintegrativehealth.com
Shore Integrative Health
508 Idlewild Avenue, Unit 5
Easton, MD 21601
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