JOY STEPHENSON-LAWS, ESQ
Author of Your Labs Are Fine. You're Not| Founder & President, Proactive Health Labs | Health Advocate | Managing Partner, Stephenson, Acquisto & Colman
“Feel it. Pause before you move. Then act. Most of what we regret lives in the pause we skipped.”
Her newest book, Your Labs Are Fine. You're Not.: Understanding the Mineral Deficiencies Your Doctor Can't See, was published in March 2026.
Joy Stephenson-Laws is a healthcare attorney, author, and health literacy advocate. Her work comes down to one thing: helping people take charge of their own health.
She is the founding and managing partner of Stephenson, Acquisto & Colman, a healthcare litigation firm with a national practice representing hospitals and healthcare institutions. Forty years of that work put her inside the system most patients are trying to understand from the outside.
She is also the founder and president of Proactive Health Labs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that publishes evidence-based health education, and a certified holistic life coach through the Foundation for Holistic Life Coaching.
She started with physical health and kept going. What she writes about now is the whole person — what is happening in the body, and also what someone believes about it, feels about it, and has never thought to question. Those turned out not to be separate subjects.
What drives the work is what she has watched happen to people: suffering that did not have to happen. Bad information. A diagnosis that came too late. A decision made without knowing there was a choice. The answer to all three is the same — better education, earlier intervention, and people who know enough to ask.
If you have felt stuck in a pattern you cannot explain, in your health, your relationships, or your own head, start here:
Books by Joy Stephenson-Laws
Your Labs Are Fine. You're Not.: Understanding the Mineral Deficiencies Your Doctor Can't See (Joy's newest book, a 300-page evidence-based guide for people whose standard labs come back normal but who continue to feel terrible. Medically edited by Pauline Jose, MD, and built around a triage system that meets readers where they actually are.)
Minerals: The Forgotten Nutrient: Your Secret Weapon for Getting and Staying Healthy (Co-authored with physician contributors, this book translates complex nutritional science into actionable guidance on the essential minerals your body needs to thrive).
Secrets That Sparkle (and Secrets That Sting) (A children’s book that empowers kids to recognize safe vs. unsafe secrets in a gentle, age-appropriate way).
From Chains to Wings: A Poetry Revolution for Healing (Compassionate tools for resilience, healing, and emotional freedom—offering readers a path from pain to purpose).
“Feel what's there. Pause before you spiral. Act on what's actually true. That practice, more than any protocol, is the work of taking care of yourself.”
— Joy Stephenson-Laws
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Books by Joy Stephenson-Laws
