Building from Living Water: A Conversation with Dr. Kaylan Jackson, Founder of The Well Place
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Editor’s Note
There are conversations that remind us healing is about more than the physical.
It’s about the heart AND returning to the One who knows us completely.
When I first met Dr. Kaylan Jackson through Instagram, I enjoyed learning more about The Well Place, I was drawn to its thoughtful integration of science, faith, and whole-person wellness. In a world where we’re often encouraged to separate our faith from our health, Dr. Kaylan offers a refreshing perspective—one that honors both God’s design and His divine wisdom.
In this edition of our leConversation series, Dr. Kaylan Jackson shares how her own journey through unanswered health challenges became the foundation for a ministry and business devoted to helping women pursue wholeness through both practical strategy and deep intimacy with Christ.
Her story is a beautiful reminder that sometimes what we think we’re searching for isn’t what we need most.
Meet Dr. Kaylan Jackson
Dr. Kaylan Jackson is the founder of The Well Place, where she helps women pursue whole-person wellness through a faith-centered, science-informed approach to healing.
With a background in science and a heart for discipleship, Dr. Kaylan believes true wellness addresses both the physical body and the deeper places of the heart. Through coaching, education, and practical strategies, she equips women to better understand their health while keeping Christ at the center of the journey.
At the heart of her work is a simple but profound conviction: Jesus is our healer, and He has given us both His presence and practical wisdom to pursue wholeness.
The Conversation Begins
Valerie: What truth about who you are has anchored you most in this season of your calling?
Dr. Kaylan Jackson:
The truth that has anchored me most in this season is that I am chosen, not earning.
For a long time I carried this quiet belief that I had to earn my place, earn my worth, even earn my healing, and God has been so gentle and so persistent about taking that from me.
My worth is not from works. I’m worthy because He chose me, and that’s just it.
I was the woman at the well (sometimes I still am). I came looking for relief, and what I found was a Person.
And once you know you’ve been found, the striving loses its grip, because I don’t have to hustle my way into what He already called me to—I just have to stay close to the One who called me.
I don’t have to hustle my way into what He already called me to—I just have to stay close to the One who called me.
Valerie: How do you stay aligned with what God has entrusted you to steward?
Dr. Kaylan Jackson:
I’ll be honest, as a founder and a wellness coach and a scientist, and a mom and a wife and all the things, it is really easy to get caught up in the bigness of the vision and the longness of the to-do list.
The work is never-ending, and sometimes it feels like a lot, because this is a God-sized vision I’ve been called to.
But remembering that it’s God-sized changes everything, because it means I can only do it through the strength, the wisdom, and the power of God.
The way I think about it is simple: if God is the CEO of my business, then the most important meeting on my calendar is the one with Him.
So I meet with Him, and I ask Him how He wants me to proceed, what He wants me to know about the season I’m in, and what the strategy looks like.
Staying aligned, for me, is keeping that meeting.
Valerie: What refinement has strengthened your leadership recently?
Dr. Kaylan Jackson:
The truth that has anchored me most in this season is actually hidden inside my own name.
Kaylan means keeper, from the Hebrew shamar—to keep, to guard, to watch over.
For most of my life I lived that out in my own strength, keeping everyone and everything: the babies, the business, the clients, the vision—holding it all and quietly running on empty.
But Psalm 121 says the One who keeps me does not slumber.
I am a keeper who is kept.
So when the season feels heavy, and it does, I get to remember that I am held while I hold.
That truth changes how I carry all of it.
I am a keeper who is kept.
Valerie: What shaped the way you lead and serve others through The Well Place?
Dr. Kaylan Jackson:
My personal walk with God, without question, because the woman I’m trying to serve is me.
She’s the version of me who was searching and seeking and needing clarity in her health, miserable under strongholds both mental and physical, living with mystery ailments and never getting answers.
I was searching so hard for a practitioner who understood the science and understood the Holy Spirit—someone who knew that Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals, is our healer, and that the methodologies He placed on this earth for our restoration can be used without sacrificing your faith to get there.
I worked with practitioners who kept God out of the room, and I worked with practitioners who were almost anti-science and only wanted to pray things away.
But God calls us to both.
He tells the man to take up his mat and walk. He gives us strategy and action steps for healing alongside prayer.
A good practitioner honors that in a way that’s practical.
I was the woman at the well.
I came seeking relief for my symptoms, and I received that relief.
But what I really needed was intimacy with the Lord—living water poured into the emotional places, the hidden places of my heart.
That encounter is what The Well Place is built on.
Valerie: What do you hope women carry with them after encountering your work?
Dr. Kaylan Jackson:
Jesus.
At the end of the day, I hope they carry Jesus, because this was never about me.
I do not heal. I do not restore. Only He does.
Yes, I hope they experience relief from their symptoms.
Yes, I hope they find what they came looking for.
But more than anything, I hope they experience Jesus on a deeper level, walk away with real clarity and strategy, and come into agreement with the truth that they are whole, complete, and lacking nothing.
By His stripes, we are healed.
Valerie: Is there a part of your story that has deeply shaped the work you do today?
Dr. Kaylan Jackson:
Yes.
As a little girl I always had unusual health challenges, and at every turn the answer was, ‘I don’t know.’
Some of my earliest memories are of playing with friends on the playground and then waking up after blacking out, being carried through the school hallway by my favorite teacher.
Then came the needles, the medical tests, and seeing the fear on my mother’s face.
Eventually, I grew tired of hearing ‘I don’t know.’
I grew tired of watching the people I loved carry the weight of those unanswered questions.
I wanted someone who could actually help.
So I became that person.
I became the ‘I don’t know’ chaser—through science and through revelation from the Holy Spirit—with the understanding that He is our healer, and that we don’t accept ‘I don’t know’ as the final answer.
Scripture tells us that people perish for lack of knowledge.
I’m here to help change that by equipping God’s people with real strategy when it comes to their health.
Because our portion is wholeness.
And His yoke is easy.
A Moment of Reflection
What moved me most about this conversation was Dr. Kaylan’s reminder that healing isn’t simply about removing symptoms.
It’s about encountering Jesus.
Her story echoes the account of the woman at the well—a woman who came searching for one thing and left with something infinitely greater.
That perspective shapes everything about how she leads, serves, and cares for others through The Well Place.
It also reminds us that our deepest needs are often invitations into deeper intimacy with God.
Refinement Insight
Sometimes we think we’re asking God for relief.
What He longs to offer us is relationship.
Healing may begin with answers...BUT true wholeness begins with living water.
Continue the Conversation
If this conversation encouraged you, I invite you to explore the work of Dr. Kaylan Jackson through The Well Place Co.
Recently recognized as a recipient of the Black Ambition Prize, Dr. Kaylan has continued to expand the vision of The Well Place alongside fellow founders, including participating in opportunities that are helping bring this mission to more people seeking hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.
If you’re curious about taking the next step in your own wellness journey, Dr. Kaylan also offers The Vessel Snapshot—a personalized bioenergetic assessment designed to provide insight into what your body may be communicating, along with a clear summary to help guide your next steps.
Whether you’re navigating unanswered health questions, seeking greater clarity in your wellness journey, or simply longing to pursue health in a way that honors both your faith and God’s design, I hope this conversation reminds you that healing is never merely about feeling better.
It’s about drawing closer to the One who restores us completely.
Because while greater health is a gift, the greatest gift we can ever receive is Jesus.