Dr. Monique Mossop

Future Shaper Dr. Monique Mossop is traveling God’s route

Dr. Monique Mossop strongly feels God is at work in her work.

God has been, and Mossop is certain He will continue to be, the driving force not only in her chiropractic care business but also in her life.

Through family, friends and her time on Bison Hill, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Performance, she has watched him shape her path – and is excited to see where that will lead.

He’s already taken some routes she would have never dreamed of traveling.

Mossop played volleyball in high school. However, she felt deep down that she had the talent to be a college athlete. That’s when God swung open the door to a walk-on opportunity in lacrosse.

“I was able to scratch the itch of being a college athlete, and it was an experience that did a lot to shape me as a person and as a Christian,” she said.

During her senior year, Mossop was voted team captain. That role of leadership laid the groundwork for the confidence she now relies on as a business owner.

“I did not think I was the right choice and I didn't think I was cut out for it. But it wasn't about me, it was about the team,” she said. “I have very similar feelings when it comes to what I'm currently doing. But once again, it's not about me, it's about the Kingdom team and being a representative of our Heavenly Father here on the earth.”

The door God opened with that experience led to other doors.

“Being a student-athlete is what taught me how to grind and how to be comfortable being uncomfortable,” she said. “I think sports are such a powerful tool for learning about life, learning about yourself, learning to work hard for your teammates, and learning how to push past your limit for someone else. That does a lot for seeing how hard one can really work and how we could always expect more of ourselves.”

Mossop believed in the life-lessons and values taught by her parents Jill and Gary Mossop and the ever-present support of family and friends.

With parents as physical therapists, she decided she wanted to pursue that healthcare practice as well.

Grace and confidence…

“I had never heard of OBU growing up,” she said, “but somehow, my mom found out about it and thought it would be a good school for me. I really liked how OBU had a cadaver lab.  Knowing that I was headed towards a science post-grad route, getting to learn on a cadaver was an incredible opportunity I knew I should take advantage of.”

In addition to the labs, she liked the idea that with smaller class sizes, the OBU faculty would come to know her personally.

Among those was Dr. Contessa Edgar, Chair of OBU’s Division of Science.

“Dr. Edgar, who taught/teaches anatomy and physiology classes did a great job setting me up for success in my A and P classes at Cleveland,” she said of Cleveland University-Kansas City, where she graduated Cum Laude with a Doctorate in Chiropractic. “I ended up actually being a lead tutor for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiology. The things that I learned at OBU are what allowed me to understand what was taught at Cleveland to such a degree that I was comfortable enough to turn around and help teach the students that came behind me.”

Recently asked about Mossop, Edgar described her former student as a leader who conducts herself with grace and confidence.

Faith-led future…

In and out of the classroom, Mossop recognized that her faith was multiplying with each step of life.

“Overall, my time at OBU was very much about growing up,” she said. “Growing up spiritually and getting closer to God, growing up as a leader and as a young woman, and growing up emotionally in learning how to look something difficult in the face and know the only option that you have is to figure it out.”

Rigorous academic classes, and then the schedule of a collegiate athlete on top of that served as a refining process that readied her to handle the upcoming task of grad school.

This was a task, a destiny that has already been more than she could have imagined.

And what opened that door?

“It was an injury sustained while playing lacrosse that finally led me to my passion and calling of being a chiropractor,” she said. “So, when you put it that way my life goes like this: if I didn't go to OBU I would have never played lacrosse, I would have never needed chiropractic care to fix a nagging injury, and I would have never found my passion and the thing that I truly feel God called me to do.”

Inside the next door…

In 2024, that calling has led Mossop to open Rapha Chiropractic in Tulsa.

Her goal is to grow her practice to be able to serve hundreds of people each week and share with those individuals that the body was designed to be self-regulating and self-healing. She wants to help people find healing without drugs or surgery.

“In addition to that, I want to really serve the pregnant moms of Tulsa with the Webster technique,” she said. “Being uncomfortable and in pain during pregnancy should not be accepted or normalized and I am here to help as many moms as possible find relief and hopefully even enjoy their pregnancy.”

Opening the door to the practice is another example of God opening a door to Mossop’s life.

“The success of Rapha Chiropractic will be a testament to the goodness and faithfulness of God,” she said, “and I can't wait for that to manifest and give Him all the glory.”