By the end of the second year program, I’d learned that each client knows somewhere deep inside what’s wrong and where to start on their wellness journey. Still wanting more, I continued into a nine-month internship under the direction of Paul Bergner. This clinical experience taught me how important it is to look for the root cause of each client’s problem. “Symptoms” are the body’s way of communicating an imbalance and attempting to heal. If we constantly suppress these symptoms, we don’t get any further than that.

Once I’d graduated and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, I knew I wanted to keep helping people improve their health.  I found myself working in Western Medicine again and one of my greatest passions is helping health care workers and their support staff stay well so they can keep taking care of us.

I still love learning and over the years I’ve expanded my practice with many other modalities. I often wonder how I would have gotten through some of the trying times without all these herbs, flower essences, energy medicine, nutrition, and so many things I’ve found to soothe the soul and assist the body in doing what it does best — live vibrantly.

Now I know my lungs have always been my guide.  When they aren’t happy they have a message they want me to hear.  By tuning in and following my intuition, my life has changed for the better over and over again, and I’m not going back.

As many years as I’ve studied, what I keep learning is that nature is the wisest of all. I’m always in awe of the intelligence of plants and the intelligence of the human body. I’ve also learned to have conversations with the plants. One time they said “why do people expect us to do all the work?  If we just work together….”  Yes, let’s meet the plants half way. Who knows what amazing things are possible!

Chronic problems can be challenging for many practitioners, but they’re my favorite.  In fact, I have so much fun helping people through the journey from a chronic health problem to vibrant wellness that it’s become my life’s passion.

I define a chronic health issue as one you’ve had for at least 6 months, or years, or decades.  It might have started out as one symptom and as you tried to handle it with over-the-counter medication, it got more intense and even expanded or moved to different organ systems.  That’s what happened with me.

Think of working with a chronic health problem like taking a trip across the country. There’s a starting point and an end point.  You pack the car with what you think you’ll need.  You have places along the way to visit. It’s an adventure that broadens your experiences and will change you for the better.  You’ll learn and become wiser. After all, that’s why you go on an adventure, right?  Otherwise, it’s the same old, same old.  Nothing wrong with staying home, but when it comes to chronic disease, it’s an adventure of many miles.

• You have a starting point (your current state of health or illness). 
• Some baggage. What you’ve got with you is your history, habits, everything you’ve already tried.
• You know where you want to go, otherwise you’re just driving around with your GPS yelling at you.
• You don’t know what will happen along the way.
  
• You’ll see new things, expand your experiences, and realize you don’t need all that baggage. Let’s leave some of that behind. 
• When you reach your destination there’s a feeling of exhilaration to be somewhere new.

In the end you’ll have a return to vitality that you thought was only possible in your younger decades. But equally exciting is that you’ll be so much more connected to the wisdom that’s been inside you all along.

I’m like one of the herbal formulas I love to put together

1 part clinical herbalist
1 part plant lover 
1 part flower essence practitioner
1 part lover of human anatomy & physiology
2 parts question asker
3 parts listener (which leads to more questions and answers)
2 parts detective (I always wanted to be one)
1 part Quantum Touch energy medicine practitioner
3 parts big-picture person

My purpose in this world is to be of service as your guide to wellness through plant intelligence, vibrational medicine, nutrition, healthy lifestyle and discovering the root cause of your health issues.