Healing is My Nature
I’ve always wanted to help. As a child, I rescued every sort of creature, bringing home birds of every feather, squirrels, and kittens to be nursed back to health, even saving all sorts of bugs from harm.
Healing was always in my nature. I was the kid on the playground who came to the rescue of other children who were being bullied or injured. I was never the sort to stand by and let things unfold.
Childhood Illnesses and the Journey to Understanding My Health
Growing up, I was often ill. If it was “cold and flu season” I would get what was going around. I would get mysterious stomach aches, my sinuses would be congested, and my lungs would be compromised.
When I wasn’t suffering from one illness or another, I was healthy as a horse, running with the pack of kids in my neighborhood.
At school, I always got sick around exam time. Bronchitis, strep throat, and pneumonia were my constant companions as I sat for my exams. If there were tensions at home, I would come down with “something”—every time.
To me, this was normal health—until I went to university.
Plants as Medicine
I loved the “Clan of the Cave Bear” book series by Jean M. Auel. While at university, I read the books multiple times, taking a yellow highlighter to mark every mention of herbs and plants that were used for healing throughout each book. I then researched each herb and plant to understand its healing properties and health benefits better.
It was natural that I would migrate toward plants as medicine. I grew up in a foraging family. Our weekends were spent harvesting fiddleheads and wild garlic in the spring, berries and other wild fruits in the summer, and hunting wild mushrooms in the fall. At the beach, we collected clams, mussels, and oysters. Nature was our pantry.
Thankfully, I had my own apartment while attending university, as my kitchen cupboards were filled with jars of dried herbs I found at the local health food store. I made some awful-tasting teas in those days!
Embracing Holistic Health Amidst Medical Challenges
Those herbal inventions ignited my passion for incorporating natural medicines into health and healing.
However, I watched as the medical system failed my mother in her fight against Crohn’s and Colitis.
At no point did her specialist talk to her about her nutrition and how the foods she was eating were contributing to her illness. She was never tested for celiac disease; it was the knife for her and radical surgery.
For that matter, none of my conventional medicine specialists asked me about my diet as I bounced around the medical system seeking relief from my chronic pain. You would think that after seventeen surgeries, someone might have suggested a different approach for me than the scalpel!
That was until I saw a naturopath who listened for over an hour to my list of aches and pains. She suggested I do some research on a condition called fibromyalgia.
This was the first I had heard of it.
The issue was that my knee doctor never talked to my gut doctor, who never reached out to my heart doctor. Modern medicine is very good at compartmentalizing human illness and disease. The medical system is over-specialized to the point where a person is not regarded as a holistic being but is picked apart into smaller and smaller components of bodily function.
This approach can be helpful for a specific pain, but it doesn’t consider the whole body or mind. It doesn’t go to the source; it focuses on the symptom/s.
My mother did not survive the medical system. When she died, I made a promise to myself that I would learn as much as I could about holistic healing. There is a time and place for emergency intervention, but then the work begins for profound and permanent healing. I did this for myself by learning which foods and plants support my health and which do not. I changed the way I was thinking about my life and my health.
For over thirty years, I have helped others do the same through my work as a Master Healer.
Master Healer to Foraging Expert: My Three-Decade Journey in Holistic Practices
Over the past thirty years, I have continued to broaden my knowledge, completing certification programs and being named a Master Healer.
I have created many training programs, including:
- The Confident Healer: An Intensive Intuitive Healer’s Certification Program®
- Intuitive Energy Massage Practitioners Certification®
- 8 Power Steps to Mastering Manifesting
- The 13-Week Chakra Journey
I’m the author of “The Heart’s Journey: Healing Hearts Oracle Cards and Guidebook,” published with Hay House and Balboa Publishing (and available to buy here!)
I’m also the co-host of “Playing on the Edge Radio: Radical Change with Ease,” a podcast for those interested in energy healing and other modalities.
My video series on the Chakra System has thousands of views on YouTube.
Check out all my YouTube videos here.
And I’ve appeared in numerous podcasts and articles.
When I’m not helping clients with healing work, you will find me foraging the local beaches for seaweed, clams, and oysters or tromping through the forests searching for wild mushrooms and plant medicines. I’m never far from my foraging roots!
My Diverse Expertise Beyond Conventional Medicine
I am neither a mainstream medical doctor nor a registered psychologist. I am a certified Energy Medicine Practitioner, Herbalist, Master Forager, Essential Oil Specialist, Past Life Therapist, and much, much more.
Holistic Healing near Vancouver, Canada
My healing studio is in beautiful Fairfield, Victoria, BC.
For more information and to book a session, please email me or call 250-589-1482.
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