"When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home" - Rumi
Anyone who has the call to be a unique healer understands that it is a blessing and a curse. It takes time to grow into one's gift and at 66 I am enjoying moving into the mastery level, my third act in a lifetime of how I work with energy, biochemistry, and spirit and weave it into a body to help restore it.
I am a doctor's daughter and carry the imprint of hanging out at work with my dad at Stanford Hospital, a 9-year old in an adult lab coat communing with the baboons. Eventually I worked at Stanford myself, with some of my father's peers. These were "old school" doctors who learned medicine as an art as well as science, DNA hadn't been discovered when they did their training. I saw my father connect with patients deeply, and sometimes came along to visit them at home after they recovered. My trust of medicine as I entered into chronic illness was built on an outmoded view; I thought holistic health was a secondary support and icing on the medical cake.
Dr. Jules Constant says the best way to find and establish health is to get a disease and figure out how to fix yourself. My challenge was Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, mercury poisoning from amalgam, and attendant destruction to my immune and endocrine systems. Along the way I was educated by hormonal disruption. hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal dysfunction, leaky gut syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia anxiety, and chronic fatigue. My detox pathways were missing in action. And then... my mercury filled tooth cracked and dumped so much into my already struggling system I was in circle-the-drain territory. Medicine failed me so badly I left within an inch of my life, which was scary but not hard as by that point the alternative - staying the course - seemed much worse.
It was a long and winding road but today I take no thyroid, nor any other medication or regular supplementation. Doctors say isn't possible to heal the thyroid, one can only achieve remission. I have not found this to be true and ironically my greatest healing challenge was from the damage pharma did in service of helping me. Thankfully I had the tools and courage to think outside the box, trust my instincts and do what I was shown.
Response testing using a pendulum, which is much like muscle testing, was of prime importance for feedback for nutrition and supplementation. I understand the challenges of chronic illness and what it takes to recover and maintain health and well-being. I know the toll it takes on a family to have an unwell parent or child, and the wave that creates. Thyroid clients come to me after having received the same lack of wisdom from medicine that I did 30 years ago, which I find disturbing and motivating. I don't believe at 32 with a young family in tow we should be told that feeling tired and unwell is normal. It isn't, and it is a write-off that too often occurs to women. If you are "lucky" you leave with pharmaceutical thyroid replacement, which you pay for down the line (and you never feel well even with it, just less half-dead). While acute medical care is life-saving and works well, general medicine has shifted and become less humane and more about symptom suppression through pharmaceuticals. The lack of time a doctor is allotted for a patient, combined with their belief that people "need" and want to leave with a prescription creates a system that pushes people through and burns out many doctors. And moves a lot of pharma.
My first job out of high school was at a physics lab so even at that young age I was put in the path of being able to learn from physicists. At 18 instead of music posters I had Albert Einstein looking at me from my wall. I did fundamental science coursework and attended nursing school so I could realize it wasn't the career for me. I worked in hospital and medical settings (most involving children, a lot of angelic presence in a children's hospital) and attained a Masters in Public Health, teaching community health and specializing in women's health, childbirth, and infant and young children. At the same time I began working with animals, who are supreme teachers for energy work as they have no limiting beliefs and accept vibration as a norm for keeping themselves in balance. Young children function very much the same, so animal mastery enabled me to be of great help with pre-verbal children.
From a young age I did instinctive energy work on animals. I've always been an animal whisperer, when I was a kid a neighborhood dog would break into the house almost daily to see me (she knew when school was out and my mom was cool). In college there was a pet shop that specialized in birds (for whom I have great affinity) and I would go in and talk to the birds and put them in trances (the shop loved me as the birds were mellow). For many years I worked primarily with animals, but eventually expanded to their people. Bioenergetic healing and vibrational balancing allows me to fire on all cylinders - biochemistry and what science understands, as well as more esoteric gifts as a body whisperer, intuitive, and medical empath. I have spent many hours obtaining useful, reasoned knowledge through science, but as important are the healings that take place beyond that explanation. Science is a good construct, plenty imperfect, and a rigid box. I believe in a bigger picture science will never comprehend, just the edges are many lifetimes of work.
Anyone who has the call to be a unique healer understands that it is a blessing and a curse. It takes time to grow into one's gift and at 66 I am enjoying moving into the mastery level, my third act in a lifetime of how I work with energy, biochemistry, and spirit and weave it into a body to help restore it.
I am a doctor's daughter and carry the imprint of hanging out at work with my dad at Stanford Hospital, a 9-year old in an adult lab coat communing with the baboons. Eventually I worked at Stanford myself, with some of my father's peers. These were "old school" doctors who learned medicine as an art as well as science, DNA hadn't been discovered when they did their training. I saw my father connect with patients deeply, and sometimes came along to visit them at home after they recovered. My trust of medicine as I entered into chronic illness was built on an outmoded view; I thought holistic health was a secondary support and icing on the medical cake.
Dr. Jules Constant says the best way to find and establish health is to get a disease and figure out how to fix yourself. My challenge was Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, mercury poisoning from amalgam, and attendant destruction to my immune and endocrine systems. Along the way I was educated by hormonal disruption. hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal dysfunction, leaky gut syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia anxiety, and chronic fatigue. My detox pathways were missing in action. And then... my mercury filled tooth cracked and dumped so much into my already struggling system I was in circle-the-drain territory. Medicine failed me so badly I left within an inch of my life, which was scary but not hard as by that point the alternative - staying the course - seemed much worse.
It was a long and winding road but today I take no thyroid, nor any other medication or regular supplementation. Doctors say isn't possible to heal the thyroid, one can only achieve remission. I have not found this to be true and ironically my greatest healing challenge was from the damage pharma did in service of helping me. Thankfully I had the tools and courage to think outside the box, trust my instincts and do what I was shown.
Response testing using a pendulum, which is much like muscle testing, was of prime importance for feedback for nutrition and supplementation. I understand the challenges of chronic illness and what it takes to recover and maintain health and well-being. I know the toll it takes on a family to have an unwell parent or child, and the wave that creates. Thyroid clients come to me after having received the same lack of wisdom from medicine that I did 30 years ago, which I find disturbing and motivating. I don't believe at 32 with a young family in tow we should be told that feeling tired and unwell is normal. It isn't, and it is a write-off that too often occurs to women. If you are "lucky" you leave with pharmaceutical thyroid replacement, which you pay for down the line (and you never feel well even with it, just less half-dead). While acute medical care is life-saving and works well, general medicine has shifted and become less humane and more about symptom suppression through pharmaceuticals. The lack of time a doctor is allotted for a patient, combined with their belief that people "need" and want to leave with a prescription creates a system that pushes people through and burns out many doctors. And moves a lot of pharma.
My first job out of high school was at a physics lab so even at that young age I was put in the path of being able to learn from physicists. At 18 instead of music posters I had Albert Einstein looking at me from my wall. I did fundamental science coursework and attended nursing school so I could realize it wasn't the career for me. I worked in hospital and medical settings (most involving children, a lot of angelic presence in a children's hospital) and attained a Masters in Public Health, teaching community health and specializing in women's health, childbirth, and infant and young children. At the same time I began working with animals, who are supreme teachers for energy work as they have no limiting beliefs and accept vibration as a norm for keeping themselves in balance. Young children function very much the same, so animal mastery enabled me to be of great help with pre-verbal children.
From a young age I did instinctive energy work on animals. I've always been an animal whisperer, when I was a kid a neighborhood dog would break into the house almost daily to see me (she knew when school was out and my mom was cool). In college there was a pet shop that specialized in birds (for whom I have great affinity) and I would go in and talk to the birds and put them in trances (the shop loved me as the birds were mellow). For many years I worked primarily with animals, but eventually expanded to their people. Bioenergetic healing and vibrational balancing allows me to fire on all cylinders - biochemistry and what science understands, as well as more esoteric gifts as a body whisperer, intuitive, and medical empath. I have spent many hours obtaining useful, reasoned knowledge through science, but as important are the healings that take place beyond that explanation. Science is a good construct, plenty imperfect, and a rigid box. I believe in a bigger picture science will never comprehend, just the edges are many lifetimes of work.
Education & Certifications
Humans
Master of Public Health (Community Health Education)
San Jose State University 1988
Bioenergy Balancing
Bioenergy Balancing Center, Palo Alto 2017
Childbirth and Infant Care Instructor
Kaiser Hospital, San Jose (to1995)
Doula
Stanford Doula Services (to 1993)
Animals
BrightHaven Sanctuary (for elderly and disabled pet and farm animals)
Volunteer
Animal Reiki
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute
Master of Public Health (Community Health Education)
San Jose State University 1988
Bioenergy Balancing
Bioenergy Balancing Center, Palo Alto 2017
Childbirth and Infant Care Instructor
Kaiser Hospital, San Jose (to1995)
Doula
Stanford Doula Services (to 1993)
Animals
BrightHaven Sanctuary (for elderly and disabled pet and farm animals)
Volunteer
Animal Reiki
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute
