"When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home" - Rumi
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. This was my somewhat outmoded and overly trusting view of medicine as I entered into chronic illness. I thought holistic health was a secondary support, 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 mercury toxicity, resulting in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and 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, 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 to do. 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. 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 (which you pay for on the back end). There is no time to be with patients and listen, to their experience and their body wisdom, elements that are necessary to understand symptom expression and how to heal it.
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, medical, and holistic settings 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 neighborhood dogs would break into the house to see me. Just last year a bird of prey came and "knocked" on my door. 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 about humans. 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 stepping outside the box for a bigger picture science will never completely understand in my lifetime.
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. This was my somewhat outmoded and overly trusting view of medicine as I entered into chronic illness. I thought holistic health was a secondary support, 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 mercury toxicity, resulting in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and 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, 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 to do. 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. 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 (which you pay for on the back end). There is no time to be with patients and listen, to their experience and their body wisdom, elements that are necessary to understand symptom expression and how to heal it.
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, medical, and holistic settings 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 neighborhood dogs would break into the house to see me. Just last year a bird of prey came and "knocked" on my door. 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 about humans. 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 stepping outside the box for a bigger picture science will never completely understand in my lifetime.
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
Reiki Level II (Animal)
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure Level II
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
Reiki Level II (Animal)
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure Level II
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute
