When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home - Rumi
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, and the resulting destruction to my immune and endocrine system. I was educated by Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, leaky gut syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. Thankfully I regained my health (and then some). I understand the challenges of chronic illness, am mindful health is precious and know what it takes to recover and maintain it.
I am a doctor's daughter and grew up communing with the baboons at Stanford Hospital (you can imagine what they had to say locked in cages with electrodes implanted in their brains). I did lots of science coursework and started 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. My father's era was before the discovery of DNA, medicine was considered art as well as science. I saw my father connect with patients deeply. As medicine shifted and became less humane and more about pharma, and as it personally failed me, I came to view it as a pretty broken system. And the system that breaks you cannot fix you.
I started to do energy work with animals and their people. Ultimately I reached mastery as a body storyteller, medical empath, intuitive, and animal whisperer. I have always been energetically sensitive so this work is a natural fit and where my gifts are ideally expressed. I have spent many hours obtaining useful, reasoned knowledge through science, but as important are the healing skills beyond that explanation. Science can be a good tool, plenty imperfect, and a rigid box. There is much we don't know, and body wisdom has a great deal to offer us.
Animals are my greatest teachers as they require me to trust my instincts to serve them to the best of my abilities. They don't have a placebo effect, so when something works you don't have to guess, you just respect and appreciate its power. They have been the perfect teachers for talking to humans bodies as well.
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, and the resulting destruction to my immune and endocrine system. I was educated by Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, leaky gut syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. Thankfully I regained my health (and then some). I understand the challenges of chronic illness, am mindful health is precious and know what it takes to recover and maintain it.
I am a doctor's daughter and grew up communing with the baboons at Stanford Hospital (you can imagine what they had to say locked in cages with electrodes implanted in their brains). I did lots of science coursework and started 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. My father's era was before the discovery of DNA, medicine was considered art as well as science. I saw my father connect with patients deeply. As medicine shifted and became less humane and more about pharma, and as it personally failed me, I came to view it as a pretty broken system. And the system that breaks you cannot fix you.
I started to do energy work with animals and their people. Ultimately I reached mastery as a body storyteller, medical empath, intuitive, and animal whisperer. I have always been energetically sensitive so this work is a natural fit and where my gifts are ideally expressed. I have spent many hours obtaining useful, reasoned knowledge through science, but as important are the healing skills beyond that explanation. Science can be a good tool, plenty imperfect, and a rigid box. There is much we don't know, and body wisdom has a great deal to offer us.
Animals are my greatest teachers as they require me to trust my instincts to serve them to the best of my abilities. They don't have a placebo effect, so when something works you don't have to guess, you just respect and appreciate its power. They have been the perfect teachers for talking to humans bodies as well.
Education & Certifications
People
Master of Public Health (Community Health Education)
San Jose State University
Bioenergy Balancing (1 year)
Bioenergy Balancing Center, Palo Alto
Childbirth and Infant Care Instructor
Kaiser Hospital, San Jose (1992-1995)
Doula
Stanford Doula Services (1990)
Animals
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
Bioenergy Balancing (1 year)
Bioenergy Balancing Center, Palo Alto
Childbirth and Infant Care Instructor
Kaiser Hospital, San Jose (1992-1995)
Doula
Stanford Doula Services (1990)
Animals
Reiki Level II (Animal)
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure Level II
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute