"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 my father's work at Stanford Hospital, putting on an adult-sized lab coat and communing with the baboons in the labs (you can imagine what they had to say locked in cages with electrodes implanted in their brains). For most of my life I believed holistic health supported western care but had a secondary role, beware the beliefs we carry deep in our mind and DNA! I didn't begin healing from Hashimoto's thyroiditis until I left western medicine and pharma drugs. I didn't take many of them but the ones I accepted (in a sick and dazed state) were very damaging.
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. Some say there are no coincidences, but 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 as support staff, and attained a Masters in Public Health emphasizing community health education. My father's era of medicine was before the discovery of DNA, and my model of a doctor was when medicine was considered art as well as science. I saw my father connect with patients deeply. Medicine shifted and became less humane and more about pharma, and it also personally failed me in a big way - thus ending my belief that western medicine was important in keeping me well. (Historical note - when I first began working at Stanford, acupuncture was kept quiet and housed in the basement, it was not the accepted modality it is now. Things have come a long way).
I was fortunate to spend a majority of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, as it was progressive and an incubator for cutting edge ideas, full of smart people open to new ways of thinking. It afforded me the chance to be exposed to a lot of different wisdom, as well as choices in who I accepted the teaching from. In my mid-6o's, I moved (sight unseen) to a small town in Eastern Washington to continue my work and research in Walla Walla. Being in a rural area after Silicon Valley was a sought after and very welcome change, nature and a calm pace are important for someone sensitively wired. I live in a small village with lots of nature trails and ducks, geese, hawks, eagles, song birds, rabbits, butterflies and dragonflies, and a robust creek nourish me daily. Sometimes I feel like Snow White, as rabbits hop around my feet and munch on dandelions.
I came of age during the New Age but gave it a wide berth, I felt suspicious of much of it and the people who professed to be healers doing some pretty questionable stuff. Even today in mid 60s I meet peers who carry damage from "healers" during that era. There are always many charlatans in healing because it is a deep need we have to be well, and humans tend to like shortcuts and fall prey to snake oil salesmen even in mainstream ways (today it is supplements and their magic powers). As someone who uses energy to heal, it is always a challenge to hold its power and wisdom against science and its sneering and bullying. The thing I do know is that 30 years of doctors left me circling the drain getting sicker all the time, and when I decided to leave the modality and heal myself, I started getting well. Within a year I was off thyroid replacement (natural or otherwise), which is pretty miraculous considering how deeply ill I was by the time I started my true healing journey.
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 Hashimotos Thyroiditis and destruction to my immune and endocrine system. 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. Thankfully I had the courage to think outside the box, trust my instincts and do what I was shown to do. I regained my health (and then some). I understand the challenges of chronic illness and know what it takes to recover and maintain health and well-being. I know the toll it takes on a family, and feel my son was robbed of the mother he deserved because of autoimmune illness. I see this in my clients, the wave of suffering ill health creates.
Today I use no thyroid replacement or regular supplements, true healing means thriving on clean food, air, and water and not being a slave to the fear mongering and marketing that makes us believe our bodies can not heal themselves. Aristotle said the body is compelled to follow a vivid imagination. I imagine the best for myself and my clients, until they can do it for themselves.
From a young age I did instinctive energy work on animals. For many years I worked primarily with animals and and expanded to their people. Ultimately I reached mastery with bioenergetic healing and vibrational balancing, which uses my gifts 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. I believe in stepping outside the box for a bigger picture, science will never completely understand anyhow!
Olive is my helper dog (pictured with me), she is extremely sensitive and generally will only come in the room if I'm working on an infant or young child. Animals have been my greatest teachers, requiring me to trust my instincts to serve them well, and helping hone my telepathic gifts (which is useful for human body consciousness as well). With animals there is no placebo to muddy the picture - when something works you don't have to guess, just respect and appreciate its teachings.
I am a doctor's daughter and carry the imprint of hanging out at my father's work at Stanford Hospital, putting on an adult-sized lab coat and communing with the baboons in the labs (you can imagine what they had to say locked in cages with electrodes implanted in their brains). For most of my life I believed holistic health supported western care but had a secondary role, beware the beliefs we carry deep in our mind and DNA! I didn't begin healing from Hashimoto's thyroiditis until I left western medicine and pharma drugs. I didn't take many of them but the ones I accepted (in a sick and dazed state) were very damaging.
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. Some say there are no coincidences, but 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 as support staff, and attained a Masters in Public Health emphasizing community health education. My father's era of medicine was before the discovery of DNA, and my model of a doctor was when medicine was considered art as well as science. I saw my father connect with patients deeply. Medicine shifted and became less humane and more about pharma, and it also personally failed me in a big way - thus ending my belief that western medicine was important in keeping me well. (Historical note - when I first began working at Stanford, acupuncture was kept quiet and housed in the basement, it was not the accepted modality it is now. Things have come a long way).
I was fortunate to spend a majority of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, as it was progressive and an incubator for cutting edge ideas, full of smart people open to new ways of thinking. It afforded me the chance to be exposed to a lot of different wisdom, as well as choices in who I accepted the teaching from. In my mid-6o's, I moved (sight unseen) to a small town in Eastern Washington to continue my work and research in Walla Walla. Being in a rural area after Silicon Valley was a sought after and very welcome change, nature and a calm pace are important for someone sensitively wired. I live in a small village with lots of nature trails and ducks, geese, hawks, eagles, song birds, rabbits, butterflies and dragonflies, and a robust creek nourish me daily. Sometimes I feel like Snow White, as rabbits hop around my feet and munch on dandelions.
I came of age during the New Age but gave it a wide berth, I felt suspicious of much of it and the people who professed to be healers doing some pretty questionable stuff. Even today in mid 60s I meet peers who carry damage from "healers" during that era. There are always many charlatans in healing because it is a deep need we have to be well, and humans tend to like shortcuts and fall prey to snake oil salesmen even in mainstream ways (today it is supplements and their magic powers). As someone who uses energy to heal, it is always a challenge to hold its power and wisdom against science and its sneering and bullying. The thing I do know is that 30 years of doctors left me circling the drain getting sicker all the time, and when I decided to leave the modality and heal myself, I started getting well. Within a year I was off thyroid replacement (natural or otherwise), which is pretty miraculous considering how deeply ill I was by the time I started my true healing journey.
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 Hashimotos Thyroiditis and destruction to my immune and endocrine system. 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. Thankfully I had the courage to think outside the box, trust my instincts and do what I was shown to do. I regained my health (and then some). I understand the challenges of chronic illness and know what it takes to recover and maintain health and well-being. I know the toll it takes on a family, and feel my son was robbed of the mother he deserved because of autoimmune illness. I see this in my clients, the wave of suffering ill health creates.
Today I use no thyroid replacement or regular supplements, true healing means thriving on clean food, air, and water and not being a slave to the fear mongering and marketing that makes us believe our bodies can not heal themselves. Aristotle said the body is compelled to follow a vivid imagination. I imagine the best for myself and my clients, until they can do it for themselves.
From a young age I did instinctive energy work on animals. For many years I worked primarily with animals and and expanded to their people. Ultimately I reached mastery with bioenergetic healing and vibrational balancing, which uses my gifts 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. I believe in stepping outside the box for a bigger picture, science will never completely understand anyhow!
Olive is my helper dog (pictured with me), she is extremely sensitive and generally will only come in the room if I'm working on an infant or young child. Animals have been my greatest teachers, requiring me to trust my instincts to serve them well, and helping hone my telepathic gifts (which is useful for human body consciousness as well). With animals there is no placebo to muddy the picture - when something works you don't have to guess, just respect and appreciate its teachings.
Education & Certifications
People
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 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 animals)
Volunteer
Reiki Level II (Animal)
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure Level II
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute
