Who am I?

I'm a white girl who grew up in Southern Arizona in a town of 2,000 people. Republican, Christian. You know the town. There's a million of them all of the U.S.

I didn't realize what I wanted to do with my life until I was 19. I wanted to heal the body naturally without prescription drugs and surgery. So, I went to an H.H.P. certificate program. Holistic Health Practitioner, it's a fancy way of saying 1000 hours study in Herbology, Nutrition, Anatomy, Physiology, Martial Arts, Massage, Hydrotherapy, Posture, Stress management and acupressure.

Meanwhile I had met a Doctor of Chiropractic who would later end up changing my life forever. I worked under him as part of my graduation requirements for school. And what I saw him do to help people blew my mind. The technical term is Applied and Clinical Kinesiology. In simple terms, he used muscle testing to identify the reason behind a persons symptoms and again for how to remove the obstruction or stress that was causing it.

I came to understand that he had found a way to ask the body what, and how much the body needed! Did it need different nutrition? Massage? Acupuncture? An adjustment to the spine? Are one of the organs not working properly? And then would figure out how much and where it needed it.

What sealed the deal for me was when my 2 precious daughters were babies they both got pneumonia at the same time. I had an aunt who I never met die from that as a child. To say I was freaked out is an understatement. I did what a good mother would do and took them to our HMO doctor. He did what any trained doctor does, and prescribed antibiotics. The symptoms did, of coarse, go away. However not 2 weeks later they came back. I notified the doctors office. Well, doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is insanity. So, I decided to take them to my Chiropractor kinesiologist. He identified some food allergies they were having, cleared some toxins out of their bodies and adjusted their little necks, gave me a bottle of something good for them to take. 2 weeks of keeping them off the food allergies and giving them their "medicine" and their symptoms cleared up.

Just out of curiosity of what the HMO doctor would say when he saw my beautiful little girls symptom free. So, I made an appointment and took them in to see him. He did all his little doctor checks and comments that they look great. Lungs sound good, no fever, what was I doing? I showed him the bottle from the Chiropractor that I had been giving them. He is reading the label for a minute. "Marshmallow?" he says. "You can't cure someone with Marshmallow"! And hands the bottle back to me.

At this point I am in my HHP program and I know that marshmallow is an herb. He is an idiot. He could not take what he was seeing with his own 2 eyes as proof that what is doing is NOT WORKING! Since that day I have never taken my girls or myself to an HMO doctor. And my girls have always been the healthiest kids in their class.