Welcome! From a dedicated horse-obsessed person. I was bitten by the bug early on. As many of you know, once this disease in contracted, there is no cure. I think probably the first word I spoke as a young child was "horse", not "mommy." My parents were perplexed as they were city folks. This obsession has lasted all my life, and happily consumes my life entirely. I feed them, I shovel for them, I train them, I ride them. My business is horses, my recreation is horses. My wonderful husband of 6+ years had nothing to do with horses prior to meeting me; and now he is almost as one-sided as I am. See! It's "catching" too!
I received my veterinary training, and veterinary license at UC Davis, and have been a licensed practicing veterinarian ever since. I started out in main-stream medicine. After several years doing conventional veterinary work, I started to become somewhat discouraged, for many reasons. There just seemed to be something missing. It seemed in many cases that animals would get better in spite of the veterinary treatment, not always because of it. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not discounting some of the wonderful things that Western Medicine can accomplish. We certainly need it for humans and animals. But, as many are becoming more and more aware, we need other things as well. We need to support the intrinsic capacity of a living being's ability to heal itself. I found that often times TLC and "hands-on" work was sometimes the most important thing in an animal's ability to turn the tide from disaster to better health. I found that nutrition and proper supplementation was a huge factor. I know this is true with humans as well, and there are countless cases to prove it.
I had always had an interest in other less conventional modalities, and as I had some personal health issues which were corrected by alternative medicine and energy medicine, it became obvious that that was the direction I needed to go. I worked for the Humane Society for several years and explored my options during this time. People ask me how and why I studied acupuncture and went in that direction. I indeed had a life-changing experience which led me unquestionably in that direction. My animals have always been my guides.
"To know the Way,
We go the Way
We do the Way
The way we do
The things we do.
It's all there in front of you,
But if you try too hard to see it,
You'll only beome Confused,
I am me,
And you are you,
As you can see;
But when you do
The things that you can do,
You will find the Way,
And the Way will follow you.”
The Tao of Pooh
